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A couple of weeks ago, I bought a new motherboard, an Asus P5E-VM HDMI, one of the very very few boards on the market with dual-head on-board Intel graphics. I wanted Intel because I've had good experiences with their drivers recently, because I like keithp, and because I'm not a gamer - and I wanted dual-head because I've got two monitors which I used to use with a Radeon.
I had done my research, and I knew there was a problem with the HDMI/DVI port on the board with the latest Intel driver - it's effectively an on-board third-party SVDO chip, rather than an integrated second head. I got the board, I plugged it in, hey presto the second (digital) head didn't work. Except that - oh, what's this? - a patch was committed last week which fixes the problem. I grabbed the driver from git last night and built it, and I'm now happily working with a stable digital image.
Comet is not, and never has been, part of DSG - they are, in fact, probably the biggest single dedicated electrical-store competitor to DSG in the UK...
Uh... surely it's exactly that simple? What the OP is saying is that in the case of the young musician tragically killed before their time, the rights would revert to their family for 25 years. In the case of the old musician, who dies at the age of 90 having not had a hit in 30 years, they could continue to collect royalties until the day they die, at which point the copyrights would also expire. In the case of the old musician whose last hit was 2 years ago, when they die any recordings less than 25 years old would revert to their family, while any older copyrights would expire.
Obviously it's a simplification and things like corporate copyrights would complicate things, but the principle of "life or a minimum term, whichever is longer" seems like a sane starting point to me.
And yes, until I emigrated last year, meaning a major home clear-out, I also had old floppy boxes with stacks of a*, d*, n* disks in them. I'll have to grab me a Slack 12, although I had been thinking of trying Gentoo next, for a sheer seat-of-pants setup...
The distribution and libraries are all open source, published and out there - and there's already a simulator which can do things like the dual-mode screen. Have a hunt around their Wiki - particularly the software section for you, I'd guess, and you should find everything you want. People to develop software for it is exactly what they want and need from us - go ahead, jump in!
Picasa is a 100% non-native application. No-one is trying to pretend that it isn't. Things like libgphoto are used when wine implements a windows device management interface, to provide support for that interface on Linux in an open way, but it's wine that's using the gphoto stuff, not picasa. Again, for the notification area stuff, that's just wine providing support for the windows interface and implementing it in terms of the Linux interface - that's what wine does. Picasa is still just using a windows interface.
And yes, they contributed lots to wine, and that's a good thing for which they deserve credit. I would quite like to see some reasoning for using wine and a non-native binary, rather than compiling with winelib...
I see two noticable differences between the Python and Ruby examples:
Python:
list.append(13)
for x in list:
print x
Ruby:
list << 13
list.each do |x|
puts x
end
The first difference is in punctuation: The Ruby has |x| and << - okay, I'm a Python coder, so : and append() make sense to me, but it does seem that the Python is closer to English, and therefore easier to understand without knowing the syntax, and, I think, easier to think in. The other difference is in indentation: Actually, there's no difference in the indentation at all, but Ruby has the redundant 'end' statement after the code block. Any coder worth the name will indent just like that anyway - particularly in a language which doesn't use () or {} or something similar to mark code blocks - so there's just no need for the 'end' to mark the end of indentation.
A very quick look at BB's profile makes it perfectly obvious what the problem is. This site was founded on the basis of discussion - not publication. Since 2005/09/23 BB has made a total of 8 comments, but has had a total of 20 stories posted. That ratio is completely wrong - BB is not an active participant in the community.
Nope, I don't post so much nowadays either - mainly because the groupmind here and I have drifted apart over the years. That could be because my interests have changed, or because the groupmind's interests have changed - most likely, both. I've posted many more times than BB over the years, however, and never had a submission accepted - and I gave up trying long ago - I now stick to more genuine community sites/lists/channels/etc. I remember when, for example, any time anyone linked to/. it was a cause for celebration, unless they linked with the dreaded www added on the front of the URL. The style - though not, to a significant extent, the look - of the site has changed a lot since the early days, but I do remember when there were articles here, interviews, Geeks in Space (a podcast!) - and vaguely visible editors who were a part of the community.
Until early this year, I worked for Sun in the UK. They decided, in their infinite lack-of-wisdom, to close my office and lay everyone off (and have been trying to hire some people back ever since realising what a stupid move that was), pretty much because they thought they could replace us with much cheaper employees in Bejing.
So I went and got myself a job in Hong Kong - like Bejing, only a lot more expensive, widely English-speaking, and bloody civilised:-) And, no joking, I'm off to hear RMS speak here in a few minutes - I'm interested more in the reaction to him from the audience than what he has to say - not because I'm not interested in what he has to say, but because I've heard him say it before...
I've not been able to get in since Sunday, but all my friends seem to be able to get in fine. I've tried with multiple browsers from multiple computers running multiple OSs on multiple continents, with cookies/cache cleared where needed...
I tried mailing a help address, but all I got back was a "We can't reply to mail sent to this address, but here's how to reset your password" which didn't really help.
Do me a favour, let me know if you get back in or find any help anywhere...
FOSDEM is the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, a free, grassroots, um, free and open source software conference which takes place in Brussels every February. It's an intensely communal event which gathers people from all over Europe (I'm part of a group which has gone over from the UK for the past few years) for a weekend of technical stuff, beer, socialising, beer, networking, beer, and of course Belgian beer. Amongst other things, they have a tradition of posting interviews with as many of the speakers as they can before the conference, a lot of the conference is webcast live or recorded, and the annual GNU Free Software award has been announced and presented there for the past few years, which normally means a bonus high-profile speaker:-)
In short, it's a blast, network conjestion excepted, and we'll be at Roy d'Espagne as usual on Friday night...
Speaking on behalf of a million slackers worldwide, trust me when I say that if it comes to it, Pat will not suffer for lack of funds. I know I've had far more value from him over the past 9 years than I've paid him, and frankly, if he needs the rest paid, all he has to do is call. We may not be the most coherent part of the Linux community, but we're an old and deep part, and we care for our own.
Lynx has (optionally) supported https for many years now - I used to use it for my online banking (one of the reasons I'm impressed by my bank's service - it uses javascript and stuff, but works fine without it) before I caught this nasty GUI bug...
And, not that it's an issue around here anymore, can you imagine what an open-plan office full of people talking (swearing, pleading, etc.) at their computer would be like? Nightmare... particularly if some of them are Scottish...
My guess is it wouldn't be too hard, except there's no mic.
Except, of course... there is a mic... One of the things which has been touted for the DS is voice recognition - I don't know how well that might work, but apparently at least one of the 'launch' games (Feel the Magic) uses the mic...
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I second this - I use videolan, client-to-client, to send TV around my home network from a Linux PC to a Mac OS X Powerbook, over wired and wireless networks. I do it at high bitrate, high quality, but I'm sure it'd work fine at lower bitrate and lower quality.
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Can I help you youngsters with something?
Wow, don't see many 3-digiters around these days! Pretty much stopped reading anything but the RSS feed years ago, myself...
Meh, kids of today!
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I had done my research, and I knew there was a problem with the HDMI/DVI port on the board with the latest Intel driver - it's effectively an on-board third-party SVDO chip, rather than an integrated second head. I got the board, I plugged it in, hey presto the second (digital) head didn't work. Except that - oh, what's this? - a patch was committed last week which fixes the problem. I grabbed the driver from git last night and built it, and I'm now happily working with a stable digital image.
Seems like it's working okay to me.
Although mostly I've enjoyed rotating the display 90 degrees(with xrandr) and using it as an ebook.
Or, of course, you could use FBReader, the quite decent ebook reader software supplied with the system, and hit 'r' to rotate the screen...
Comet is not, and never has been, part of DSG - they are, in fact, probably the biggest single dedicated electrical-store competitor to DSG in the UK...
Obviously it's a simplification and things like corporate copyrights would complicate things, but the principle of "life or a minimum term, whichever is longer" seems like a sane starting point to me.
And yes, until I emigrated last year, meaning a major home clear-out, I also had old floppy boxes with stacks of a*, d*, n* disks in them. I'll have to grab me a Slack 12, although I had been thinking of trying Gentoo next, for a sheer seat-of-pants setup...
The distribution and libraries are all open source, published and out there - and there's already a simulator which can do things like the dual-mode screen. Have a hunt around their Wiki - particularly the software section for you, I'd guess, and you should find everything you want. People to develop software for it is exactly what they want and need from us - go ahead, jump in!
Picasa is a 100% non-native application. No-one is trying to pretend that it isn't. Things like libgphoto are used when wine implements a windows device management interface, to provide support for that interface on Linux in an open way, but it's wine that's using the gphoto stuff, not picasa. Again, for the notification area stuff, that's just wine providing support for the windows interface and implementing it in terms of the Linux interface - that's what wine does. Picasa is still just using a windows interface.
And yes, they contributed lots to wine, and that's a good thing for which they deserve credit. I would quite like to see some reasoning for using wine and a non-native binary, rather than compiling with winelib...
I see two noticable differences between the Python and Ruby examples:
Python:
list.append(13)
for x in list:
print x
Ruby:
list << 13
list.each do |x|
puts x
end
The first difference is in punctuation: The Ruby has |x| and << - okay, I'm a Python coder, so : and append() make sense to me, but it does seem that the Python is closer to English, and therefore easier to understand without knowing the syntax, and, I think, easier to think in.
The other difference is in indentation: Actually, there's no difference in the indentation at all, but Ruby has the redundant 'end' statement after the code block. Any coder worth the name will indent just like that anyway - particularly in a language which doesn't use () or {} or something similar to mark code blocks - so there's just no need for the 'end' to mark the end of indentation.
Nope, I don't post so much nowadays either - mainly because the groupmind here and I have drifted apart over the years. That could be because my interests have changed, or because the groupmind's interests have changed - most likely, both. I've posted many more times than BB over the years, however, and never had a submission accepted - and I gave up trying long ago - I now stick to more genuine community sites/lists/channels/etc. I remember when, for example, any time anyone linked to /. it was a cause for celebration, unless they linked with the dreaded www added on the front of the URL. The style - though not, to a significant extent, the look - of the site has changed a lot since the early days, but I do remember when there were articles here, interviews, Geeks in Space (a podcast!) - and vaguely visible editors who were a part of the community.
I guess things changed.
Bah! Newbies...
I offshored myself.
:-) And, no joking, I'm off to hear RMS speak here in a few minutes - I'm interested more in the reaction to him from the audience than what he has to say - not because I'm not interested in what he has to say, but because I've heard him say it before...
Until early this year, I worked for Sun in the UK. They decided, in their infinite lack-of-wisdom, to close my office and lay everyone off (and have been trying to hire some people back ever since realising what a stupid move that was), pretty much because they thought they could replace us with much cheaper employees in Bejing.
So I went and got myself a job in Hong Kong - like Bejing, only a lot more expensive, widely English-speaking, and bloody civilised
AH! So it's not just me!
I've not been able to get in since Sunday, but all my friends seem to be able to get in fine. I've tried with multiple browsers from multiple computers running multiple OSs on multiple continents, with cookies/cache cleared where needed...
I tried mailing a help address, but all I got back was a "We can't reply to mail sent to this address, but here's how to reset your password" which didn't really help.
Do me a favour, let me know if you get back in or find any help anywhere...
FOSDEM is the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, a free, grassroots, um, free and open source software conference which takes place in Brussels every February. It's an intensely communal event which gathers people from all over Europe (I'm part of a group which has gone over from the UK for the past few years) for a weekend of technical stuff, beer, socialising, beer, networking, beer, and of course Belgian beer. Amongst other things, they have a tradition of posting interviews with as many of the speakers as they can before the conference, a lot of the conference is webcast live or recorded, and the annual GNU Free Software award has been announced and presented there for the past few years, which normally means a bonus high-profile speaker :-)
In short, it's a blast, network conjestion excepted, and we'll be at Roy d'Espagne as usual on Friday night...
Speaking on behalf of a million slackers worldwide, trust me when I say that if it comes to it, Pat will not suffer for lack of funds. I know I've had far more value from him over the past 9 years than I've paid him, and frankly, if he needs the rest paid, all he has to do is call. We may not be the most coherent part of the Linux community, but we're an old and deep part, and we care for our own.
Lynx has (optionally) supported https for many years now - I used to use it for my online banking (one of the reasons I'm impressed by my bank's service - it uses javascript and stuff, but works fine without it) before I caught this nasty GUI bug...
And, not that it's an issue around here anymore, can you imagine what an open-plan office full of people talking (swearing, pleading, etc.) at their computer would be like? Nightmare... particularly if some of them are Scottish...
I think you'll find mozilla is there in /usr/sfw/bin along with a lot of other useful stuff...
Except, of course... there is a mic... One of the things which has been touted for the DS is voice recognition - I don't know how well that might work, but apparently at least one of the 'launch' games (Feel the Magic) uses the mic...
Duke Nukem 3d for Linux. With TCP/IP networking.
Name a time. And tell your wife that yes, you do have time.
Or alternatively, the right answer is that they're 8 digits... Well, mine is...
I second this - I use videolan, client-to-client, to send TV around my home network from a Linux PC to a Mac OS X Powerbook, over wired and wireless networks. I do it at high bitrate, high quality, but I'm sure it'd work fine at lower bitrate and lower quality.