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This is a unitard

This is more like the before and after
poster images for a weight loss program hehe

Anyways I think he should go easyer on us and use something to prevent harm in a costume party

Good luck with the ladies.

This is actually one thing most open-source lacks, unfortunately. Nobody seems to be interested in trying out new ideas.

I've been following Bowie Poag and the stuff he has been making recently. He has a bunch of idea he talked about for years, but now actually has the code to back it up with. He is the only guy I know who does anything diffrent, well, beyond the guys working on ElectricSheep , that is. :D

Some of it is really cool.

A cd of Project Gutenberg books would be a reasonable thing for a library to carry. Staring at a screen isn't the best way to read a book, but I've read quite a few that way.

Some of my favorites (Some of which I read in dead tree format, I'm not masochistic enough to read Les Miserables via CRT):

• George MacDonald
  • The Princess and the Goblin
  • Lilith
  • Phantastes
• Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Les Miserables
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
• Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The King James Bible (in html)

-jim

A cd of Project Gutenberg books would be a reasonable thing for a library to carry. Staring at a screen isn't the best way to read a book, but I've read quite a few that way.

Some of my favorites (Some of which I read in dead tree format, I'm not masochistic enough to read Les Miserables via CRT):

• George MacDonald
  • The Princess and the Goblin
  • Lilith
  • Phantastes
• Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Les Miserables
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
• Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The King James Bible (in html)

-jim

A cd of Project Gutenberg books would be a reasonable thing for a library to carry. Staring at a screen isn't the best way to read a book, but I've read quite a few that way.

Some of my favorites (Some of which I read in dead tree format, I'm not masochistic enough to read Les Miserables via CRT):

• George MacDonald
  • The Princess and the Goblin
  • Lilith
  • Phantastes
• Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Les Miserables
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
• Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The King James Bible (in html)

-jim

A cd of Project Gutenberg books would be a reasonable thing for a library to carry. Staring at a screen isn't the best way to read a book, but I've read quite a few that way.

Some of my favorites (Some of which I read in dead tree format, I'm not masochistic enough to read Les Miserables via CRT):

• George MacDonald
  • The Princess and the Goblin
  • Lilith
  • Phantastes
• Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Les Miserables
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
• Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The King James Bible (in html)

-jim

A cd of Project Gutenberg books would be a reasonable thing for a library to carry. Staring at a screen isn't the best way to read a book, but I've read quite a few that way.

Some of my favorites (Some of which I read in dead tree format, I'm not masochistic enough to read Les Miserables via CRT):

• George MacDonald
  • The Princess and the Goblin
  • Lilith
  • Phantastes
• Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Les Miserables
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
• Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The King James Bible (in html)

-jim

A cd of Project Gutenberg books would be a reasonable thing for a library to carry. Staring at a screen isn't the best way to read a book, but I've read quite a few that way.

Some of my favorites (Some of which I read in dead tree format, I'm not masochistic enough to read Les Miserables via CRT):

• George MacDonald
  • The Princess and the Goblin
  • Lilith
  • Phantastes
• Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Les Miserables
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
• Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The King James Bible (in html)

-jim

A cd of Project Gutenberg books would be a reasonable thing for a library to carry. Staring at a screen isn't the best way to read a book, but I've read quite a few that way.

Some of my favorites (Some of which I read in dead tree format, I'm not masochistic enough to read Les Miserables via CRT):

• George MacDonald
  • The Princess and the Goblin
  • Lilith
  • Phantastes
• Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Les Miserables
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
• Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The King James Bible (in html)

-jim

A cd of Project Gutenberg books would be a reasonable thing for a library to carry. Staring at a screen isn't the best way to read a book, but I've read quite a few that way.

Some of my favorites (Some of which I read in dead tree format, I'm not masochistic enough to read Les Miserables via CRT):

• George MacDonald
  • The Princess and the Goblin
  • Lilith
  • Phantastes
• Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Les Miserables
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
• Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The King James Bible (in html)

-jim

A cd of Project Gutenberg books would be a reasonable thing for a library to carry. Staring at a screen isn't the best way to read a book, but I've read quite a few that way.

Some of my favorites (Some of which I read in dead tree format, I'm not masochistic enough to read Les Miserables via CRT):

• George MacDonald
  • The Princess and the Goblin
  • Lilith
  • Phantastes
• Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Les Miserables
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
• Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The King James Bible (in html)

-jim

A cd of Project Gutenberg books would be a reasonable thing for a library to carry. Staring at a screen isn't the best way to read a book, but I've read quite a few that way.

Some of my favorites (Some of which I read in dead tree format, I'm not masochistic enough to read Les Miserables via CRT):

• George MacDonald
  • The Princess and the Goblin
  • Lilith
  • Phantastes
• Victor Hugo
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Les Miserables
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• The Brothers Grimm Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
• Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The King James Bible (in html)

-jim

Get this, http://www.haking.pl/en/index.php?page=hakin9_live

then get this,

http://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution= std

and get this too,

ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/phlak

then get one of these,
http://www.systemrecycler.com/shomiti/

and lastly get this just for shits, grins and giggles,

http://www.metasploit.com/projects/Framework/docum entation.html

HTML is your friend
Linkie
It takes less time than removing the space.

Yeah, but slash puts spaces in long strings with no spaces, so you have to do a hyperlink for people to be able to go there without editing it. so this beowulf link works but this http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other- formats/html_single/Beowulf-HOWTO.html gets an extra space in it and doesn't.

For the love of Christ people, it's a simple thing.

Format links like this: <a href="http://somelink">link text</a>

It takes virtually no extra time and we don't have to trim the fucking slashcode spaces.

Oh, and here's the link.

Here is a good comparison of them all.
Gna is missing though. I am hosting my own project there, it is located in France than I like because I am in Europe too.
Overall, I think it is a better idea to have a bunch of public host places for open source project than having [almost] averybody hosting on sf and savannah.

well, partly, but also partly just because scientific/engineering calculations are inherently more efficient in fortran. It's what the language was designed for.

Another reason is that a lot of "old-timer" scientists use it (see above), so the tradition continues. One of the things that keeps it going is the "Numerical recipes in fortran" books, which have heaps of canned numerical algorithms. This books is now also available in C.

And finally, there's just a lot of scientific applications which are legcay code and which were designed to integrate with fortran. In the astronomy world, examples are figaro and iraf data reduction pacakages.

Use the tool that's best for the job, and in numerical/science applications, that tool is fortran. google provides me with this link.

See the Mutopia project (Canadian server, American mirror from IBiblio). They provide public domain and BSD-style licensed musical scores in GNU LilyPond format, and have PDFs and MIDIs of the score rendered for download. Many classical music pieces are available there, and the PDFs make for nice printouts.

It's not quite a song, as in a recording (any recordings from before the PD date probably haven't survived), but it's still public domain music.

Did you know Mars has peeps? ;)

• Peanut Linux sounds pretty good
• Damn Small Linux
  This is a live linux distribution which means that it runs off the CD. It's supposed to be a little difficult to install try following these directions:

  To install Damn Small Linux to the HD...
  From the damn small desktop (no pun intended) ...
  Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to SU root outside X.
  Type "dsl-hdinstall" (a mod off Knoppix's knx-hdinstall)...
  Follow the prompts... (cfdisk, etc.......)
  I've done it & tested it -- works. --bosspacman

• Basic Linux might work but it might be difficult if you don't know linux very well.
• I hear RedHat's 6.0 distro is light weight too if you can find it.

Peercy and Olano (Click on "PDF" in the upper right)

Presentation

ASHLI

GPGPU

More than Moore's Law

Moore's law : still for wimps

Using programmable graphics hardware (possibly through OpenGL) for final rendering is not that far off. (Definitely not in real-time, but as a more cost-effective way to do it, anyway.) Especially with the massive parallelism of rendering, and the fact that GPUs are far outpacing CPUs in terms of their speed and transistor counts.

OpenGL is much more similar to micropolygon rendering (REYES) than it is to raytracing in the first place. The shaders are where you spend all of your time, anyway.

Heck, do you think nVIDIA bought ExLuna (Larry Gritz, author of BMRT, and former Pixar employee) just for the fun of it?

Software for translating from RenderMan Shading Language to Cg?

And what about RenderMonkey supporting RenderMan?

Do you even remember PixelFlow from Pixar? Do you see the name Marc Olano on that paper? The same Marc Olano who talks about rendering on consumer-level graphics hardware? These things have far more in common than you seem to realize.

...The problem of speeding..

Laws against speeding are stupid. See this report by the US Department of Transportation.

In a nutshell: people ignore speed limits and drive the speed they feel is safe, regardless of what the speed limit is.

As a result of this, it can be inferred that speed limits (for the most part--though there are exceptions) are set unreasonably low and as such serve no true purpose other than to generate revenue. It seems to me that laws that exist for no other reason than to fund their own enforcement shouldn't exist.

And for those that say speeders cause accidents--read the report I linked to. It begs to differ.

--
Will

There is also Vector Linux that I used sucessfully on older hardware. Just look for "minimalist" linux distros on Linux.org .

Yes, I love old hardware and alternate OSes. How did you tell?

I understand that most distros come with a packaging manager, but if I want to write a program, allow downloads from my site, then (to the best of my knowledge) there's no way for it to easily be installed and have menu shortcuts etc set up....

"Menu shortcuts setup..."? ok, for what? KDE? Gnome? Fluxbox? Afterstep? The reason there is no universal "installer" is that there can be no assumptions made about how a person chose to configure the system, since the advantage here of course is having a CHOICE. It's a bout having the FREEDOM to configure things the way that works best.

Of course you are also free choose Redhat/RPM and install software which makes assumptions based on that Redhat system and how someone at Redhat decided your system should be configured. That's perfectly acceptable.

If you want full freedom and flexibility, source code is the only way. For me personally, building from source works best for me, you however are free to CHOOSE whatever works best for you. But PLEASE don't say that every UNIX system out there should conform to meet some standard so that a single software installer will function correctly on all of them. Now THAT is is just ridiculous.

My suggestion. Develop your software. Use standard tools like autoconf, automake, etc. Then allow distribution maintainers to develop packages based on your source distribution. If you want to push the process along, for something like gentoo you could very easily write a small ebuild and submit it to them to include in portage. It's also fairly easy to make RPMs.

It seems that Duke University has bought the Public Domain for $2.2 trillion. In response the Ibiblio director, a University of North Carolina employee, is moving to Duke. Also MS, SC0 and Disney are merging in response to the Duke purchase.

I thought it was funny...

Sounds like a job for good old MIME64.

Nah, they wouldn't do that. Ok, maybe there's an abandoned NUCLEAR BOMB 75 miles from my house, but what's the chances of that happening again?

no, seriously, I agree with the tank theory.

I'm sure there's an option to get all the howtos and documentation in good old ascii out there _somewhere_, by the gods the LDP has made those more difficult to find.

Come on. I went to the LDP website, and clicked on HOWTOs. I scrolled down, and there was the link to the plain text versions.

I wouldn't describe one click away from the homepage to be "difficult to find".

I am a white girl who has a black nigger maid.

Just recently she confessed to me that she always fantasizes about worshipping my ass and pussy etc.

She told me with her own mouth that she thinks that all coon bitches like herself have no other purpose but to bow down and lick my superior White Royal Asshole.

Well from that day I made her my nigger toilet paper slave.

She told me no matter how rich or poor a black woman is- it is EVERY SINGLE black girls dreams and fantasies to worship and obey a White Maiden and obey all of her commands and wishes.

Has anyone ever heard of this?


Mad pr0pZ 2 tha GNAA from tha Skinhead Elfs

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http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200312/df2003 1208.jpg

This Linux Mini-HOWTO might be of interrested to some /.ers, it describes how to share your Linux swap partition with Windows.

He is an author, advocate for the EFF, and blogger. He recently spoke at UNC-Chapel Hill, video of which is available from the great folks at ibiblio: video eff page and blog

LinuxNews, October 18-26, 1992 (scroll down to the "Interview" section).

Linus: "I'm most certainly going to continue to support it, until it either dies out or merges with something else. That doesn't necessarily mean I'll make weekly patches for the rest of my life, but hopefully they won't be needed as much when things stabilize." 8-)

Thanks for the lesson.

--Mike--

fortran 77 has no operator overloading. Fortran 90 - has.

Of course C is dead, it has been for years.

Anyone who wants can even go and look at the scrolls.

This looks like a job for .. Schadenfreude Man!

I can barely use the terminal in Mac OS X!...(Though if someone would point me toward a general list or guide to the commands available, I might use it

try the linux users guide

yes,it's aimed at linux, but most of the commands they describe are generic to unix and GNU tools.

All my linux experience translated directly to the OSX command line (especially now Panther uses bash by default instead of csh for the CLI)

The idea of a free, online encyclopedia was one whose time had come. The FSF made an announcement of the GNUpedia, but eventually endorsed the Wikipedia. Reading some of Richard Stallman's thoughts in the announcement gives some good ideas about how to make the project work.

ibiblio has started a project recently called Wikinfo. They have a very similar look to the Wikipedia and even link to it for articles they don't have, but they have adopted a different editorial policy. Specifically, they have chosen to use a sympathetic point of view.

If you're taking introductionary electric circuit classes, or classes with advanced semiconductor stuff such as transistors (devices here at OSU), a really good EE reference/textbook is "Lessons in Electric Circuits"
The original is at ibiblio.org though.

Here are some more:

• UK Food
• CDKitchen
• Geek cook
• Recipelink
• cooking

I found the Open Source Cookbook to be pretty cool. It is also available in a number of formats. You can download and take a print out of the PDF version and use it according to your convenience.

There is a big list of International/Indian/Thai recipes available at: http://syvum.com/recipes/index.html. The part I liked the most about it is the interactivity. You change the number of people and it will recalculate the cooking time/ingredients etc.

Churchill, when declaring war on Japan in 1941 after Pearl Harbor, sent a letter to Hirohito in which he informed the Japanese emperor that a state of war existed between Britain and Japan.

He signed it, "Your humble servant", and commented, "After all, when you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be nice." See his WW2 memoirs.

I've found a partial copy of the letter, but it seems to have all the formalities edited out.

Nice to see that enough ESR fanboys had mod points handy, to so quickly cover up that link to his racist rantings.

That CUPS sure does sound difficult. Luckily ESR is white, and therefore has a high IQ. I'd hate to see how much difficulty a member of one of the lesser races would have configuring that printer.

He's also done some good work for the crusade to prove that whites are smarter than blacks.

I gather that, given enough time, most /.ers could write working binaries with nothing but a pencil, some paper, and a case of Jolt cola, but I guess this is the place for my first post: an old thread where my almost-complete ignorance works in my favor. Mod me redundant, but if there are any other newbies reading this, let me second NtroP's recommendation of Arklinux.

Other than Knoppix, ARKlinux is the only distro I've ever tried*. It has installed smoothly on both of my machines (a Compaq laptop and a home-baked system built around a 1.2G Athlon), using an interface that makes installation easy for newbs. It can either be installed by itself (be careful - this option overwrites your drives), or it can be installed parallel to an existing OS using unpartitioned disk space (it co-exists with Win98 nicely on my machine) or space that it clears for itself (if I'm understanding correctly, and I'm really not a reliable source). It's still in Alpha stages, so I wouldn't recommend trying to put it on the machine that has the only existing copy of your almost-finished doctoral thesis, but it's easy enough and stable enough that I've switched to it completely as my home OS.

If you're a newb looking to get your feet wet, have the obligatory one-night stand with Knoppix and then give Ark a try. YMMV, but I have nothing but good things to say about it (and I am a reliable source by virtue of my cluelessness).

The Dalai Llama

* Ok, there was that time I tried to use BasicLinux on a 286 laptop and learned the hard way that, unlike Windows, anything saved in the "temp" directory goes away when you cut the power. That doesn't count.