http://www.darkbasic.com/ It's not free, but it's a basic language that focuses on 3d game programming. Lots of simple tutorials and examples are included. The power is pretty impressive. It's for Windows... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Isn't this what got slashdot in trouble with MS? I mean, the only post that was clearly illegal was the one that posted copyrighted material... I'm not referring to the other ones. Won't someone get an injunction against andover/slashdot to try to remove that post?
Erf... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Why is this a nifty solution, but when Microsoft hacked the Kerberos thingee a little to make it work with Active Directory, everyone freaked out? -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I'm sure your proxies will work well for the Linux crowd... In case the Windows crowd (am I alone here? shiver) needs one, check out adsubtract at adsubtract.com. It's freaking cool, it's hella stable, and the Opera 4 beta is the only browser not supported. It apparently won't be with Opera's method of grabbing webpages, something i'm not too familiar with ^^;; -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
It's not depressing to me cause I'm a mostly IE user, but my boss makes fun of me occasionally... I use to blast IE and say Netscape was the only way... Now I wait desperately for IE to come out on the BeOS... I dunno if anyone cares, (lost the URL) but a little while ago Webmonkey reviewed IE 5 on the Mac and declared it more stable & standards compliant than IE 5 on the PC. Wacky, huh?
Um, not sure if this is how it goes, but lemme know if you recognize it: "Times change. People change. Flags give way to dollar bills. And the old is swept away by the new."
*Cough, cough* Ok, fuck that, it's an open source project, right? Netscape is no longer the happy banner of Open Source it used to be... How long until it is again? And does anyone know if the Gecko Engine itself is an OS project where someone can grab it and make a browser of their own? TIA -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Oh boy, are you guys in for a shock. At work, almost all of our servers have been moved to Exodus in Jersey City. The ping times for our machines have become pretty damn horrible since then. We had this thing set up so that if the machines went down, we got beeped at least 15 minutes into it (15 minutes is the longest one of our servers takes to come back up on its own), but for some reason that never happens anymore. (not sure if it's exodus related, but easy enough to blame it on them.) Alot of tech support guys there can't handle linux, and most of them can't handle computers in general. "ok, i typed reboot, but nothing happened." "Ok, what does it say on the monitor?" "Mon-ee-tohr?"
The problem is, it took almost a week and a half for the DNS to propagate after we moved, and our sites were unavailable for that period of time. We're really worried about how much downtime we'll have if we try to move again, but we're gonna have to risk it at some point.
Here's hoping you get better service than we do. -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
He's done a remix of Radio Free Zerg (from Blizzard), an original Terran Music theme from Starcraft, and a cover of the Demon Stalkers opening music. (anyone else remember that game?)
He also did Evil de Chocobo, but the bastard didn't add the bass line yet. Check out his website, email him, and tell him to hurry up! Grrr...
Also, Frag Music has good links/news. -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Farscape is the absolute bomb, but you need to watch at least two episodes in a row to realize it IMHO. GvE on USA seemed to me to be much better than Good vs. Evil on SciFi. (SciFi version is too formulaic, boo). People say Lexx is pretty good, but I just yawn.
It seems to be a tossup as to whether or not they'll screw it up. -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I've been using mSQL for quite some time, and only recently moved to MySQL cause it has better text field handling capabilities... But I only use linux at work, and we rarely have time to research stuff for ourselves...
So does anyone have benchmarks that can prove this? Real enchmarks with explanations and pros & cons and lessons learned? MS vs Linux style benchmarks are not what I'm looking for...
"Tensions between individuals and corporatism can -- and should -- only worsen."
Why? Why can't things get better? No, fuck that: I'm an optimist. Things WILL get better. And I'll make them. Somehow. If tensions between corporations and individuals increase, then why would either side look to making things better?
Corporations that have specifically repressed me:
Nintendo - Pokémon. The hours, days, weeks, months lost time spent playing these games could better have been used playing other video games. I intend to stop playing Pokémon until my friend gets out of the hospital, then I'm taking my Game Boy Color back. Coca-Cola - Withdrew funding for the WWF. Not that I ever drank Coke in the first place, but you know how I feel. Pepsi - Makes Mountain Dew. I suffer lack-of-caffeine withdrawls every other day or so if I forget to drink at least a sixpack. My solution? I will drink Jolt! Then I'll have to drink less to get my fix. AOL - Put ABC back on TV after yanking it. And I thought they were on my side. (as if anyone in Time Warner has any say it what goes on anymore.) I dunno about this one, I don't think I could live without AIM. Microsoft - SON OF A BITCH! Why do Visual C++ 6, Visual Basic 6, and Visual Interdev 6, all part of Visual Studio 6, use different text editing conventions?! ARGH! It's so annoying! You know what? There is no solution, unless I go and buy Visual Studio 7 (2000? can't wait:) Katz is right, Corporationz 0wn mE.
In any case, as cr0bar said on detonate.net: Metallica rocks, lawsuits suck, mp3z rock, thieves suck.
BTW: "Though H.L. Mencken brilliantly and savagely spoofed organized religion and politics a half-century ago, it would be nearly impossible to do so now in any public forum outside the Net." Today, Howard Stern slammed the dead Cardinal O'Connor as being against gay people and against the building of an AIDs specific hospital close to his church (or something, did anyone else listen to that?). Howard Stern is syndicated in how many places? I think that was fairly public.
response.write "More than any other greeting, e-mail to me often begins with the phrase: ""I don't always agree with you, but..."" It's well-meant, but always strikes me as curious because it's so unwittingly revealing of a society raised on corporatist pablum as a subsitute for dialogue and discussion." &Chr(13) REM hello? didn't your mom teach you to be polite? ^^;; -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I had no idea... So now what? I don't like car pollution, so I walk, I take a bus, I carpool if I have to (I pay for the gas since I can't return the favor). But how am I supposed to go around finding out who was environmentally safe and who didn't abuse their employees when I'm shopping for computer equipment? Frustrating... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
A bunch of my friends and I were discussing this and we came to the conclusion that it would be better suited as a Half-Life CounterStrike mod... (it's already designed for team play, one side is the INS agents, the other side are the protesters... guns, tear gas vs rocks may not be a fair fight, but it would be like a Steal-the-Bacon sorta thing)
But if a Rogue Spear mod is already in the making, who am I to argue? -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Damn straight! Followup stories like this make news better... They're not not 'deja vu' news like the constant Jon Benet Ramsey, or Columbine, or OJ Simpson, etc etc stories, but they tell me MORE than what I knew, and actually keep me updated. It's sorta like, "Sequel Quickies" -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Time for someone to get moderated to 4 or 5 (Interesting). How are claims of Be's dropping OS support like NeXT? I've heard of NeXT, but I have no idea of their history, and why read some online news thing when here at slashdot, we usually get personal, in-the-trenches-type accounts? TIA -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Lesson? Stop arguing over which one is better, one size does not fit all, each person will different results from the next person, go do something better with your life.
Like post on slashdot... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Trolling BeOS users IS pretty weak, but... How many times have you seen a Game Boy Color or Neo Geo Pocket Color crash in the hands of young-uns? (them dropping it doesn't count!) The protected memory would, as you state, a bonus, but definitely not necessary in the hands of good game programmers... But since this thing's supposed purpose includes PDA functionality, application programmers will DEFINITELY need protected memory...
My point? I dunno... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Whatever they were using to broadcast mp3z of Geek Pride was pretty bad. You couldn't hear most of the stuff (just a loud humming) and what you could hear wasn't the way it was supposed to be. At http://www.cyberenet.net/~clarus/ you can pick up the MP3z Everyone recorded themselves. Then compare to the geekpride streaming audio (if there is one archived somewhere?) and you'll see the difference.
The geekpride thing was being broadcast at 32kbs encoding, maybe that was the problem? -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I wish I could go, but I can't make it cause I'm too stupid to properly plan anything. Maybe I'll see ya'll next year...
Someone previously said, "This is a crock, lots of young men who couldn't get laid, and who are getting together to sneer at other people." (the quote isn't exact but I'm sure you can find that post). I wanted to go to geek pride to:
1. Here the band Everyone. If you've ever played a video game in your life, you will *LOVE* this band. They're really cool ^^ 2. Most of ya'll use Unix, but I swear to God, I know Windows 98 like the back of my hand (kind of dry, needs lotion, breaks every time someone takes a hammer to it) and I'm damn good with Active Server Pages. I'd love to meet any closet Windows geeks =) 3. Maybe there will be lots of young men who can't get laid. Who cares? If there were girls at Geek Pride, I'd rather talk to them to find out what makes them fall into the geek category instead of hit on them. 4. Why sneer at anybody? Geek- or non-geek-involved sneering, either way, is pointless. You don't have to sneer at another group of people to have a good time...
If you do go to Geek Pride, have fun for me... I'll be right here randomly uploading slashdot as usual. I'll join ya next time... -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
MS is releasing (released? anyone know?) a script encoding engine to go along with their scripting model so that any ActiveX Script (ECMAScript, VBScript, PerlScript, etc) can be encoded and the source cannot be stolen. It's not the same as compiling since the source will still be downloaded to the browser the same way (script src="zerg.js"/script) but people won't be able to steal scripts. Yet, the scripts will still be available from websites for free. Does that count? -- Peace, Lord Omlette AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.darkbasic.com/ It's not free, but it's a basic language that focuses on 3d game programming. Lots of simple tutorials and examples are included. The power is pretty impressive. It's for Windows...
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Isn't this what got slashdot in trouble with MS? I mean, the only post that was clearly illegal was the one that posted copyrighted material... I'm not referring to the other ones. Won't someone get an injunction against andover/slashdot to try to remove that post?
Erf...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Why is this a nifty solution, but when Microsoft hacked the Kerberos thingee a little to make it work with Active Directory, everyone freaked out?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I'm sure your proxies will work well for the Linux crowd... In case the Windows crowd (am I alone here? shiver) needs one, check out adsubtract at adsubtract.com. It's freaking cool, it's hella stable, and the Opera 4 beta is the only browser not supported. It apparently won't be with Opera's method of grabbing webpages, something i'm not too familiar with ^^;;
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
It's not depressing to me cause I'm a mostly IE user, but my boss makes fun of me occasionally... I use to blast IE and say Netscape was the only way... Now I wait desperately for IE to come out on the BeOS... I dunno if anyone cares, (lost the URL) but a little while ago Webmonkey reviewed IE 5 on the Mac and declared it more stable & standards compliant than IE 5 on the PC. Wacky, huh?
Um, not sure if this is how it goes, but lemme know if you recognize it: "Times change. People change. Flags give way to dollar bills. And the old is swept away by the new."
*Cough, cough* Ok, fuck that, it's an open source project, right? Netscape is no longer the happy banner of Open Source it used to be... How long until it is again? And does anyone know if the Gecko Engine itself is an OS project where someone can grab it and make a browser of their own? TIA
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Oh boy, are you guys in for a shock. At work, almost all of our servers have been moved to Exodus in Jersey City. The ping times for our machines have become pretty damn horrible since then. We had this thing set up so that if the machines went down, we got beeped at least 15 minutes into it (15 minutes is the longest one of our servers takes to come back up on its own), but for some reason that never happens anymore. (not sure if it's exodus related, but easy enough to blame it on them.) Alot of tech support guys there can't handle linux, and most of them can't handle computers in general. "ok, i typed reboot, but nothing happened." "Ok, what does it say on the monitor?" "Mon-ee-tohr?"
The problem is, it took almost a week and a half for the DNS to propagate after we moved, and our sites were unavailable for that period of time. We're really worried about how much downtime we'll have if we try to move again, but we're gonna have to risk it at some point.
Here's hoping you get better service than we do.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Here's hoping Slashback is a regular feature ^^
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Check out Evil Adam.
He's done a remix of Radio Free Zerg (from Blizzard), an original Terran Music theme from Starcraft, and a cover of the Demon Stalkers opening music. (anyone else remember that game?)
He also did Evil de Chocobo, but the bastard didn't add the bass line yet. Check out his website, email him, and tell him to hurry up! Grrr...
Also, Frag Music has good links/news.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Farscape is the absolute bomb, but you need to watch at least two episodes in a row to realize it IMHO. GvE on USA seemed to me to be much better than Good vs. Evil on SciFi. (SciFi version is too formulaic, boo). People say Lexx is pretty good, but I just yawn.
It seems to be a tossup as to whether or not they'll screw it up.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I've been using mSQL for quite some time, and only recently moved to MySQL cause it has better text field handling capabilities... But I only use linux at work, and we rarely have time to research stuff for ourselves...
So does anyone have benchmarks that can prove this? Real enchmarks with explanations and pros & cons and lessons learned? MS vs Linux style benchmarks are not what I'm looking for...
TIA
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
n/t
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
"Tensions between individuals and corporatism can -- and should -- only worsen."
:) Katz is right, Corporationz 0wn mE.
Why? Why can't things get better? No, fuck that: I'm an optimist. Things WILL get better. And I'll make them. Somehow. If tensions between corporations and individuals increase, then why would either side look to making things better?
Corporations that have specifically repressed me:
Nintendo - Pokémon. The hours, days, weeks, months lost time spent playing these games could better have been used playing other video games. I intend to stop playing Pokémon until my friend gets out of the hospital, then I'm taking my Game Boy Color back.
Coca-Cola - Withdrew funding for the WWF. Not that I ever drank Coke in the first place, but you know how I feel.
Pepsi - Makes Mountain Dew. I suffer lack-of-caffeine withdrawls every other day or so if I forget to drink at least a sixpack. My solution? I will drink Jolt! Then I'll have to drink less to get my fix.
AOL - Put ABC back on TV after yanking it. And I thought they were on my side. (as if anyone in Time Warner has any say it what goes on anymore.) I dunno about this one, I don't think I could live without AIM.
Microsoft - SON OF A BITCH! Why do Visual C++ 6, Visual Basic 6, and Visual Interdev 6, all part of Visual Studio 6, use different text editing conventions?! ARGH! It's so annoying! You know what? There is no solution, unless I go and buy Visual Studio 7 (2000? can't wait
In any case, as cr0bar said on detonate.net: Metallica rocks, lawsuits suck, mp3z rock, thieves suck.
BTW: "Though H.L. Mencken brilliantly and savagely spoofed organized religion and politics a half-century ago, it would be nearly impossible to do so now in any public forum outside the Net." Today, Howard Stern slammed the dead Cardinal O'Connor as being against gay people and against the building of an AIDs specific hospital close to his church (or something, did anyone else listen to that?). Howard Stern is syndicated in how many places? I think that was fairly public.
response.write "More than any other greeting, e-mail to me often begins with the phrase: ""I don't always agree with you, but..."" It's well-meant, but always strikes me as curious because it's so unwittingly revealing of a society raised on corporatist pablum as a subsitute for dialogue and discussion." &Chr(13) REM hello? didn't your mom teach you to be polite? ^^;;
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Anyone got a decent sendmail solution? Pretty please? My sendmail skills blow =(
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I had no idea... So now what? I don't like car pollution, so I walk, I take a bus, I carpool if I have to (I pay for the gas since I can't return the favor). But how am I supposed to go around finding out who was environmentally safe and who didn't abuse their employees when I'm shopping for computer equipment? Frustrating...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
A bunch of my friends and I were discussing this and we came to the conclusion that it would be better suited as a Half-Life CounterStrike mod... (it's already designed for team play, one side is the INS agents, the other side are the protesters... guns, tear gas vs rocks may not be a fair fight, but it would be like a Steal-the-Bacon sorta thing)
But if a Rogue Spear mod is already in the making, who am I to argue?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Damn straight! Followup stories like this make news better... They're not not 'deja vu' news like the constant Jon Benet Ramsey, or Columbine, or OJ Simpson, etc etc stories, but they tell me MORE than what I knew, and actually keep me updated. It's sorta like, "Sequel Quickies"
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Time for someone to get moderated to 4 or 5 (Interesting). How are claims of Be's dropping OS support like NeXT? I've heard of NeXT, but I have no idea of their history, and why read some online news thing when here at slashdot, we usually get personal, in-the-trenches-type accounts? TIA
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
here (4/21/00)
Lesson? Stop arguing over which one is better, one size does not fit all, each person will different results from the next person, go do something better with your life.
Like post on slashdot...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Trolling BeOS users IS pretty weak, but... How many times have you seen a Game Boy Color or Neo Geo Pocket Color crash in the hands of young-uns? (them dropping it doesn't count!) The protected memory would, as you state, a bonus, but definitely not necessary in the hands of good game programmers... But since this thing's supposed purpose includes PDA functionality, application programmers will DEFINITELY need protected memory...
My point? I dunno...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
http://www.calculusgirls.com/
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
Whatever they were using to broadcast mp3z of Geek Pride was pretty bad. You couldn't hear most of the stuff (just a loud humming) and what you could hear wasn't the way it was supposed to be. At http://www.cyberenet.net/~clarus/ you can pick up the MP3z Everyone recorded themselves. Then compare to the geekpride streaming audio (if there is one archived somewhere?) and you'll see the difference.
The geekpride thing was being broadcast at 32kbs encoding, maybe that was the problem?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
I wish I could go, but I can't make it cause I'm too stupid to properly plan anything. Maybe I'll see ya'll next year...
Someone previously said, "This is a crock, lots of young men who couldn't get laid, and who are getting together to sneer at other people." (the quote isn't exact but I'm sure you can find that post). I wanted to go to geek pride to:
1. Here the band Everyone. If you've ever played a video game in your life, you will *LOVE* this band. They're really cool ^^
2. Most of ya'll use Unix, but I swear to God, I know Windows 98 like the back of my hand (kind of dry, needs lotion, breaks every time someone takes a hammer to it) and I'm damn good with Active Server Pages. I'd love to meet any closet Windows geeks =)
3. Maybe there will be lots of young men who can't get laid. Who cares? If there were girls at Geek Pride, I'd rather talk to them to find out what makes them fall into the geek category instead of hit on them.
4. Why sneer at anybody? Geek- or non-geek-involved sneering, either way, is pointless. You don't have to sneer at another group of people to have a good time...
If you do go to Geek Pride, have fun for me... I'll be right here randomly uploading slashdot as usual. I'll join ya next time...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
aren't the vast majority of artists starving?
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
unfortunately, slashdotters are the only ones not happy with big companies... the rest of the masses aren't aware of what's going on
i think that's the point katz is trying to make
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Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu
MS is releasing (released? anyone know?) a script encoding engine to go along with their scripting model so that any ActiveX Script (ECMAScript, VBScript, PerlScript, etc) can be encoded and the source cannot be stolen. It's not the same as compiling since the source will still be downloaded to the browser the same way (script src="zerg.js" /script) but people won't be able to steal scripts. Yet, the scripts will still be available from websites for free. Does that count?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
AOL IM: jeanlucpikachu