Don't you know? The world is a hoax and we live inside a simulation. One of the tasks was assigned to two nodes at the same time (this actually happens very often on slashdot). Normally one of the nodes would find out that the other is already doing the job, but there's a nasty race condition in this universe's software. I've heard that it's going to be fixed in next major revision, although I'm not sure that the Earth will still be around when they'll be replacing the whole freaking cosmos.
I've got a Celeron 300MHz with 128MB of memory, standing on a top of a pile of junk. I used to work on that machine for some time, not that long ago (I've used Debian Etch, gcc, emacs, wmii, screen, aterm), and the only thing I didn't like about that setup was a shitty keyboard.
That's great. I've always wanted to really learn Perl, and I recently started to, so as an exercise, I wrote a Perl program that could automatically translate all my shell scripts to Perl:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print "#!/usr/bin/perl\nsystem<<EOC;\n"; print foreach(<>); print "EOC\n";
I used to use a heavily customized IPython as my login shell, but it started more slowly than bash, and some programs expected the login shell to be sh-compatible (or at least to execute programs in $PATH).
The problem is that nobody seems to care about "sponsoring" it. Last year I somehow managed to build it from SVN (there is a crapload of different revisions of the source, each of them broken in a very unique, specific and interesting way) on one machine, but since I've switched to a newer hardware and did a fresh install of Debian Lenny, I was unable to accomplish this feat again. And one would wonder why is GtkRadiant getting less and less popular.
Well, that's a great idea. I'd be very interested, really.
I used to be a mapper, I've been creating maps for Q3-based games (I've used GtkRadiant). It'd be cool to have a place to share maps, models, textures, sounds, and other artwork, under some open license (CC and stuff). I've always found it hard to get my hands on some free content of decent quality.
Also, GtkRadiant is rather difficult to get running under Linux - so maybe the project could also host repositories with packages for Ubuntu, Debian, etc, and maybe some additional tools.
Maybe some wiki with advice for beginners? An overview of available tools (Blender, GtkRadiant, GIMP, etc), programming languages and libraries for game development (C, C++, Python, D, libsdl, Allegro, ClanLib, Pygame, Soya, etc), some simple tutorials (step-by-step guide for creating a map in GtkRadiant, compiling it into a BSP file with q3map2, loading it and displaying in Soya, etc).
As you said, some kind of version control service for both code and content, maybe hosting for projects?
Darwin is probably less portable and supports less hardware than, say, the BSDs or Linux. If I were MS I'd use FreeBSD (to avoid the GPL), and maybe take the old (BSD-licensed) version of Wine and patch it with bits of the original implementation of win32 to have some backward compatibility.
From what I've heard MS even has an open source (but non-free) implementation of.NET (AFAIR called Rotor) that works under FreeBSD. Hm...
Yeah, in Linux world, "portability" could be defined as "it runs on Red Hat, Debian, and even Gentoo!"
Re:looks like it still loses history
on
BASH 4.0 Released
·
· Score: 1
Does not work on older items. I currently have got 6773 items in the history, the search usually doesn't work for older than a few dozen most recent. Which is pita.
Slashdot Mirror
i herd you liek blacklists so we put a blacklist on our blacklist so you couldnt browse things while you couldnt browsing things.
...unless you're in Germany.
> Why not just keep ALL your files in an SQL database and cut out the filesystem entirely?
I've had similar idea for a while. FUSE + MySQL as a backend. Hell, I'm too lazy to research this.
Don't you know? The world is a hoax and we live inside a simulation. One of the tasks was assigned to two nodes at the same time (this actually happens very often on slashdot). Normally one of the nodes would find out that the other is already doing the job, but there's a nasty race condition in this universe's software. I've heard that it's going to be fixed in next major revision, although I'm not sure that the Earth will still be around when they'll be replacing the whole freaking cosmos.
> Or at least do something interesting like having a second display function as a keyboard.
goof luck tryimg to touch tyoe on that.
> I am not even sure if Edison really was the inventor
> of the lightbulb afair a russian was first
Yes, this is true. A russian has invented the first lightbulb.
However, as far as I know, Edison invented the first *working* lightbulb.
I've got a Celeron 300MHz with 128MB of memory, standing on a top of a pile of junk. I used to work on that machine for some time, not that long ago (I've used Debian Etch, gcc, emacs, wmii, screen, aterm), and the only thing I didn't like about that setup was a shitty keyboard.
> He does keep a list of everyone who has ever wronged him labeled
> "people to utterly destroy", right? Doesn't everybody?
No.
Go with a perl script.
What part of the world do you live in? Even in Poland we already have 230v.
How do you know you're free?
That's great. I've always wanted to really learn Perl, and I recently started to, so as an exercise, I wrote a Perl program that could automatically translate all my shell scripts to Perl:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
print "#!/usr/bin/perl\nsystem<<EOC;\n";
print foreach(<>);
print "EOC\n";
Man, I rock.
I used to use a heavily customized IPython as my login shell, but it started more slowly than bash, and some programs expected the login shell to be sh-compatible (or at least to execute programs in $PATH).
> You don't need a website to distribute GtkRadiant packages:
I know. Actually, GtkRadiant is "almost already there" in Debian:
http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=gtkradiant
The problem is that nobody seems to care about "sponsoring" it. Last year I somehow managed to build it from SVN (there is a crapload of different revisions of the source, each of them broken in a very unique, specific and interesting way) on one machine, but since I've switched to a newer hardware and did a fresh install of Debian Lenny, I was unable to accomplish this feat again. And one would wonder why is GtkRadiant getting less and less popular.
Well, that's a great idea. I'd be very interested, really.
:)
I used to be a mapper, I've been creating maps for Q3-based games (I've used GtkRadiant). It'd be cool to have a place to share maps, models, textures, sounds, and other artwork, under some open license (CC and stuff). I've always found it hard to get my hands on some free content of decent quality.
Also, GtkRadiant is rather difficult to get running under Linux - so maybe the project could also host repositories with packages for Ubuntu, Debian, etc, and maybe some additional tools.
Maybe some wiki with advice for beginners? An overview of available tools (Blender, GtkRadiant, GIMP, etc), programming languages and libraries for game development (C, C++, Python, D, libsdl, Allegro, ClanLib, Pygame, Soya, etc), some simple tutorials (step-by-step guide for creating a map in GtkRadiant, compiling it into a BSP file with q3map2, loading it and displaying in Soya, etc).
As you said, some kind of version control service for both code and content, maybe hosting for projects?
Damn, that'd be cool. But who'd pay for it?
> If a .ppt file is shared, then in 99 cases out of 100,
> it wasn't supposed to be shared.
Non-tech-savvy friends and relatives often send me "funny" ppts. It's not unusual to share this kind of files.
> P2P software that disallows sharing of files (...)
I wouldn't allow p2p in such a company in the first place.
$ PS1=""
Oh, no! The command prompt disappeared.....
> It's where you had to go when you were traveling to the dungeon masters house ;)
Aaaah, you mean the caves under the basement...
I think that "outside" is that thing with sun and stuff. I saw it on a photo, it's incredible.
It has an usb 2.0 port :)
Darwin is probably less portable and supports less hardware than, say, the BSDs or Linux. If I were MS I'd use FreeBSD (to avoid the GPL), and maybe take the old (BSD-licensed) version of Wine and patch it with bits of the original implementation of win32 to have some backward compatibility.
.NET (AFAIR called Rotor) that works under FreeBSD. Hm...
From what I've heard MS even has an open source (but non-free) implementation of
You're right, it's 3287-day.
use IMAP, duh
I do.
Especially since my day job mostly involves maintaining a website based on Joomla.
From what I recall, all the *BSDs, for example.
Yeah, in Linux world, "portability" could be defined as "it runs on Red Hat, Debian, and even Gentoo!"
Does not work on older items. I currently have got 6773 items in the history, the search usually doesn't work for older than a few dozen most recent. Which is pita.