I absolutely love it. I've tried several versions of each, have used several iterations of Red Hat, and I think I've finally settled.
The first install was difficult, but that was because I was installing it via ftp, and had several false starts after DSL acted up and a hard drive needed to be reformatted. The second computer installed flawlessly. In the future, for work and perhaps even home, I would choose to buy it. The polish is fantastic. With Mandrake, I had to put in a lot of effort to install certain common software because I had to compile from source, and numerous standard libraries were not installed. I haven't had to compile much because there are seemingly more packages for SuSE. The online update is slick, although I have little to compare it to. I use RH's up2date, but only the command-line version as it's on my firewall.
The KDE install feels much richer than the one in Mandrake. I've always preferred KDE, and now I'm really starting to have fun with it.
The basic networking options were the main reason I switched from Mandrake. It was infinitely easier to setup name, file and printer sharing in SuSE, as it is all built right into YaST and installed by default. I program for a living; the last thing I want to do is spend forever reading documentation and configuring software when I can be so much more productive with a nice tool set. I'll play on my own time.
All in all, a very nice distro. I don't mean to rag on Mandrake at all, just that I can best compare to it because I used it until recently. I switched to it some time ago after trying SuSE 8.2, so perhaps I'll switch again.
I'm looking forward to 9.2, with the 2.6 kernel and KDE 3.2. I think we'll also be in for a laptop this fall, which will be a substantial improvement from the silky-smooth P2 450's we're both running SuSE on.
There is such a thing, at least the ability to have such capability via organization's websites.
See Lobbynet for an example of the kind of services being built for grassroots lobbying campaigns.
To clear the record, yes I worked for PinPoint Communications before moving across the country, yes I am biased. The point is that PinPoint and many other companies are building products and services to allow the organizations you support to quickly and easily raise **massive** amounts of PR by faxing, emailing and/or mailing the hell out of legislators and other persons in office.
Notify your favorite lobbying organization, and let them know what they can do to help your voice be heard. Find the company that provides what you want, and get those faxes cranking!
"Although this is a familiar--and legally protected--task in the world of cassette tapes, the legality of creating music collections on a personal computer is more cloudy. "
It's BS statements like this that make the buying public think that they're breaking the law when excercising their rights. Just the other day, my girlfriend was dumbfounded when I explained that mp3's where perfectly legal *if* you purchased the original. In a country where the media is constitutionally gaurded so as to be the champion of free speech and rights, it is sickening to see it become the corporate mouthpiece that it is today.
I'm about to graduate from RPI and on the hunt in the Houston, TX area, finding the search to be very difficult. It seems that employers are looking for several years of experience, and the market, especially for fresh graduates, is no where near as hot as it was a year ago.
For perspective, I've worked solidly in programming positions since January 99, and have years of formal training in the major engineering languages (C,C++,Java). Toss in a good (3+) GPA, some OpenGL, ASP, VB, SQL, and XML, along with tons of leadership experience, and one would think I've done just about everything right. Even so, I'm sending out 10+ resumes a week, and barely getting anywhere. I've been picky though, avoiding VB&SQL jobs as often as possible. Starting to think it's time to give in and go for everything though...
Polk Audio. Amazing quality, at a good price. I bought a pair of "bookshelf" speakers 5 years ago and have been very happy ever since (note: NEVER place speakers on a bookshelf - use floor stands). They have a nice even tone, far surpassing sonic quality of anything else I've listened to of similar size (5.25" woofer and 1" tweeter). They faithfully reproduce the silky highs, and the bass is smooth and full, accurate even at extremely loud volumes.
I have a pair in my car as well, two 5.25" on the rear deck, and love them. Polk's standard 5 year warrenty is also quite nice, should you accidently blow a woofer or melt a tweeter;)
Combine a Polk speaker system with an Onkyo or Denon amp, and you will be happy for a long, long time. Keep in mind that your speakers will affect your sound the most, but a quality pre-amp and power amp that has low noise and distortion are key.
I would never recommend Bose if you're serious about soundstage and tonal quality. They build their speakers the same way as Sony, accenting the bass and highs to give the allusion of good sound and completely skip accurate soundstage reproduction. Do a comparison of some serious speakers like Polk, KLH, or Infinity and you'll instantly realize just how dark and scary Sean Connery's voice *really* can be.
-Aaron
(5 months from graduation and itching to upgrade the stereo to a full 5.1 Onkyo + Polk heaven)
Having never gone sailing, I'm not sure what kind of power is available, but is it possible to hook up to DirecTV or another provider that allows for internet access? Last I knew these only worked for download, but for some reason I'm thinking I heard about the possability for two way communication on some of the newer models. Even if she can only download, at least she can stay in contact and recieve important messages. Perhaps use that for download (and watching TV while she's at it) and use some other means for upload. Of course, the problem of keeping the dish aligned correctly would probably be the most difficult problem, and even an elaborate gyroscopic and dampening system would be marginally succesful, at best, out on the high seas...
Isn't the point of sailing/backpacking/lunar travel to get away from it all anyway? IMO, if staying in contact is of the utmost importance, a sattelite phone is the best option.
...was Hypercard. It wasn't much of a programming language, but it did allow for scripting routines, and by the time I stopped using it I was making forms, playing sounds, rotating and fading images and shapes, and all sorts of other fun stuff. The main draw was that I could learn a new concept, implement it, and instantly see the results (and show off to my parents, always a plus for any kid;).
My next step was to the TI-82, which I used in high school and programmed quite a bit in. Most of it was simple test helper programs, but I worked for a long time on a multiplayer checkers game. I never finished it, but I managed to make a playable game of checkers for two people on a single 82, until the checkers reached the other side of the board. I graduated onto to C before I finished the code for kings.
IMO, start them off with something where they can see results quickly, can write useful scripts and apps that let them show off or do something cool. If they get excited about it, they'll take off into the realm of other languages to accomplish tasks that they couldn't do in that particular languages. I'm not sure what the state of multimedia scripting languages is these days, but if there's anything out there like Hypercard, I'd say start with that. Easy to learn, and there's room for some growth should they get into it.
I read around a little bit, avault, the game site, etc and there isn't any mention of this game being a massivly multiplayer game. True it is a persistant world, but only persistant on your computer. I belive you can have up to eight players at once. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but look at the game's site, no mention of it being massive.
Ok, this whole Massivly Multiplayer thing is getting out of hand. Yes Terminus is multiplayer, yes it is possible to have a good number of people playing, but in no way is Terminus meant to support 1000's of people ala Everquest. The universe is persistant, can be saved, restarted on the same machine, or on a different machine. In all aspects, there is the possability for the universe to continue for as long as the admin of the server wishes, and when he/she is tired of it, can hand off the save game file and let another admin run the universe.
There is only a maximum number of players when the server is running the story mode, two player slots available for each of the four available careers. In the case of deathmatch, free mode, and some other modes, the only limit is the bandwidth and hardware available.
I can tell you as both a mission scripter and tester, this game is very exciting and unique. If you've ever wanted to fly in space, this is the game for you. It's a lot of fun, and the many people that have worked long hours on it over the past few years deserve a lot of credit for their efforts.
Next thing you know we'll be plugging ourselves in at the movie theaters and those subwoofer hits will get our whole body jolting. Ever wanted to _feel_ the dino's toss you around in Jurassic Park?;)
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I absolutely love it. I've tried several versions of each, have used several iterations of Red Hat, and I think I've finally settled.
;)
The first install was difficult, but that was because I was installing it via ftp, and had several false starts after DSL acted up and a hard drive needed to be reformatted. The second computer installed flawlessly. In the future, for work and perhaps even home, I would choose to buy it. The polish is fantastic. With Mandrake, I had to put in a lot of effort to install certain common software because I had to compile from source, and numerous standard libraries were not installed. I haven't had to compile much because there are seemingly more packages for SuSE. The online update is slick, although I have little to compare it to. I use RH's up2date, but only the command-line version as it's on my firewall.
The KDE install feels much richer than the one in Mandrake. I've always preferred KDE, and now I'm really starting to have fun with it.
The basic networking options were the main reason I switched from Mandrake. It was infinitely easier to setup name, file and printer sharing in SuSE, as it is all built right into YaST and installed by default. I program for a living; the last thing I want to do is spend forever reading documentation and configuring software when I can be so much more productive with a nice tool set. I'll play on my own time.
All in all, a very nice distro. I don't mean to rag on Mandrake at all, just that I can best compare to it because I used it until recently. I switched to it some time ago after trying SuSE 8.2, so perhaps I'll switch again.
I'm looking forward to 9.2, with the 2.6 kernel and KDE 3.2. I think we'll also be in for a laptop this fall, which will be a substantial improvement from the silky-smooth P2 450's we're both running SuSE on.
And did I mention my wife loves it too?
There is such a thing, at least the ability to have such capability via organization's websites.
See Lobbynet for an example of the kind of services being built for grassroots lobbying campaigns.
To clear the record, yes I worked for PinPoint Communications before moving across the country, yes I am biased. The point is that PinPoint and many other companies are building products and services to allow the organizations you support to quickly and easily raise **massive** amounts of PR by faxing, emailing and/or mailing the hell out of legislators and other persons in office.
Notify your favorite lobbying organization, and let them know what they can do to help your voice be heard. Find the company that provides what you want, and get those faxes cranking!
-Aaron
"Although this is a familiar--and legally protected--task in the world of cassette tapes, the legality of creating music collections on a personal computer is more cloudy. "
It's BS statements like this that make the buying public think that they're breaking the law when excercising their rights. Just the other day, my girlfriend was dumbfounded when I explained that mp3's where perfectly legal *if* you purchased the original. In a country where the media is constitutionally gaurded so as to be the champion of free speech and rights, it is sickening to see it become the corporate mouthpiece that it is today.
-Aaron
I'm about to graduate from RPI and on the hunt in the Houston, TX area, finding the search to be very difficult. It seems that employers are looking for several years of experience, and the market, especially for fresh graduates, is no where near as hot as it was a year ago.
For perspective, I've worked solidly in programming positions since January 99, and have years of formal training in the major engineering languages (C,C++,Java). Toss in a good (3+) GPA, some OpenGL, ASP, VB, SQL, and XML, along with tons of leadership experience, and one would think I've done just about everything right. Even so, I'm sending out 10+ resumes a week, and barely getting anywhere. I've been picky though, avoiding VB&SQL jobs as often as possible. Starting to think it's time to give in and go for everything though...
Polk Audio. Amazing quality, at a good price. I bought a pair of "bookshelf" speakers 5 years ago and have been very happy ever since (note: NEVER place speakers on a bookshelf - use floor stands). They have a nice even tone, far surpassing sonic quality of anything else I've listened to of similar size (5.25" woofer and 1" tweeter). They faithfully reproduce the silky highs, and the bass is smooth and full, accurate even at extremely loud volumes.
;)
I have a pair in my car as well, two 5.25" on the rear deck, and love them. Polk's standard 5 year warrenty is also quite nice, should you accidently blow a woofer or melt a tweeter
Combine a Polk speaker system with an Onkyo or Denon amp, and you will be happy for a long, long time. Keep in mind that your speakers will affect your sound the most, but a quality pre-amp and power amp that has low noise and distortion are key.
I would never recommend Bose if you're serious about soundstage and tonal quality. They build their speakers the same way as Sony, accenting the bass and highs to give the allusion of good sound and completely skip accurate soundstage reproduction. Do a comparison of some serious speakers like Polk, KLH, or Infinity and you'll instantly realize just how dark and scary Sean Connery's voice *really* can be.
-Aaron
(5 months from graduation and itching to upgrade the stereo to a full 5.1 Onkyo + Polk heaven)
Having never gone sailing, I'm not sure what kind of power is available, but is it possible to hook up to DirecTV or another provider that allows for internet access? Last I knew these only worked for download, but for some reason I'm thinking I heard about the possability for two way communication on some of the newer models. Even if she can only download, at least she can stay in contact and recieve important messages. Perhaps use that for download (and watching TV while she's at it) and use some other means for upload. Of course, the problem of keeping the dish aligned correctly would probably be the most difficult problem, and even an elaborate gyroscopic and dampening system would be marginally succesful, at best, out on the high seas...
Isn't the point of sailing/backpacking/lunar travel to get away from it all anyway? IMO, if staying in contact is of the utmost importance, a sattelite phone is the best option.
...was Hypercard. It wasn't much of a programming language, but it did allow for scripting routines, and by the time I stopped using it I was making forms, playing sounds, rotating and fading images and shapes, and all sorts of other fun stuff. The main draw was that I could learn a new concept, implement it, and instantly see the results (and show off to my parents, always a plus for any kid ;).
My next step was to the TI-82, which I used in high school and programmed quite a bit in. Most of it was simple test helper programs, but I worked for a long time on a multiplayer checkers game. I never finished it, but I managed to make a playable game of checkers for two people on a single 82, until the checkers reached the other side of the board. I graduated onto to C before I finished the code for kings.
IMO, start them off with something where they can see results quickly, can write useful scripts and apps that let them show off or do something cool. If they get excited about it, they'll take off into the realm of other languages to accomplish tasks that they couldn't do in that particular languages. I'm not sure what the state of multimedia scripting languages is these days, but if there's anything out there like Hypercard, I'd say start with that. Easy to learn, and there's room for some growth should they get into it.
I read around a little bit, avault, the game site, etc and there isn't any mention of this game being a massivly multiplayer game. True it is a persistant world, but only persistant on your computer. I belive you can have up to eight players at once. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but look at the game's site, no mention of it being massive.
Ok, this whole Massivly Multiplayer thing is getting out of hand. Yes Terminus is multiplayer, yes it is possible to have a good number of people playing, but in no way is Terminus meant to support 1000's of people ala Everquest. The universe is persistant, can be saved, restarted on the same machine, or on a different machine. In all aspects, there is the possability for the universe to continue for as long as the admin of the server wishes, and when he/she is tired of it, can hand off the save game file and let another admin run the universe.
There is only a maximum number of players when the server is running the story mode, two player slots available for each of the four available careers. In the case of deathmatch, free mode, and some other modes, the only limit is the bandwidth and hardware available.
I can tell you as both a mission scripter and tester, this game is very exciting and unique. If you've ever wanted to fly in space, this is the game for you. It's a lot of fun, and the many people that have worked long hours on it over the past few years deserve a lot of credit for their efforts.
And yes, Troy SUCKS.
-Aaron
Next thing you know we'll be plugging ourselves in at the movie theaters and those subwoofer hits will get our whole body jolting. Ever wanted to _feel_ the dino's toss you around in Jurassic Park? ;)