Spud: Please leave a message at the beep.Ben: wutwutSpud: I don't know why I think writing these silly PHP message board things is so fun... but I whipped this up at work, while I should have been working. PHP is like a vacation in the tropics from my life of Java.Ben: And then the spammers come.Spud: Eh... I'll get around to banning... really I just wonder why the hell they do it? Is it even a person or is it some sort of sentient computer program that crawls the web with no direction and regurgitates shit onto everything with a submit form? Because if it's the latter, that's some post-modern shit right there.Spud: Also, I recently got a GeForce 260 GTX, and my boss loaned me his copy of Crysis to try it out, and I think it's amazing. Yeah, the game and the story were a little rough, the acting wasn't stellar and there were a few scripting/AI glitches, but overall I mean what the engine is capable of... I was pretty floored.Spud: Also, the new angus burger at McDonald's is righteous... but what does it say when the best thing to come from a restaurant is primarily notable for its not tasting like something from that restaurant?Ben: The whole tank battle in the huge open field with the mountain falling apart in the distance will stick with me forever as one of the most awe-inspiring things I've done in a game.
Also, zero-G sucks.Spud: Yeah, it was all pretty bad ass. I played it through on hard... I tried Delta difficulty at first, but that was just ridiculous. And then I tweaked the config file to give myself a much longer cloaking mode, for more Predator-like goodness... and even then, I found it extremely challenging.Ben: wutwutSpud: I really like the weekend deals that they have on Steam, although I haven't bought anything. I just like the concept. I thought about getting ArmA II, but I heard it sucked and was full of bugs and the singleplayer was a joke. And I thought about getting Dawn of War II but I've heard a lot of people complain about that too. I'm not sure if it's part of growing up, or if games just aren't as fresh and original and fun as they used to be, but blah.Ben: Dawn of War 2 has Tyranids.Spud: Hmmmm, I'm tempted. The no base building thing sounds interesting, but can the tactical combat really be complex enough to make up for the lack of that?Corey: What, no timestamp?Spud: Hmmm, good point. I should add that. But first I gotta figure out a genius anti-spam measure...Spud: Also considering Fallout 3, after I finish Batman... Batman:AA is pretty awesome, though a little too easy. Just keep rhythmically clicking the mouse and Batman keeps automatically kicking ass for you.Ben: Fighting's a bit more involved on a console.Spud: Also snagged Shattered Horizon on an impulse, because... you know, for the whole "The enemy's gate is down" thing... and because, GTX 260.Spud: I just had a flash of inspiration. Let's see how much spam this board gets now. If I wanted to get really fancy, I could have it pull a random question from a file full of questions that are matched to a corresponding answer file. I may do that when I have more time.Spud: Also included a timestamp at the behest of Corey.Spud: Woohoo, randomly-generated anti-spam keys. Now I feel like a genius. Also, I love PHP. Can anyone break it or offer suggestions on how to make it better?Ben: Use the creepy voice-from-the-beyond audio captcha that Google uses. It sounds like a nightmare and no discernible human-produced sounds can be identified.
"Click hear to hear these letters!" *click* OH GOD MAKE IT STOP I FEEL MY SOUL BEING TAKEN AWAY FROM MECorey: Since you do PHP, have you ever used Drupal?Spud: No... I looked it up, and I can't even really grasp what it is. It's not a language? It's not an automated website-building tool? What is it?Spud: I use uhm... Windows Explorer and Notepad++ as my "content management system." ;)Corey: It's what I work with exclusively. I'm a web developer for a company out of Dallas. The reason I asked is because they're looking to hire more Drupal developers. If you want to see what all Drupal can do, look here: http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sitesCorey: BTW, here is a site that I launched this summer for Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. http://www.thenewshouse.com . I was the sole developer. I'm working on a new site for Yale's radio station.Spud: That looks really nice. I've never really had much content to manage, or developed anything professionally or anything that I've ever been paid for... so I guess that's why I never bothered to learn anything like that. I'm a decent enough coder in various different languages, but my real passion lies more towards the hardware end of IT. I want to run cables and connect fileservers to HBAs and such. :)Corey: No prob. Let me know if you're interested in trying it out and I'll send some helpful info. There's definitely money in it for (fluent) English-speaking developers who understand PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and MySQL, as well as the Drupal framework.tript: testSpud: Batman:AA is a masterpiece of a game. Playing through it again on hard now.Ben: YES. Except the final boss fight was kinda dumb.Spud: Also snagged Far Cry 2 and Mirror's Edge... I'm addicted to Steam... someone please help me. They keep throwing games around for $5-$10 and I just can't help myself. :(Ben: Mirror's Edge is excellent as well.Spud: The class average in my statistics class was so low, that I technically scored a 73, but my professor is going to give me a B.Spud: OK, uhm this is amazing.Spud: Man, fuck the Facebook.Ben: I've had dual 20" wide monitors for about 2 years now. I can never go back.Ben: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONESpud: Yeah, it's a fucking awesome game. I'm not even done with the singleplayer campaign and I'm already thinking about what I'm going to do differently with my characters on my next playthrough. I know I'll be getting the expansion when Steam runs a good sale on it. The only thing I don't like is that you can't make custom banners/logos for multiplayer anymore like you could in DoW1, because they teamed up with Games For Windows Live or whatever it's called, and Microsoft won't allow it. :(Spud: Because you know, hearing your enemies scream as you torch them with flamethrowers, and seeing their blood spray in every direction as their bodies are squeezed until they pop by giant bipedal machines of war is fine... just as long as some 13 year-old kid doesn't spraypaint a swastika or a penis on his video-game armor.Kilgore: That rat's nest looks as the worst I've ever seen in all of my IT days. What. The. F. "What" designed that? Cable managment anyone?Spud: Well, it all started out with the best of intentions, I'm sure. Then over time, servers die, new ones come in, old ones get moved and/or re-purposed... uh-oh, gonna' need a new switch for all the DMZ zone... then you run out of power and have to put new power bars on your racks... probably going to have to move some stuff around for that... the worst part is having to walk past the cages of all these Fortune-100 companies and all their stuff is strung together so immaculately.Spud: By the way Kilgore, you wouldn't happen to know how to monitor a server in SCOM2007 in a different, untrusted domain would you? We've got a legacy domain at work, and in it, there are servers that I want to monitor with SCOM, which is in the new domain, but I don't want to establish a trust relationship with the old domain because I don't want any of its old, rusty shit contaminating my new sparkly clean domain.Spud: Go go gadget Kerberoskilgore: If you're looking for some cool monitoring packages, check out spiceworks. Open source. I'm sure you can just create a local admin on the SCOM2007 serv and then give that credentials to the spiceworks interfaces.Spud: Thanks man. I tried out Spiceworks not too long ago -- it's pretty neat. I still want to learn SCOM eventually for it's resume-enhancing potential but I've decided I don't really have any immediate need for it. I've gotten really good with Powershell scripting lately and have several scripts on a server constantly polling other machines for the information I want and updating a website.
Ben: wutwut
Spud: I don't know why I think writing these silly PHP message board things is so fun... but I whipped this up at work, while I should have been working. PHP is like a vacation in the tropics from my life of Java.
Ben: And then the spammers come.
Spud: Eh... I'll get around to banning... really I just wonder why the hell they do it? Is it even a person or is it some sort of sentient computer program that crawls the web with no direction and regurgitates shit onto everything with a submit form? Because if it's the latter, that's some post-modern shit right there.
Spud: Also, I recently got a GeForce 260 GTX, and my boss loaned me his copy of Crysis to try it out, and I think it's amazing. Yeah, the game and the story were a little rough, the acting wasn't stellar and there were a few scripting/AI glitches, but overall I mean what the engine is capable of... I was pretty floored.
Spud: Also, the new angus burger at McDonald's is righteous... but what does it say when the best thing to come from a restaurant is primarily notable for its not tasting like something from that restaurant?
Ben: The whole tank battle in the huge open field with the mountain falling apart in the distance will stick with me forever as one of the most awe-inspiring things I've done in a game. Also, zero-G sucks.
Spud: Yeah, it was all pretty bad ass. I played it through on hard... I tried Delta difficulty at first, but that was just ridiculous. And then I tweaked the config file to give myself a much longer cloaking mode, for more Predator-like goodness... and even then, I found it extremely challenging.
Ben: wutwut
Spud: I really like the weekend deals that they have on Steam, although I haven't bought anything. I just like the concept. I thought about getting ArmA II, but I heard it sucked and was full of bugs and the singleplayer was a joke. And I thought about getting Dawn of War II but I've heard a lot of people complain about that too. I'm not sure if it's part of growing up, or if games just aren't as fresh and original and fun as they used to be, but blah.
Ben: Dawn of War 2 has Tyranids.
Spud: Hmmmm, I'm tempted. The no base building thing sounds interesting, but can the tactical combat really be complex enough to make up for the lack of that?
Corey: What, no timestamp?
Spud: Hmmm, good point. I should add that. But first I gotta figure out a genius anti-spam measure...
Spud: Also considering Fallout 3, after I finish Batman... Batman:AA is pretty awesome, though a little too easy. Just keep rhythmically clicking the mouse and Batman keeps automatically kicking ass for you.
Ben: Fighting's a bit more involved on a console.
Spud: Also snagged Shattered Horizon on an impulse, because... you know, for the whole "The enemy's gate is down" thing... and because, GTX 260.
Spud: I just had a flash of inspiration. Let's see how much spam this board gets now. If I wanted to get really fancy, I could have it pull a random question from a file full of questions that are matched to a corresponding answer file. I may do that when I have more time.
Spud: Also included a timestamp at the behest of Corey.
Spud: Woohoo, randomly-generated anti-spam keys. Now I feel like a genius. Also, I love PHP. Can anyone break it or offer suggestions on how to make it better?
Ben: Use the creepy voice-from-the-beyond audio captcha that Google uses. It sounds like a nightmare and no discernible human-produced sounds can be identified. "Click hear to hear these letters!" *click* OH GOD MAKE IT STOP I FEEL MY SOUL BEING TAKEN AWAY FROM ME
Corey: Since you do PHP, have you ever used Drupal?
Spud: No... I looked it up, and I can't even really grasp what it is. It's not a language? It's not an automated website-building tool? What is it?
Spud: I use uhm... Windows Explorer and Notepad++ as my "content management system." ;)
Corey: It's what I work with exclusively. I'm a web developer for a company out of Dallas. The reason I asked is because they're looking to hire more Drupal developers. If you want to see what all Drupal can do, look here: http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites
Corey: BTW, here is a site that I launched this summer for Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. http://www.thenewshouse.com . I was the sole developer. I'm working on a new site for Yale's radio station.
Spud: That looks really nice. I've never really had much content to manage, or developed anything professionally or anything that I've ever been paid for... so I guess that's why I never bothered to learn anything like that. I'm a decent enough coder in various different languages, but my real passion lies more towards the hardware end of IT. I want to run cables and connect fileservers to HBAs and such. :)
Corey: No prob. Let me know if you're interested in trying it out and I'll send some helpful info. There's definitely money in it for (fluent) English-speaking developers who understand PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and MySQL, as well as the Drupal framework.
tript: test
Spud: Batman:AA is a masterpiece of a game. Playing through it again on hard now.
Ben: YES. Except the final boss fight was kinda dumb.
Spud: Also snagged Far Cry 2 and Mirror's Edge... I'm addicted to Steam... someone please help me. They keep throwing games around for $5-$10 and I just can't help myself. :(
Ben: Mirror's Edge is excellent as well.
Spud: The class average in my statistics class was so low, that I technically scored a 73, but my professor is going to give me a B.
Spud: OK, uhm this is amazing.
Spud: Man, fuck the Facebook.
Ben: I've had dual 20" wide monitors for about 2 years now. I can never go back.
Ben: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE
Spud: Yeah, it's a fucking awesome game. I'm not even done with the singleplayer campaign and I'm already thinking about what I'm going to do differently with my characters on my next playthrough. I know I'll be getting the expansion when Steam runs a good sale on it. The only thing I don't like is that you can't make custom banners/logos for multiplayer anymore like you could in DoW1, because they teamed up with Games For Windows Live or whatever it's called, and Microsoft won't allow it. :(
Spud: Because you know, hearing your enemies scream as you torch them with flamethrowers, and seeing their blood spray in every direction as their bodies are squeezed until they pop by giant bipedal machines of war is fine... just as long as some 13 year-old kid doesn't spraypaint a swastika or a penis on his video-game armor.
Kilgore: That rat's nest looks as the worst I've ever seen in all of my IT days. What. The. F. "What" designed that? Cable managment anyone?
Spud: Well, it all started out with the best of intentions, I'm sure. Then over time, servers die, new ones come in, old ones get moved and/or re-purposed... uh-oh, gonna' need a new switch for all the DMZ zone... then you run out of power and have to put new power bars on your racks... probably going to have to move some stuff around for that... the worst part is having to walk past the cages of all these Fortune-100 companies and all their stuff is strung together so immaculately.
Spud: By the way Kilgore, you wouldn't happen to know how to monitor a server in SCOM2007 in a different, untrusted domain would you? We've got a legacy domain at work, and in it, there are servers that I want to monitor with SCOM, which is in the new domain, but I don't want to establish a trust relationship with the old domain because I don't want any of its old, rusty shit contaminating my new sparkly clean domain.
Spud: Go go gadget Kerberos
kilgore: If you're looking for some cool monitoring packages, check out spiceworks. Open source. I'm sure you can just create a local admin on the SCOM2007 serv and then give that credentials to the spiceworks interfaces.
Spud: Thanks man. I tried out Spiceworks not too long ago -- it's pretty neat. I still want to learn SCOM eventually for it's resume-enhancing potential but I've decided I don't really have any immediate need for it. I've gotten really good with Powershell scripting lately and have several scripts on a server constantly polling other machines for the information I want and updating a website.