True you have a good point, I will give you that, but please take the time to read these how-tos to give you more insight on where I was coming from when I posted the orignal comment:
If you see someone logged in from an unknown IP (amusing you screwed both tcp wrappers, OpenSSHD and your firewall up), just start ping flooding that IP. Ping first ask questions latter. Don't bother loging the user out, just ping attack the hell out of him and his network (and pray the God it isn't Bob in the next office on the same ethernet segment as you)
Ah yea, looks like you need to change a few settings, please double click on the "My Computer" icon in the upper lef...
Oh your on a Mac, ok ok
Ok Sir I am going to have you stroke your mouse up and down till the Apple menu in the upper left hand corner pops down
Ok, no keep stroking it Sir up and down, the menu will pop down in a minute
Ok, ok great, in this menu about half way down you are going to see a "Control Panel" sub menu, see the menu?
Ok great, if you strok you mouse at an angle and squeeze it tightly this menu will pop up. Yea keep stroking it, but get a tighter grib on it so it doesn't get a way. Yea like that, make sure you squeeze it nice and tight, stroking it with a tight grib?
Ok great, in this menu there is going to be a "Modems" icon in this sub menu. What you need to do here is start rubbing your mouse, yea keep rubbing it, in a circle motion, oh yea like that, squeeze the divit in the middle between your index and middle finger, pitch it tight. Once you have it in a nice tight pitch you need to twist it a little.
Apparently, the mouse responds to squeezing, tapping, and stroking...
WOW if the user is a good looking female, then hell I work exactly like this mouse.
I was actucally enrolled in the beta program for this hardware mouse. But I droped out the first day when the apple tech guy keep yelling at me "Come on you stoke it like you want to open that window, come on stroke it, you ain't going to open that window unless you stroke it harder, dammit now squeeze it to scroll, got to squeeze it tighter, OH yea that is how you scroll, just like that prefect, ahh" I don't know, it just make me uncomfortable for some reason.
And that really made me wonder, apple is a big company, so why the hell was the beta program in some guys house and there was only one iMac there. And dam you think apple could afford to replace light blubs, it had no light and you couldn't see anything in there. It was kinda cool though that Apple servered a lot of beer there. I am still wondering why the hell I was the only beta tester there
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OH MY GOD uh, hrm I just realized something, I have to go now
Red Hat Orange Soda (Has an automatic "twist off" and is very easy to drink with it's non-drip opening. All focusing on selling to large business because it has a good distrubation system)
Slackware RootBeer 7 (Comes in a glass bottle without any whimpy twist off cap. You have to use a crowbar to get it open. Not sold in cases, only sold in single bottles, this rootbeer don't have a package system. Because package systems are for the weak.)
Turbo Cola (jolt rip off, note the "TURBO". Comes with the cans "soldered" together so you have to drink 6 at a time. Very usefull for large thrist)
SuSE Green Juice (each case contents 6 times the cans of that of a normal case. Has more soda per case than any other openCola distrubation manufacter)
OpenBSD Cola (Comes with a combination lock based on 1 of 2 million differant encodings instead of a pop top or twist off cap.)
Debain LemonLime (Packaged and distrubated by volentars to the project. The drink is free, but you need to bring you own cup)
Coral Grape (The company used to compete head on with the softdrink giants (Coca-cola, pepsi), but moved it's drink over into OpenCola project and is going on the attack again with an easy to use "twist off")
Solaris Blue (Claims to be OpenCola, but isn't really. Due to a length license agreement printed on the inside of the can, the ink makes the cola near toxic to most indivuals.)
SlashCodeCola (Ever time you ask for the formual it automatically closes the can and you have to wait 24 hours before taking another drink)
It has been noted that Al Gore is popular among geeks for many reaons, for example he invented the Internet, runs Linux on his web site and hides cool little things in his HTML source. What do you think other Presidental canidates have to do or are doing to "compete" with Al Gore for the Geek vote?
Bill Clinton raised a lot of votes by "reaching out" to the Youth of America, do you think Al Gore will continue to "reach out" to the Geeks of America in the same aspect as Clinton did a few years back?
In your personal opinon who is the more 31337 hAx0r: Gore or Bush? And Finally the question everyone is dying to know the answer to: If pited against each other in a roman style caged deathmatch, who would win, Gore or Bush?
Actucally that is intresting, either way though, I still disproved the theory (with a little help), for example the theory clearly states "All actors are linked to Kevin Bacon is 7 steps or less." which this has been disproved by the "other 4" actors that can be linked in eight steps.
Now I only have to disprove a couple more things before my life is complete this first one was easy, here are some more things I need to disprove
1 ) 7 Steps of Kevin Bacon -- Complete 2 ) N != NP 3 ) Christ 4 ) Hilter 5 ) Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy 6 ) 1 + 1 == 2 7 ) American aren't under Mind Control 8 ) God 9 ) Your parents where right 10) Ingornace == Bliss
The fisrt one seemed easy enough. I wonder if a cluster could help me with disproving any of the above.
So this "super computer" will be used for Total World Domination? Oh, can we use it atleast to take over some small thrid world countries? I promise to have it back by six tonight.
The Google crew must have some killer Seti@home stats.
I would like to put one of these in my basement and finally disprove the "7 steps to Kevin Bacon" theory everyone seems to buy into.
You CAN make money with FSF software or GPL software. Open Source means, "we act like the GPL for marketing purposes, but when it comes down to it, it's now more than a meaningless buzzword"
GPL == True open and FREE source. Open Source == Great Marketing buzzword.
Wouldn't there be a way to say, pull in $50 Gs and live way outside SV? Say 120 miles (2 hour drive) and just get a kick ass car with the extra money you don't spend on high housing costs. Sure the drive to/from work would suck, but that is what portable mp3 players are for.
It would have to be incased in something, like maybe plastic. I won't want my blood flowing over a live cricit board any ways, even if it is a few volts.
the dam thing get slashdotted enough, thanks CmdrTaco. (joking).
suprised no one has committed on "a cluster of these". Have 200 cpus cranking away (even if they are 486) would be kinda need.
So is that a cluster in your pocket processing ray trace or are you just happy to see me?
They did install Windows and Linux on it, that is pretty cool. Since it looks like a "standard" pc, I bet you could pretty much throw anything on it, as long as it supports a 486. OpenBSD could be cool, just so you could say "I got 12 differant types of encryption in my pants, you want to guess which kinds and where?"
Or load up the thing with Metallica MP3's, stick it in your pocket, grab it from the out side of your pants and shout "HEY LARS I GOT YOUR MP3'S RIGHT HERE"
There is so many fun things you can do with this. Portable web cam, portable mp3 player (might have to tweak it out a bit, cpu wise) 300 Megs in the world of mp3 players is nothing to laugh at, hook up a zip or extrenal hard drive for extra storage.
Ever seen those LCD screens about the size of a tab of LSD? They are like 1(2??)CM square, small enough to put into a part of sunglasses. Hook up on those up to your shades, slip the match box computer into your pocket and you can watch down the street and have the "Terminator Bulls Eye" on everyone you meet. Or just want down the screen and have a slide show of Miss Portman pics, no one would ever know.
Man, this things has so many uses, anyone see the price his company will be offering these for? The site is slashdotted and could tell if they said or not.
Those are the good things, the bad things about this: You might accdentily drop it in the crapper if you aren't carefull. Plomp.
Sorry if this post seems long, I don't care, I just though of something else.
Being this small, you could (if you had the skill) implant one of these into your body somewhere (you pick the best spot).
Seriously I could imbed a matchbox size devices into the back of my neck, in my arm or maybe my legs with nothing more than the devices, a really sharp and CLEAN knife, a sharp and clean switching needle and a case of the cheapest beer you got.
If anyone wants to buy me one of these and a small LCD screen (2CMx2CM for example), I WILL embed this into some part of my body (which ever is the easiest and less painfull). Seriously I WILL give my body to science for this, if anyone wants to foot the bill for the matchbox computer and workable LCD screen. But the only thing I would require it to run either Linux or *BSD. Having a BSOD inside your body doesn't sound like fun.
I am not joking around here, ship me one of these and an LCD and I will self-insert this into my body for the "advancment" of science or the "curiously sick" side show expeirnce. In exchange for this, I will give you free banner ads on any web page/server I run out of this for the life of the unit.
people will probably think I am fucking around here, this is not a joke. Ship me one of these units and I will self-insert this somewhere into my body somewhat permentably (for the life of the unit or the life of me, or if there is a upgrade avaiable with more cpu, etc). On the creepy side, what would happen if I died with the unit still on, "Hey you got the check out slash dot, they have a web server running from inside some dead guy"
Seriously I am going to get one of these, one way or another and insert it into my body, that would rule. Doom2 24X7, nonstop, dool...
At my place of work, where are getting a dedicated line from MCI^H^H^H this company, which shalt remain nameless. Anyways, the higher ups pay one huge bag of money to this company for the "full-dedicated solution". The line goes down once in awhile *cough*every fucking month*cough* and I have to call this companies support engineers to get "full-dedicated tech support", which there tech support team is really good by the way, probably because they have ALOT of practice at it.
Anyways, I hear this ALOT "Ok this is simple, just plug it in and it should work"
"So you going to plug it in"
"Hell no, are you crazy, we have to wait for the local telco techs to get here, I am not allowed to touch this line"
This one time I remember the line being down for 12+ hours, it took me my entire work day just to find and convince a support engineer that this was HIS line and HE should of been working on it.
"Have you tried calling the local telco? you should try them first"
"Uh, we got the complete package from you guys, we pay you guys and we never even talked to the local telco, your sales person said that you guys handled the local telco"
"Oh, now that is your problem there son, you listened to the sale person. You just got the block them out."
Lets look at this, most 20-25 year old are out of college with SOME expeirnce, but they have some advantages over gurus.
1) they are 20 some, they can work 16 hours staight 5-6 days a week with nothing more than a case of mountain dew per day, sure you CAN do this at 40 years old, but it is more difficult.
2) they have the newest and coolest buzzwords on their resumes.
3) they will work cheaper.
4) they ussually don't have a family to support and are more likely to re-locate.
All of this is based of my Stero-typical sixth sense, the above points MAY not be true, but this is what I found.
Seriously, most 20-25 year olders without a family will be happy if they can have a cool car, pay rent, play a game of quake when they get brunt out. Most companies are cool with this.
IMHO it was a really good interview and Lars seemed like he was well prepared for it, but one thing I didn't get is this question:
7) Skip the Record Company by cwhicks
How much money do you get from the sale of each CD, and how much goes to the record company? ...
Did anyone else notice that Lars dodged that question better then Bill Clinton and Bush combined? Slick one that Lars is, have to watch him or he'll get away from ya. I would like to get a direct answer from him. Wonder if his Label has him under some non-disclose agreement about that type of stuff??
ATI cards are nice (for 2d only), ATI Xpert types for example. Sure they are only and they suck for anytype of gaming, but they do have strong points. For example, this ATI Xpert 98 (8 megs) really kicks ass (for everything but games). It is well support under X (Have got it to work under both Linux and OpenBSD), works great under SVGA (Linux only), support under BEos and works well under Windows9* (haven't tested NT).
In it's day it ran about $80, you could probably pick one up now for about $50 I could bet. Nice cards, it has worked under all envoirments I have throwen at it (expect quake2, which sucks in anything over 640x480, but is playable at 640x480, doom and Age of the Empires looks nice under it, Herteric 2 is EXTREMELY slow even with all eye candy turned off).
From my personal expeirnce, most IDE that I have used (on any platform) kinda blow. Every IDE I have used up to this point REQUIRED you to use the mouse. Which is really annonying if you right in middle of a peice of code.
With [insert_favorite_text_edit] (mine is vi) you bang out a couple keystrokes and you can quickly do about anything from compling it, to running it, etc, etc without leaving the keyboard.
It has became like second nature or a habit
esc:w:!./program_name
when writting and debugging perl scripts, takes 1 second, 2 at most. Most IDE (haven't used many for perl) take 2-10 mouse clicks to compile and run the program, takes 5 to 20 seconds at most.
Personally I just find IDE uncomfortable compared to vi, virtual consoles and bash
Hell most of the type I have a virual console open with bash or tcsh as the shell and to say compile or run the program I could just switch to the console and press the up key and enter and get a full screen output, not one of those tiny little windows
Ctrl+Alt+F2 [up] [enter]
Just habit I guess
Plus awhere I am at, the development envoirment doesn't change, wheather it be Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris, etc. etc they all got vi and the say GNU goodies everyone has come to love (Perl, GCC, Python)
Slashdot Mirror
True you have a good point, I will give you that, but please take the time to read these how-tos to give you more insight on where I was coming from when I posted the orignal comment:
Joke-HOWTO.gz
Sacartic-HOWTO.gz
Do_not_take_to_seriously-HOWTO.gz
Lighten_up-HOWTO.gz
Karma-Whoring-HOWTO.gz
Bad_joke-HOWTO.gz
Really_bad_joke-HOWTO.gz
Also the faqs might be of some help
Joke-FAQ.gz
Laugh-FAQ.gz
These cover such questions as:
How do I tell if something is a joke or not
Just because it isn't funny, can it still be a joke?
What if it is down right stupid, can it still be a joke?
Some asshole on slashdot posted this sacartic list of howto's I should read, was he serious?
These documents can be found under
/usr/doc
http://www.linuxdoc.org
and are compressed using gzip, to decompress use the command
gzip -d filename.gz
if you don't have gzip install on your system, it is avaiable for a wide array of Unix platforms and can be download free at:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org
If you have any further questions regarding this, please contact
If you see someone logged in from an unknown IP (amusing you screwed both tcp wrappers, OpenSSHD and your firewall up), just start ping flooding that IP. Ping first ask questions latter. Don't bother loging the user out, just ping attack the hell out of him and his network (and pray the God it isn't Bob in the next office on the same ethernet segment as you)
My offer is still good, if anyone has a real life working lightsabres, I will trade you my car and computer for it and throw in $200 cash.
Hi this is tech support may I help you?
Ah yea, looks like you need to change a few settings, please double click on the "My Computer" icon in the upper lef...
Oh your on a Mac, ok ok
Ok Sir I am going to have you stroke your mouse up and down till the Apple menu in the upper left hand corner pops down
Ok, no keep stroking it Sir up and down, the menu will pop down in a minute
Ok, ok great, in this menu about half way down you are going to see a "Control Panel" sub menu, see the menu?
Ok great, if you strok you mouse at an angle and squeeze it tightly this menu will pop up. Yea keep stroking it, but get a tighter grib on it so it doesn't get a way. Yea like that, make sure you squeeze it nice and tight, stroking it with a tight grib?
Ok great, in this menu there is going to be a "Modems" icon in this sub menu. What you need to do here is start rubbing your mouse, yea keep rubbing it, in a circle motion, oh yea like that, squeeze the divit in the middle between your index and middle finger, pitch it tight. Once you have it in a nice tight pitch you need to twist it a little.
Ok, here you will see a list of modems....
I had to give a piss test, 2 forms of photo id, eye scan, finger prints and a spinal tap before they let me into this one porn site.
But I feel safer now that my credit card isn't among the 31337 hAx0rs of the world.
Plus my credit card is hard to guess, you would of never guessed
AJ Bennett
4828719230128348
with an expiration date of 03/02
You would have never guessed that could you. HA, I am feeling like one secure mofo.
Apparently, the mouse responds to squeezing, tapping, and stroking...
WOW if the user is a good looking female, then hell I work exactly like this mouse.
I was actucally enrolled in the beta program for this hardware mouse. But I droped out the first day when the apple tech guy keep yelling at me "Come on you stoke it like you want to open that window, come on stroke it, you ain't going to open that window unless you stroke it harder, dammit now squeeze it to scroll, got to squeeze it tighter, OH yea that is how you scroll, just like that prefect, ahh" I don't know, it just make me uncomfortable for some reason.
And that really made me wonder, apple is a big company, so why the hell was the beta program in some guys house and there was only one iMac there. And dam you think apple could afford to replace light blubs, it had no light and you couldn't see anything in there. It was kinda cool though that Apple servered a lot of beer there. I am still wondering why the hell I was the only beta tester there
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OH MY GOD uh, hrm I just realized something, I have to go now
Red Hat Orange Soda (Has an automatic "twist off" and is very easy to drink with it's non-drip opening. All focusing on selling to large business because it has a good distrubation system)
Slackware RootBeer 7 (Comes in a glass bottle without any whimpy twist off cap. You have to use a crowbar to get it open. Not sold in cases, only sold in single bottles, this rootbeer don't have a package system. Because package systems are for the weak.)
Turbo Cola (jolt rip off, note the "TURBO". Comes with the cans "soldered" together so you have to drink 6 at a time. Very usefull for large thrist)
SuSE Green Juice (each case contents 6 times the cans of that of a normal case. Has more soda per case than any other openCola distrubation manufacter)
OpenBSD Cola (Comes with a combination lock based on 1 of 2 million differant encodings instead of a pop top or twist off cap.)
Debain LemonLime (Packaged and distrubated by volentars to the project. The drink is free, but you need to bring you own cup)
Coral Grape (The company used to compete head on with the softdrink giants (Coca-cola, pepsi), but moved it's drink over into OpenCola project and is going on the attack again with an easy to use "twist off")
Solaris Blue (Claims to be OpenCola, but isn't really. Due to a length license agreement printed on the inside of the can, the ink makes the cola near toxic to most indivuals.)
SlashCodeCola (Ever time you ask for the formual it automatically closes the can and you have to wait 24 hours before taking another drink)
It has been noted that Al Gore is popular among geeks for many reaons, for example he invented the Internet, runs Linux on his web site and hides cool little things in his HTML source. What do you think other Presidental canidates have to do or are doing to "compete" with Al Gore for the Geek vote?
Bill Clinton raised a lot of votes by "reaching out" to the Youth of America, do you think Al Gore will continue to "reach out" to the Geeks of America in the same aspect as Clinton did a few years back?
In your personal opinon who is the more 31337 hAx0r: Gore or Bush? And Finally the question everyone is dying to know the answer to: If pited against each other in a roman style caged deathmatch, who would win, Gore or Bush?
It is OT you dam troll :)
Actucally that is intresting, either way though, I still disproved the theory (with a little help), for example the theory clearly states "All actors are linked to Kevin Bacon is 7 steps or less." which this has been disproved by the "other 4" actors that can be linked in eight steps.
Now I only have to disprove a couple more things before my life is complete this first one was easy, here are some more things I need to disprove
1 ) 7 Steps of Kevin Bacon -- Complete
2 ) N != NP
3 ) Christ
4 ) Hilter
5 ) Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy
6 ) 1 + 1 == 2
7 ) American aren't under Mind Control
8 ) God
9 ) Your parents where right
10) Ingornace == Bliss
The fisrt one seemed easy enough. I wonder if a cluster could help me with disproving any of the above.
btw, mod the above post up
So this "super computer" will be used for Total World Domination? Oh, can we use it atleast to take over some small thrid world countries? I promise to have it back by six tonight.
The Google crew must have some killer Seti@home stats.
I would like to put one of these in my basement and finally disprove the "7 steps to Kevin Bacon" theory everyone seems to buy into.
You CAN make money with FSF software or GPL software. Open Source means, "we act like the GPL for marketing purposes, but when it comes down to it, it's now more than a meaningless buzzword"
GPL == True open and FREE source. Open Source == Great Marketing buzzword.
It makes it sound cooler, the 3000 that is. They where going to have
Hyper Ultra Python Phase 3000 Build 7AD - Omni Code 8
But they thought it would be more subtle to just use '3000'
Wouldn't there be a way to say, pull in $50 Gs and live way outside SV? Say 120 miles (2 hour drive) and just get a kick ass car with the extra money you don't spend on high housing costs. Sure the drive to/from work would suck, but that is what portable mp3 players are for.
doh!
1/4 Inch is roughly 1-2 CM? something like that.
It would have to be incased in something, like maybe plastic. I won't want my blood flowing over a live cricit board any ways, even if it is a few volts.
Rememberance Agent ?
Got a Link? that isn't slashdotted? And who where you talking to?
Where you talking to me? You must be talking to me cause no one else is around. You talking to me? You talking to me?
True, crackers find something intersting, post it to slashdot and within hours the crack claims to his 31337 hAck0r freind about the attack.
the dam thing get slashdotted enough, thanks CmdrTaco. (joking).
suprised no one has committed on "a cluster of these". Have 200 cpus cranking away (even if they are 486) would be kinda need.
So is that a cluster in your pocket processing ray trace or are you just happy to see me?
They did install Windows and Linux on it, that is pretty cool. Since it looks like a "standard" pc, I bet you could pretty much throw anything on it, as long as it supports a 486. OpenBSD could be cool, just so you could say "I got 12 differant types of encryption in my pants, you want to guess which kinds and where?"
Or load up the thing with Metallica MP3's, stick it in your pocket, grab it from the out side of your pants and shout "HEY LARS I GOT YOUR MP3'S RIGHT HERE"
There is so many fun things you can do with this. Portable web cam, portable mp3 player (might have to tweak it out a bit, cpu wise) 300 Megs in the world of mp3 players is nothing to laugh at, hook up a zip or extrenal hard drive for extra storage.
Ever seen those LCD screens about the size of a tab of LSD? They are like 1(2??)CM square, small enough to put into a part of sunglasses. Hook up on those up to your shades, slip the match box computer into your pocket and you can watch down the street and have the "Terminator Bulls Eye" on everyone you meet. Or just want down the screen and have a slide show of Miss Portman pics, no one would ever know.
Man, this things has so many uses, anyone see the price his company will be offering these for? The site is slashdotted and could tell if they said or not.
Those are the good things, the bad things about this: You might accdentily drop it in the crapper if you aren't carefull. Plomp.
Sorry if this post seems long, I don't care, I just though of something else.
Being this small, you could (if you had the skill) implant one of these into your body somewhere (you pick the best spot).
Seriously I could imbed a matchbox size devices into the back of my neck, in my arm or maybe my legs with nothing more than the devices, a really sharp and CLEAN knife, a sharp and clean switching needle and a case of the cheapest beer you got.
If anyone wants to buy me one of these and a small LCD screen (2CMx2CM for example), I WILL embed this into some part of my body (which ever is the easiest and less painfull). Seriously I WILL give my body to science for this, if anyone wants to foot the bill for the matchbox computer and workable LCD screen. But the only thing I would require it to run either Linux or *BSD. Having a BSOD inside your body doesn't sound like fun.
I am not joking around here, ship me one of these and an LCD and I will self-insert this into my body for the "advancment" of science or the "curiously sick" side show expeirnce. In exchange for this, I will give you free banner ads on any web page/server I run out of this for the life of the unit.
people will probably think I am fucking around here, this is not a joke. Ship me one of these units and I will self-insert this somewhere into my body somewhat permentably (for the life of the unit or the life of me, or if there is a upgrade avaiable with more cpu, etc). On the creepy side, what would happen if I died with the unit still on, "Hey you got the check out slash dot, they have a web server running from inside some dead guy"
Seriously I am going to get one of these, one way or another and insert it into my body, that would rule. Doom2 24X7, nonstop, dool...
Has anyone else had problems like this?
At my place of work, where are getting a dedicated line from MCI^H^H^H this company, which shalt remain nameless. Anyways, the higher ups pay one huge bag of money to this company for the "full-dedicated solution". The line goes down once in awhile *cough*every fucking month*cough* and I have to call this companies support engineers to get "full-dedicated tech support", which there tech support team is really good by the way, probably because they have ALOT of practice at it.
Anyways, I hear this ALOT
"Ok this is simple, just plug it in and it should work"
"So you going to plug it in"
"Hell no, are you crazy, we have to wait for the local telco techs to get here, I am not allowed to touch this line"
This one time I remember the line being down for 12+ hours, it took me my entire work day just to find and convince a support engineer that this was HIS line and HE should of been working on it.
"Have you tried calling the local telco? you should try them first"
"Uh, we got the complete package from you guys, we pay you guys and we never even talked to the local telco, your sales person said that you guys handled the local telco"
"Oh, now that is your problem there son, you listened to the sale person. You just got the block them out."
Lets look at this, most 20-25 year old are out of college with SOME expeirnce, but they have some advantages over gurus.
1) they are 20 some, they can work 16 hours staight 5-6 days a week with nothing more than a case of mountain dew per day, sure you CAN do this at 40 years old, but it is more difficult.
2) they have the newest and coolest buzzwords on their resumes.
3) they will work cheaper.
4) they ussually don't have a family to support and are more likely to re-locate.
All of this is based of my Stero-typical sixth sense, the above points MAY not be true, but this is what I found.
Seriously, most 20-25 year olders without a family will be happy if they can have a cool car, pay rent, play a game of quake when they get brunt out. Most companies are cool with this.
IMHO it was a really good interview and Lars seemed like he was well prepared for it, but one thing I didn't get is this question:
7) Skip the Record Company
by cwhicks
How much money do you get from the sale of each CD, and how much goes to the record company?
Did anyone else notice that Lars dodged that question better then Bill Clinton and Bush combined? Slick one that Lars is, have to watch him or he'll get away from ya. I would like to get a direct answer from him. Wonder if his Label has him under some non-disclose agreement about that type of stuff??
ATI cards are nice (for 2d only), ATI Xpert types for example. Sure they are only and they suck for anytype of gaming, but they do have strong points. For example, this ATI Xpert 98 (8 megs) really kicks ass (for everything but games). It is well support under X (Have got it to work under both Linux and OpenBSD), works great under SVGA (Linux only), support under BEos and works well under Windows9* (haven't tested NT).
In it's day it ran about $80, you could probably pick one up now for about $50 I could bet. Nice cards, it has worked under all envoirments I have throwen at it (expect quake2, which sucks in anything over 640x480, but is playable at 640x480, doom and Age of the Empires looks nice under it, Herteric 2 is EXTREMELY slow even with all eye candy turned off).
So their balls smell like grass, what is the big deal?
From my personal expeirnce, most IDE that I have used (on any platform) kinda blow. Every IDE I have used up to this point REQUIRED you to use the mouse. Which is really annonying if you right in middle of a peice of code.
With [insert_favorite_text_edit] (mine is vi) you bang out a couple keystrokes and you can quickly do about anything from compling it, to running it, etc, etc without leaving the keyboard.
It has became like second nature or a habit
esc:w:!./program_name
when writting and debugging perl scripts, takes 1 second, 2 at most. Most IDE (haven't used many for perl) take 2-10 mouse clicks to compile and run the program, takes 5 to 20 seconds at most.
Personally I just find IDE uncomfortable compared to vi, virtual consoles and bash
Hell most of the type I have a virual console open with bash or tcsh as the shell and to say compile or run the program I could just switch to the console and press the up key and enter and get a full screen output, not one of those tiny little windows
Ctrl+Alt+F2 [up] [enter]
Just habit I guess
Plus awhere I am at, the development envoirment doesn't change, wheather it be Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris, etc. etc they all got vi and the say GNU goodies everyone has come to love (Perl, GCC, Python)