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I have a Linux box, I can program my own games. They will not have glitzy graphics like the gaming house ones, but they are just as much fun. I am working on upgrading a version of ROGUE that I found on Source Forge, just as entertaining as things like EverQuest but you don't need a $6000 graphics card to play it.

Hi. Have you seen this before? I think you'd find it relevant :)

How difficult is it to get a website to display the same in different browsers on the same computer ..

FireFox 3.0.6

InternetExplorer7

How difficult is it to get a website to display the same in different browsers on the same computer ..

FireFox 3.0.6

InternetExplorer7

Recently I have been getting a lot of stringy eye goop, some of the strands are like 4 inches long! here is a picture of a days harvest that I have stored. Advice please?

I dunno, I have seen some very creepy girls...

Fortunately, he hasn't much moved past whether God wants him to believe in evolution or not.

The word is in: here is proof of god's existence and disproof of evolution.

Joking. But hot on the heels of Darwin's birthday is this survey which says that only 39% of Americans believe in evolution.

Zone-H is currently hacked... interesting.

link to screenshot if they fix it any time soon.

Eh. Two of the three ads served on this page since I first viewed it are Microsoft ads.

Never understood why people didn't like KDawson, but approving articles from known professional trolls with links to Twitter(not to mention the fact that other Slashdot admins post Twitter's articles) smells funnny. There's always a market in people you love to hate ;)

Judging by this picture of her, she's got the figure for it, but I've no idea if she's interested in dressing that way. Enquiring minds want to know!

Is Houston being smart by hiring a company called "Gray Hat Research"?

Given the choice, I'd probably choose a grey-hat good ol' boy over a white-hat good ol' boy.

Texas might even get results employing one of their local black-hats.

XFCE is nice, but I think Fluxbox is nicer still, especially when used with XFCE apps. It loads in less than a second but still manages to look rather nice with transparency and stuff. The best bit though, aside from its fleety-nimbleness, is that it allows user-definable, chained keyboard shortcuts (I have {Alt+x, Alt+z} mapped to 'screen -Rd', for example). It's freaking awesome.

I apologise for evangelizing, but I just love it so damn much.

Oh yes.

Never mind the additional cost of licensing and installation. I simply do not understand how they can possibly think Windows 7 will be successful.

I recommend to everyone I know not to buy Vista -- and I'll likely do the same for Windows 7. This is not because Vista is bad, or too different, or hard to use. Apple's commercials are manipulative (albeit effective) and Microsoft's inept responses (Seinfeld and Gates, I'm A PC with posterchild for Uncool, Steve Ballmer, screaming like an enraged ape) are embarrassing. But Vista is an adequate improvement in appearance and seems stable enough, despite needing just as much critical patching every week as Windows XP.

My objection to Vista -- and to Windows 7 -- is the licensing strategy.

With MS Windows XP and all preceding versions of Windows, I have been able to install the OS on each new computer that I purchased as I upgraded my hardware. I always purchase and register my commercial software.

When I buy OS X, I can install it on my Apple computer and ever future Apple computer that I will buy. I don't even need a key. I can upgrade my hardware without having to pay Apple again, or to call them and advise them that I am upgrading my computer. This makes my life easy.

One can of course install a Linux distribution anywhere, anytime. OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, and others are very easy to install and to use.

But when you buy Vista, you buy a registration key only. This key cannot be re-used more than twice. (OEM Vista cannot be re-used at all, I understand.) I am not going to pay for MS Windows Vista every time I upgrade my computer. I'm not going to telephone Mr Ballmer and asking for permission to put his product on my computer. And since I do not intend to use Vista or Windows 7 illegally, I will simply have to stop using it.

Fortunately, for me, there are better alternatives to MS Windows today. I feel sorry for the users who are locked into the Microsoft Cycle Of Misery and can't -- or won't -- escape.

I'm not one to fuss much about UI design ... but there are still parts of the OS where they simply split apart a window with tabs in it, didn't even bother removing the tabs, and dumped it into it's own window.

So, you aren't one to fuss about UI design, but you will fuss over a minor cosmetic defect? Also, you borked the link. Here is one that works, and after looking at it, it looks fine, despite being exactly what you describe. With all of the problems with Windows, and even GNU/Linux and software in general, including genuine UI problems (UAC), a minor cosmetic defect is nothing to fuss about.

Working link to minor cosmetic defect

Interestingly enough, my resolution changing screen in the win7 PUBLIC beta doesn't look like that: http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6215/resolution7ak4.png


With that said, Microsoft has somehow made the new Windows Explorer even more annoying.

Now before someone clicks the link and says "but they don't have that menu anymore in Windows 7, the display settings page has been changed", let me say there are other areas (like the LAN connection status window, among about 5 others) where they still chose this lazy/bad design route.

I'm not one to fuss much about UI design (I'm perfectly happy with the Windows standard theme from way back in '95), but there are still parts of the OS where they simply split apart a window with tabs in it, didn't even bother removing the tabs, and dumped it into it's own window. The result is something
like this.

Ugly. If they would fix that, I would be perfectly happy with 7.

(On an unrelated note, my friend playing WoW, who would get about dips to ~30FPS on XP in Dalaran, gets dips only to ~45 in Windows 7, with the exact same visual settings. Impressive!)

How convenient; just today I whipped up a professional artistic rendering of the much hailed "50 sq km" (which seems to be frequently confused with 50^2 sq km). http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/2576/artistrenderingue2.gif Africa is really just one big canyon -- with savannas and jungles side-by-side in its interior -- otherwise surrounded on all sides by desert.. didn't you know that?

FYI, VTEC isn't really the same as a turbo charger.

The people to whom he's alluding don't care.

Environmentally light bulbs are a process. The bulbs are released. Some people, most in fact have insufficiently sensitive eyes. They will fall down the stairs, die and fail to breed. Over the millenia humans will evolve big ass eyes like this tarsier

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/4502/ohnoab6.jpg

Which reminds me of a joke

Q) How many envirommentalists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A) Do you know how much energy is wasted by lighting every year? Polar bears are drowning because of selfish people like you!

OMG, it's you. You fuck with the dolphins.

I must tell you, I thought I would never have met someone like you. You have convinced me to not divorce my wife when I realized she was a sea cow.

http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=songsmithes9.jpg

Wat

No. It can only be the ASSDOZER (and hit two friends Assblaster and Dildozer) from Idiocracy!

No. It can only be the ASSDOZER (and hit two friends Assblaster and Dildozer) from Idiocracy!

No. It can only be the ASSDOZER (and hit two friends Assblaster and Dildozer) from Idiocracy!

Speaking of the whitehouse mascot, I think their latest cover makes the whole magazine worth it, no matter what the actual content is.

I know most people didn't like it in Vista, but I'm curious what they did with the sidebar in Windows 7... I know they renamed it to "desktop gadget gallery" and the gadgets appear on your desktop now without a dedicated "bar". I've read that the gadgets will only be visible on the desktop or floating over other windows. The floating thing definitely seems like it would be annoying, as I don't want crap floating over the part of the window I'm trying to read. The way I have my sidebar configured, it reserves the edge of the screen so when you maximize a window it only fills up to the sidebar and leaves it visible at all times. That way I have nice things like a big clock, network/cpu/ram gauge, current ip address, etc always at hand, like in this example. I really hope they didn't remove the ability to do this.

Guess I'll just have to install the beta and try the Win7 beta out for myself. I keep hearing good things about it and I already like Vista, so Windows 7 must be pretty nifty.

Some people have taken Windows 2008 Server and using it as a workstation because it runs better than Vista. No joke!

Actually I tried this, and it is, indeed, a very big joke. Just like other win2008 workstation believers, I ignored the fact that it uses the same kernel as Vista. Except it was never meant to be a desktop OS. It was nothing but trouble, and making things work properly (as they would have on Vista) was an ongoing chore. For example:

-Vista x64 drivers, which should work, are often "not intended for this platform" and require extra hackery to force them to install. Certain "desktop" features such as bluetooth have no existing drivers for Server 08 and Vista drivers can be kinda hacked, but never really completely work. You may be able to copy over the driver files from an existing Vista box if you can find them all, but often you have to download the sketchy hacked DLLs and INFs from "tweaker" sites.

-Software is often "not intended for this platform" and requires extra hackery to force installation to achieve a not-fully-functional state. Just because it's a server OS, software companies will try to force you to buy the "server" version that costs 3x as much. There is no decent free antivirus software available (on x64 at least). Clamwin was the only thing that would run, and it sucked. Avira Free > all.

-No discernible difference in performance (unless you enable Hyper-V to slow everything down). In fact I think Vista utilizes my hardware better. And games run reliably well on Vista, in contrast with Server 08.

Simply go here and read the list of "tweaks". Oh, look, you can enable wireless networking! Wow, what an achievement! And gaming controllers, another amazing tweak! Turning on Aero (A.K.A. desktop composition A.K.A. graphical hardware acceleration A.K.A. it speeds up your PC if you have a graphics card so why the hell would you not want this?). All the shit that is enabled by default in Vista and that most people would want in a desktop or "workstation" OS requires extra effort to manually enable in win2008. But you might not want some of those features, you say... Then just freaking use Vista and turn them off using the reverse steps of the aforementioned tweak guides.

And there is a COMPATIBILITY LIST for various games. Meaning you usually have to dick around with each individual game to even get it to attempt to run. Fallout3 froze up everytime for me in the first scene of the game and was not playable at all, even for 2 minutes. This is actually what made me go back to Vista once and for all.

There is NO REASON to run Server 2008 on a desktop unless you also want to use IIS or some kind of activedirectory gobbledygook. I'd recommend just using Linux in a VM for your server needs. Hyper-V, you say? Hyper-V sucks and you do not want it. It will not acceptably run any decent Linux distro, as it's only "accelerated" for Microsoft guest machines (i.e. no Hyper-V tools for anyone else! except maybe Novell...). VMWare workstation is considerably faster than Hyper-V even with all its fancy hypervisory crap. Turning Hyper-V on slows the whole machine down because even the host must run underneath the stupid hypervisor. That's the definition of a hypervisor, I guess, but in that situation should there even really BE a host OS? With Hyper-V, Server 2008 acts as a "host" that has full access to the hardware and the "guest" OS'es can't even access a freaking USB port or create sound. Like VMWare workstation, but much more limited. Shouldn't all the VMs have equally shared access to resources, or have certain resources delegated to certain VMs through user configuration? Why else should there be a hypervisor between the hardware and the OS? Shouldn't the guests run *faster* i

Here is image of the flash cd utility crashed (fortunately my drive survived).
Here is seagate page with affected models list and links to firmware downloads (if it wasn't posted by 1000 people already)

The firmware updater uses FreeDOS from a CD image (ISO). Users had to burn it to a CD and boot from it. Here's an example when I tried it (first release that crashed while upgrading -- did not brick for people and me) under VMware to see if my CD booted: http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/7128/screenshotsa7.gif from Sunday night. I didn't bother to try the second one because that one totally bricked 500 GB HDDs which I have!

Ok I think I got it. Damn you for trying to ruin my childhood memories of one of the best movie series.

Future Biff gives 1955 Biff the almanac.
1955 Biff thinks it a bunch of bull. At that point in time 1955 Biff doesn't believe the almanac, so there is no change to the timeline, so Future Biff goes to the "normal" future (the time he came from)
He puts the DeLorean back.
Then 1955 Biff realizes the almanac is real, then the timeline branches off.
http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=howitworkedwm9.png

Nobody can beat this robot for looks, deadliness or comic relief!

http://monsterscifishow.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/61979_summer_glau_-_unknown_photoshoot0001_122_1140lo.jpg

http://img133.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc620&image=09741_Summer_Glau_2192_122_620lo.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=summerglau1514gg2.jpg

Cameron terminating a bad Terminator in the future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RGQGI7V8o8

Scary Robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fZN5-kHETc&feature=related

"They knew where we live"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLCWTThe4Cs

Cameron Seduces John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPGGzBUquU&feature=related

Cameron Cuts Derek Off Because He Didn't Follow the Phone Security Code Protocol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBDgWGs9Wdo&feature=related

Would You Like A Bedtime Story?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEcJjq5ByiM&feature=related

You lied to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OisxAXVAMEs&feature=related

Cameron plays pool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6t83BHB6OQ&feature=related

I beg to differ.

The judge who presided over this case said he believes that the 17-year-old defendant "had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents, they would be dead forever."

I can see why playing Halo (or, indeed, most games, with the notable exception of NetHack) might make you believe that. If only he had watched anime instead, he would have been taught the cruel reality of murder.

This sounds like a task for the super friends! Talk about being scared straight... lulz.

First tag to try

What the hell, I got karma out the ass, so I'll answer your question.

Slashdot continues to moan because the average commenter has neither ran the beta or used Vista for longer than 5 minutes. Its more fun to bitch about Microsoft than to actually use the product.

Its also fun to sit and read some of the bitch comments and see how many Slashdotters overlooked the "beta" part, bitch about missing features, and apparently thought they were downloading the final RTM code.

I've never had a lick of trouble running Vista. Nor have I had a lick of trouble in the two weeks I've been running this beta. But then I made sure to put it on a modern PC built with Vista in mind, not my grandfather's Packard-Bell 486 with 4 meg of ram.

Yes that's nice. It's clear MS didn't finish the OS. Because of things like this. They didn't even bother making the Aero UI that they hyped up for so long mesh with the rest of the OS. They took the Desktop Properties window (right click->Properties) in Windows XP, and just separated the tabs and provided a link to each one. Boy that's an improvement.

Or how about having to click 3x more than XP just to get to the network connection status or, Bill Gates forbid, make changes to the TCP/IP settings. Jeez it feels like 15 clicks. I have to STOP doing what I'm doing and concentrating on, and figure out which of the 5 buttons to click, and do that for about 5 more windows that come up before I get there. With WinXP I just double click the little computer on the taskbar and it opens it for me. Or I right click it and can get to the TCP/IP settings with one more click.

Feh. We don't whine for stupid reasons.

I modded him insightful just to spite you.

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5945/insightfulpk4.png

My ambition was to see FLAMING RED on /.

Like this: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/79/slasdhotredxv8.jpg

Seriously, was there a change in front page I was not aware of? Or it was work of some some audacious hacker?

Done.

That's the first coatse I've seen. Nice dough. Never knew cakes could have ass.

If you do want to send us something, please send a scan of a postcard from your city, handwrite a nice message scan it and sent it over to blog@iphone-dev.com

Done.

Looking for a new year's resolution? How about ratting out a business for money? Slashdot recommends genuine Business Software Alliance snitching, coming to a workplace near you!

I found a handy visual aid. Metric system on the left, imperial on the right.

Found the link to the actual picture via another site: http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/7811/tree14zq5.jpg

1) Measure your blood pressure
2) Look at this picture
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/9747/1229454176727zy8.jpg
3) Post blood pressure here.

That's fine!

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
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  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5