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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! )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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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!
veni bibi saltavi
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Ah, rubber keyboards; stretchy cassette tapes. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!
Are you sure? I can't remember 
veni bibi saltavi
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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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And then a popup says "A required update will be installed...save your work...rebooting in 60 seconds"
But it doesn't give any indication which machine is being "fixed".
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How did you know this? It is actually true! Except that I knew which computer was it.
"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 know it because it happens to me every week. 
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Oh! Microsoft!
I get an error opening OneDrive - at least now I know what version of .Net MS use on their live sites, i guess!
Server Error in '/' Application.
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Assembly Load Trace: The following information can be helpful to determine why the assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' could not be loaded.
WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].
Stack Trace:
[FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.]
System.Web.WebPages.PreApplicationStartCode.Start() +0
System.Web.Mvc.PreApplicationStartCode.Start() +33
[InvalidOperationException: The pre-application start initialization method Start on type System.Web.Mvc.PreApplicationStartCode threw an exception with the following error message: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified..]
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.InvokePreStartInitMethodsCore(ICollection`1 methods, Func`1 setHostingEnvironmentCultures) +12619939
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.InvokePreStartInitMethods(ICollection`1 methods) +12619660
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CallPreStartInitMethods(String preStartInitListPath, Boolean& isRefAssemblyLoaded) +280
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.ExecutePreAppStart() +172
System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.Initialize(ApplicationManager appManager, IApplicationHost appHost, IConfigMapPathFactory configMapPathFactory, HostingEnvironmentParameters hostingParameters, PolicyLevel policyLevel, Exception appDomainCreationException) +1151
[HttpException (0x80004005): The pre-application start initialization method Start on type System.Web.Mvc.PreApplicationStartCode threw an exception with the following error message: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified..]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +12618980
System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +159
System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestNotificationPrivate(IIS7WorkerRequest wr, HttpContext context) +12458597
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.34274
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Hey, this is great!
I actually know the fix for this!
Disable onedrive.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Interestingly enough I was about to post a rage about onedrive when this happened (it happens if click on the link that is meant to show me how much space I have, as they've decided to take 10Gb away from everyone).
OneDrive is by far the worst piece of software MS have ever released in the wild.
And, yes, I include Vista and Clippy
I have about 10Gb of data that I use just for a backup - and I have had to entirely re-upload it at least 6 times this year because something just plain goes wrong!
Put it together with Office, where it frequently just tells me it can't upload a document, and gives no reason or fix, and it's part of the reason I have to take 1/2 aspirin every day.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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