Prevous slashdot stories have detailed the things that you find in recording contracts these days. One of those things was how the recording companies give artists an advance , which they have to pay off first , before they see any cash themselves.
Threatening to lowering the price on songs by popular artists may be a way to keep them in line, and in servitude.
I've been trying something like that for a while now , it goes like this...
Just don't talk. at all. don't even say "hello" when you pick up the phone. Let the other end talk first. (If someone says your name , then of course say hi and go on with your conversation). PABX machines that handle outgoing calls from call centres seem programmed to listen for a noise on the other end before transferring the call to an agent.. so just don't say anything.
After a while you'll hear a "Hello? is anyone there" on the other end of the line (I guess the PABX times out and just transfers it anyway). Wait until they disconnect. If they don't say your name at least, then don't answer.
From the few americans that I've managed to talk to , I thought it was something slightly different... that they don't tend to pitch their voices differently at all when they are being sarcastic (which everyone else I talk to does), and hence its difficult for.. well , me at least , to know when they are being sarcastic.
this leads to an assumption that they're just being rude all the time.
He was using a M$ operating system , downloading a M$ file from a M$ web site. How hard is it supposed to be? Its not like you can deliberately screw it up very easily.
If M$ can't arrange their OS to allow easy downloading of M$ files from M$ web sites , how can you trust their code?
oh , that's right. Its just line noise. You're shitting on someone's opinion because of line noise. go away.
try thief and thief 2. In the first game you take on a bunch of hardcore religious types called the hammers. You discover in the game that they don't have any problems with locking people up in their own prisons , torturing them , even removing body parts. (hands, genitals, etc)
In the second game the hammers have morphed into another religon called the mechanists (but still bow to the same god). These guys are worse then the hammers. They are turning "street scum" into robots, for use as servants for the richer people in the city. At the end of the game , you discover the whole point behind the excercise , and just how nuts the leader of the order (karras) is.
There's a game called "theocracy" too , never played it.
Take a look at this page (Spcifically the quote at the top). So is the US a theocracy yet?
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I'd love to play that game some more , but its got bugs that slow things down to a crawl. If you kill all but one of the wandering swan thingies in a herd, then the FPS picks up to the point where its not chugging. if you accidently kill the last one , then it's hello seconds per frams again.
How did anyone manage to play this game all the way through?
>1) It won't work on stock SUSE or RedHat systems. Dunno why, but there must be something different in the enterprise versions because it won't install properly on the normal ones.
the "strace" program helps here , it will tell you what function calls the program was making when it stopped.
I was at an oracle + RH installfest during oracle openworld in melbourne a few days ago , and was assisting people with laptops getting redhat and oracle 10i installed. There was a cheat sheet of sorts going around on how to install oracle on fedora , and one of the steps (IIRC) was to change the/etc/redhat-release file to fool the oracle installer.
I've run three installfests for the past three years, and after the second time I decided to write some software to handle things more easily. (I must admit though, I've only had about 50 people turn up at the events I'm running, I guess I suck at marketing). Its at https://sourceforge.net/projects/installfest/ You're going to have to pull it out of cvs , I haven't bothered doing any official releases or anything yet , its just a bunch of php scripts.
It lets you gather the number of each distro , type of CPU , harware type (desktop , laptop, etc) that people want linux installed and configured for, as well as the number of people turning up to help who can handle it. And you get a nice little graph showing you how many people sign up each day before the event.
There's another installfest project on sourceforge here
If you're using mencoder or transcode , and you don't get the command line options perfect, the program will spit out 6 pages of the man page at you , which fills up the scrollback buffer on an xterm , which stops you from figuring out what went wrong.
My idea for increased usability? Don't just spit out the man page at people , take the time to look at the options given to you in the program , and actually say what's wrong. Don't just blindly print out the man page.
Why wasn't the code to XP leaked as well? Surely if someone had access to the NT4 and NT2K source (regardless of whether they were an M$ employee or not), they had access to the XP source.
>IMHO, the missing one is the "live server" CD. You boot from this and you get Linux servers, not workstation tools.
I'm doing this right now. I'm basing it off knoppix , just because that's what I've done before. Its a pain in certain areas, because/etc is read only , and stuff like ifup wants the/etc/network directory to be read-write. So I had no choice but to make a tmpfs filesystem , copy the/etc/files onto it , and use "mount --bind/newetcdir/etc" to trick knoppix into using it. (thanks to the guys on #knoppix for recommending this)
Unfortunately/etc/network isn't being handled properly by mount --bind, and I won't have a choice but to get someone to run a script to copy the files in the right place , and ifup eth0, so I can dhcp3-server. (/var isn't read/write either , so I had to make a leases file/etc/leases , and add "-lf/etc/leases" to/etc/init.d/dhcp3-server)
Apache runs fine, so pointing DocumentRoot to a place on the CD means you can load up local copies of web pages (even if they have flash animations - I've got the flash plugin installed so konq/mozilla can find it)
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Prevous slashdot stories have detailed the things that you find in recording contracts these days. One of those things was how the recording companies give artists an advance , which they have to pay off first , before they see any cash themselves.
Threatening to lowering the price on songs by popular artists may be a way to keep them in line, and in servitude.
if lightning hits the cable , won't the light flash travel down the cable and knock out both ends anyway?
perhaps it was a reference to this episode. It wasn't steve's finest hour.
I want the bit that says "CHA" on it.
I tell myself , before I go to sleep.
here's a copy I've done.
I've been trying something like that for a while now , it goes like this...
Just don't talk. at all. don't even say "hello" when you pick up the phone. Let the other end talk first. (If someone says your name , then of course say hi and go on with your conversation). PABX machines that handle outgoing calls from call centres seem programmed to listen for a noise on the other end before transferring the call to an agent.. so just don't say anything.
After a while you'll hear a "Hello? is anyone there" on the other end of the line (I guess the PABX times out and just transfers it anyway). Wait until they disconnect. If they don't say your name at least, then don't answer.
tiJet
From the few americans that I've managed to talk to , I thought it was something slightly different... that they don't tend to pitch their voices differently at all when they are being sarcastic (which everyone else I talk to does), and hence its difficult for .. well , me at least , to know when they are being sarcastic.
this leads to an assumption that they're just being rude all the time.
maybe I'm wrong , i don't know.
He was using a M$ operating system , downloading a M$ file from a M$ web site. How hard is it supposed to be? Its not like you can deliberately screw it up very easily.
If M$ can't arrange their OS to allow easy downloading of M$ files from M$ web sites , how can you trust their code?
oh , that's right. Its just line noise. You're shitting on someone's opinion because of line noise. go away.
try thief and thief 2.
In the first game you take on a bunch of hardcore religious types called the hammers. You discover in the game that they don't have any problems with locking people up in their own prisons , torturing them , even removing body parts. (hands, genitals, etc)
In the second game the hammers have morphed into another religon called the mechanists (but still bow to the same god). These guys are worse then the hammers. They are turning "street scum" into robots, for use as servants for the richer people in the city. At the end of the game , you discover the whole point behind the excercise , and just how nuts the leader of the order (karras) is.
There's a game called "theocracy" too , never played it.
Take a look at this page (Spcifically the quote at the top). So is the US a theocracy yet?
well , where do you live then?
the list of LUGs in australia can be found at the linux australia LUG page .
more like deja vu apparently.
I wonder if lucent started competing against HP, knowing how bad she was
how do you pronounce "Betelguese"?
is it Beetle-Juice , or Betel-goo-eeze?
and the US are the Romulans
I'd love to play that game some more , but its got bugs that slow things down to a crawl. If you kill all but one of the wandering swan thingies in a herd, then the FPS picks up to the point where its not chugging. if you accidently kill the last one , then it's hello seconds per frams again.
How did anyone manage to play this game all the way through?
maybe you should watch that john stewart - crossfire movie that's going around at the moment.
or just stop making strawman arguments.
Doom 1 had a 320 X 200 resolution. Did they remove that for doom3 ?
Bugger. I'm in trouble then.
>1) It won't work on stock SUSE or RedHat systems. Dunno why, but there must be something different in the enterprise versions because it won't install properly on the normal ones.
/etc/redhat-release file to fool the oracle installer.
the "strace" program helps here , it will tell you what function calls the program was making when it stopped.
I was at an oracle + RH installfest during oracle openworld in melbourne a few days ago , and was assisting people with laptops getting redhat and oracle 10i installed. There was a cheat sheet of sorts going around on how to install oracle on fedora , and one of the steps (IIRC) was to change the
So it can be done (at least on fedora).
Delphi 5 was reported to be able to do this in October 1999. Look down for "To Do Lists"
You're going to have to pull it out of cvs , I haven't bothered doing any official releases or anything yet , its just a bunch of php scripts.
It lets you gather the number of each distro , type of CPU , harware type (desktop , laptop, etc) that people want linux installed and configured for, as well as the number of people turning up to help who can handle it. And you get a nice little graph showing you how many people sign up each day before the event.
There's another installfest project on sourceforge here
If you're using mencoder or transcode , and you don't get the command line options perfect, the program will spit out 6 pages of the man page at you , which fills up the scrollback buffer on an xterm , which stops you from figuring out what went wrong.
My idea for increased usability? Don't just spit out the man page at people , take the time to look at the options given to you in the program , and actually say what's wrong. Don't just blindly print out the man page.
Why wasn't the code to XP leaked as well? Surely if someone had access to the
NT4 and NT2K source (regardless of whether they were an M$ employee or not),
they had access to the XP source.
>IMHO, the missing one is the "live server" CD. You boot from this and you get Linux servers, not workstation tools.
/etc is read only , and stuff like ifup wants the /etc/network directory to be read-write. So I had no choice but to make a tmpfs filesystem , copy the /etc/files onto it , and use "mount --bind /newetcdir /etc" to trick knoppix into using it. (thanks to the guys on #knoppix for recommending this)
/etc/network isn't being handled properly by mount --bind, and I won't have a choice but to get someone to run a script to copy the files in the right place , and ifup eth0, so I can dhcp3-server. (/var isn't read/write either , so I had to make a leases file /etc/leases , and add "-lf /etc/leases" to /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server)
I'm doing this right now. I'm basing it off knoppix , just because that's what I've done before. Its a pain in certain areas, because
Unfortunately
Apache runs fine, so pointing DocumentRoot to a place on the CD means you can load up local copies of web pages (even if they have flash animations - I've got the flash plugin installed so konq/mozilla can find it)