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  1. Re:Rikti Invasion by Mandrake · · Score: 1 · on Alien Invasion Ends City Of Heroes Beta
    but then you would have missed out on the huge columns of them marching through town, which was really impressive for those of us who COULD still play the game...

    Like these. It was really cool, especialyl when they were killing trainers and task force people.

  2. another gallery by Mandrake · · Score: 3, Informative · on Alien Invasion Ends City Of Heroes Beta
    I took a bunch of screenshots during the endgame also here.

    My favorite is this one which shows how big the ships were compared to, say, really tall buildings.

    Great game, I'm going to enjoy playing it live, also.

  3. another gallery by Mandrake · · Score: 3, Informative · on Alien Invasion Ends City Of Heroes Beta
    I took a bunch of screenshots during the endgame also here.

    My favorite is this one which shows how big the ships were compared to, say, really tall buildings.

    Great game, I'm going to enjoy playing it live, also.

  4. Speech by Lando · · Score: 2 · on State of Speech Synthesis and Text-To-Speech?

    I think Mandrake (the person not the company) was working with a fairly decent open source speech synthesiser(sp?) last time we talked... been about 2 years now I think... but a quick check of his site shows that he's still working with the same company and thus probably still has good links from him homepage, ie http://www.mandrake.net/

  5. a word on enlightenment by Mandrake · · Score: 2 · on Best Mouse-free Windowmanager?
    something that not a lot of people know is that if you have X display access with enlightenment just about everything is scriptable from outside of the window manager. try opening up a terminal window inside of enlightenment and typing 'eesh'. it won't say anything outright, but you can type 'help' and get a list of commands that you can use. not EVERYTHING is documented, but 95% of the commands are documented in here appropriately. This was one of the things I was really interested in working on in E. There may or may not be a couple of sample scripts that use this interface available in the distribution package, but there is a perl module for it (Pesh I think) and I did write a few sample scripts I will put up on my website here: http://mandrake.net/downloads/e-scripts/.

    You can script, of course, in the scripting language of your choice (I've never been a big fan of lisp). The script examples aren't terribly pretty but very easy to write.

  6. Re:What kind of camera? by sweetooth · · Score: 2 · on Hemos Gets Hitched

    I think Mandrake would be the lucky sob with the nikon d1 as you can see in this picture.

  7. At the Wedding... by Coffee · · Score: 1 · on Hemos Gets Hitched

    How many people did you recognize there? (C'mon, I know that's why you were looking at most of the pictures - that's why I looked at more than just the happy couple.) I saw Rob and crew (big surprise), but I really think that the joker taking a picture of the camera was Mandrake, of Enlightenment fame. There's this shot of someone I'd swear is Geoff Harrison.

    And after checking www.mandrake.net it seems that he did go to the wedding, which implies that the person he's standing next to is Tammy...

    So I guess this is the next poll: How many people did you recognize at Hemos' wedding?

  8. Enlightenment with Gnome? by dbarron · · Score: 1 · on Gnome 1.2.0 Released

    I'm just curious about users using CVS Enlightenment and current GNOME together. Both provide mechanisms to have toolbars, menus, filemanagers, etc.
    Exactly which components of each are you using?
    I'm very impressed (Ok, so maybe I'm easy to impress) with both of them. I haven't compiled an Enlightmentment since they started the FAM stuff in the CVStree, so I'm a bit out of date but I'm rather fascinated by Mandrake's use of no terminal windows for daily operations
    Comments ? (please)

  9. That was quick... by MrHat · · Score: 2 · on CMU Sphinx Open Sourced

    I was just reading a couple days ago that Mandrake, of Enlightenment fame, was helping these guys with the build system and automation of the build process.

    This seems to fill a nice gap in free software, right beside Optical character recognition. Even if the quality is subpar (I don't know yet - I haven't looked at it), its still a starting point and a motivator for those who are interested in the field, yet reluctant to start a project from scratch.

    Now all I want is GnOCR... heh...

  10. Slashdot, Moderation, and Andover by volsung · · Score: 2 · on "I Would Strongly Advocate Full Disclosure"
    I'm so sick of reading this oft-repeated pile of horse dung. I've been reading Slashdot for almost two years now, and the only word I can use to describe the change is not "better" or "worse", but "more": More authors, more stories posted each day, more readers, and more comments. Slashdot started out as Chips'n'Dips, a place for Rob's personal rants and thoughts, not unlike Mandrake.net or Alan Cox's Diary. Rob posted stories about things he liked. Slashdot had some whiz-bang Perl scripts to let users comment on his stories. I'm sure the immediate feedback got Rob as hooked on the site as it got the rest of us who read it. That was what Slashdot was about: cool nerdy stories about kernels and science and a place to talk about them. Slashdot wasn't about defense of free speech or anything that idealistic. It was about communicating a shared interest.

    Rob happens to like the idea of free speech. Toward that end, he has avoided deleting posts as much as possible (though I'm sure some AC here can contradict me here with some unverifiable anecdote). I take as my evidence the sheer quantity of crap strewn about these comment pages. I know if I were Rob, I would be tempted to delete some of the lame troll posts that are clogging his database. But he doesn't, 'cause I can sit here and read them until I lose most of my faith in humanity.

    In fact, I've spent the last month reading Slashdot at -1, and I can say that it has been a depressing experience. When moderation first appeared, I set my threshold at 2, then 1. Things were fairly normal. I wondered what things were like at -1 and I finally decided to take a look. My month-long sample has not convinced me that moderation is evil. A few decent AC posts got left in the dust, and few good posts got taken down. But a whole hoard of juvenile graffiti and basic idiocy got labeled as such.

    But guess what:

    You can still read it!
    Yes, despite the fact that Andover owns Slashdot, you can still read every bit of text that someone felt was worthy of posting (including this rant). The moderators may be too stupid to pull out the comments you like to read, but they are still there. The rest of us are willing to sacrifice a few good posts to have time to read the many good posts the moderators do catch.

    And finally: please stop repeating the hackneyed complaint about Rob having sold out to The Man. It's just as annoying as every other bit of "Slashdot wisdom" that gets repeated so many times that people forget it orignated from someone's rear end. Rob is human. Rob is lazy. Rob did not receive a brain transplant when Andover bought Slashdot. If you believe Slashdot isn't catering to your (and others who agree with you) need, blame it on Rob being too stupid or too lazy to implement a system that works. Those reasons are a lot more plausible than: "Andover did it!" That's about as dumb as claiming that Doom makes kids shoot each other.

    The world is not so simple.

    [In defense of Rob's intelligence: USENET, IRC, and Slashdot seem to have shown in three different environments that online discussion tends to degenerate when enough people are put in one place. Two people can have a conversation, a couple hundred can share ideas, but tens of thousands seem to just turn things into a squabbling mess. Solving this problem is hard, and I don't think Rob is an imbecile for not having solved it yet.]

  11. This much is much funnier... by moonboy · · Score: 3 · on A Sysadmin's Worst Halloween Fears

    I suggested the following as a story this morning and thought it was much funnier:


    Rasterman Shaves Head!



    Mandrake's Seedier Life Exposed!



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    "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

  12. Check The Time, Check The Web Sites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Clarifies Linux Myths

    the microsoft article or the mandrake response

    which one is up? dare you eat more crow?

  13. Forum Log by drdink · · Score: 2 · on SlashNET Forum
    We thank everybody who attended the XMMS forum and made it turn out as well as it did. If you were unable to attend, you can get the log from our FTP site:

    ftp://ftp.slashne t.org/pub/slashnet/forums/xmms_06-19-1999.txt.gz.

    That directory also contains the logs of several past forums, including the mandrake forum.

  14. Re:who ? by jc · · Score: 1 · on SlashNET Forum with Mandrake

    answers to your questions, respectively, are:

    a) Geoff Harrison, recently hired by VA linux systems, architect of Enlightenment since (iirc) DR 0.9

    b) see (a)

    c) why not?

    d) absolutely not.

  15. That's Linux Mandrake by Zach+Baker · · Score: 1 · on VA buys LHS, Enlightened Solutions

    The Lothar Project is from Linux Mandrake (the distro). VA bought Enlightened Solutions from mandrake (the person), who we all know from his work on Enlightenment (Enlightened Solutions, get it...)