1) Slashdot != Freshmeat (I'll go along with this one)
2) Slashdot should not post any of the same stories as Freshmeat.
OK, now number 2 lost me. I don't see what the reasoning is that makes #2 follow from #1. Let me use this argument in some more examples.
Slashdot != StarWars.com, so no stories about star wars movies should be here.
Slashdot != Suse != RedHat != Debian, so no stories about these should be on slashdot either.
Slashdot != GoHip.com, so no information that is at GoHip.com should be on Slashdot. Since GoHip.com has a license agreement that tells what their "browser enhancement" does, it should not be on Slashdot.
So, do you people think that slashdot should only contain news about things that aren't on any other website? Most of the news posted here has a link to some other site, so most of the news could be found somewhere else on the internet.
Personally, I look at Slashdot as a repository for news. It gives me one place to look instead of having to go to 100 different pages to find interesting stories. I just don't get why you people are so upset about this. I don't like every little story that pops up on here, but I don't have to read every one of them either.
I think a lot of the problem is in the assumption that all Slashdot readers are also Freshmeat readers. I haven't heard anyome come right out and say this, but it is the impression that I get.
I've always thought, and I could be wrong, that the laser started reading on the part closest to the center of the disk and read outward. As long as there wasn't enough data to push it off the edge, it wouldn't even go to the part where the top and bottom were cut off.
If you made a disk with one small file, the laser would never have a reason to go to the edge of the disc. I think it's the same idea here.
My reason is because the women are generally smaller and faster than the male characters. This is an important factor in fighting games which are about the only kind of games I care to play anymore.
I find that I'm hesitant to install things because I'm not sure of the "clean" way to remove them if I don't like them.
Eventually, my hard disk gets all trashed up and I don't really know the proper way to go about cleaning it up.
Is there a how-to that tells directories where certain things are located, the proper (or suggested) places to put things, a typical uninstall procedure, etc? If not, it would be really handy.
I realize that not all apps are the same, but there are surely some basic rules. There are only so many directories where things end up. I've found some of them by doing an install, finding out the new program wasn't in my path, and then:
cd/ find -name "myprogram"
Not a good way to do it, but it works. I've never attempted to uninstall anything except VMWare, and I only tried it because I saw that it had an uninstall script.
...never have. I like the apps that are developed for each, but I just don't like the "look and feel" of either desktop. It feels too much like I'm in windows. Then, there is the problem of my memory getting eaten up very quickly in either of them.
I'm a window maker guy all the way. It looks cool, and it's nice and fast.
I tried out the xmovie binary that is supposed to play DVD's. I'm running RedHat 6.1 on a PII400.
I downloaded the pentium II binary, and when I try to open a DVD with it, I get 2 messages about deleted semaphores and then a message that just says "Crash". Mpeg movies play just fine.
It just might take a little longer. If you can pop it in a CD player with RCA outputs, you can run it into your computer and copy it that way. I have done this with my tapes and records to put them on CD.
It is more time consuming, but comes out sounding just fine.
There is really no way to get around people recording sounds (ie copying cd's). If it makes a sound, it can be recorded -- it just might be a little more difficult in some cases than in others.
hmmmmm. Maybe mine just got lost in the shuffle. I'll try giving them a call about it.
My experience with Be Inc.
on
Free Be
·
· Score: 1
I don't know why, but I really want to share this. Maybe someone from Be will read it.
I have been very interested in BeOS for some time, and I finally ordered the $10 demo CD (lack of hardware support was the reason I didn't just buy the OS). When the CD arrived, it was in an envelope with almost no physical protection and the CD was cracked completely through along a radius. I called and was told to send the demo copy back and as soon as they received the cracked copy they would send me a replacement. They could not do this without having the return first.
It has now been well over a month since I sent the damaged CD back, and I have yet to receive my replacement. I have sent an email and no one has responded. At one point I was very excited about BeOS, but now I don't know.
Maybe I'll give it another shot now since it is downloadable and I won't have to rely on physical media to acquire it.
--
Re:I'm ENFP according to those indicators....
on
A Profile of Coders
·
· Score: 1
Well, I have taken the tests and I came out ENFP. I take one of them every 3 or 4 years for a class or something, and the results are always the same: ENFP.
FWIW, I probably do have some good management skills and that's probably what I'll end up at (to some degree) one of these days. But, for now, I'm a programmer (ie that's what I do) and I like it.
PEACE
I'm ENFP according to those indicators....
on
A Profile of Coders
·
· Score: 1
which is exactly opposite of the stereotypical programmer.
These things really bother me because the people that are in the software field already know that everyone is not the same. The only people that could gain anything from reading these are people on the outside looking in, and these stereotypes just make people misinformed instead of uninformed.
OK, enough of my rant now! I'm going to go be an Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving car shopper. (yeah right!)
To make the speed control thing actually a part of the car itself instead of being controlled from a remote location. That way, whenever speed limits changed, everyone would have to bring their cars in for maintenance.
Where is the tutorial/HOWTO for reading all numletters?
I must not be a 1337 anything because I can't even read it Well, maybe I am. You can be something without knowing how to read it. Take 'illiterate' as an obvious example (unless you are illiterate, then I don't know what to tell you and you wouldn't know what I told you anyway).
Back to the point -- I have been able to figure out what almost everything else means, but I think it's the 1 and the 7 that are throwing me off.
I need some translations please!!!
I can't read 31337 either for obvious reasons.
I was able to figure out what 5p34k was just fine.
Check out: http://cs.atu.edu/~ewyles/mp3000.htm That's a project that I'm working on that has 2 of the 3 taken care of. I would like to add radio support in the near future. The source code on the page is not entirely up to date, but I'm going to update it soon. I'm listening to an mp3 cd with 163 of my favorite songs on it right now. PEACE
put in a small plug for a project I'm working on. It's an mp3-cd player that also plays audio CD's. I eventually plan to add hard drive capabilities and offer an option where someone could send me systems specs and I could send them back a boot-disk with all the required software.
Currently, it's not portable, but with smaller hardware it could be. I'm using mine as a home stereo component.
It's all open source with code available for download, and documentation is in the works.
http://cs.atu.edu/~ewyles/mp3000.htm
BTW, sign up for our mailing list if you want future update.
PEACE
ps -- sorry for the shameless plug, I just think this project is cool.
Slashdot Mirror
OK, here goes:
1) Slashdot != Freshmeat (I'll go along with this one)
2) Slashdot should not post any of the same stories as Freshmeat.
OK, now number 2 lost me. I don't see what the reasoning is that makes #2 follow from #1. Let me use this argument in some more examples.
Slashdot != StarWars.com, so no stories about star wars movies should be here.
Slashdot != Suse != RedHat != Debian, so no stories about these should be on slashdot either.
Slashdot != GoHip.com, so no information that is at GoHip.com should be on Slashdot. Since GoHip.com has a license agreement that tells what their "browser enhancement" does, it should not be on Slashdot.
So, do you people think that slashdot should only contain news about things that aren't on any other website? Most of the news posted here has a link to some other site, so most of the news could be found somewhere else on the internet.
Personally, I look at Slashdot as a repository for news. It gives me one place to look instead of having to go to 100 different pages to find interesting stories. I just don't get why you people are so upset about this. I don't like every little story that pops up on here, but I don't have to read every one of them either.
I think a lot of the problem is in the assumption that all Slashdot readers are also Freshmeat readers. I haven't heard anyome come right out and say this, but it is the impression that I get.
OK, I'm finished now.
--
oh, OK.
I guess I was a little confused there.
thanks
--
Yeah, I think they are written the same way as they are read.
I guess you could store 140 MB (I think that's what they said) on one of these before you were limited by the cut off part of the disc.
They looked larger than business cards to me also, but I really couldn't tell.
--
I've always thought, and I could be wrong, that the laser started reading on the part closest to the center of the disk and read outward. As long as there wasn't enough data to push it off the edge, it wouldn't even go to the part where the top and bottom were cut off.
If you made a disk with one small file, the laser would never have a reason to go to the edge of the disc. I think it's the same idea here.
--
but not because of that reason.
My reason is because the women are generally smaller and faster than the male characters. This is an important factor in fighting games which are about the only kind of games I care to play anymore.
--
I find that I'm hesitant to install things because I'm not sure of the "clean" way to remove them if I don't like them.
/
Eventually, my hard disk gets all trashed up and I don't really know the proper way to go about cleaning it up.
Is there a how-to that tells directories where certain things are located, the proper (or suggested) places to put things, a typical uninstall procedure, etc? If not, it would be really handy.
I realize that not all apps are the same, but there are surely some basic rules. There are only so many directories where things end up. I've found some of them by doing an install, finding out the new program wasn't in my path, and then:
cd
find -name "myprogram"
Not a good way to do it, but it works. I've never attempted to uninstall anything except VMWare, and I only tried it because I saw that it had an uninstall script.
--
...never have. I like the apps that are developed for each, but I just don't like the "look and feel" of either desktop. It feels too much like I'm in windows. Then, there is the problem of my memory getting eaten up very quickly in either of them.
I'm a window maker guy all the way. It looks cool, and it's nice and fast.
Right now though, I'm at work, on NT.
--
All numbers are mathematical concepts that represent quantities.
How is zero not a number when the rest of them are?
I tried out the xmovie binary that is supposed to play DVD's. I'm running RedHat 6.1 on a PII400.
I downloaded the pentium II binary, and when I try to open a DVD with it, I get 2 messages about deleted semaphores and then a message that just says "Crash". Mpeg movies play just fine.
Have any of you gotten his to work?
It just might take a little longer. If you can pop it in a CD player with RCA outputs, you can run it into your computer and copy it that way. I have done this with my tapes and records to put them on CD.
It is more time consuming, but comes out sounding just fine.
There is really no way to get around people recording sounds (ie copying cd's). If it makes a sound, it can be recorded -- it just might be a little more difficult in some cases than in others.
PEACE
hmmmmm. Maybe mine just got lost in the shuffle. I'll try giving them a call about it.
I don't know why, but I really want to share this. Maybe someone from Be will read it.
I have been very interested in BeOS for some time, and I finally ordered the $10 demo CD (lack of hardware support was the reason I didn't just buy the OS). When the CD arrived, it was in an envelope with almost no physical protection and the CD was cracked completely through along a radius. I called and was told to send the demo copy back and as soon as they received the cracked copy they would send me a replacement. They could not do this without having the return first.
It has now been well over a month since I sent the damaged CD back, and I have yet to receive my replacement. I have sent an email and no one has responded. At one point I was very excited about BeOS, but now I don't know.
Maybe I'll give it another shot now since it is downloadable and I won't have to rely on physical media to acquire it.
--
Well, I have taken the tests and I came out ENFP. I take one of them every 3 or 4 years for a class or something, and the results are always the same: ENFP.
FWIW, I probably do have some good management skills and that's probably what I'll end up at (to some degree) one of these days. But, for now, I'm a programmer (ie that's what I do) and I like it.
PEACE
which is exactly opposite of the stereotypical programmer.
These things really bother me because the people that are in the software field already know that everyone is not the same. The only people that could gain anything from reading these are people on the outside looking in, and these stereotypes just make people misinformed instead of uninformed.
OK, enough of my rant now! I'm going to go be an Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving car shopper. (yeah right!)
PEACE
To make the speed control thing actually a part of the car itself instead of being controlled from a remote location. That way, whenever speed limits changed, everyone would have to bring their cars in for maintenance.
Sounds like a logical next step to me!
I've been wondering about for about a month (it was on a local radio program a while back).
If he isn't allowed to use the phone, it seems like his little stunt will be over as soon as he has a hardware failure.
This could be the early start of a bad April Fools joke. Maybe?
Who cares? Linux gets bad reviews all the time. I'm sure you wouldn't mind reading about some rumored release of some new Linux software.
PEACE
I was being completely sarcastic with my "yeah, I see what you mean post"
Looking back, that might not have been clear.
because linux is THE operating system, investing time in anything else would be a waste.
Where is the tutorial/HOWTO for reading all numletters?
I must not be a 1337 anything because I can't even read it Well, maybe I am. You can be something without knowing how to read it. Take 'illiterate' as an obvious example (unless you are illiterate, then I don't know what to tell you and you wouldn't know what I told you anyway).
Back to the point -- I have been able to figure out what almost everything else means, but I think it's the 1 and the 7 that are throwing me off.
I need some translations please!!!
I can't read 31337 either for obvious reasons.
I was able to figure out what 5p34k was just fine.
PEACE
Check out: http://cs.atu.edu/~ewyles/mp3000.htm That's a project that I'm working on that has 2 of the 3 taken care of. I would like to add radio support in the near future. The source code on the page is not entirely up to date, but I'm going to update it soon. I'm listening to an mp3 cd with 163 of my favorite songs on it right now. PEACE
Both terms always seemed negative when I was growing up. I don't like either one much. Did I get first post? PEACE
how did you post without a subject?
put in a small plug for a project I'm working on. It's an mp3-cd player that also plays audio CD's. I eventually plan to add hard drive capabilities and offer an option where someone could send me systems specs and I could send them back a boot-disk with all the required software.
Currently, it's not portable, but with smaller hardware it could be. I'm using mine as a home stereo component.
It's all open source with code available for download, and documentation is in the works.
http://cs.atu.edu/~ewyles/mp3000.htm
BTW, sign up for our mailing list if you want future update.
PEACE
ps -- sorry for the shameless plug, I just think this project is cool.