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BTW I've done this dozens of times and never once have I hung up on a real person accidentally.

Or you could do the opposite and waste as much of their time as possible (if they wanna sell you vinyl siding, don't tell them immediately that you're in an apartment, etc). Depends on your mood.

Someone should whip up a speech-to-text-to-megahal-to-text-to-speech processor for answering sales droid calls. That way at least once a year your machine would be telling a sales droid that "I DO NOT FEAR DEATH AND KILLING" .

BTW I've done this dozens of times and never once have I hung up on a real person accidentally.

Or you could do the opposite and waste as much of their time as possible (if they wanna sell you vinyl siding, don't tell them immediately that you're in an apartment, etc). Depends on your mood.

Someone should whip up a speech-to-text-to-megahal-to-text-to-speech processor for answering sales droid calls. That way at least once a year your machine would be telling a sales droid that "I DO NOT FEAR DEATH AND KILLING" .

One major issue comes to mind when thinking about this type of solution, installing software, how the heck is this gui going to take the place of running configure scripts, editing makefiles, and compiling/installing new software.

It's not. The sort of people who'd only use the GUI are the sort of people who'd be installing precompiled software, e.g. using Kpackage or some other package installer. If you want to install from source, you'd probably use the X application xterm, or another application of that sort.

I think they should start not from gnome, but from nothing, instead of using xfree86, create somthing truly new, xfree86 is great but i think what it does could be implemented more efficiently.

E.g., Berlin?

Hello,

This is my theory and my question.

Mr. Katz is an entity that keeps on writing relativly low tech stories to a bunch of people who arnt mainly interested in these stories, over time they got real frustrated and kept bringing their vengence upon him.

But, he didnt change his style, he just kept on writing in the same tone in the same form. He didnt even try to adjust to the form needed neither did he just give up... Which leads to the assertion that.. Katz might be an AI entity (maybe piped off from Everything ) with a little bit of hacked Mega Hal code.

Thus my question is. Katz, are you human?

Thank you.

Note: wrote that with a straight face :)
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Just to reassure everyone that there is no such thing as the last minute to get people to upload:
here is a graph of the number of files in Incoming! ;)

Seriously, congratulations to all package maintainers.

Some of my friends at the University Computer Club of the University of Western Australia did a very similar thing. They had an amazingly antique terminal controller, which they had aquired in the same way they got most of their hardware: it was totally obselete, and therefore free.

But it didn't come with the keyboards; so they made keyboards themselves. Take three computer punch-cards, cut holes in the middle one, in exactly the fashion outlined on Jim's site, place aluminium foil "row" strips between the first and second card, and "column" strips between the second and third. Draw "keys" on the first card. Voila! Instant keyboard.

As the keyboard got older, it would get harder to use, and you'd have to bash the keys with a pen, and eventually throw it away and build a new one.

This BBS has been net connected for 5+ years, but still (I think) has a dialup. Its free, and run out of the University Computer Club in Perth, Australia (http://www.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/):

telnet flame.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au 4242

It's called 'flame' (with a lower case f). It is a MUD BBS, with message boards, rooms, etc, and gateways of message boards to some selected newsgroups IIRC.

Anyway, I see the All Tomorrow's Parties too has a home page.

In the newsgroup alt.cyberpunk there was a reference to an early script which was rather different from the book. Incidentally, the new book has been discussed at some length there already, you may wish to pop in to have look.

Sombody who wants to establish themselves quickly as an open-source star please create a better interface to rpm.....Remove Package - gives you a list of installed packages that you can see the info about by single-clicking or remove by double clicking.

Try kpackage. (Isn't it great how many "I wish someone would make a..." comments are answered by "Try this!"?)

I had this idea of feeding all of my manpages into a local megahal to make a virtual UNIX guru...

Unfortunately, it ate up my 96M of ram before I could even interact. Perhaps this would work on one of those insane machines with gigs of ram and altogether too much processing power.

The use of Hungarian as a choice surely gave it away as a hoax.

My hovercraft is full of eels!
My nipples explode with the light!
I weeel not buy thees record, eet is scratched!

etc, etc.

I was wondering about the possability of building a "Digital Recording Studio" that was capable of making some reasonable quality recordings. Something that would take seperate tracks at seperate times, so you could lay down a drum beat, then come back and add in the instruments, then the vocals, etc.. I would prefer to do it in Linux or FreeBSD, and with open source software (for financial reasons), but unfortunately I think I will end up with something commercial. (I am not going to pop for a $10,000+ system and software).

I was checking out GreenBox and Studio but don't really know anything about them yet, it's just all I found for Linux, and would like to hear from some people that can speak from experiance about thier functionality, ease of use, etc... And, I wouldn't mind hearing about some hardware requirements, would it take gobs and gobs of RAM and SCSI drives and massive CPU power to do playback of a track while recording another track to sync to it?

I would really appreciate learning more about how possable this is, and how expnsive it might be... Maybe an old 4-track unit that allows you to do this with normal cassette tapes would be something to consider for me to play around with, but it would really be a lot more fun if I could get digital quality, and have a little more precise control, and be able to do it on a computer, create MP3's etc...