Really? I don't think I've reinstalled any of the Slackware installs (of which there are plenty) since ~2000, other than for corrupt filesystems.
Before doing a Slackware upgrade, definitely consult UPGRADE.TXT and CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT. Together they provide a very simple set of instructions for doing your upgrade, as well as a list of which packages have been split or merged, and details on any software that's been replaced and may need to be reconfigured.
"Survey shows open source developers mostly veteran pros, not slashdot weenies. Slashdot weenie Hemos should have submitted this himself already seeing as he was involved in it as LinuxWorld! Open source a needed outlet for programming pros."
I've been using a Sandisk Sansa e260 for a number of months now, and it's working very well with Linux. It's in mass-storage mode, so it gets picked up by the usb-storage module. I then use KDE's Amarok music player to sync over new MP3s. The thing also has Rockbox support underway, though I think it's not yet complete...
I suppose this is some what appropriate for this thread anyway. The coolest thing I've built recently is a Distributorless Ignition System for my 1970 Trans Am. And yes, by "built", I mean "assembled".
The Megajolt Lite Jr project provides you with a PCB, list of components, and instructions for creating a DIS controller for the late-90's Ford ignition coils and modules. Eventually you end up with something that looks like this.
It's tunable via serial port, and tuning software exists for Linux and Windows - it's pretty awesome. I haven't had installed it just yet, but the results that others are getting are great. You should check it out for the LS5.
"The disc is incompatible with a 1x burn speed, you must select a speed of 2x or higher. That's simplicity for you, I guess."
So was the problem with the Mac or with the disc? Would the disc cause the same problem with XP? Wouldn't it be simpler to choose the default "automatic" setting for the burn?
The problem in his post was not the fact that the disc could not be burned at 1x. The problem was that instead of simply informing him of this restriction, as a supposedly friendly OS should, the burning app just spit out a cryptic hex error code that meant nothing until he spent a whole lot of time looking it up at various sites.
This is at odds with the fanbois' claims of OSX being perfectly easy to use, etc... thus his note about "simplicity".
I use Froogle all the time. It's really simple to get useful results out of it - do you really think you're going to find a $15 ipod somewhere? Of course not, that'll be some useless case or related item. So set your lower price bound to something half-reasonable, like $100. Cuts out tons of crap, as long as you have *some* clue about the expected price range of what you're looking for.
This really sucks. Regardless of what some people think of lilo/FreeNode/PDPC, he was trying to do something that he saw as good for the community, and was genuinely a nice guy. Condolences to his family.
Great summary, that's exactly what's been happening. Some of my buddies have started going back to services like MSN Search and Hotmail (gag). And yes, they complain about how the services suck... Idiocy.
Maybe the thing to do is to telnet to port 80 and parse the HTML in your head, but then someone will probably find an HTML trick that will drive everyone who reads it insane.
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Why bother with all that? On the few occasions where I've been unlucky enough to have to use a distro that "requires" sudo, I just sudo bash -ls...
- If an AOL user wants to include part of your email in their reply to you, they have to copy and paste it themselves, there is no notion of inserting quoted text as with every other email program on earth.
IIRC this is done by selecting the part you want to quote, and then hitting reply. Still not as automated as it should be, but not as inconvenient - I often find myself deleting chunks out of emails I'm replying to anyway.
The Atheros based cards are great. D-Link sells a DWL-G650 PCMCIA card and a DWL-G520 PCI card, both using Atheros chipsets, for around $45 ($30-35 on sale usually). The Madwifi project supports these at http://madwifi.sf.net/, and the driver supports the use of wpa_supplicant for WPA.
I use these cards myself and have recommended them to many people, and almost all of them are happy with the results. (The one that isn't apparently got a bad card and is too lazy to exchange it.)
The other thing that helps here is the fact that D-Link doesn't change chipsets in the middle of a product line like other crappy brands (at least, not in _this_ line).
If you're biased against D-Link for some reason, Atheros also has a great list of manufacturers/products that use their chipsets - this is something every chipset manufacturer should have on their page.
IIRC, Doom was the one that came with a note in the multiplayer docs, along the lines of "Use the mouse, this isn't single player anymore."
Re:Intellisense #1 feature, pay Bram to add it
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Damn straight!
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I don't block ads because I see some difference between advertising on the web and advertising in print/other media. Bandwidth costs money, ads provide [some amount of] money. This is fine, when the ads aren't annoying, and is probably a good thing - it's why I don't use any ad-scrubbing proxy functionality. When advertisers try to aggressively grab your attention, however, is when they fuck up.
I figure that if the people that accepted that ad for circulation didn't bother to think that people would be annoyed by the flashing 2-frame gifs, or the cpu-munching flash-heavy punch-the-fucking-monkey ads, then I can use AdBlock to block _all_ ads from that particular host, without bothering to think about how many acceptable ads I may be blocking at the same time.
IMHO, it's pretty simple, working the same way as TV/etc - don't show me the retarded Six Flags commercials with the old guy, don't give me popups, don't give me useless flash ads, don't give me flashing gifs - in return, I won't change the channel, won't use aggressive pop-up blocking that disables your site's functionality and makes it look bad, and won't block _all_ of the ads from your particular ad host.
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I heard the kid's like 19 or something.
Really? I don't think I've reinstalled any of the Slackware installs (of which there are plenty) since ~2000, other than for corrupt filesystems.
Before doing a Slackware upgrade, definitely consult UPGRADE.TXT and CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT. Together they provide a very simple set of instructions for doing your upgrade, as well as a list of which packages have been split or merged, and details on any software that's been replaced and may need to be reconfigured.
"Survey shows open source developers mostly veteran pros, not slashdot weenies. Slashdot weenie Hemos should have submitted this himself already seeing as he was involved in it as LinuxWorld! Open source a needed outlet for programming pros."
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/05/201259&mode=nested&threshold=3
As far as I know there are no "corporate sponsors" funding Slackware's development - Patrick does it in his spare time.
It's not done in his spare time, it's actually his full time job. :)
I've been using a Sandisk Sansa e260 for a number of months now, and it's working very well with Linux. It's in mass-storage mode, so it gets picked up by the usb-storage module. I then use KDE's Amarok music player to sync over new MP3s. The thing also has Rockbox support underway, though I think it's not yet complete...
I suppose this is some what appropriate for this thread anyway. The coolest thing I've built recently is a Distributorless Ignition System for my 1970 Trans Am. And yes, by "built", I mean "assembled".
The Megajolt Lite Jr project provides you with a PCB, list of components, and instructions for creating a DIS controller for the late-90's Ford ignition coils and modules. Eventually you end up with something that looks like this.
It's tunable via serial port, and tuning software exists for Linux and Windows - it's pretty awesome. I haven't had installed it just yet, but the results that others are getting are great. You should check it out for the LS5.
WHOOSH
"The disc is incompatible with a 1x burn speed, you must select a speed of 2x or higher. That's simplicity for you, I guess."
So was the problem with the Mac or with the disc? Would the disc cause the same problem with XP? Wouldn't it be simpler to choose the default "automatic" setting for the burn?
The problem in his post was not the fact that the disc could not be burned at 1x. The problem was that instead of simply informing him of this restriction, as a supposedly friendly OS should, the burning app just spit out a cryptic hex error code that meant nothing until he spent a whole lot of time looking it up at various sites.
This is at odds with the fanbois' claims of OSX being perfectly easy to use, etc... thus his note about "simplicity".
Man.... I saw the foot and initially thought "holy fuck, that's an insanely huge ass bug."
Alcohol. Heh.
I use Froogle all the time. It's really simple to get useful results out of it - do you really think you're going to find a $15 ipod somewhere? Of course not, that'll be some useless case or related item. So set your lower price bound to something half-reasonable, like $100. Cuts out tons of crap, as long as you have *some* clue about the expected price range of what you're looking for.
Every screenshot on that page is pretty damn ugly..
This really sucks. Regardless of what some people think of lilo/FreeNode/PDPC, he was trying to do something that he saw as good for the community, and was genuinely a nice guy. Condolences to his family.
From rome.ro:
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As is customary, I'm wishing a happy birthday to Wolfenstein 3-D - he's 14 today!
I'm still waiting for an awesome source port that takes advantage of DirectX9...... any takers out there? If so, please add multiplayer.
DX9? What the fuck ever happened to GL? Hey Carmack, can you slap some sense into Romero? Make him your bitch if necessary..
Great summary, that's exactly what's been happening. Some of my buddies have started going back to services like MSN Search and Hotmail (gag). And yes, they complain about how the services suck... Idiocy.
Pavlov's geeks, I love it.
The majority of onboard sound these days.
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Why bother with all that? On the few occasions where I've been unlucky enough to have to use a distro that "requires" sudo, I just sudo bash -ls...
IIRC this is done by selecting the part you want to quote, and then hitting reply. Still not as automated as it should be, but not as inconvenient - I often find myself deleting chunks out of emails I'm replying to anyway.
The Atheros based cards are great. D-Link sells a DWL-G650 PCMCIA card and a DWL-G520 PCI card, both using Atheros chipsets, for around $45 ($30-35 on sale usually). The Madwifi project supports these at http://madwifi.sf.net/, and the driver supports the use of wpa_supplicant for WPA.
I use these cards myself and have recommended them to many people, and almost all of them are happy with the results. (The one that isn't apparently got a bad card and is too lazy to exchange it.)
The other thing that helps here is the fact that D-Link doesn't change chipsets in the middle of a product line like other crappy brands (at least, not in _this_ line).
If you're biased against D-Link for some reason, Atheros also has a great list of manufacturers/products that use their chipsets - this is something every chipset manufacturer should have on their page.
IIRC, Doom was the one that came with a note in the multiplayer docs, along the lines of "Use the mouse, this isn't single player anymore."
Damn straight!
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Homer: e2 node & Simpsons Archive.
I don't block ads because I see some difference between advertising on the web and advertising in print/other media. Bandwidth costs money, ads provide [some amount of] money. This is fine, when the ads aren't annoying, and is probably a good thing - it's why I don't use any ad-scrubbing proxy functionality. When advertisers try to aggressively grab your attention, however, is when they fuck up.
I figure that if the people that accepted that ad for circulation didn't bother to think that people would be annoyed by the flashing 2-frame gifs, or the cpu-munching flash-heavy punch-the-fucking-monkey ads, then I can use AdBlock to block _all_ ads from that particular host, without bothering to think about how many acceptable ads I may be blocking at the same time.
IMHO, it's pretty simple, working the same way as TV/etc - don't show me the retarded Six Flags commercials with the old guy, don't give me popups, don't give me useless flash ads, don't give me flashing gifs - in return, I won't change the channel, won't use aggressive pop-up blocking that disables your site's functionality and makes it look bad, and won't block _all_ of the ads from your particular ad host.
Pics here, since the other stuff doesn't seem to be loading. Taken at LW SF on Wednesday.
(If it isn't all there yet, give it a few minutes to upload.)
There's one in Berkeley (a couple of blocks from campus) with plates that say "UNIXBUG".