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Stupid me, forgot to say get the install here (full install) or here (update only) or here There are other links here

Get the trailer here

[...] In the January 1939 issue of Amazing Stories, Eando Binder portrayed a sympathetic robot in I, Robot. [...] Dimly, I began to feel that I wanted to write a story in which a robot would be portrayed lovingly. And on May 10, 1939, I began such a story. The job took me two weeks, for in those days it took me quite a while to write a story. I called it Robbie, and it was about a robot nursemaid, who was loved by the child it cared for and feared by the child's mother. [...] On June 8, 1950, the collection was handed to Gnome Press, and the title I gave it was Mind and Iron. The publisher shook his head. 'Let's call it I, robot', he said. 'We can't', I said. 'Eando Binder wrote a short story with that title ten years ago.' 'Who cares?' said the publisher (though that is a bowdlerized version of what he really said), and I allowed myself, rather uneasily, to be persuaded."

My cable modem in France runs Linux. It is offered for free with a EUR 30,00 per month subscription and in addition to Internet access, it provides a telephone line (free calls within France) and ADSL cable tv (without using the Internet bandwidth).

The interesting thing (besides running Linux) is that there are already 140,000 out there, with about 1 million forecast for the end of next year. 1 million embedded Linux users.

More information can be found at Free's site (my ISP) or for a slightly more technical review here, all in French.

Amazingly, it was still not reported by LinuxDevices neither by Slashdot...

Made from two squares of paper. I've never folded them, but they do look slick.

The version of parted that is on the Gentoo live CD claims to have hfs support.

I tried it and it did not work, I read someplce that Apple changed something to do with the on disk format somewhat recently... It didn't damage the data, it just quit after a while. I didn't feel like mucking with it any longer so I just backed up and wiped the drive.

links:
Gentoo
Gentoo PPC FAQ mentions using parted
parted patches
newsgroup post from the above patch author

I corrected this one, too. Get the fix at this place and move the corrected binary in the right place (/System/Library/Filesystems/ufs.fs/). I included the source code obviously, but you'll need the full diskdev package (plus dependant packages) from the Apple developer.apple.com website, to build it.

Get the fix with source code here, just double-click the install.sh script, it will make, copy and setuid the file at the correct location. Somebody please test and review this !

Now that I can get back to the site....

HERE

there's your script/plugin to export from blender to POVRAY.

I've used it to render a B-5 like (and looked Damn like the show... POVRAY rules!) shuttle flyby scene between Juipter and mars (with an atmosphere halo on mars) it took a bit to get my textures right as ther was a bit of skewing but it worked.

webvcrplus for scheduling/recording, mplayer for playback, avidemux for commercial removal, mencoder for postprocessing (deinterlacing, audio syncing, etc.), and transcode with DVD::Rip for backing up DVDs.

My primary goal for this is to make backup copies of media for when I travel. When I watch live TV on my computer, I use TVTime. I am looking more into something like MythTV, because of the possibility of streaming content, and the fact that it is getting toward the point of being able to remove commercials on the fly.

That said, I have been very happy with my current configuration. Webvcrplus works like a charm, downloading listings through xmltv and scheduling them for recording.

there is an effort by a guy named daniel glazman to develop a standalone composer, to complement firebird and thunderbird.

so you'll have your precious composer! (no sarcasm intended, although i prefer editing suites like quanta, bluefish, screem)

the general idea is (i think) that development of mozilla in standalone applications will be more flexible, easier to keep bugfree etc.

of course this provides us with more choice (do i want this component or not) which is always good IMHO

For those that don't know, there is a mplayer for debian apt source available. It includes all of the codecs, win32, quicktime, realplayer, etc. Best part is mplayer-plugin (works with Mozilla for sites that embed their videos in a webpage). Go here:

http://marillat.free.fr/

-molo

Technically, those are window manager features. You could even use sawfish with KDE.

Frankly, I'm with you 100% on sawfish. Sawfish is a *fantastic* window manager for folks that aren't dead-set on being lightweight (a la fvwm/twm), aren't hyper-hardcore keyboard-only nuts (ion), aren't eye candy freaks (Enlightenment), and don't require an extremely simplistic window manager (kwm, metacity). If you like emacs and use X, you'll feel right at home with sawfish. Good usability.

Main drawbacks -- doesn't come with a pager, and you have to get one separately. There's a basic config utility which still gives more power than most window managers, but to really make the thing do tricks, you'll want to be comfortable with LISP -- emacs fans should be happy.

Let's see...on other feedback, I would suggest using xbindkeys to launch your external programs, rather than sawfish. As a matter of fact, every program I have running in my X environment is launched from xbindkeys or from a decendant of one of those programs. This has a number of benefits -- xbindkeys is desktop environment independent, allowed me to avoid rare and irritating problems where sawfish would ignore a "launch xterm" command and then when a second "launch xterm" command is sent, launch two, and xbindkeys is somewhat faster -- when I hit Windows-T, I want a terminal *now*. :-)

PS. Just ignore the rants on various Mozilla sites about how Opera's SSR is "nothing but CSS", as it is insignificant or useless. Sure, it might be a simple idea, but why didn't someone else come up with it first then? Also, just because an idea is simple doesn't mean that it's bad or useless. It is, in fact, a good idea, one which might finally kill off WAP (about time). Just had to get that off my chest...

Astronaut: Houston control, we have a problem. The Russians have painted the moon read.

Houston: Apollo command, put a Coca Cola logo on it.


Like that?

Ofcourse if you're paranoid like me, you driva a 1991 Fiat Fiorino, and you don't own a cellphone.
Next on my whishlist are the neat rotating (and changing) licence plates like KIT used to have. And while we're at it , a bit of 'turbo boost'(mpeg-file)
(kit or not... that car HAD to crash on landing)

So is this Wildcat!

ps. please remove 1024x1280 ads from front page of /.

Who's with me?

-hb

It does not, though part of its thrust depends on a surrounding atmosphere (roughly 40%). Read on for details.

Tux as Neo
Somewhere I also saw Tux in a trenchcoat like Morpheus's, and I'd think Tux would be better as morpheus than Neo.

How sure are you that this device doesn't depend on air? I think a good few of Naudin's experiments use some sort of electrostatic ionic propulsion to work.

Another device that is based on a NASA patent. (More links are on the page.)

For example with devices such as this it is not hard to understand that a device such as this would provide rapid flight to any location on earth irrespective of weather conditions and I would say, appropriately insulated, it would even be able to go underwater as it would depend on electricity and not air for its propulsion. Interplanetary space flight with a propulsive method like this would also be trivial. The ideas are there they only require money and patience.

Also of note, http://marillat.free.fr/ has mplayer packages that work extremely well for stable, testing and unstable Debian.

This is a good article.

Although it is a different camera, I also reccomend this camera from Ricoh

About a month ago, when they released alpha1, the binary was with a GPL licence. I asked them to release the source. They didn't do that. Instead they changed the licence to a closed one.

the binary is still at http://diablero.free.fr/warppipe/

They are so childish with the project, it's quite sad :(

Parent is not a troll. Here's a follow-up to that AOL article.

this chick? (NSFW!)

If you read the link you'll see that it's currently only working on PPC, although the x86 version is being worked on. If they got that done, presumably they would be able to run the libraries, unmodified, but it would still be emulation. I think you're a little confused there. Running PPC binaries on an x86 processor would by definition involve emulation, which has nothing to do with modifying the libraries, rather probably a translation module that reinterprets the instructions on the fly.

The PPC is a far better designed chip, of course, and the performance hit of doing this will be tremendous. That's not because it's emulation (emulation can be faster than the original, in some cases, just not this one.)

The Atari ST has had web browser software for some time. It's called the Crystal Atari Browser.

The "latest RPM" is, by definition, not stable. It has not had the testing period that a "stable" package has.

If you want a more recent version than is available in stable, pin your machine at stable and install the "testing" package(which satisfies dependancies), or run testing itself.

You can also find a third-party debian source(eg http://marillat.free.fr), or compile it yourself, though that also defeats the testing period.

Check out http://www.apt-get.org/ for all your unofficial debian source needs.

No, QEMU is the only hope. Bochs doesn't count because it sucks rocks. Support QEMU!

The memos are available for download here. French server, decent bandwidth, out of the reach of any DMCA-wielding company.

Composer is now developped as a standalone program by Daniel Glazman. The current codename is Composer++

If you want news about Composer you should read Daniel's weblog :
Daniel

When daniel sees it fit, he will officially release binaries through mozilla.org, in the meantime he sporadically releases test builds and afaik, the source code is downloadable from mozilla.org CVS servers if you want to compile it yourself.

Yepp. That was my first Computer. A true handheld. I bought it when everybody else had a C64. The reason I bought it was that it would run 120 hours on batteries minimum and it had everthing a computer needed back then. You can fit the thing into every pocket. I even got myself a datasette interface and could load and save stuff on tape. Really cool. There where a whole load of books on Sharp PC machinecoding and all that. You could control single LCD display Pixels and do little grafics with them. I remember one guy squeezing a chess programm into 1,2k(!!). THAT was a cool computer back then and it still is now. I bought the PC 1403 with 32 KB RAM in the early 90s and that one got me into the whole PC and Web craze. I've still got it, with 'cash register roll printer' interface and all in a nice and neat custom wooden suitcase. It's way cool and still beats my Palm in batterytime. Infact, I've lost data on my Palm due to power shortage twice allready, but I never lost data on a Sharp PC.

There's a GPL'd VNC client for PalmOS. It's called PalmVNC (wow...). I make a 320x460 desktop on my main machine and VNC from the PDA to that. No scrolling, and I can use gaim with subpixel anti-aliasing on my Clie :D

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Want mplayer in Debian using apt-get goodness? Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main

(or use the appropriate entry listed at http://marillat.free.fr/)

I was so horrified when I heard about IP espianage by singing this song!

How many jobs have been lost thanks to someone singing about how to play their own DVD's they own!

This is so horrible. Before you know it they will be making illegal pirated versions of Unixware just from 60 lines of code that happen to be part of the same algorithm! It only takes 60 lines of code to turn a bicycle into a car folks! The highly respected non biased IP expert, McBride said so.

But just like were winning the war on drugs by increasing prison sentances we need to do the same here. After all drug use can not possibly be on the rise because everyone assumes they are going to be caught and big bad prison sentances scare them.

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Hey, what's this ??? How can /. claim to be independant if they put Linux ads when talking about a competing product ?
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How do you get rid of nasty infections? Autoclave! Heat things up enough to smoke out all those nasty hoomins and things can get back to normal around here.

As for volcanos, it looks like the production of CO/CO2 in eruptions can have an effect on global warming. It turns out, however, that the ash/SO2 released into the atmosphere has a cooling effect. It also helps scatter sunlight, allowing for more robust tree growth which leads to more carbon being taken out of the atmosphere.

So, all we need to happen is for the Yellowstone (NetBSD) volcano to erupt (supposed to be violent enough to wipe out hoomanity) and fill the skys with enough ash and SO2 to bring on Fimbulwinter to slow down global warming. Or have a big rock smack into the Indian Ocean.

Calculating Pi one digit at a time, means that your server doesn't need to be so huge (sorry for being so geeky), just compute it on the fly!

As for IP, it's an even worse nightmare for mathematicians than programmers. I don't know of any patented maths, but I know that people have tried. Arguably, maths is discovered rather than invented; I'd hope that maths and numbers could avoid copyright.

Here is what happens when airports depend upon Windows...

(You have to watch nearly the entire movie, to understand why I'm mentioning it. Sorry, can't explain any more, as that would spoil the joke. ;-)

Here in Hamburg, we have OZ, our very own local weirdo. According to two similar newspaper articles from last year (article 1, article 2), he is in his 50s and made more than 120.000 graffiti tags around the city, nothing could stop him yet.

He was first known for spraying smileys everywhere - road signs, car wheels, everywhere he could find something round. It was cute at first, but he sprayed everywhere. He later started spraying his "oz" tag and there is virtually no public space without his tag all over Hamburg, a major German city. You can find miles and miles of small "oz oz oz oz oz" carefully sprayed on subway walls, he climbs buildings to tag the roofs...

Oz is presumed to be a mental case. He has no income, lives on welfare, the only thing he does is graffiti and even while on trials, he was caught several times when tagging. He usually tries to escape the officers who catch him by beating them up.

He has appeared to court with a sign "I am a Jew" and has now begun spraying "policemen are Nazis" or "subway watchmen are Nazis" and simple "Stop the Nazis" graffitis - again, everywhere all over town.

It's somewhat embarassing: I had US visitors in Hamburg recently and had a hard time explaining to them that all these "Stop Nazis" graffitis are in fact the work of a weirdo who declared the people trying to stop him "Nazis", not of concerned citizens afraid of a new rise of the neo-fascists.

Jean-Louis is also the guy who successfully replicated the Lifter (electrostatic propulsion).

That isn't necessarily a good recommendation. It is hard to tell what he is thinking now (he gives, what I believe to be an accurate description of the lifters), but he still suggests that it is an antigravity effect. I have not seen any indication that it is anything other than the ionocraft he suggests it is. (BTW - Why do quack theorists always use patents to suggest they are scientifically sound? Patents are written by lawyers, science is written by scientists.) That said, lifters are cool, assuming you don't shock yourself to death.

See the original slashdot article for more info.

-Sean

Hi - I just wanted to tell you that there is a guy - Jean-Louis Naudin - who performed many cold fusion experiments recently, using different setups, with different kinds of electrods.

It seems that he is successful in getting more power produced than power eaten (around 200%).

You'll like all his experiments (full description, RealPlayer videos and full results are publicly available) at:
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/cfr/index.htm

If there are real physicists here, please comment his results, it can be interesting.

Jean-Louis is also the guy who successfully replicated the Lifter (electrostatic propulsion).

Just a few days ago Penny-arcade had this insightful picture (mirrored because PA's SQL server died) describing quite accurately the situation.

Who bought the game for the kids ? Who allowed them access to firearms ? Who gave them an example of total lack of responsibility by defecting from their parenting roles ?

I can now complete the plan:
1) let your kids become totaly irresponsible and have a firearm well in evidence at home

2) wait for the kid to do something very stupid

3) sue for profit !

He's also member of the Open Trolls Movement !

check by yourself

• The airtrain (Aerotrain)
• Aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
• Nuclear waste reprocessing, heh ? What about SuperPhenix?
• Oh, yeah, Concorde as well, France was so proud about it
• The infamous "ligne Maginot"
• Minitel, so successful in France, but not to be found anywhere else
• "La 5eme Republique" which brought the country on the verge of chaos on 2002-04-21

• The airtrain (Aerotrain)
• Aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
• Nuclear waste reprocessing, heh ? What about SuperPhenix?
• Oh, yeah, Concorde as well, France was so proud about it
• The infamous "ligne Maginot"
• Minitel, so successful in France, but not to be found anywhere else
• "La 5eme Republique" which brought the country on the verge of chaos on 2002-04-21

The Composer++ project isn't aiming to make a standalone version of Composer. It's a testbed for new Composer features. Things get debugged there, then integrated into the main Mozilla tree.

This is sort of, but not quite true. Composer++ was originally some off-trunk work on composer that got integrated back into the main suite version. But Daniel Glazman, who was responsible for Composer++ has been slowly creating a standalone version of composer. See for example one of the relevant weblog postings
or one of the relevant bugs

The Composer++ project isn't aiming to make a standalone version of Composer. It's a testbed for new Composer features. Things get debugged there, then integrated into the main Mozilla tree.

This is sort of, but not quite true. Composer++ was originally some off-trunk work on composer that got integrated back into the main suite version. But Daniel Glazman, who was responsible for Composer++ has been slowly creating a standalone version of composer. See for example one of the relevant weblog postings
or one of the relevant bugs