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Not just Wine, but also Winetricks.

From http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/posts/gnome-thumbnailer-msi-fail.html/:

If the proof of concept does not work, install winetricks and run winetricks wsh56 to upgrade the Windows Script Host.

The Devuan developers don't think they can do it in Debian for two reasons:

One, most of them never contributed to Debian before, they only use it.

Which makes the false assumption that Debian is only contributed to by developers. Nice distro that does not need users!

Two, they have a "burn it with fire" attitude instead of actually understanding how to support both systemd and sysvinit in the same distro.

.. or instead because systemd is such crapware, does not play well with other software (eg. NFS mount), and has excellent alternatives?

Captcha: dispute

Keyword: propaganda.

I've yet to read a single compelling technical reason on Slashdot why systemd is a bad idea.

Ignorance is fun? Makes people wonder how you yourself has the gut to say "ignorance" here.

I built a script to generate a graph of third-party resources a web page loads, which often represent advertising and tracking (sample output for Spiegel Online, a German newspaper).

I also wrote a blog post about how advertising and tracking make sites slow (in German) that contains even more graphs from when I ran the script in January 2013.

I built a script to generate a graph of third-party resources a web page loads, which often represent advertising and tracking (sample output for Spiegel Online, a German newspaper).

I also wrote a blog post about how advertising and tracking make sites slow (in German) that contains even more graphs from when I ran the script in January 2013.

I built a script to generate a graph of third-party resources a web page loads, which often represent advertising and tracking (sample output for Spiegel Online, a German newspaper).

I also wrote a blog post about how advertising and tracking make sites slow (in German) that contains even more graphs from when I ran the script in January 2013.

Before IBNIZ, viznut was using a C compiler to, well, discover minimal music. You should read his paper regarding algorithmic composition using small programs. und check out my repository of formulas for C programs that generate sound.

People without easy access to compilers (I met a gal a few days ago who had old OS X and no 99$ to spare for a dev account) should still check out a track from the repository as wave file to get an impression of the style.

I also wrote a program generating a crude chiptunes version of the IT crowd melody (of course, the melody is not algorithmically generated, but rather encoded in the source, feel free to consider that cheating).

Before IBNIZ, viznut was using a C compiler to, well, discover minimal music. You should read his paper regarding algorithmic composition using small programs. und check out my repository of formulas for C programs that generate sound.

People without easy access to compilers (I met a gal a few days ago who had old OS X and no 99$ to spare for a dev account) should still check out a track from the repository as wave file to get an impression of the style.

I also wrote a program generating a crude chiptunes version of the IT crowd melody (of course, the melody is not algorithmically generated, but rather encoded in the source, feel free to consider that cheating).

I wrote something similar to IBNIZ, yet vastly simpler, a composing software called glitched (needs pygame 1.9.1). The forth variant I use has no subroutines or recursion and is not even turing complete and the stack has only 256 fields. However, it is compatible with that of several other implementations (see README). Like IBNIZ, it has live editing and stack visualisation.

It is important to note that sound made with this kind of tools is not limited to chiptunes. There is a video of an older version of glitched, doing Karplus-Strong-string synthesis.

(Apologies in advance to the users of a totally unrelated glitch library, which is also written in python. I have met one of it's developers last night and we agreed insane troll logic dictates a merger of our two projects to rectify the namespace collision. I may have to bring that up again when he is sober.)

I wrote something similar to IBNIZ, yet vastly simpler, a composing software called glitched (needs pygame 1.9.1). The forth variant I use has no subroutines or recursion and is not even turing complete and the stack has only 256 fields. However, it is compatible with that of several other implementations (see README). Like IBNIZ, it has live editing and stack visualisation.

It is important to note that sound made with this kind of tools is not limited to chiptunes. There is a video of an older version of glitched, doing Karplus-Strong-string synthesis.

(Apologies in advance to the users of a totally unrelated glitch library, which is also written in python. I have met one of it's developers last night and we agreed insane troll logic dictates a merger of our two projects to rectify the namespace collision. I may have to bring that up again when he is sober.)

There is a project called Minetest-c55. It is not as featureful as Minecraft, but written in C++ (using Irrlicht) and licensed under the GPL2 (or – as I remember – at your option, any later version). You can check it out on Bitbucket.

Disclaimer: I maintain a fork called Minetest (Minetest Delta) with some added features (new block types etc.), which can be found on GitHub. Look at the screenshots.

Used to love XKCD.

Me too, I think the noise ratio is going up for at least a year. But then he is not at NASA anymore, so he probably does less math stuff. I think another problem is that honest criticism is not taken into account -- actually I asked Randall on IRC and he said that he fears getting obsessed with quality and prefers not worrying. While I see that this might be enjoyable, I think a little more thought couldn't be that damaging; just compare his approach to the Debian/OpenSSL disaster to my one to see what I mean.