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I actually had a computer game do that. It was a stratego game, and I had reduced the computer to only a flag. No bombs, no other pieces, just a (supposedly) immobile flag. And the computer would move it like it was any other piece.

wolfmp-linux

Ben

Yea, I use Inficad they're pretty cool.

www.inficad.com

I wonder why they didn't compare the Aibo to the Omnibot2000... well I don't really wonder why, but anyways. TOMY made an Omnibot 2000 that is just as rare as the Aibo.. of course it doesn't have the same market value.. goes for about $250 on ebay.

I couldn't find anything about it on TOMY's website.. but here are some links with info about it.. soon to be dead links I am sure.

http://www.clinton.net/~jeffbod/Omnibot/
http://www.robotswanted.com/robots/omnibots
http://www.inficad.com/~tvj/jeffbots/omnibot.html

-gerbik

Forget neural networks, what people want is a Rosie the Robot for their homes.

aqua

You've just *got* to see this

I've used the GNOME panel - I like it, but in my experience (from versions .66 to 1.0.53) it's never been quite stable and it hasn't always reacted as expected- if I start Sawmill and then the panel, half of the time GNOME-pager complains that I'm not running a GNOME-compliant window manager. I like the panel's functionality- when I use GNOME, I have a vertical bar in the upper right, a horizontal bar in the lower right, and a single button Menu launcher (with the foot icon) in the lower left corner. It's great- but I run KDE2 almost all of the time now, because it offers (to me) everything that I need from a desktop.

That doesn't mean it's perfect, but it works well enough. The pixmap themes are more stable (and leak one hell of a lot less memory) than the GTK+ equivalents, and it's relatively straightforward to convert a GTK theme to a KDE2 one. I've done so at my web page and you can see that although it's not *quite* the same, it works and it looks a lot better than the default settings.

Anyway, back to your post. Everything in Kicker, the new KDE panel for KDE2, is also an applet- and there's a nice structure and backbone provided for building your own custom applets with it. However, I like it relatively simple, so I leave well enough alone. However, I am most impressed by Konqueror, the new KDE file manager/everything browser. Somebody pointed out that you can coax Explorer into doing some of the things Konqi does (automatic embedding of document views, like a Word doc or a KWord doc [in konq's case]) but you can't do the frames! Once you actually see the frame action working, you'll switch back.... ; )

Or not. But that's why choice is good, no? : )

I've used the GNOME panel - I like it, but in my experience (from versions .66 to 1.0.53) it's never been quite stable and it hasn't always reacted as expected- if I start Sawmill and then the panel, half of the time GNOME-pager complains that I'm not running a GNOME-compliant window manager. I like the panel's functionality- when I use GNOME, I have a vertical bar in the upper right, a horizontal bar in the lower right, and a single button Menu launcher (with the foot icon) in the lower left corner. It's great- but I run KDE2 almost all of the time now, because it offers (to me) everything that I need from a desktop.

That doesn't mean it's perfect, but it works well enough. The pixmap themes are more stable (and leak one hell of a lot less memory) than the GTK+ equivalents, and it's relatively straightforward to convert a GTK theme to a KDE2 one. I've done so at my web page and you can see that although it's not *quite* the same, it works and it looks a lot better than the default settings.

Anyway, back to your post. Everything in Kicker, the new KDE panel for KDE2, is also an applet- and there's a nice structure and backbone provided for building your own custom applets with it. However, I like it relatively simple, so I leave well enough alone. However, I am most impressed by Konqueror, the new KDE file manager/everything browser. Somebody pointed out that you can coax Explorer into doing some of the things Konqi does (automatic embedding of document views, like a Word doc or a KWord doc [in konq's case]) but you can't do the frames! Once you actually see the frame action working, you'll switch back.... ; )

Or not. But that's why choice is good, no? : )

But I've put up a theme for KDE2 at my web site for anyone with KDE2 to check out. Also, I've got screenshots of what my desktop looks like while running it (yeah, it's not perfect yet- so sue me. :)

http://www.inficad.com/~dmorg/1218.html

That site seems to be slashdotted already, but there are some more screenshots here: http://www.inficad.com/~nytehorse/

There are more screenshots of the KDE browser available here. Looks good, though I have no idea how it compares to Mozilla, for I've only run Mozilla...

Trust me, buddy- it is sweet... and if you'd like to see some more pics of it (with different styles and rendering different pages) then go to my web page to check it out. This really could be the "Next Big Thing (TM)"... ftp, pdf, txt, and html in the same window at the same time. What isn't to like? Oh, did i mention it works? FAST?

Well, I'm sorry that Roblimo didn't find more but I've got some more (well, quite a few more) over at my web site. Be gentle, guys- please? They're
here. Enjoy!

Konqueror isn't just a web browser, konq is what Microsoft's IE intergration/COM should be. Using the new Canossa(sp?) component API, I believe Konqueror is able to browse and/or render filesystems, samba shares, web pages, postscript, dvi, pdf, and plaintext. Given the rapid pace of development there's probably even one or two more by now.

What this topic should be is "khtml", KDE's html widget code which in this case is acting as a Konqueror component. Here's some more screenshots, displaying its current rendering ability...

Konqueror displaying various webpages

Konqueror itself

Konqueror displaying postscript

Konqueror isn't just a web browser, konq is what Microsoft's IE intergration/COM should be. Using the new Canossa(sp?) component API, I believe Konqueror is able to browse and/or render filesystems, samba shares, web pages, postscript, dvi, pdf, and plaintext. Given the rapid pace of development there's probably even one or two more by now.

What this topic should be is "khtml", KDE's html widget code which in this case is acting as a Konqueror component. Here's some more screenshots, displaying its current rendering ability...

Konqueror displaying various webpages

Konqueror itself

Konqueror displaying postscript

http://www.inficad.com/~nytehorse/konq. html Slashdot looks even better now that the color bug is fixed.

• File manager/Web browser: It manages your files (like Explorer) but with more functionality and faster speed. And new features get hacked in all the time- right now, it can render directories with files, web pages, *.pdf/*.ps documents, and textfiles.
  
• Frame-based interface: Also works well as an FTP/Gopher client; you can browse the web in a frame while remotely browsing an FTP server and your local disk. Click on a remote file, drag it into the frame showing your local files, and let go. What happens? The file automatically starts to download. No kidding. All in the same browser window!
  
• Open source: It's still under the GPL.
  

Perhaps it's time to update your kernel; USB support in 2.2.10 is much more complete than in previous versions.

A great resource for linuxppc on the b&w G3 is here: http://inficad.com/~rshaw