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Online casinos can identify most cheating rather quickly. E.g. The same IP of players is obvious. Two or more players that make huge bets at a table to scare out other players then all but one folds before the river. There are others. (http://teamfu.freeshell.org/online_poker_cheating .html)
This type of behavior can also be reported by players to the casino as well; and the casino's do take them very seriously (imagine if you accused a player of cheating in a real game). All are investigated and the person that reported the suspicious behavior is given the report.
Does it happen, yes. But no so much that you should be worried about playing. If you know the game, you can see when it's happening and you should report it.

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I'll go even further. If you have any idea what the thing your aunt gave you that you don't know what it is" is, then you'll know that Douglas Adams intended each version of things to be different from the others. He even went so far as to say that he was upset how similar (and therefore boring to the fans) the miniseries was to the books, and it was only that way because he didn't have as much creative control as he would have liked.

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nope

Who says alphabetic order is good for anything. It is some random arrangement of letters that we can use to keep things organized. I think we need a new alphebetic order with all the vowels in one place.

Fewer keys, but how am I going to play Long Bow Gold (uses every key 2-3 times)

I found after switching to Dvorak for the second time, read: http://nascent.freeshell.org/misc/writing/aboutme/ dvorak.php as to why, I found that, as I typed continually without looking at what I typed/keyboard I felt to have been mistyping (qwerty influence?) was misspelled, only to find that I typed it all correct. S)

Interesting to see what geeks in 1984 cheered at, but that's about it.

I attended one of these demos as a kid in 1984 in New Zealand, conducted by Steve Wozniac and Andy Hertzfeld (founding partner in Apple and Mac lead engineer respectively.) Here is a scan of my invite to the event which I still possess after all these years.

At the time Apple ]['s were still in wide use, Commodore, Acorn and BBC machines were coming in for the low end home market and IBM were the expensive, user-unfriendly systems for the office market.

The Mac truely was revolutionary. Up until that time applications had GUIs but not the entire user interface for the OS and audio had been rudimentary. seeing a Mac in action had the audience completely mesmerised as people realised that the machines that they currently possessed had just become obsolete.

Speak and spell was the bomb. It it a cop out for the parents? Yeah, sort of. I mean, as a parent you *could* sit there all day with your kid and pronounce random words for them, and have them spell them back to you.

Or you can make dinner while your kid screws with the damn toy, and has a blast learning. An insideous ploy, you must admit.

I remember being learning on the speak and spell, and the math version also. My sister and I also had alphabet blocks and puzzles, and parents that read. No, not read to US, although they did; but they would read in the evenings. So we both wanted to read also. Which is an affirmation to your comments PalmKiller; we both did respect our parents for precisly the reason you described, and thus wanted to emulate them.

I disagree however that technology does nothing for improving learning. It is only an aid, but it IS an aid. Just like alphabet puzzles and legos, the pen in question is an educational toy; someting that a kid can play with and learn with at the same time. Is Wiki/Digital Encyclopedia) any better for a kid than the paper set of Britanica (aside from the fact that Wiki will probably never fall off the shelf and maim them for life)? Not really. But what about Number Munchers and Word Munchers!! Those were sweet.

> It's the same old effect that only those who really dislike a feature have the motivation to speak out about it, while those who have no problems with it have better things to do

Ditto. I had issues with Gimp's UI back in the 1.x days, but usuabliity really has been a main focus on the 2.0 and 2.2 series. I'm all about keyboard shortcuts, and the improvements in this area have been outstanding (ex. extreme toolbar configurability, way fewer pop-ups, global keyboard shortcuts to name a few). I have no complaints.

And for power users, you can even wittle down to only one extraneous window like I did: screen

Just one less window to alt-tab between.

Keep up the great work, Gimp devs!

Photoshop like keybindings for the GIMP

psmenurc:

http://epierce.freeshell.org/gimp/gimp_ps.php

Photoshop keybindings
http://source.macgimp.org/etc/ps-menu rc

Photoshop like keybindings for the GIMP

psmenurc:

http://epierce.freeshell.org/gimp/gimp_ps.php

Photoshop keybindings
http://source.macgimp.org/etc/ps-menu rc

Photoshop like keybindings for the GIMP

psmenurc:

http://epierce.freeshell.org/gimp/gimp_ps.php

Photoshop keybindings
http://source.macgimp.org/etc/ps-menu rc

Remember karma isn't REALLY an integer ranging from -1 to +5

No, they are not different thresholds. And yes. the site has gone dramatically down hill in terms of it's negativity..

I'll give you flickr you little whippersnapper!!

this site has GONE TO THE DOGS. Nothin else to see here. Move along....

Many of us know this. You are just too insecure to join that list..

learn if you dare to...

The site is as corrupt as the government that allows it to exist.. learn the easy, hard intermediate ..whatever way

Open your eyes

Open your eyes

Open your eyes

It's my understanding that this setup will work under Linux. The 8200 is effectively the same as an 8100 for data access purposes.

Note that this plan is not really "unlimited". If you use too much bandwidth they will come down on you. Also, using it with a computer is "not allowed", they want you to buy a real data plan for that. However, it works anyway!

This setup has worked well for my needs (mostly voice service with occasional Internet access both from the phone and on a laptop). YMMV.

www.sprintusers.com are very active user forums where issues like this are discussed.

A trivial solution that pops up is to place hard links to the same file in multiple directories.

My little knowledge-base sorts articles into a heirarchy of folders (which represent categories). Sometimes an articles fits just as much into one category as it does in another.

So recently I have started tagging articles, with the tags stored as a comma-delimited Extended Attribute attached to the article file. I wrote a small Python script to add, remove, list, and query for tags. They are available here

I wonder if filesystems are ever going to offer an alternative to an heirarchy view -- is this what reiser4 was all about? I can imagine a system where the entire filesystem is a database, and 'av' (add view) just adds another search criterion to your view. So for instance, I could find all articles which belong to 'Evolution', 'Languages', and 'English' categories with the following command sequence:

roey@machine# av kb
roey@machine kb# av language
roey@machine kb language# av english
roey@machine kb language english# av evolution
roey@machine kb language english evolution# ls
[matching files listed here]

Similarly, if I want to list all the articles related to computer language development, I would do the following:

roey@machine# av kb
roey@machine kb# av language
roey@machine kb language# av evolution
roey@machine kb language evolution# av compsci
roey@machine kb language evolution compsci# ls
[matching files listed here]

To move files into multiple categories I would use 'ac' (add category):

ac "Old English and Old Spanish Compared.pdf" kb evolution languages english spanish
ac "Processor Performance Techniques.pdf" file2.pdf kb evolution compsci cpu performance
ac "Martial Arts Video.mpg" performance martial-arts

Yet another alternative would be to use a full-blown Content Management System.

The run-ins with the bad guys are all repeatly the same thing over and over again.

But there is a few gems like bugbait (the video) that I haven't progressed to yet.

Call for mercy to any fellow slashdotters listening, I'm kinda stuck on Water Hazard episode.

The puzzles are cool, especially how they give no real hint, but you get a little inspiration like the teeter totter one, add the cement bricks on one end of the board over a barrel to get a boost....

Out of curosity, how much longer do I have before I get to the cool stuff (Gravity gun, etc?).

Steve

"Unusable"?

I don't know what could be so different about the Windows version. They're built from essentially the same code base and handle the same for me.

I use both the Windows version (work) and the Linux version (home) almost daily, and don't even realize I'm bouncing back and forth half the time.

Here's my slightly customized Gimp UI. Screenshot

In 2.2 you can really minimize the window clutter that plagued older versions. You'll notice I've even removed all the tool icons to give me a larger area to display layers info, etc. And with my set-up, I have just one window to deal w/besides whatever images I may have open.

And keyboard shortcuts work globally in 2.2, so you can get busy no matter which window is in focus. 2.2 is an absolute keyboard lovers dream come true.
Is it possible your girl just didn't give it enough time? Gimp is a powerhorse of a program, and it's going to take anyone a little time investment to get up to speed w/it's features.

Just my 1166kb.

E. Pierce

Ha ha ha. Funny.

I didn't pay for my browser, and I didn't crack it either...

Going slightly offtopic, but WHY can't someone create a SIMPLE standard for DIY laptops?

http://bhtooefr.freeshell.org/asdf.PNG is a quick job in MS Paint of a "standard" for a laptop with up to a 15" display. The motherboard takes the entire area not taken by drives or speakers. The hard drive/PCMCIA thing would work like my Dell Inspiron 1100 (don't buy one). The CD drive may require removal of the keyboard/mouse assembly, but that's simply popping the tabs and lifting it off.

I forgot to provide for upgradability of the GPU in that, and I also forgot Mini-PCI (RAM is on the bottom, that's a top view with keyboard/mouse assembly and display assembly removed). Back ports were not drawn - they'd vary from mobo to mobo.

There'd be no ribbon cables, and very few wires (speakers would have wires).

You have to read the documentation to set it up, but swish-e is an indexing and search system that I've found to be quite effective. It can handle MSWord (with catdoc) , pdf (with xpdf) and mp3 meta tags. It's also not very hard to write a script to extract OpenOffice.org documents to stdout as well. It comes with C and perl bindings and there is a python interface as well.

I've always had a couple of computers laying around and I've never made more than 10k in a year. Even with the 386's, I had to make my own crossover cables for modems / back to back nics (It's not rocket science esp. for a 2 wire modem) for playing doom, moving files, etc. I'm a nerd is why - it doesn't have anything to do with my income. I've always admired the Russians for hacking stuff and here you ppls are itemizing the cost of unnecessary hubs, etc with this lame thread... Would you like to see my internet backbone? The little wooden duck keeps the packets from shorting out...

I second that. I finished my [girlfriend's] gainclone over the summer, and it turned out wonderful. The sound truly does have to be heard to be believed. Pics and details at my page: soma.freeshell.org/audio.php

"richer digital content"

I don't know if you've tried it but the digital content is *worse* than teletext, for subtitling. On a teletext enabled tv you just press the text button to surf to 888 for the subtitles. They appear pretty much instantaneously, and are easy to toggle on and off.

On Sky (and apparently freeview) you have to:
- press services, to get this menu
- press 4 to get this menu
- press 3 to get this menu
- press down to select the subtitles
- press right to change the language.

And the menus are sloooooooooooow. While you're doing this the program you were watching is interrupted and some crappy background music plays. They're designed to be permanently on or permanently off. Believe it or not, this is putting me off switching to digital.

Googling to see if anyone else has commented on the problem, I found it's actually in the Ofcom checklist for DTV equipement suppliers (see C.3)... which obviously none of them have read.

"richer digital content"

I don't know if you've tried it but the digital content is *worse* than teletext, for subtitling. On a teletext enabled tv you just press the text button to surf to 888 for the subtitles. They appear pretty much instantaneously, and are easy to toggle on and off.

On Sky (and apparently freeview) you have to:
- press services, to get this menu
- press 4 to get this menu
- press 3 to get this menu
- press down to select the subtitles
- press right to change the language.

And the menus are sloooooooooooow. While you're doing this the program you were watching is interrupted and some crappy background music plays. They're designed to be permanently on or permanently off. Believe it or not, this is putting me off switching to digital.

Googling to see if anyone else has commented on the problem, I found it's actually in the Ofcom checklist for DTV equipement suppliers (see C.3)... which obviously none of them have read.

"richer digital content"

I don't know if you've tried it but the digital content is *worse* than teletext, for subtitling. On a teletext enabled tv you just press the text button to surf to 888 for the subtitles. They appear pretty much instantaneously, and are easy to toggle on and off.

On Sky (and apparently freeview) you have to:
- press services, to get this menu
- press 4 to get this menu
- press 3 to get this menu
- press down to select the subtitles
- press right to change the language.

And the menus are sloooooooooooow. While you're doing this the program you were watching is interrupted and some crappy background music plays. They're designed to be permanently on or permanently off. Believe it or not, this is putting me off switching to digital.

Googling to see if anyone else has commented on the problem, I found it's actually in the Ofcom checklist for DTV equipement suppliers (see C.3)... which obviously none of them have read.

• Wild feeds are unencrypted programming, often with fewer or no commercials, and sometimes air in advance of their regular timeslots.
• Regular listings are mostly encrypted and by subscription, but there's no shortage of programming here either.
• And I won't go into 4DTV since I don't know much about it.

The encryption providers moan every year about having to raise the rates due to the declining number of subscribers, but this is self-fulfilling on their part since they aren't promoting the technology. It works great and it should continue to do so for quite some time.

(Did you notice I said "every year"? This isn't like cable, where you pay for it every month. One payment a year does the trick.)

The wildfeeds are where I get my advance Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy information, as posted here. It surprises people, but this information is in the clear for anybody to receive...

I wish somebody knew how to build a Freevo for the BUD, though.

This is over the entire course of usage for my site.

It's a personal one, and I'm a computer guy...my guess is that about half of my visitors have computer-related interests, and that about half are from Slashdot. I'm getting 21.5% Mozilla, and 1.84% Konqueror (no one using Safari has yet visited). My guess is that Konqueror/Safari use is statistically negligible.

Here's my stats page.

Here's a snapshot of the source for Glimpse 3.0, packaged up from my system as I don't have the original tarfile anymore.

Actually, I've got a lot of my old inform (the name of the interpreter) favorites up on my site (all of these are freeware now afaik).

I signed the applet myself. If you accept write permission, then you can save the state of the game to your hard drive and restore from it.

Anyone use freeshell? My mail account is a freeshell account.
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As far as I know their (Unix) cluster is Alpha 64 based. Guess they'll have to switch..

However, if you really want all that linux has to offer (maybe browsing the web in coffeeshops, etc) then the way to do it is to have a floppy that boots up doesn't mount the flash disk to run from it, but just to read an image to put into a ram disk; then it runs from the ramdisk. The flash is too slow and may have a limited number of writes.

I did something similar that you might use as a starting point, a linux version of the old laplink boot disks. The first thing you would do is add the USB drivers to the kernel; the next would be to make it mount the flash drive, make a ram drive, and decompress an image onto the ram drive. You would put those commands in the linuxrc file. Compile the kernel to have a larger default ram drive size, and then use it by just accessing /dev/ram0.

If that boots, see if you can copy parts of the 2 floppy X windows setup, and add links for web browsing and if you have to go beyond MC for writing, try abiword.

I would be interested to hear what you figure out on this. Even if you don't complete the project, but get something that partially boots, or anything at all, feel free to send me an email.

This is a cost effective solution.

Synopsis: Purchase an antenna suitable for your purposes and attach it into a suitably configured Linux box. The link gives you a step by step.

Maybe I'm just blessed. Google is all over my site. Searching for my name on Google returns my site as the number one hit, and sites about me are 1,2,3 and 8.

All the other sites return stuff that hasn't changed in 5 years or more. A few are smart enough to get the perl module I put on CPAN, which is at least something.
Here's the bot's listing from my site.

I've not submitted anything to any search engine. Google is the only one that has found me after two years. Microsoft doesn't even know I exist. :)

You've already found gputils its a great place to start...

For the pic16f and 18f series also check out the small device c compiler (works with other MCU's too).

There is a related GNU pic site at www.gnupic.org it lists pretty much everything you might need.

You asked about development tools for platforms other than windows - but in true /. style i'm going to ignore that: :p

winpicprog - i've found is quite good, i've yet to find anything in linux or bsd quite as complete...
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As far as programming resources go since I'm actualy focusing on compiling c code for the pic using sdcc i've found that:
Nathan Hursts page on sdcc and the pic14 port (for pic 16 series)
and
Martin Dubuc's pic16 port
have been invaluable resources.

Compile the source if you don't trust the bytecode.

What, like these? (sorry about the Publisher file, but that's what I had - not my box...) It was modeled somewhat after a Intel Inside-like sticker on an old 386 box (I forget what the Intel ad campaign was before Intel Inside) saying something about enhanced technology with Intel, blah blah blah.

I have managed to get a picture off the slashdotted webpage. Appears small might be an overstatement of its size.

Amphetadesk is pretty popular.
If you want to embed RSS in your own home page(or any HTML page) like I have done on http://bhavesh.freeshell.org/news.html then you can use http://zvonnews.sourceforge.net/zfeeder.php

I spent a lotta time hanging around the KTUH broadcast station. I learned a few things about broadcasting while doing it too!

Between KTUH and the now defunct Radio Free Hawaii (votes were tallied every week and dictated airplay, we also had a top 36 countdown.) Hawaii had some great listening going on.

But it is kind of rough...

I have posted a few essays on the topic at ophion.freeshell.org.

...I was unemployed. For Two and a Half years, in fact. Go and check my resume:

http://svartalf.freeshell.org/frank_resume.html

Does that LOOK like I am lacking in the competence department?

If you have not been there, please do the rest of us a favor and shut the Hell up.