Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but my version of
the GIMP (1.2.1,
default version that comes with RH7.2) has the
ability to decompose the image into CMYK: right
click, image, mode, decompose; then up pops a
dialog box to extract the channels into RGB, HSV,
CMY, CMYK, or Alpha. I chose CMYK and got four
mono images for each of the channels.
(talking to myself again...) Uhh, never mind.
Found one at the local walmart. They had 3 cubes
when I called at 11am; two by the time I got there,
and judging by the crowds, probably none now.
What's this about every store in town having gamecubes in stock??? Not in this town:-(
The only online places I've been able to locate the darn thing (new) have been toysrus.com and walmart.com (no links, they get enough publicity already). And the former has some scheme going
on where you have to check daily for "24 hours notice of our next sale" of cubes. Grr. Don't
even talk to me about used ones; darn scalpers
for the most part with outrageous prices. Double grr.
As I have a 14yo son who is very antsy to get a gamecube for Christmas, I'm eager to hear
from ya if you know anyplace near Central Virginia that has one.
Actually, it's usually a sign that your computer doesn't support the charset the designer used, or that your browser is set to the wrong charset.
Well, then the designer didn't write it for
the ISO-8859-1 (Western) Character coding. Plus,
the quotes don't show up at all in opera, netscape,
and lynx.
... in the review, that is. On most *nix based
browsers (mozilla, probably netscape too) these
appear as question marks. This is usually a sign
of a document generated in m$ word or some such.
Ever accidentally paste a bunch of crap into your
{x|k|gnome}term when you really
didn't mean to? Heh. Sure you didn't. Riiiight.
Anyway, I picked this up from a colleague in
CHUUG:
export PS1=": \h_\u; "
(the spaces are important).
The handy thing about this (assuming you're
a bash/ksh/zsh/ash/sh user) is that ":" is the
proverbial "ignore me" command, and y'all know
what the semicolon does. So this way, you can cut
and paste whole lines without worrying about any
crap^H^H^H^Hcute metacharacters in your prompt
getting in the way and creating all sorts of
useless crud (for those who use angle brackets).
:...And in the business world the phrase "time equals money"
: has been given the status of a law...
If that's the case, then the business world
should be one of the first
communities demanding that javascript be stripped
from all e-mail clients. Can you spell trade secret, as in leakage thereof, and the losses likely encurred as a
result?
I'm sure the legal department at M$ is as of
now issuing a collective groan "not HIM again!":-)
After what they've said about him in the appeal
of the antitrust case, the man will have to be
a saint to give them a fair trial. OTOH I guess
I think that anyone willing to take on a
behemoth like M$ is a saint anyway...
Sorry, but this isn't news. Go check out the
ADASS conference
proceedings for the last few years; the most recent
meeting was in Boston
(check out the
group photo; that's me in the back row under
the "12":-)
You'll find talk about data pipelines, "the grid", and more.
Of special note is that the technologies behind
the actual efforts under way right now to create
the NVO et al., are overwhelmingly based on Open
Source technology and Unix. The fact that someone
in Microsoft tries to jump on the bandwagon with
what will presumably turn out to be a closed,
proprietary solution, isn't really news.
AGIS was the backbone provider that tried for
about a year to shield spamming companies like
cyberpromo (run by Sanford "spamford" Wallace of
"junk fax" fame). This was back in 1997.
Because
of unrelenting complaints from people who didn't
want the spam, cyberpromo went broke that year.
AGIS also relented (possibly due to
pressure from their parent company, Alltel;
many of the complaining spam fighters were
stockholders).
:... I thought this was going to be a story about
Transmeta poetry.
: Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Nah. The poetry comes after they have their IPO, right?:-)
Seriously, I wish someone would address some details (like XF86Config settings, etc.) to help
all the geeks out here who would like to run Linux
on it.
: it extracts all the formatting information
: and encodes it in a special TNEF block...
: the TNEF part...WINMAIL.DAT...
: serve no useful purpose so you can delete them
I have to disagree. Content can be radically changed by formatting information; the
lack of inflection, emphasis, etc. can drastically alter the intended
meaning in a message.
I remember that when Sun first made Solaris x86 available for the Intel platform (for free? Academic sites only?) a colleague told me:
:... Note that the license for the free version of Solaris prevents us from : publishing these benchmarks without clearance from Sun.
This was in the context of some home-brewed benchmarks we were running on various machines. This may not be as insidious as others, but one can only speculate as to why such a clause was invoked in their EULA.
: He did not hijack anyone's box. Can you spell the words OPen Relay.
Just because someone leaves their front door open does not in any way, shape or form justify a crime of trespass. The relay was an innocent, if somewhat naive, third party and the owners thereof should IMHO be entitled to triple damages.
First off, IANAI (I Am Not An Author) but my Significant Other is. So I think I can contribute something here.
aliastnb asks
: "I'm currently about halfway through writing my first novel. : After the release of books to the net by such people as Stephen King
Stephen King is a Johnny-come-lately to the world of electronic publishing. There are several publishers already out there that cater to electronic/on-line books, such as New Concepts, EBooksOnThe.NET, Diskus, and so on. Some of them have been in business for several years, and there are many authors who have their works published by these companies. Also realize that the so-called phenomenal success King had with that (60 page) book was mainly because they gave it away. I'll bet the sales receipts would show a lot fewer than half a million copies from paying customers.
: I'm wondering if it might be worth my while to cut out the middleman, : ie the publisher and release the book online.
The difficulies you'll face with this are:
How to get payment for the work, assuming you're not giving it away for free. Shopping Cart type software is almost essential, and thence you get to deal with major credit card companies.
Promotion. A good publisher will help you with this, though the companies that do mostly or exclusively electronic works will likely not have as many resources as the titans (big publishing houses based in New York).
I know of some authors who have "gone it alone" and one or two of these have had some modest success. Others have not. YMMV.
:...I'd like to be able to get some sort of reward for my efforts, : ie minimise the amount of unpaid-for copies made of the book
Then I would recommend you hunt around for a good electronic publisher.
: and release it to a multi-platform environment - not just Windows : software but Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc. Are these goals mutually exclusive
No. Most "e-books" are released in HTML or PDF format, which are readable anywhere (just about). There's a palm pilot format too, but that doesn't strike me as a good platform for serious readers; and there's the Rocket Book Reader, but that requires a M$ system and the format is closed and proprietary. The new Crusoe based web pads will IMHO be far better at this sort of thing (and if they are wildly successful, may well create a huge new market for electronic books). Besides, they're based on Linux:-)
Many of the electronic publishers are also dipping their toes in print-on-demand technology. In this way, you could get the best of both worlds. There have also been many (apocryphal) stories going around about big (dead tree) publishers picking up e-published authors after said authors become successful and have a good book or two out there.
Not only is M$ a founding member of ATL itself, but they're behind some of the other ATL members too, e.g., ACT. They're heavily involved in others, e.g., Clarity.
There's more (but I don't think I can stomach any more right-wing conservative propaganda. Yikes.
Doesn't this picture essentially put total control over what media is offered in the hands of too few companies (large ones at that)?
From a technical perspective, I like your solution. But where does the small, innovative content producer fit into the scheme? Isn't that what many of us really like about the web, the many-to-many aspect where anyone can publish a web page, book, even a movie or album online without having to get approval from some bureaucrat in a huge corporation?
Giving large corporations control over how the royalties are divvied up among their artists in a scheme like this will only end up hurting the artists. IMHO of course.
Before you consider ANY surgery, IMNSHO anyone exhibiting symptoms of CTS needs to get this book and read it, cover to cover. It was written by an MD specializing in Musician's injuries, and someone who actually got RSI.
Emil Pascarelli and Deborah Quilter
Repetitive Strain Injury
ISBN 0-471-59533-0
My S.O. had RSI symptoms and came real close to having surgery, but between this book and a specialist MD locally whose expertise was with athletic injuries, she avoided it. Behaviour modification (as in: keep yer dang wrists straight!) was the key.
"
...But its [Linux's] software still requires a great deal more technical knowledge than does Windows NT..."
That's a crock. To properly set up NT in a networked environment requires just as much, if not more expertise and work than it does to set up a Linux box in the same environment. IMNSHO of course.
I also wonder how seriously the mainstream press takes the "World Domination" thing. Probably with too much of a straight face:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but my version of the GIMP (1.2.1, default version that comes with RH7.2) has the ability to decompose the image into CMYK: right click, image, mode, decompose; then up pops a dialog box to extract the channels into RGB, HSV, CMY, CMYK, or Alpha. I chose CMYK and got four mono images for each of the channels.
Cancel that. Found one.
(talking to myself again...) Uhh, never mind. Found one at the local walmart. They had 3 cubes when I called at 11am; two by the time I got there, and judging by the crowds, probably none now.
Please drop me a note; I'm in Central VA and looking for a GCN. Which best buy????
TIA.
What's this about every store in town having gamecubes in stock??? Not in this town :-(
The only online places I've been able to locate the darn thing (new) have been toysrus.com and walmart.com (no links, they get enough publicity already). And the former has some scheme going on where you have to check daily for "24 hours notice of our next sale" of cubes. Grr. Don't even talk to me about used ones; darn scalpers for the most part with outrageous prices. Double grr.
As I have a 14yo son who is very antsy to get a gamecube for Christmas, I'm eager to hear from ya if you know anyplace near Central Virginia that has one.
Well, then the designer didn't write it for the ISO-8859-1 (Western) Character coding. Plus, the quotes don't show up at all in opera, netscape, and lynx.
... in the review, that is. On most *nix based browsers (mozilla, probably netscape too) these appear as question marks. This is usually a sign of a document generated in m$ word or some such.
Anyway, I picked this up from a colleague in CHUUG:
(the spaces are important). The handy thing about this (assuming you're a bash/ksh/zsh/ash/sh user) is that ":" is the proverbial "ignore me" command, and y'all know what the semicolon does. So this way, you can cut and paste whole lines without worrying about any crap^H^H^H^Hcute metacharacters in your prompt getting in the way and creating all sorts of useless crud (for those who use angle brackets).
: has been given the status of a law...
If that's the case, then the business world should be one of the first communities demanding that javascript be stripped from all e-mail clients. Can you spell trade secret, as in leakage thereof, and the losses likely encurred as a result?
After what they've said about him in the appeal of the antitrust case, the man will have to be a saint to give them a fair trial. OTOH I guess I think that anyone willing to take on a behemoth like M$ is a saint anyway...
You'll find talk about data pipelines, " the grid ", and more. Of special note is that the technologies behind the actual efforts under way right now to create the NVO et al., are overwhelmingly based on Open Source technology and Unix. The fact that someone in Microsoft tries to jump on the bandwagon with what will presumably turn out to be a closed, proprietary solution, isn't really news.
Because of unrelenting complaints from people who didn't want the spam, cyberpromo went broke that year. AGIS also relented (possibly due to pressure from their parent company, Alltel; many of the complaining spam fighters were stockholders).
AT&T and PSI should take a lesson from history.
- Bloody " I hate spam " Peasant.
: Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Nah. The poetry comes after they have their IPO, right? :-)
Seriously, I wish someone would address some details (like XF86Config settings, etc.) to help all the geeks out here who would like to run Linux on it.
: it extracts all the formatting information
: and encodes it in a special TNEF block...
: the TNEF part...WINMAIL.DAT...
: serve no useful purpose so you can delete them
I have to disagree. Content can be radically changed by formatting information; the lack of inflection, emphasis, etc. can drastically alter the intended meaning in a message.
- Bloody Peasant
: ... Note that the license for the free version of Solaris prevents us from
: publishing these benchmarks without clearance from Sun.
This was in the context of some home-brewed benchmarks we were running on various machines. This may not be as insidious as others, but one can only speculate as to why such a clause was invoked in their EULA.
- Pat.: First off, IANAI (I Am Not An Author)
Nor can I spell, apparently. That should read IANAA. Maybe IAAI (I am an idiot)... :-P
Duh.
: He did not hijack anyone's box. Can you spell the words OPen Relay.
Just because someone leaves their front door open does not in any way, shape or form justify a crime of trespass. The relay was an innocent, if somewhat naive, third party and the owners thereof should IMHO be entitled to triple damages.
Just MHO of course. I don't like spam.
Pat
aliastnb asksFirst off, IANAI (I Am Not An Author) but my Significant Other is. So I think I can contribute something here.
: "I'm currently about halfway through writing my first novel.
: After the release of books to the net by such people as Stephen King
Stephen King is a Johnny-come-lately to the world of electronic publishing. There are several publishers already out there that cater to electronic/on-line books, such as New Concepts, EBooksOnThe.NET, Diskus, and so on. Some of them have been in business for several years, and there are many authors who have their works published by these companies. Also realize that the so-called phenomenal success King had with that (60 page) book was mainly because they gave it away. I'll bet the sales receipts would show a lot fewer than half a million copies from paying customers.
: I'm wondering if it might be worth my while to cut out the middleman,
: ie the publisher and release the book online.
The difficulies you'll face with this are:
I know of some authors who have "gone it alone" and one or two of these have had some modest success. Others have not. YMMV.
: ...I'd like to be able to get some sort of reward for my efforts,
: ie minimise the amount of unpaid-for copies made of the book
Then I would recommend you hunt around for a good electronic publisher.
: and release it to a multi-platform environment - not just Windows
: software but Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc. Are these goals mutually exclusive
No. Most "e-books" are released in HTML or PDF format, which are readable anywhere (just about). There's a palm pilot format too, but that doesn't strike me as a good platform for serious readers; and there's the Rocket Book Reader, but that requires a M$ system and the format is closed and proprietary. The new Crusoe based web pads will IMHO be far better at this sort of thing (and if they are wildly successful, may well create a huge new market for electronic books). Besides, they're based on Linux :-)
Many of the electronic publishers are also dipping their toes in print-on-demand technology. In this way, you could get the best of both worlds. There have also been many (apocryphal) stories going around about big (dead tree) publishers picking up e-published authors after said authors become successful and have a good book or two out there.
- Pat Murphy
Not only is M$ a founding member of ATL itself, but they're behind some of the other ATL members too, e.g., ACT. They're heavily involved in others, e.g., Clarity.
There's more (but I don't think I can stomach any more right-wing conservative propaganda. Yikes.
From a technical perspective, I like your solution. But where does the small, innovative content producer fit into the scheme? Isn't that what many of us really like about the web, the many-to-many aspect where anyone can publish a web page, book, even a movie or album online without having to get approval from some bureaucrat in a huge corporation?
Giving large corporations control over how the royalties are divvied up among their artists in a scheme like this will only end up hurting the artists. IMHO of course.
RSI is not to be taken lightly.
I also wonder how seriously the mainstream press takes the "World Domination" thing. Probably with too much of a straight face :-)
A Parsec is 3.26 Light Years.
Therefore, a Megaparsec is 3.26 Million light years, not 3.26 billion :-)
Let's see what people are actually using,
or maybe what they want to use.
Subject says it all.