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...announced their compensation (so far) from SCO: $1 million USD in cash, and $8 million in SCO stock.

NY tech stuff

so much for that "Was it ever alive?" talk.

me

he's more than kool, he's k-rad 31337...

Hey look, it's k-rad 31337 demo muzak!

This should reduce spam as it will be easier to track the spammers and hassle them with legal threats or at least get their ISP to shut them down. (Or black list the ISP) See the link above for the full details

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-- Check out my photos of Iceland!

Check this link for my argument of why framebuffer isn't a good solution. Framebuffer is actually slower because it doesn't take advantage of the video card.

this is fucking hot shit. i just about blew my load.

Get a date - there's plenty of possibilities out there!
ok, I don't know what you did to her but if it means I have to make her cry I don't want to date her ;)

• Using your knowledge and expertise to help other people. Not least, it's easy to show your support to various worthy causes and help get the countries decision makers to do some good. Here are some ideas:
• • Fed up of car alarms (especially in New York)? Then check out these people and some background. They have useful information that can be used to support a car alarm ban and show that there are much better ways of preventing car theft.
  • Everyone knows nerds are fueled by coffee - And most people are kinda aware that coffee-growers are getting ripped off by the big coffee buyers, causing them to face job loss and starvation as well as environmental degradation - Shoot Procter and Gamble an eFax asking them to invest in 'Fair Trade' Coffee.
• Start a new hobby!
• • Go Running! or blading
  • Cook something Southern
  • Take up abstract painting - Try recreating your own version of famous exhibits!
• Otherwise.....
• • Plan a holiday to France
  • Get a date - there's plenty of possibilities out there!

;) dave

• Using your knowledge and expertise to help other people. Not least, it's easy to show your support to various worthy causes and help get the countries decision makers to do some good. Here are some ideas:
• • Fed up of car alarms (especially in New York)? Then check out these people and some background. They have useful information that can be used to support a car alarm ban and show that there are much better ways of preventing car theft.
  • Everyone knows nerds are fueled by coffee - And most people are kinda aware that coffee-growers are getting ripped off by the big coffee buyers, causing them to face job loss and starvation as well as environmental degradation - Shoot Procter and Gamble an eFax asking them to invest in 'Fair Trade' Coffee.
• Start a new hobby!
• • Go Running! or blading
  • Cook something Southern
  • Take up abstract painting - Try recreating your own version of famous exhibits!
• Otherwise.....
• • Plan a holiday to France
  • Get a date - there's plenty of possibilities out there!

;) dave

• Using your knowledge and expertise to help other people. Not least, it's easy to show your support to various worthy causes and help get the countries decision makers to do some good. Here are some ideas:
• • Fed up of car alarms (especially in New York)? Then check out these people and some background. They have useful information that can be used to support a car alarm ban and show that there are much better ways of preventing car theft.
  • Everyone knows nerds are fueled by coffee - And most people are kinda aware that coffee-growers are getting ripped off by the big coffee buyers, causing them to face job loss and starvation as well as environmental degradation - Shoot Procter and Gamble an eFax asking them to invest in 'Fair Trade' Coffee.
• Start a new hobby!
• • Go Running! or blading
  • Cook something Southern
  • Take up abstract painting - Try recreating your own version of famous exhibits!
• Otherwise.....
• • Plan a holiday to France
  • Get a date - there's plenty of possibilities out there!

;) dave

• Using your knowledge and expertise to help other people. Not least, it's easy to show your support to various worthy causes and help get the countries decision makers to do some good. Here are some ideas:
• • Fed up of car alarms (especially in New York)? Then check out these people and some background. They have useful information that can be used to support a car alarm ban and show that there are much better ways of preventing car theft.
  • Everyone knows nerds are fueled by coffee - And most people are kinda aware that coffee-growers are getting ripped off by the big coffee buyers, causing them to face job loss and starvation as well as environmental degradation - Shoot Procter and Gamble an eFax asking them to invest in 'Fair Trade' Coffee.
• Start a new hobby!
• • Go Running! or blading
  • Cook something Southern
  • Take up abstract painting - Try recreating your own version of famous exhibits!
• Otherwise.....
• • Plan a holiday to France
  • Get a date - there's plenty of possibilities out there!

;) dave

Google Cache of the original page, text only.

A similar page at Homelinux, describing the modification made at metku.net.

Yoshi DeHerrera's version from screensavers. Once again, the same idea, but from March 2002.

A real modder's version complete with unnecessary blue LEDs.

Actually, I'm amazed how many people clicked on the link...about 400 according to the web logs!

dave

This is such a sore point for me. To me the main raison d'etre for PNG's is that alpha transparency instead of the single-bit transparency that GIF's offer.

However, IE for Windows supports it *horribly*. If you want to use the alpha transparency feature of PNG's, you've got to jump through a lot of crappy, nonsensical IE-only hoops.

Here is a rather funny page (since the author's disbelief and anger at IE's horrible behavior is palpable) which does a good job of explaining the issue, and supplying a few workarounds.

It's a shame that IE is so crappy in this regard (and plenty of others, but that's another discussion)... there's no good reason for it. Apparently IE for Mac supports them just fine, btw... so it's not like Microsoft has some official PNG-hating policy, they just simply got sloppy with IE/Win. Another good example why too much share in a given market (in this case, web browsers for Windows) is a bad thing for competition. Why should they bother improving or fixing IE/Win? What's in it for them?

AlphaImageLoader hack for IE.

I try not to buy from Amazon.com, since they apply for many stupid patents. Also, I noticed that Amazon.com says the list price is $35 dollars, but they sell it to you for a 30 percent discount - so you only pay $24.50. However, if you look inside the cover of the book the actual list price is $25. So really, Amazon.com is lying to you about a 30 percent discount and is really only giving you a 2 percent discount. Also, note that you miss free shipping by 50 cents.

Yes, I am an Amazon hater. (Amazon Sucks!)

You can find it at buy.com instead. I'm not a buy.com lover, just an Amazon.com hater.

well, think of it this way....
suppose the promoters said "ok, now all of your programs need to be in COBOL, no exceptions!"

do you think they might be limiting their audience a little.
the point is creativity isn't limited to one language. they're looking for a new game, something that hand't been tried before. Don't cut their feet off by forcing them into one language.

you sound like one of those grumpy old men that bitch at "the kids with their damned rock music"

As for real world experience, limiting the language is just rediculous. Yes, in the real world, you get a job and you might only be allowed to use one language. however EVERY real world job doesn't use just one language. Don't shaft the people who know c++ just because you think it should be done in java, or vice versa.

Hell, although it's not comparable, I made a blackjack game in ruby just for shits and giggles.

the language that they choose shouldn't matter. it comes down to using the right tool for the job.
for some it's c++, or other's it's haskell, java or perl.

oh, and another point- you say to limit it to platform. Well, reading through the posts, one of the teams says they wrote it for solaris, linux and windows. So you're saying that they should have limited it to one platform? which one?
you say windows and you'll probably piss of a lot of slashdotters.
you say linux and it'll never make it mainstream.

Let them do what they want to do. if they make a great game, fine, if they don't, oh well. Let it be their choice.

Yeah! I've been playing with it for a couple of months now. Lots of fun, and there are lots of mods/add-ons for it, too: here and here!

Enjoy!

dancingmonkey.homelinux.net/images/straw.gif

Well, to use your examples, I wouldn't post pictures of my stainless steel refrigerator to a newsgroup, or discuss my shoes online with a bunch of other shoe owners. See, case modding used to be creative and unique. People did it for fun, and actually put some time, effort, and thought into it. Now it is a joke because all you have to do is buy everything off the shelf. That is why putting a PC in an old stereo (which I did ) was just for fun. Now if anyone could go out and just buy a PC that looked like a stereo, it would be lame. Now you might think what I did was stupid, but I did it for fun. How is going out and simply purchasing a bunch of parts that are clear any different than purchasing parts that aren't?

Case modding ceases to be modding when there is no modding going on. And as much as you have the right to discuss "case modding", I have the right to laugh at you.

my poor webserver.

I actually started mapping out which countries were implementing linux in their government, but it became too much of a hassle.

please go easy on my server....

that's what I did. it did come with win98, but I deleted it right off.
just be careful when buying used- I made the mistake of buying from a tradeshow and it took 2 months before I could get a usable one.

I did end up with a gateway solo2150 which is working pretty well.

if you're not playing games, a 600 mhz will work fine. I have kde 3.1 and openoffice on debian and it runs with little lag.

but use scp. SCP is part of the SSH suite.
as a matter of fact, I mention it in my beginners walkthrough of ssh on my website. I'd suggest checking it out if you got the time.

and yes, it's probably got incorrect information, but it's sole purpose is to teach my future father-in-law how to use ssh.

I had a similar situation with my laptop.
there are plenty of people you can talk to screw with scammers. all else fails, the state attorney general is happy to get involved or get you on the right track, as is the better business bureau.

In my case, I lucked out- I contacted the people who leased the tradeshow space to them and they threated to wipe them off the circuit if I didn't get a full refund:)

Cause I am lazy. :-)

Seriously, because I haven't been able to get my scroll mouse to work under Redhat 7.3. I have tried to get imwheel to work, but it just doesn't. I need my wheel when I play Quake (I play the old Team Fortress, not that fancy-pants new one). I have a zoom cfg file that uses the wheel mouse to variable zoom. Quite handy.

Ahh, what the heck - here is where you can get my my zoom cfg file...
SuperflyTNT's Quake Page

A while back, I wrote and published a straightforward how-to for integrating Jakarta into Apache (getting Jakarta to share port 80 with Apache as opposed to using 8080).

So... if anyone is interested:

http://wass.homelinux.net/howtos/Jakarta_How-To.sh tml

A screenshot would work fine for your screen. why not just stick it on your website? I'll do the same.

D'oh! Now, why didn't I think of that first... :-) I can't just put a screenshot up by itself, though, I have to put it inside a web page: my apache is set up so that you can't browse the contents of a folder...I'm sure I can change that for a specific folder, but I really don't feel like touching the configuration right now - my motto is: it works, leave it alone!

Check the screenshot here.

The problem I see is that I'm using Cleartype on a 1600x1200 LCD.. and if I take a screenshot, you won't really see what I see unless you are using an LCD with the exact same physical structure as mine... it will actually look fuzzy on your screen.

Actually, considering that the screen shot should be seen on a LCD, I must admit it looks pretty good. I can mentally compensate for the visual artifacts, of which there aren't that much (they don't look "fuzzy" as much as discolored). Pretty slick...

Now, I don't how my screenshot (from a CRT) will look on your display...I've tried to include a couple of windows to show how the fonts behave under a variety of apps...mind you, KDE does a great job when it comes to font consistency (not to start a flame war...I haven't really tried Gnome2 yet).

Well, looks like a draw to me...

Mirror with as many images as wget could fetch. The box can't handle much load, but every little bit helps.

I just discovered ratpoison some days ago, and I'm *very* happy with it. It's very productive.

It is very scriptable too. For example, if you use micq, try this in your ~/.micq/micqrc :
receivescript ratpoison -c "echo incoming icq message"

Here goes some screenshots (if the server is down try again later).
This one is showing no windows (but root-tail is running).
This one is a split screen (just to show off, most of the time I just run everything maximized).

If you like screen, and you hate moving/resizing windows, try ratpoison.

I just discovered ratpoison some days ago, and I'm *very* happy with it. It's very productive.

It is very scriptable too. For example, if you use micq, try this in your ~/.micq/micqrc :
receivescript ratpoison -c "echo incoming icq message"

Here goes some screenshots (if the server is down try again later).
This one is showing no windows (but root-tail is running).
This one is a split screen (just to show off, most of the time I just run everything maximized).

If you like screen, and you hate moving/resizing windows, try ratpoison.

A simple website generates all sorts of complaints, some of which seems to be that I didn't use capitol letters. At least that is what I can figure, as it complains about the doctype, when it is listed. The w3c validator complains about all sorts of stupid things, which brings one to to just ignore it.

It's just a 133mhz netbsd box on a home adsl line though, but I figured the more the merrier.

This is the PHP version of this, plus one javascript method, all in one file, 3,3K instead of 256K ;) and you can use it online or download the source.

I didn't write it, the credit goes to Paul Gregg http://www.pgregg.com.

Feel free to use it.

Jorge Nerín

Yes, I'm happy to "relativize away" quotes that send a if-you-disagree-with-me-you-deserve-to-be-shot message

Well, you misinterpreted both my post and the original quotes, if I may say so. The meaning of the quote is that when people start putting more value in safety than in liberty, things can (and often do) go down pretty bad. Look at it this way: totalitarian regimes are usually pretty safe - as long as you tow the party line. Crime was almost nonexistent in the Cold War-era U.S.S.R. But dissent was severely punished. So people were safe, but not free.

I only said that I don't agree that someone deserves to have their safety taken away or to be stripped of all of their liberties if they were to vote differently at the polls than you.

Now where the hell did you get that from? You're blatantly distorting my words - I am a true democrat, and would never advocate such a thing. I'm insulted that you would give me such intentions and appreciate it if you could apologize.

On the other hand, I understand where you may have misunderstood the original quote. I think it has to do with the word "deserve". You automatically conclude that, when Franklin or Jefferson say that those who would sacrifice freedom for security do not deserve neither, that they are advocating that such freedom and security be removed from them: they are simply making a moral observation. Like someone who receives a gift but doesn't deserve it: you can state that fact without advocating taking the gift away. I'll give you another (partisan) example: I can say that Bush didn't deserve to win the last election, since he got a lesser portion of the national vote than Gore. That doesn't mean that I'm advocating his overthrow (though I'm sure President Chavez of Venezuela would say that he was responsible for his own demise... ;-) Or, I could say that "A Beautiful Mind" didn't deserve to win the Oscar for Best Picture - but I wouldn't support an overturn of the decision!

There is a subtle distinction here, I hope you can understand it.

People use this quote by Franklin when they are trying to sound intellectual[...]Is that what you consider post-modern?

I wasn't trying to sound like an intellectual (I've got my own website to do that!), I just put it there because I like it. I think it's a really good quote. I did think it through, and I still think it's a great quote. I personally think that you have simply misunderstood its meaning. The post-modern thing is a reference to many people I know who just take the meaning out of everything by excessively relativizing it (it usually boils down to "but, what is life?" or worse "but, what is art?"). That's trying to sound intellectual.

...but a bit daunting to setup for the first-time user (MySQL could have something to do with it...)

I just put together a personal weblog at home with Movable Type, and it was a breeze to set up. (Note: visitors are welcome, but right now there's not much on the site, and what is there is in french, mostly).

Of course, Movable Type is not as feature-rich as Slashcode (pretty hard to beat in that category), so it's not for everyone. But for a simple, perl-based personal weblog, it's quite alright.