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There is no such thing as a hybrid. You are either on fire, or you are not.

That is such an idiotic statement that I won't even bother continuing the discussion. This link is the wikipedia page. And is Linus himself speaking about the mix of kernel architectures.

The people who push systemd have serious issues with reality it seems. Pulseaudio is a brain damaged piece of software and one of the first things to be removed in any distribution.

Wizardry being dark, and scary encounters.

What I remember most from Ultima was agonizing over the start questions :)
http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/562...
http://www.tk421.net/ultima/
http://www.beastwithin.org/use...

...let's talk about mencoder.

Could someone please bring us some sanity to the command line, please???

The following might sound like a troll. It isn't. I love mencoder because it's just about the only video capture app that happens to even remotely work on my particular situation, and only modern video capture app I've seen, too - can do weird and obscure new things like V4L2 and ALSA, and its home page doesn't say "Updates coming next week! (last updated: Dec 2002)".

It's just it's command line syntax I have a slight problem with.

As a transcoding application, it's probably fine, but as a TV recording app, it just isn't that great because in order to do some even rudimentary capturing you need to specify a lot and a LOT of parameters. It would be nice to have a bunch of profile files, so that I could say "mencoder -conf big_mpeg4.conf -o randomgamecubing.avi" to capture full-screen MPEG4 and "mencoder -conf tiny_xvid.conf randomtvcrap.avi" to encode some 352x288 XviD?

The current solution is actually one of the most annoying solutions I've done so far - writing a shell script to handle that. Then, as in case of most shell scripts, it turned into a Ruby script. And then... ummmm... can anyone say if this piece of junk is, in any way, better than a configuration file? I don't think so myself.

Holy damn, if we don't get configuration files to mencoder, I may need to rewrite this thing in Common Lisp, and I assure that at that point, no one's going to have fun!

::blinks::

I never really thought about the fact how well the FF and Ultima parts correspond to each other... apart of some silly crossover fanfictioning, or course. Both series have these days largely ignored parts 1-3, the 7th part getting popularly regarded as the high point and getting most sequels, and everyone seems to agree that part 8 was only kind of okay and the series went to hell after that. =)

I've heard mech guys talk too, and they MUCH prefer Timberwolves to the puny Bradley.

Just a followup:

Does Photoshop have anything like Resynthesizer?

How about Tileable Blur?

How about the Solid Noise plugin?

Is there native warping functionality in Photoshop, as IWarp provides in the GIMP?

How about the gorgeous Supernova?

IIRC, Xaos makes something (expensive) like GIMPressionist. Of course, Photoshop doesn't come with this functionality.

Lots of other things -- I haven't used Photoshop for a long time, so I'm not going to be much good at pointing out the things that it lacks...just pointing out that the functionality sword cuts two ways.

For output intended for print, Photoshop is better. For output intended to be digital, GIMP is better. Pretty simple.

I cracked out a copy of good old Space Quest II about a year ago and loaded it up on my Athlon.

I hoped that would also apply to Sierra subsidiaries. Yesterday I had trouble getting Betrayal at Krondor (Dynamix, 1993) to run in Win98SE - not enough memory, and apparently the only way to get sound AND USB mouse support is to use Win dos box, raw dos boot won't do.

Usually I wouldn't mind, but that was the first full-price PC game I ever got, and besides, it has retained its value most extraordinarily! =)

Amazingly enough, the game runs just fine (just a little bit sluggishly and I didn't try the sound yet) in Bochs with DR-DOS 7.

I recently got a copy of Amiga Forever 5.0, and I tried out WinUAE with that. I also installed AmigaOS 3.9 to it and it worked just fine. Even when I am not really a big Amiga fan (more of a foamy-mouthed Commodore 64 user =) I must say I'm really impressed... With the JIT stuff and the bsdsockets, it worked fast and supported network. A real, hardware C64 can do ISDN (with proper RS232 buffering, of course), but now I have an emulated Amiga that does DSL =)

(Screenshots? 1 2 3)

Of this stuff, I have to say I'm impressed, too - no need to boot to some other OS to run another, which means some more stability - UAE 0.8 isn't 100% stable yet. Very nifty.

(And I think Amiga hardware was pretty nice, but PC got ahead of it at last (after so many years!) when they ditched ISA bus and got USB input devices.)

I need to get the JIT + bsdsockets for *NIX UAE soon. Too bad the fullscreen modes in X11 UAE often suck - DGA, with its r00t requirement, means trouble. Anyone working on a SDL port?

I recently got a copy of Amiga Forever 5.0, and I tried out WinUAE with that. I also installed AmigaOS 3.9 to it and it worked just fine. Even when I am not really a big Amiga fan (more of a foamy-mouthed Commodore 64 user =) I must say I'm really impressed... With the JIT stuff and the bsdsockets, it worked fast and supported network. A real, hardware C64 can do ISDN (with proper RS232 buffering, of course), but now I have an emulated Amiga that does DSL =)

(Screenshots? 1 2 3)

Of this stuff, I have to say I'm impressed, too - no need to boot to some other OS to run another, which means some more stability - UAE 0.8 isn't 100% stable yet. Very nifty.

(And I think Amiga hardware was pretty nice, but PC got ahead of it at last (after so many years!) when they ditched ISA bus and got USB input devices.)

I need to get the JIT + bsdsockets for *NIX UAE soon. Too bad the fullscreen modes in X11 UAE often suck - DGA, with its r00t requirement, means trouble. Anyone working on a SDL port?

I recently got a copy of Amiga Forever 5.0, and I tried out WinUAE with that. I also installed AmigaOS 3.9 to it and it worked just fine. Even when I am not really a big Amiga fan (more of a foamy-mouthed Commodore 64 user =) I must say I'm really impressed... With the JIT stuff and the bsdsockets, it worked fast and supported network. A real, hardware C64 can do ISDN (with proper RS232 buffering, of course), but now I have an emulated Amiga that does DSL =)

(Screenshots? 1 2 3)

Of this stuff, I have to say I'm impressed, too - no need to boot to some other OS to run another, which means some more stability - UAE 0.8 isn't 100% stable yet. Very nifty.

(And I think Amiga hardware was pretty nice, but PC got ahead of it at last (after so many years!) when they ditched ISA bus and got USB input devices.)

I need to get the JIT + bsdsockets for *NIX UAE soon. Too bad the fullscreen modes in X11 UAE often suck - DGA, with its r00t requirement, means trouble. Anyone working on a SDL port?