The Flex CD is non-toxic and may be used with food items
does this mean that we can microwave these new disks and upon opening the microwave door we won't have that horrid stench?
if you don't know what i'm talking about, obviously you've never owned a microwave. (tips for newbies: only a few seconds are needed, do it atop a paper towel, and watch out for the fumes.)
Not for today's drives; think next-gen cdroms
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you're right. however, you are thinking 'today' when they are thinking 'tomorrow'... this isn't something we'll see for a while (unless the adapter is simply a case or a flash program).
when cdrw came out, no cdroms could read them. soon after, ALL cdroms could read them. similarly with this (if it flies, and it should); cdrom/dvdrom and writers released after some date in the future will all be able to read this new technology, and at that point, you'll see flexible cds in the mail and in your cereal boxes.
problem is getting this standardized and implemented into future drives....and let's not forget DVD players and CD audio systems -- great for the car!
All the rave, those floppy disk linux distros. Over the past few years, I've learned to love tomsrtbt (Tom's RootBoot).
Then, last year, I found some Business Card CDRs, which hold 30-50mb and fit in your wallet.
Naturally, I wanted a super-utility boot disk. My ideal was high; mix tomsrtbt with a standard Win98 boot disk (essential for flashing) and a few other tools. Multiboot? Now there's a tough subject. Even with the best guide to making bootable cdroms I could find, it was hopelessly difficult.
When I saw this post on Slashdot, I knew I had to post this little story. In researching it, I actually found an answer to the question I wanted to pose to all of you; does anybody know of a linux distribution for these business card cdrs.
LNX-BBC is just that. Anybody tried it? Anybody know of another one? Anybody made a multi-boot linux/dos businesscard cdr?...I want the iso!
The Wizards of the Coast was a guild of wizards (in a coastal city probably;) in Peter Adkinson's D&D campaign world (which I believe was the same as the M:tG base world).
I have a catalog (don't ask me to pull it out, it's at my parents' place or trashed) from ~1991 selling D&D accessories for a company called Wizards of the Coast (implies before they were sued? or did they simply go right back at it?).
I'm interested now; what name did they go by before Wizards?
whoa. lengthy comment there, AC. with powerful allegations. most of what you say is true, however you are purposefully leaving out facts such as that Gygax himself was pushed around by TSR quite a bit (thus his departure). those people you mentioned he ousted were actually the reason for most of TSR's misfortunes in the first half of the '80s. for a few months in 1985, Gygax had control of TSR. april '85 saw Oriental Adventures and Unearthed Arcana. then he quit. (next major shipment was 2nd ed in '89)
6. Then, from left field we have Wizards of the Coast. WotC originally was another company. TSR put them out of business. So they had to re-invent their company and did so using a novel idea - playing cards like you would D&D. WotC's revenge was that they bought TSR from the heiress (who, from some accounts had doctored the books so TSR looked like it was a great thing to buy but subsequently WotC found out that all of this inventory TSR had was rotting in various warehouses because no one was buying it anymore since it was so outdated.).
What? WotC originally made greeting cards and a few D&D accessories. Then they were pitched Robo Rally by a certain Richard Garfield. Peter Adkinson (CEO and owner of the garage WotC ran out of) promised to make Robo Rally after first making some kind of card game that was simple, collectable, and fantasy-based. Boom, Magic: The Gathering. WotC grows HUGE. Meanwhile, TSR is in massive financial trouble and ready to file for bankruptcy. Adkinson, a really big fan of D&D, sees his opportunity and WotC buys TSR, fixes a bunch of problems and cleans everything up (even re-hires Gygax). Why do you think Third Edition is soooo much prettier and cleaner (and better)?
Check out Gygax's explanation for... pretty much everything this AC left out.
bah, Seven Dwarfs? J.R.R. Tolkein has more than that many names for dwarves, and they're all taken from a larger list compiled from Voluspa's edition of the Elder Edda (THE Norse Mythologies' sole source) which easily contains in excess of SEVENTY dwarven names.
a place i used to work at named computers after comedians. developres in my division needed two computers each, so we used comedian pairs; my computers were Mork and Mindy, a coworker's were Rocky and Bulwinkle.
...but that won't work for 4000 computers. i'd instead suggest, since you will doubtless be ordering many computers of the same model, use a common name for each; so the Dell Enterprise 3500s would all be dent35 and Sun SunBlade 100s would all be sunb100. insert as a prefix some more unique thing, say order of installation or something there are lots of, like colors or comedians, or a different scheme per order.
this way the name both describes the computer (and in a way that doesn't change when it's use does) and gives it personality.
nice thing about colors is that you can actually paint!... i've seen a computer lab use Pink Floyd albums as names, and color photocopies of their covers are glued on their cases. so be creative and have fun with your scheme.
I can figure that latest-0.9.4ec is a continuation of ns6.2, latest-0.9.9 is the latest build in that branch, latest-0.9.9_WIN_GMAKE involves the tranition to gnu make, and latest-j4_client_mk_test has something to do with making in 4 processes via "make -j4"
perhaps put a BUILD_README in each of their respective folders?
winnt/2k/xp:
notepad \winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
win9x/me:
notepad \windows\hosts
and add the line
206.224.72.99 info.netscape.com
or use 127.0.0.1 instead if you have a webserver.
the window in screenshot #2 has the exact same selections as the screenshot from three months ago. I certainly hope it is coincidence. Note this isn't just preserving settings; the older screenshot was proviced by an outside source.
I agree with you. If AMD were to release it's own set of x86-64 optimizations for GCC, very few of them would find themselves in the GNU release of GCC. HOWEVER, I am suggesting an AMD-GCC distribution/supplement; this would be released as a set of diffs on the current GNU GCC and neither "waste" GNU developers' time nor "bloat" the standard GCC distribution.
this is truely a great move in the right direction, but we also need to see something like a gcc support and optimization for this new architecture. AMD, please: you are the expert on your chips. As Intel made it's own free compiler, so too can you. Ideally, release your compiler via MIT-License, LGPL, GPL, or something similar, and releasing an optimization for GCC would blow my mind.
HTML is not a "page-design" language."
CSS, OTOH, does provide for specifying the positioning, style, etc. of printed documents
CSS is part of HTML. From the W3C definition of CSS (in the abstract): "a simple style sheet mechanism that allows authors and readers to attach style (e.g. fonts, colors and spacing) to HTML documents."
Recently, Mozilla's printing has improved to a level that actually makes this possible. All of my work processing is now done in a text editor with CSS and HTML. When I need to give a data copy to somebody, due to IE and NS4 still being used (they don't render CSS perfectly), I will print to Adobe's Acrobat PDFWriter in Mozilla and hand that person a PDF.
the Boston Computer Museum website is here. Several exhibits moved to Boston's Museum of Science and other 'artifacts' are in this new Californain museum.
The related Kuro5kin article has a handful of useful links and a good summary of this new museum's background, funding, etc.
There's a Computer Museum in Boston, MA, on Congress Street by the Children's Museum and Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum. I believe it was founded in 1982....there's a possibility it went out of busines recently. It doesn't have a website that I can find, but Yahoo! Yellow Pages has a listing for it
quote from conclusion that sums up the essay (and told me everything I needed to know about the license/product):
Sometimes it is tempting to sacrifice our rights and freedoms for convinience, but we should not do so. There are many problems with CVS and other Free source management packages, and it would be nice to move to a more robust and more well-designed tool. We are better off to repair or fix the tools which are free, or if that is not acceptable to create new free tools that preserve the the rights and freedoms we enjoy.
I encourage BitMover to adopt the minimum requirements for freedom or openness that this community has defined, but at the same time I respect their wish to preserve the business model of their choice. At the very least I would like to see the rights the BitKeeper license does grant preserved and not subject to arbitrary revocation. I do hope that they will find some way to provide the community a truly free version of their tools and still meet their business goals.
I also encourage Free Software hackers to not use or stop using BitKeeper in their own projects. It might not be as convinient to use other tools, but in the long term we should be more concerned with preserving those rights and freedoms we currently exercise and enjoy daily. I personally have stopped using BitKeeper for all projects and have moved these projects back into CVS repositories. I hope that if you or your team is considering using or currently using BitKeeper that you will think about the implications of doing so and reconsider.
I encourage the entire community to support the efforts of Free and Open Source projects in this area. Source management is complex, and the efforts of the community to support Free and Open Source projects (CVS and Subversion are two such projects) are the best way we have to improve our development infrastructure.
hey, I know Slashdot isn't terribly interested in validation of stories, but can't the editors at least make sure each story points to further information (or provide it as an article)?
the only links in this story are to the companies mentioned, NOT the alleged lawsuit. so much for journalistic integrity...
Yes! We can start the Open Source Cuisine! Oops, I mean Free Grubware Foundation (sorry, RMS:-). GNU/Recipes, anyone? Better stop myself now...
a closed-source recipie is a contradiction of terms. As to GPL recipies, most recipies are pretty much treated as such anyway; RMS even uses this as an example in one of his copyright==wrong papers.
Some time (up to a year) ago there was something like this attached to a poll question, but I can't link to it since I don't know what to enter into that search field.
slashdot used to purge comments attached to old polls (this was before the big change to the newer slashcode)....what you're looking for is probably no longer logged.:(
Sagan actually said "the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
...although a quick google search reveals this quote mentioning Gallileo and others as well, this seems to be the most prevalent and complete. Still no source though (perhaps you have one?)
Slashdot Mirror
The Flex CD is non-toxic and may be used with food items
does this mean that we can microwave these new disks and upon opening the microwave door we won't have that horrid stench?
if you don't know what i'm talking about, obviously you've never owned a microwave. (tips for newbies: only a few seconds are needed, do it atop a paper towel, and watch out for the fumes.)
you're right. however, you are thinking 'today' when they are thinking 'tomorrow' ... this isn't something we'll see for a while (unless the adapter is simply a case or a flash program).
...and let's not forget DVD players and CD audio systems -- great for the car!
when cdrw came out, no cdroms could read them. soon after, ALL cdroms could read them. similarly with this (if it flies, and it should); cdrom/dvdrom and writers released after some date in the future will all be able to read this new technology, and at that point, you'll see flexible cds in the mail and in your cereal boxes.
problem is getting this standardized and implemented into future drives.
All the rave, those floppy disk linux distros. Over the past few years, I've learned to love tomsrtbt (Tom's RootBoot).
...I want the iso!
Then, last year, I found some Business Card CDRs, which hold 30-50mb and fit in your wallet.
Naturally, I wanted a super-utility boot disk. My ideal was high; mix tomsrtbt with a standard Win98 boot disk (essential for flashing) and a few other tools. Multiboot? Now there's a tough subject. Even with the best guide to making bootable cdroms I could find, it was hopelessly difficult.
When I saw this post on Slashdot, I knew I had to post this little story. In researching it, I actually found an answer to the question I wanted to pose to all of you; does anybody know of a linux distribution for these business card cdrs.
LNX-BBC is just that. Anybody tried it? Anybody know of another one? Anybody made a multi-boot linux/dos businesscard cdr?
The Wizards of the Coast was a guild of wizards (in a coastal city probably ;) in Peter Adkinson's D&D campaign world (which I believe was the same as the M:tG base world).
I have a catalog (don't ask me to pull it out, it's at my parents' place or trashed) from ~1991 selling D&D accessories for a company called Wizards of the Coast (implies before they were sued? or did they simply go right back at it?).
I'm interested now; what name did they go by before Wizards?
whoa. lengthy comment there, AC. with powerful allegations. most of what you say is true, however you are purposefully leaving out facts such as that Gygax himself was pushed around by TSR quite a bit (thus his departure). those people you mentioned he ousted were actually the reason for most of TSR's misfortunes in the first half of the '80s. for a few months in 1985, Gygax had control of TSR. april '85 saw Oriental Adventures and Unearthed Arcana. then he quit. (next major shipment was 2nd ed in '89)
... pretty much everything this AC left out.
6. Then, from left field we have Wizards of the Coast. WotC originally was another company. TSR put them out of business. So they had to re-invent their company and did so using a novel idea - playing cards like you would D&D. WotC's revenge was that they bought TSR from the heiress (who, from some accounts had doctored the books so TSR looked like it was a great thing to buy but subsequently WotC found out that all of this inventory TSR had was rotting in various warehouses because no one was buying it anymore since it was so outdated.).
What? WotC originally made greeting cards and a few D&D accessories. Then they were pitched Robo Rally by a certain Richard Garfield. Peter Adkinson (CEO and owner of the garage WotC ran out of) promised to make Robo Rally after first making some kind of card game that was simple, collectable, and fantasy-based. Boom, Magic: The Gathering. WotC grows HUGE. Meanwhile, TSR is in massive financial trouble and ready to file for bankruptcy. Adkinson, a really big fan of D&D, sees his opportunity and WotC buys TSR, fixes a bunch of problems and cleans everything up (even re-hires Gygax). Why do you think Third Edition is soooo much prettier and cleaner (and better)?
Check out Gygax's explanation for
i made a site similar to this a few years (five?) ago and updated it for 3rd edtion D&D last year:
http://khopesh.com/dnd/sim3e.html
your link is interesting and very similar, although I don't like the yes/no aspect of it.
bah, Seven Dwarfs? J.R.R. Tolkein has more than that many names for dwarves, and they're all taken from a larger list compiled from Voluspa's edition of the Elder Edda (THE Norse Mythologies' sole source) which easily contains in excess of SEVENTY dwarven names.
Of course, you'll want a Listing and explanation of these Dwarven names.
Here's a taste: Durin, Jari, Nithi, Dain, Kili, Dvalin, Gloin, Yngvi, Duf, Andvari, Regin, Nyr, Thorin, Fundin, Brimir, Frar, and Sneezy (just kidding).
a place i used to work at named computers after comedians. developres in my division needed two computers each, so we used comedian pairs; my computers were Mork and Mindy, a coworker's were Rocky and Bulwinkle.
...but that won't work for 4000 computers. i'd instead suggest, since you will doubtless be ordering many computers of the same model, use a common name for each; so the Dell Enterprise 3500s would all be dent35 and Sun SunBlade 100s would all be sunb100. insert as a prefix some more unique thing, say order of installation or something there are lots of, like colors or comedians, or a different scheme per order.
... i've seen a computer lab use Pink Floyd albums as names, and color photocopies of their covers are glued on their cases. so be creative and have fun with your scheme.
examples: orchid-dent35, cyan-dent35, cosby-sunb100, carlin-sunb100.
this way the name both describes the computer (and in a way that doesn't change when it's use does) and gives it personality.
nice thing about colors is that you can actually paint!
- experimental
- latest-AB OUTLINER
- latest-STATIC_TEST
- required-by-law
- se
e the bottom of this page.
I can figure that latest-0.9.4ec is a continuation of ns6.2, latest-0.9.9 is the latest build in that branch, latest-0.9.9_WIN_GMAKE involves the tranition to gnu make, and latest-j4_client_mk_test has something to do with making in 4 processes via "make -j4"perhaps put a BUILD_README in each of their respective folders?
winnt/2k/xp:
notepad \winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
win9x/me:
notepad \windows\hosts
and add the line
206.224.72.99 info.netscape.com
or use 127.0.0.1 instead if you have a webserver.
the window in screenshot #2 has the exact same selections as the screenshot from three months ago. I certainly hope it is coincidence. Note this isn't just preserving settings; the older screenshot was proviced by an outside source.
I agree with you. If AMD were to release it's own set of x86-64 optimizations for GCC, very few of them would find themselves in the GNU release of GCC. HOWEVER, I am suggesting an AMD-GCC distribution/supplement; this would be released as a set of diffs on the current GNU GCC and neither "waste" GNU developers' time nor "bloat" the standard GCC distribution.
this is truely a great move in the right direction, but we also need to see something like a gcc support and optimization for this new architecture. AMD, please: you are the expert on your chips. As Intel made it's own free compiler, so too can you. Ideally, release your compiler via MIT-License, LGPL, GPL, or something similar, and releasing an optimization for GCC would blow my mind.
HTML is not a "page-design" language."
CSS, OTOH, does provide for specifying the positioning, style, etc. of printed documents
CSS is part of HTML. From the W3C definition of CSS (in the abstract): "a simple style sheet mechanism that allows authors and readers to attach style (e.g. fonts, colors and spacing) to HTML documents."
Here's the CSS clarifier for printed media. With absolute positioning, HTML/CSS basically becomes nearly as powerful as Adobe's PageMaker (except publishing ability).
Recently, Mozilla's printing has improved to a level that actually makes this possible. All of my work processing is now done in a text editor with CSS and HTML. When I need to give a data copy to somebody, due to IE and NS4 still being used (they don't render CSS perfectly), I will print to Adobe's Acrobat PDFWriter in Mozilla and hand that person a PDF.
yes, as indicated by the bananna icon, Kuro5in.org catagorized this as in the topic of "Funny" (and MLP, Mindless Link Propogation).
/.?
HERE's the article itself.
...not as popular as it is here (only 63 comments so far), but then again don't most k5'ers have a grudge against
8:40 - pressed return
(3.1415926535898...)
the Boston Computer Museum website is here. Several exhibits moved to Boston's Museum of Science and other 'artifacts' are in this new Californain museum.
The related Kuro5kin article has a handful of useful links and a good summary of this new museum's background, funding, etc.
heh... i guess not ;)
There's a Computer Museum in Boston, MA, on Congress Street by the Children's Museum and Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum. I believe it was founded in 1982. ...there's a possibility it went out of busines recently. It doesn't have a website that I can find, but Yahoo! Yellow Pages has a listing for it
quote from conclusion that sums up the essay (and told me everything I needed to know about the license/product):
Sometimes it is tempting to sacrifice our rights and freedoms for convinience, but we should not do so. There are many problems with CVS and other Free source management packages, and it would be nice to move to a more robust and more well-designed tool. We are better off to repair or fix the tools which are free, or if that is not acceptable to create new free tools that preserve the the rights and freedoms we enjoy.
I encourage BitMover to adopt the minimum requirements for freedom or openness that this community has defined, but at the same time I respect their wish to preserve the business model of their choice. At the very least I would like to see the rights the BitKeeper license does grant preserved and not subject to arbitrary revocation. I do hope that they will find some way to provide the community a truly free version of their tools and still meet their business goals.
I also encourage Free Software hackers to not use or stop using BitKeeper in their own projects. It might not be as convinient to use other tools, but in the long term we should be more concerned with preserving those rights and freedoms we currently exercise and enjoy daily. I personally have stopped using BitKeeper for all projects and have moved these projects back into CVS repositories. I hope that if you or your team is considering using or currently using BitKeeper that you will think about the implications of doing so and reconsider.
I encourage the entire community to support the efforts of Free and Open Source projects in this area. Source management is complex, and the efforts of the community to support Free and Open Source projects (CVS and Subversion are two such projects) are the best way we have to improve our development infrastructure.
source: Jack Moffitt's "A Critique of the BitKeeper License"
hey, I know Slashdot isn't terribly interested in validation of stories, but can't the editors at least make sure each story points to further information (or provide it as an article)?
the only links in this story are to the companies mentioned, NOT the alleged lawsuit. so much for journalistic integrity...
Yes! We can start the Open Source Cuisine! Oops, I mean Free Grubware Foundation (sorry, RMS :-). GNU/Recipes, anyone? Better stop myself now...
a closed-source recipie is a contradiction of terms. As to GPL recipies, most recipies are pretty much treated as such anyway; RMS even uses this as an example in one of his copyright==wrong papers.
Some time (up to a year) ago there was something like this attached to a poll question, but I can't link to it since I don't know what to enter into that search field.
...what you're looking for is probably no longer logged. :(
slashdot used to purge comments attached to old polls (this was before the big change to the newer slashcode).
gee. this seems rather simple: do an Ask Slashdot on the subject and put top submissions into a Slashdot cookbook of our own, much like an interview.
Sagan actually said "the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
...although a quick google search reveals this quote mentioning Gallileo and others as well, this seems to be the most prevalent and complete. Still no source though (perhaps you have one?)