The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

Passwords
17:33 Oct 14 2006
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If you ever give your VR password out, you deserve what you get. No administrator (including myself) will ever ask for your account password.

MS - GM
05:30 Oct 05 2006
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At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry. He stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that 1000 miles to the gallon."



In response, General Motors issued a press release with some comments of their own. I've included some of their comments below.



If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:



1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.



2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason, you would simply accept this.



3. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed an Illegal Operation" warning light.

So it wasn't really a hard drive crash after all
23:57 Oct 02 2006
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I woke up last week to the blaring message on my main computer:



Primary Hard Disk Failure



I tried a few restarts, but it seemed obvious that the boot drive had crashed. I shut the machine down and jumped on to one of my other computers. Later in the day I ordered some parts to rebuild my main machine.



Today I had to grab a CD out of the down machine, so I booted it up so I could eject the CD. The machine booted fine. No hard drive failure. I've been on the machine all day without incident.



This one's really got me perplexed, and that doesn't happed a lot. I'm guessing the IDE controller on the motherboard failed (temporarily). But as it stands now, in 25+ years of computing, I am still without a hard drive failure.

DarkRider
19:55 Oct 01 2006
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There are a lot of people who are beginning to "get" Vampire Rave's Society System. DarkRider is a great example.



He's put his time into VR. He's achieved Sire twice (he lost the position once after a Premium name change). Rather than start his own Coven, DarkRider roams from House to Coven to House. He spends some time in a society, gets to know the members, and then he moves on.



It should be said, that when Societies were originally implemented, DarkRider was one of the more outspoken opponents of the changes made to Vampire Rave's operating structure. Now he exemplifies the system and takes full advantage of the privileges associated with the position of Sire.