Slashdot Mirror

http://www.ewillms.f2s.com

since we just /.ed the RFC editor site to hell, have a mirror of both

sigh.

Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receieve.

since we just /.ed the RFC editor site to hell, have a mirror of both

sigh.

Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receieve.

/.ed means : Windows NT error number 2 occurred.

heh.

here's a mirror.

Check it out the FBI defaced the hacker's web site.

Now that's just cold.

ugh.
Mirroring it as fast as I can get it here

The good:
Java actually works. Programs that are pure Java are able to run just fine. This is an amazing step for Macintosh.

The bad:
Running java programs on a mac is not easy. I had to use a command line to run all my software. Since this is the first command line on a Mac, I assume that Mac users will not be willing to go that route. Neither class files or jar files are double clickable. By contrast, jar files on windows are associated with Java and open right up when you click on them. Apple does have a tool that will package your as a Mac Application. However, it appears that it can only be run on a Macintosh and as a GUI. Since I don't develop on a Mac, this isn't really a good option. I would consider switching, but if I did, then I would like to be able to build everthing from a make file, so I'm hesitant.

Apple has done a poor job of porting the MRJ, the java hooks into the Mac OS. Specifically, I was upset to find that the command for opening a web browser hasn't been implemented. I have a crossplatform class for opening a web browser from Java, but as of yet have not been able to get it to work with OS X. This can be done on other systems by using a command line, but applications on OS X appear as directories on the command line, and most Mac apps don't accept command lines anyway.

I also consider the MRJ to be a poor solution because after using these system specific classes your applications will not compile on other systems that do not have these libraries. You have to jump through hoops using the Reflection API in Java to be be able to find the classes at runtime so that your stuff will compile on other systems.

Overall:
I'd say Java on the Mac is good enough. I'll start supporting OS X as a platform that my programs run on. Provided they don't have to open a web browser, and given that the user has a bit of command line savvy.

About a year ago, I'd written an essay on using DNA mapping & AI to create Virtual Life & evolution. You can find it here at -
http://www.metlin.f2s.com/ai/dna.html

"...Fear the people who fear your computer"

remembah: all yer base arebelong to us
f1r5t p0st4 ya!

Use templates.

Seems like a lot of people are using phpnuke now. When I was trying to create a web log of myself I didnt see any clean slash like implementation that would interface with postgresql. My only option was to create my own web log. Sadly I've lost interest in this endevour. Maybe someone here might be interested in taking over the code and doing anything they wish with it? I work mainly with Unicode, so I had a revision of the code that did Unicode pretty well. The only drawback is that my application (named smoothlogger) lacks threading (due to political reasons). There is a pretty extensive admin interface and some nice tools. Everthing comes in a few tiny files :). And it fuses well with postgresql. Enjoy.
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I don't know how much latitude I have under copyright law to distribute a clone. Probably none. If the copyright owners were to ask me to stop distributing the game, I would.

In my own little fantasy world, I believe that those persons (unknown to me) who originally did the game would love to see more people getting enjoyment out of it. But then again, I could understand if they did not feel this way. So get it while its hot!

Dmoz doesn't seem to work well when editors can't decide what category something should be in. My Ladder game isn't listed. I've submitted it to several categories with no luck. The Java Games category points to web games and the editors there won't accept it because it doesn't run in a web page. Submitting it to other categories like arcade game specific titles, has recieved no response. Oh well.

I have also applied to be an editor several times. but have been rejected. What helps to become an editor? I usually use a different email address for every category I apply for. Would it help to use the same account for every category? It asks about experience in the field. What helps here and what hurts? It asks for URLs. I assume three good URLs will help your chances. If there are any editors out there that could comment on this, I'd sure appreciate it.

Most open source projects are written with a very specific goal in mind. I'll bet that most people who write a basic text editor, do it as a programming exercise and so they have an editor with a specific feature. Most people who write a text editor don't realize that it is actually a hard problem until after they get started.

But why is writing a text editor a hard problem? It really should be just connecting a bunch of components. Do these components exist? Rather than write my own text editor, I write some libraries that other programmers should be able to use, such as my syntax highlighting package. Rather than start your own project, I encourage everybody to write a blackbox library. The most successful, reusable, able to be modified OSS projects I've seen are libraries. Take a look at the GD image library for example. Its used all over the place. When a programmer wants to be able to save a png, they don't take apart Gimp to see how it is done, they use GD.

We won't get anywhere unless OSS programmers start writing better black boxes. Black boxes are easy to reuse. Large programs are hard to modif

I write this postmortum as I have been shot due to a grave programming error that caused the moustachecounter to malfunction, but that is another story, you see I got distracted by some very intense and explicit footage I found on the Internet.

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I write this postmortum as I have been shot due to a grave programming error that caused the moustachecounter to malfunction, but that is another story, you see I got distracted by some very intense and explicit footage I found on the Internet.

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Shoutcast makes a streaming audio server in some ways similar to what real is doing. Is this something they could bitchslap me for if they had the desire?

I have no idea how shoutcast feels about my program and I doubt anybody there even knows about it. Makes you nervous to develop software these days.

The thing is... you don't get those to yourselves. The .US domain has a place on the net now more than ever, as the .net .org .com .edu's are being used globally rather than just by the US!

You're right about the US not settling for a .US domain, but it seems that some non-US sites are also not settling!

For example:

http://telstra.com/ & http://www.telstra.net/ - An Australian Telco

http://apcmag.com/ - An Australian PC Mag.

http://www.freedom2surf.net/ & http://www.f2s.com/ - An English ISP.


"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47

'Do not shoot at human or animals'.
Now, tell me, why doesn't the guns wear such warnings?

benjaminbruheim

Tetris Tetris Tetris Pacman Asteroids Centipede

And for you people that grew up on the kaypro, cloned Ladder! (Shameless self plug)

I'm sure you can any of the most popular games just with a quick search on google. :

Here's a screenshot of Photopaint 9 in action, in case you need it that bad.

law school as life

Don't be so surprised that the Linux Expo got so much coverage in Korea. I'm an Australian but have recently been in Korea, and I was amazed by how mainstream technology stuff is. It's like a geek's paradise!

While I was shopping in Tongdaemun (one of the hip, trendy, young areas) I saw popular-type teenagers walking around with linux t-shirts and bags from Linux related shows etc. Books on linux are everywhere, and many people know of it. As another poster pointed out, a large proportion of people on the Linux Counter are Koreans (and the counter is a foreign-language site!).

It seemed to me that computers and geekier things are much more mainstream there, than in AU (and supposedly the US). check out this photo I took, and observe the gratuitous advertising of computer games. On TV, there are championships of the top people playing the 'Dancing machines' (DDR) video games. The Koreans are mad about Starcraft, and the Korean Battle.net champion is somewhat of a celebrity - I often saw him in TV commercials. And he's a geeky looking guy with glasses too :)

MP3 players are also HUGE there. I was in a specialty MP3 player shop once, with about 10 different varieties of players, including one that could actually be put in a cassette deck and used in a way similar to those car radio-discman adaptors, and also one about 3x3x1cm which was a keyring!

Not to mention the 'PC bang' ( translation --> 'PC store/room' , similar to a net cafe). Even in smallish towns, its hard not to see quite a few (The smallish place I was mainly staying at had roughy 4 or 5 per square Km around the town centre). They usually consist of a room with about 30 or 40 computers, networked with fast net connections, which are mainly used either for surfing / downloading, or playing games (mainly Starcraft ;). Believe it or not, hanging out and playing Starcraft in PC bangs is a good way to meet ladies! My friend met his girlfriend in one!

Add to that the way EVERYBODY carries a mobile phone (as other posters have already elaborated on). Many people use them to surf the web, and heaps use it to send email (not necessarily SMS - I receive email all the time from phones in Korea).

So anyway, Korea is a very cool place for the technologically inclined. I'm planning to go there and work when I finish uni. I'm sure Timothy, ESR and RMS thoroughly enjoyed it :).

Allowing the police/school to do this would absolutely crush free speech on the net.

There is a very blurry line between what this kid did, and just simple criticism. Throwing someone in jail for criticizing government officials is downright scary. I think we should always err on the side of freedom in these cases.

Something like this is especially troubling for me, because I run a website(Free PHS) criticizing my own school administration, and at times I get downright vitriolic. And yet, I don't think anything I'm doing is illegal. If criticizing the government is not protected by the First Amendment, then what is?

Anyway, I think that there are a lot of people who don't understand the internet and are therefore much more scared of sites on the net than they would be of other forms of speech. It's important to ask yourself, in all these cases, whether you'd treat the student any differently if, instead of publishing on the net, he had said the same thing to some friends(or put it in an underground newspaper)

BTW, a good book on this topic is "Sex, Laws and Cyberspace", by Jonathan Wallace(who also runs The Ethical Spectacle)

There bug report has a nice Unicode page where you can test this bug.

From Chapter 4.1, "Behavior of the Robot Finger":

"We thought that a single robot finger, provided that it possesses the same motion capabilities...as a human finger, would have been sufficient..."

Well, why not, most humans only use a single finger.

I've made a "tool" (whatever you want to call it...) to strip them. I know _nobody_ out there actually forwards stuff to people, but...just in case you got that new virus warning from metoo@aol.com and are positive it's true (sure it is...), at least you won't have to waste bandwidth....

http://www.caffeine.f2s.com/forwards/ fwd.html

Grades, Social Life, Sleep....Pick Two.

So, they say "hey, these people know what they are doing and can save us bandwidth money! hire 'em!" Imagine how wonderful the web would be if there weren't so much useless crap being sent around.

actually, it's a dream. let's be realistic, companies won't go catching 5k designers to save bandwidth. they care about content and design. about making people come back to the sites. too bad not everybody follows nielsen's reputation article. and sure, the web would be wonderful without so much "useless crap".

jaime g. wong
the Guidelight Project

just imagine the usefulness of these LCDs on a palm. that would be pretty cool...

jaguar.
visit the Guidelight Project

and have you noticed its structure is also similar to the matrix's? lotsa white flashes, dark style, techno score and even a blue logo of the 20CFox (just like the blue warner logo) at the start. heh, curious.

jaguar.
visit the Guidelight project

There's a new Slashdot-like site (or "Mini-Slashdot" as the author puts it) at www.guidelight.f2s.com, built in PHP. The guy claims he will release the source soon.

MRR