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I can tell the RIAA is on the side of the little guy. They're going out there and suing the tar out of those evil P2P guys.

'Cuz no little guy would ever use P2P to promote their art.

Not me, not Anything Box, and certainly not any other artist truly making new and original art. See... without the RIAA, nothing would ever get created. This is the true artistic genius of the world: Hillary Rosen and her copyright-legislation-writing hands.

And, if you want to donate, but you want to get a huge-ass print of some nude art in return, try this nude art web page.

here. Go easy on me, please!

The best place for surplus stuff is hamfests. Big hamfests, like Dayton. There's some friggin surplus there for ya. Here in northern New England we like to go to Hosstraders. May 2nd & 3rd!!!

This one, too.

This person is obviously attending some sort of Academy for Chicks with Guy's Faces.

Just randomly clicked on this pic on your home page. That looks like a dude's face on a gal's body...

Some odd, but possibly interesting artwork, I'll give you fullsize images plus XCF files (equivalent to Photoshop PSD files but for Linux/GIMP) to distribute. Also, I've got a bunch of cool-looking fractals I've generated. You can d/l the parameter file and use Sterling Fractal to generate say 8,000x8,000 JPEGs of these things yourself.

I know, it's not quite like MPEG2 video or anything, but it'll be a couple gig if you play it right.

Also, if you go buy a nice 5 megapixel camera and start taking thousands of pictures, you can fill up a few gig there. My personal picture collection is something like 30GB, and that's with a 3 megapixel camera.

Some odd, but possibly interesting artwork, I'll give you fullsize images plus XCF files (equivalent to Photoshop PSD files but for Linux/GIMP) to distribute. Also, I've got a bunch of cool-looking fractals I've generated. You can d/l the parameter file and use Sterling Fractal to generate say 8,000x8,000 JPEGs of these things yourself.

I know, it's not quite like MPEG2 video or anything, but it'll be a couple gig if you play it right.

Also, if you go buy a nice 5 megapixel camera and start taking thousands of pictures, you can fill up a few gig there. My personal picture collection is something like 30GB, and that's with a 3 megapixel camera.

I've been a long-time GNOME user, and I'm just about ready to try something else.

I recently made some new themes for my GNOME2 desktop and was stymied by my GTK1 applications that... well... just wouldn't cooperate.

I'd previously made some GTK1 themes that more-or-less matched the GTK2 ones, but I cannot figure out how to convince GTK1 apps to use certain themes under my GNOME2 desktop environment. It's completely opaque.

There are so many apps I use that are still GTK1 (Galeon, Evolution, GAIM, etc etc etc) that my desktop is just plain ugly right now.

I'm getting fed up, and am trying to find something that will give me a nice even look & feel across applications. My main fear is that KMail and Konquerer won't be good Evolution/Galeon replacements.

In the end, I'll probably go OS/X, but I really hope it doesn't happen.

My school district, Fort Bend ISD, runs this too.. In fact, they tried to use it against me one time [click] because I mentioned how their IT staff left an infected webserver on the internet for over a year and knew about it.. They didn't like me letting people know that they didn't do anything about it, so they decided to submit my URL to websense..

http://clanknm.homeip.net/open.html

Do as you wish. The swastika isn't the exclusive trademark of the National Socialist parties but rather a positive symbol of nature and humanity. It's also one of the 4x4 square scoring combinations in The New Tetris.

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According to frink,, that would be $10.98 today.

Check out my homepage then:

http://naasking.homeip.net/

It's fully XHTML 1.0 Strict Compliant. And it's viewable with Lynx. Perhaps you are just forgetting the content-type meta tag? ie.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

Okay, so you run a honking big image server. I could easily do the same, since my photography runs in 1000s of rolls. If you do the same as me, then the original negitives are stored in a fire proof vault somewhere and you work with the scanned images.

eMachine PCs aren't all that bad, just not what I'd choose for certain applications (e.g. heavy-duty 3D gaming). Their greatest weakness is apparently poor quality/capacity power supplies. Check out Dave Farquhar's article Upgrading an eMachine for more tips.

Using unrealistic extremes to make an idea sound moronic makes you a shithead. Think first.

It's a fallacy of logic called "excluded middle" (considering only the two extremes in a range of possibilities); a common failing of those who do not understand how to construct a logical arugment. See the above link for a list of other common logical fallacies.

I love getting into completely hypothetical discussions like the one you had. Honestly, I feel they are great mind-expanders. Arguing religion with someone is an incredibly fun thing to do, because both sides have such strong cases.

You'd probably like the discussions at these forums then. Particularly this one (feel free to skip the first few posts, they were transcribed from e-mails).

I love getting into completely hypothetical discussions like the one you had. Honestly, I feel they are great mind-expanders. Arguing religion with someone is an incredibly fun thing to do, because both sides have such strong cases.

You'd probably like the discussions at these forums then. Particularly this one (feel free to skip the first few posts, they were transcribed from e-mails).

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Correct (unless I misunderstood/misapplied the compile-time options). Compile options:

GCC_FLAGS= -Wall -O2 -finline-functions -fno-builtin -nostdinc

LD_FLAGS= -Bstatic -Ttext 0x220000 -s -nostartfiles -nostdlib

So it doesn't check the standard library includes, and it doesn't link against any standard files, including the Linux start files. Unless I missed something, it thus doesn't link against anything except my own code. Some of my own code implemented some routines like vsprintf, etc. but I didn't use those functions in the code (and I didn't have any structures in kybd.c so gcc wouldn't have referenced them implicitly).

The source for the keyboard driver is here if you want to see for yourself.

The root header include path is explictly set to src/include, so that's the stdio.h include you see pskybd.c referencing. That's where you'll find invoke.h and types.h too. If you're really curious (and adventurous), the whole project archive is there for the download. I apologize if the source in incomprehensible. ;-)

I'm not sure if the problem still occurs since I haven't touched this code in months and work is pretty much done (project is over). I originally didn't have enough time to try and figure out what was going wrong in this situation, so it's still kind of a mystery.

Now would be a good time to ask for beta testers of a new XML module for PHP. One thing that's been a big fault of nearly all PHP apps available is the storing of the configuration as a list of hard-coded variables (usually called config.php). This makes it difficult for the app to update its own config, and certainly reduces the chance of 3rd party config plug-ins.

There are a couple of xml modules that are veneers onto standard XML libraries, and also a good PHP Class, but all are not that easy to use. I wanted an API that took under 10 mins to learn and be competant in. You can see it here. So simple it only took me a couple of minutes to write a XML-based guestbook. Another example is here. Install instructions are on the site, feel free to have a try and give any feedback.

Phillip.

Now would be a good time to ask for beta testers of a new XML module for PHP. One thing that's been a big fault of nearly all PHP apps available is the storing of the configuration as a list of hard-coded variables (usually called config.php). This makes it difficult for the app to update its own config, and certainly reduces the chance of 3rd party config plug-ins.

There are a couple of xml modules that are veneers onto standard XML libraries, and also a good PHP Class, but all are not that easy to use. I wanted an API that took under 10 mins to learn and be competant in. You can see it here. So simple it only took me a couple of minutes to write a XML-based guestbook. Another example is here. Install instructions are on the site, feel free to have a try and give any feedback.

Phillip.

It's a nice piece of work, but it solves a problem that nobody needed solved.

I'm glad you don't have a problem with calculating and drawing all visible polygons in a 50 000 poly-based world as quickly as possible. Some of us do.

Ogre is a "high-level scene graph engine". This is a level above a standard 3D rendering API, like OpenGL, but a level below a general-purpose game engine. Unfortunately, while high level scene graph engines seem plausible, they're not very useful.

I'm not sure what you mean by plausible - since Scene Graphs are not just theoretical: they work extremely well for their purpose. They are very useful, probably the fastest general purpose method for drawing large scenes available today.

There are quite a few of these things. SGI Inventor was the first major one. Apple had one in Quicktime 3D. Direct-X has one, but Direct-X is mostly used as a low-level drawing API. One was announced for OpenGL (it was called Farenheit) when SGI and Microsoft lost interest, it didn't really bother anybody.

Meanwhile in the year 2002, there are quite a few scene graphs available for many platforms. One of the best is Open Scene Graph, an LGPLed library which is used for games, demos and high-end visualisation systems. Not to mention Ogre itself which looks very sweet indeed.

You need a low-level graphics API to abstract different types of hardware. That's the real job of OpenGL and Direct-X.

Direct-3D I think you mean.

You might want a full game engine if you're building a game, and you can get those from a number of vendors.

You might also want to consider what 95% of game writers do and that is to select the best tools for the job and assemble them yourself. Graphics and rendering tends to be 10% of the typical code base for a commercial game - the bulk is AI, gameplay logic, resource management, menus, and supporting tools.

But mid-level APIs just aren't all that useful. You have to do things their way, but they don't do enough of the job to justify the trouble.

I suppose if you're looking for a game engine which does everything for you while wiping your nose and holding your hand, then a mid-level API won't be very useful. For a game writer looking to solve the one big problem of overdraw, a mid level API like Ogre or OSG is an excellent solution. Plug it in and it does the clipping, culling and drawing work for you. I know from personal experience that OSG is superb at this job - adapting equally well to visualisation, flight simulation and terrain rendering. Ogre's screenshots tell a similar story. Want a Quake 3 level? Load it and Ogre adds it to the graph and takes care of the rest.

For everyone suggesting that they band together, I believe they have taken the first few steps. The link from the question (labeled "more details") leads you to a site with a bunch of defendants. Namely, listed here.

Furthermore, I took a look at the patents (admittedly, only the abstracts), and while not as depicted as explained, still very vague and very obviously a stragety, not an actual protection of IP. First and second.

Looking at the abstract for the former of the above listed, I have a few qualms (besides with the whole thing entirely). The claim that they can have an infinite number of variations in the abstract (actually, on a quick search, they go into further details in the summary of the invention), it doesn't seem to me that what you're implementing can possibly be infinite. Note, I certainly ANAL (yet), but it just seems out of place.

Moving on to the second patent and it's respective abstract... it seems to me that such a patent had to be filed before September 11, 2001 (when the patent was made, hell throw that in your closing speech) as it seems the way it's described in both the abstract and summary of invention is very much alike to many implementations set forth by other companies, not just internet, but stores as well.

Good luck with that all. Open up a donation bin. I, for one, will throw in.

For everyone suggesting that they band together, I believe they have taken the first few steps. The link from the question (labeled "more details") leads you to a site with a bunch of defendants. Namely, listed here.

Furthermore, I took a look at the patents (admittedly, only the abstracts), and while not as depicted as explained, still very vague and very obviously a stragety, not an actual protection of IP. First and second.

Looking at the abstract for the former of the above listed, I have a few qualms (besides with the whole thing entirely). The claim that they can have an infinite number of variations in the abstract (actually, on a quick search, they go into further details in the summary of the invention), it doesn't seem to me that what you're implementing can possibly be infinite. Note, I certainly ANAL (yet), but it just seems out of place.

Moving on to the second patent and it's respective abstract... it seems to me that such a patent had to be filed before September 11, 2001 (when the patent was made, hell throw that in your closing speech) as it seems the way it's described in both the abstract and summary of invention is very much alike to many implementations set forth by other companies, not just internet, but stores as well.

Good luck with that all. Open up a donation bin. I, for one, will throw in.

You just might be able to get some useful pointers to prior art which could be used in your counter-suit.

ROXFilter

Just when I was about to reinstall the OS too :-)

The installer crash has been happening for a day or two as I usually run a script for the nightlys however that doesn't permit the retry from completing the process.

That script is here and has made downloading the nightlys a breeze (the above installer issues aside).
From memory it's another /.'ers script, so if they're reading then "I tips my hat" to them for the time saving.

http://donroberto45.homeip.net/Files/xBoX-Emulator .0.35.zip

My server isn't very fast so take it easy

http://freefall.homeip.net/stuff/spellcheck/

Just be sure to use the '-o' option, or you'll get all your pinboard icons in your window list.

Mirror

This is only being restricted to the US. The rest of us all have this information.

If you really want to see it, click here:

kernel-2.2.20.log

kernel-2.2.20pre11.log

I'm sure Alan knows that people will do this, he'd probably rather stay away from it and make the moral point to US law. Ironic since in an earlier post in another topic the US-posters were praising their First Amendment.

This is only being restricted to the US. The rest of us all have this information.

If you really want to see it, click here:

kernel-2.2.20.log

kernel-2.2.20pre11.log

I'm sure Alan knows that people will do this, he'd probably rather stay away from it and make the moral point to US law. Ironic since in an earlier post in another topic the US-posters were praising their First Amendment.

http://freefall.homeip.net/stuff/spellcheck/

Be warned that this is VERY SIMPLE. You CAN hurt yourself if there is, something bad in the stuff you are spell checking (although unless there is a " before it, you are probably safe).

GNOME's switch to Nautilus is even more retarded. While GMC wasn't the greatest file manager in the world, it certainly kicked Nautilus's ass in terms of speed and stability. Starting GNOME with Nautilus adds at LEAST 10+ seconds to the splash screen. Is it really that difficult to write a file manager that shows desktop icons without it being slow? Microsoft seems to have done a good job with Windows 9x.

Now...back to the subject of nice environments in X11. Here's what you do:

1. Pick a nice windowmanager (Windowmaker, XFCE, Blackbox, Sawfish, ICEWM, whatever)
2. Use ROX-Filer as a file manager and also to display desktop icons (pinboard) and taskbars (if you like those dumb things)
3. Go to my site and get my ROX Filter and my ROX Mime Stuff if you want a prettier (IMHO) look.

GNOME's switch to Nautilus is even more retarded. While GMC wasn't the greatest file manager in the world, it certainly kicked Nautilus's ass in terms of speed and stability. Starting GNOME with Nautilus adds at LEAST 10+ seconds to the splash screen. Is it really that difficult to write a file manager that shows desktop icons without it being slow? Microsoft seems to have done a good job with Windows 9x.

Now...back to the subject of nice environments in X11. Here's what you do:

1. Pick a nice windowmanager (Windowmaker, XFCE, Blackbox, Sawfish, ICEWM, whatever)
2. Use ROX-Filer as a file manager and also to display desktop icons (pinboard) and taskbars (if you like those dumb things)
3. Go to my site and get my ROX Filter and my ROX Mime Stuff if you want a prettier (IMHO) look.

Individual apps don't NEED a friggin' spell checker. They should hook into the stuff already on your system. That said, the solution in the link above allows you to simply hilight the stuff you want to check and checks it (if your windowmanager is smart enough to give you the ability to see what is in your X selection)

heh.

It does take awhile to load the first time. but if you have enough memory (I run with 256 here, but also have mozilla, pronto, several other things running all the time), it loads pretty quickly on successive loads.

My resume was done in staroffice.

This is how it should be. It took me no extra effort to 'gui-fy' my code, because the UI takes care of that FOR ME. You shouldn't HAVE to write gui code for simple tasks. You should be able to merge it into your GUI of choice to make you most productive. Windowmaker is awesome for this, as is ROX-Filer.

To see examples of what I'm talking about, please feel free to browse my code pages, http://freefall.homeip.net/ where I show examples of integration with ROX and Windowmaker, despite some of the utilities being text only. I do this with my envelope printer too (I have both a ROX App for it, and a fly-out windowmaker menu...I just tell it which envelope to print...drag drop in ROX's case, click the envelope I want to print in windowmaker's case). I just haven't gotten around to doing the example on the web page for the envelope printer yet.

http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_filer.php3

Here are a couple of pictures of ROX running on my desktop:

Desktop 1
Desktop 2

http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_filer.php3

Here are a couple of pictures of ROX running on my desktop:

Desktop 1
Desktop 2

I use MRTG with a tiny Python script to count the number of attacks. The results are here.

I've been recording the hits of V1 and V2 from my machine since early this afternoon, thanks to a very handy Perl script provided by another Slashdot user.

You can find the results and a link to the script here

That's really nice!

Here are my logs: here.

Only 34 so far, but I only decided to open up apache to these this afternoon...

Cheers for that!

Technical Achievement
Microsoft Windows Update
windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Now I know they are biased. There are thousands of sites with more technological achievement. Like slashcode or even my site, Spatial Disruption uses more technology. I use perl, C, C++, and Apache to make my game work. All errors are logged and emailed to me. Bugs are fixed within a week of me finding them out. I'd like to see microsoft do that. (ok, ok, I only have a thousand players, but it's like a mini-game)

D/\ Gooberguy

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.

We've conquered outer space, but not inner space.

We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.

We plan more, but accomplish less.

We've learned to rush, but not to wait.

We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.

These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.

These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.

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