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sevI've ordered Caesar IV. It sounds like a fun way to spend the next three months or so. I thoroughly enjoyed Zeus, one of its predecessors. I played the demo -- twice. And I enjoyed the second run-through as much as I'd enjoyed the first. That's unusual for me.
I did not, however, enjoy the demo of Glory of the Roman Empire. It was cute, in a original-warcraft little-people-wandering-around kind of way, but the arbitrary restrictions drove me batshit: A house can contain one male, one female, and one child-or-senior. Only women can farm pigs. Only men can fish. WTF?
The upside of getting the GotRE demo running was the thrill of accomplishment just from getting it running. I now have had the experience of overriding directdraw's refresh rate and having that actually help something. (my LCD monitor runs at 60Hz. and only 60Hz. So when the demo insisted on changing that (why?) all I got was black-and-colored lines on the screen. Hey, that probably means I can make Sacrifice go, too. Though really, in the universe of games I've paid for and never played, sacrifice isn't high up on my list of things to try again.)
It's been nine thousand eight hundred and twenty-or-so hours since my last cigarette, and I still crave them.
I really need to get a better system for keeping track of what-I-do-as-root. Am I going to remember in a month that I de-installed gnu pthreads because they don't play nice with the ones that come with netbsd? No, of course I won't.
While I'm not taking good notes: I need to figure out how I'm going to expire the quarantined messages from SpamAssassin, which amavis is stowing in a directory. I had some archiving or backup or some sort of script at one point that did exactly this. damned if I can remember which one it was. Obviously I should have been taking better notes. I remember being delighted at how clever it was.
It's official; we're jumping ship & getting a new ISP. In the name of only breaking one thing at a time, I shouldn't upgrade the firewall at the same time, but ... I'm really tempted to, just to not have downtime twice. Even more: I've just about talked myself into it. Making the old firewall work with the new ISP & new IP addresses and whatnot, just to take it down & swap it out with something significantly different, strikes me as really quite boring. I'd been planning on building the new firewall on a new computer and then just swapping them out, but why replace the hardware that's working just fine?
In the meantime, I wonder if I should spend the effort getting bayes and dcc working on our spamfilter? The recent upgrade has really improved the spam hit rate, but I always wonder, can't we do better?
The upside of getting the GotRE demo running was the thrill of accomplishment just from getting it running. I now have had the experience of overriding directdraw's refresh rate and having that actually help something. (my LCD monitor runs at 60Hz. and only 60Hz. So when the demo insisted on changing that (why?) all I got was black-and-colored lines on the screen. Hey, that probably means I can make Sacrifice go, too. Though really, in the universe of games I've paid for and never played, sacrifice isn't high up on my list of things to try again.)
It's been nine thousand eight hundred and twenty-or-so hours since my last cigarette, and I still crave them.
I really need to get a better system for keeping track of what-I-do-as-root. Am I going to remember in a month that I de-installed gnu pthreads because they don't play nice with the ones that come with netbsd? No, of course I won't.
While I'm not taking good notes: I need to figure out how I'm going to expire the quarantined messages from SpamAssassin, which amavis is stowing in a directory. I had some archiving or backup or some sort of script at one point that did exactly this. damned if I can remember which one it was. Obviously I should have been taking better notes. I remember being delighted at how clever it was.
It's official; we're jumping ship & getting a new ISP. In the name of only breaking one thing at a time, I shouldn't upgrade the firewall at the same time, but ... I'm really tempted to, just to not have downtime twice. Even more: I've just about talked myself into it. Making the old firewall work with the new ISP & new IP addresses and whatnot, just to take it down & swap it out with something significantly different, strikes me as really quite boring. I'd been planning on building the new firewall on a new computer and then just swapping them out, but why replace the hardware that's working just fine?
In the meantime, I wonder if I should spend the effort getting bayes and dcc working on our spamfilter? The recent upgrade has really improved the spam hit rate, but I always wonder, can't we do better?