I had thought of options to break the file up myself, but I wasn't sure of the definition of "file materials". Is that any one file or does that include an entire package for a single project that may or may not be broken into separate volumes? It would seem like something like RAR would violate the spirit of the law in any case.
I've had the typical sort of experiences with customs and the DMV. And, the US Postal service has given me a few headaches. But otherwise I'd say that I usually get pretty friendly treatment.
Used computer stores generally reformat hard drives before they resell computers. Imagine the fate of a store that resells a computer loaded with internet porn.
*nix
There were also the Sorcery! books from Steve Jackson and the Tolkien Quest Games based on I.C.E.'s MERP rules. I didn't think much of the Tolkien Quest series. They had an interesting idea though. They used a hexagonal map to tell the player what paragraph to read rather than just rely on pointers in the text. The Sorcery! books were a little more like Choose Your Own Adventure but as brilliant as they were lame. I remember hearing once that they were based on an earlier project by Steve Jackson. If anyone can remember what they were titled they will be really really cool in my book:)
GNUstep is an API, not a window manager. From the www.gnustep.org home page:
GNUstep is an attempt to provide an Object-Oriented application development framework and tool set for use on a wide variety of computer platforms. GNUstep is based on the original OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc. (now Apple).
Perhaps you were thinking of either of the NeXT/OpenSTEP inspired window managers, Window Maker and Afterstep.
I'm no great fan of Carl Sagan, he always came off as a bit self-absorbed to me. But I really do not understand your post. The fraternity hung a sign in lights facing his house with a vulgar message and Dr. Sagan is the one who owes an apology? In what way was their behavior even remotely excuseable and deserving further correspendance with the possible exception of a citation from the city or a letter of reprimand from the dean or the greek counsel?
It sounds cheesy, but I would not be a bit surprised if you were right. This reminds me a lot of the unfortunate name given to Motorola's short-lived Mac clones, StarMax. It was supposed to be star="stellar performance" + max="maximum and or Mac" according to the ad agency who sold them the name.
The company was Master-McNeil for the curious. They were also responsible for FirePower's name, another unfortunate PPC clone maker as well as a long list of other lame monikers which I don't doubt cost their clients a fortune. Is it just me, or does that job look way too easy?
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I really agree with you on the 600 series DeskJets from HP. I think they're the best budget color inkjets on the market.
Don't worry about the suffixes though. When you see the same model number (like the 895) with C, Cse, and Cxi suffixes they are all the same printer. The C model is for the Canadians, the Cse is for the big chains, and the Cxi is for the small HP reseller shops. The same is often true for two printers that seem identical spec-wise but one has a model number incremented by two. The 720 and the 722 are an example. Sometimes the software bundles are different, but its the same printer in both boxes.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I am not sure if the designer gave that any thought. But you can bet that the people who are backing did and are gonna use that (subtly mind you) in their marketing.
If GNOME served no purpose other than to encourage Troll Tech to open QT then I'd say in the big scheme of things that the redundancy of the GNOME effort was worthwhile. But, I think that's just scratching the surface of the advantages that two GUI's competing for Linux can give us as long as both sides stride for interpretability.
Exactly, the more tasks that we want to be able to efficiently address with computers the more tools we need. Scott was right too, the open source movement is a kind of chaos, but it is not chaotic enough to produce all the variations that even our current needs demand. I would love to have more access to more hardware platforms, operating systems, developent paradigms (neither 'cathedral' nor 'bazaar' could address all needs better than the other in every case), API's, development tools, etc. To me the ideal future isn't world domination by any OS (regardless of how open or flexible it may be), hardware platform, etc. but a chaos of options each evolving in their own directions by their own means but made more or less interchangeable by the adherence to a well thought out series of open standards.
Remember, evolution isn't about the dominance of one species but the increase in complexity and bio-diversity of the ecosystem as a whole. It is this increase which enables further evolution and bifurcation of the member species and thus the emergence of new possibilities.
Apple has done a lot of things to make people like us hate them. A few broken promises about their various proposed PowerPC native OS's come to mind. But the users they have catered to far better than any other computer company are the newbies, artists, children, persons with various disabilities, and others who want to get the most possible use out of a computer with the least possible investment of their time. Computers and the internet are far to important in our world to deny anyone any degree of access to them. If MacOS gives many people better access to these resources either directly through the use of Apple products or indirectly through the use of products that borrow their design from Apple innovations then that is enough reason for us to accept Apple, even if we may not like Apple for other reasons. Remember, that is the very reason why we (I think I'm speaking for many/.ers here) like Linux and the BSD's so much is that they give us much more access to those same resources. It's just that for us, access to the internet means something a little different than it does for most Mac users. Of course, I would love for some company or organization comes to fulfill the same role that Apple has over the past 20 years in a way that is a little less reprehensible. I just don't see that happening anytime soon.
So yank out the power supply and take it to the closest computer store with people who actually know how to build and repair PC's. All of the Power Computing systems I've seen use PC standard PS/2 power supplies. If you show your power supply to someone who knows what to look for they should be able to tell you if you can swap yours out for a generic one. It shouldn't cost you more than $50 and hopefully that'll carry you over til when the G4's ship.
On the other hand, if you need to slap together a quick and dirty X86, you could likewise keep your current hard drive and CD-ROM drive (maybe with a cheap Linux compataible SCSI2 card if either is SCSI) and probably buy the rest of the parts you need (even good quality ones) for about $500.
I had the same problem with samba. After trying a few different things I commented out the "printcap name" and "load printers" options and set "printing = bsd", and now all is fine.
My wife and I had tickets to see it again last night. (We saw it first on opening day like all good Star Wars fans.) But, we decided to stay home and rent Rush Hour instead.
Ben didn't say that Anakin wasn't Vader but that Vader wasn't Anakin. That is, he said that there was no longer any Anakin Skywalker left in the man called Darth Vader. (Which, as we all know, was wrong anyway.) He never addressed the issue that we are discussing here.
I try to never tear movies apart. I sincerely want to enjoy myself and will try to give the movie every chance to entertain me. But Lucas really blew it with this one. He had all the time, talent, technology, and money to make this movie the best Episode yet. Instead, he gives us a cheesy spoof of his previous films with way too much reliance on CGI. Armaggedon was just bad. This movie actually pissed me off. And I'm not Asian, Jamiacan, or Sicillian/Itallian. Who were the people who worked on this movie? Were they all a bunch of yesmen afraid to question the great George Lucas?
And here's couple you can add to your list:
101. How does a nine year old slave have the resources to build a robot and a pod racer and without his master even knowing about the racer?
102. Jabba in the remastered New Hope is much smaller and more mobile than the Return of the Jedi Jabba. I could buy that because he had a few years to add the pounds. But here, he is as big as ever. What is this, yo-yo dieting?
Sorry, but Anakin IS Darth Vader, at least in the sense that he is destined to become Darth Vader, and should behave accordingly. Also remember, he is a slave child (typically that implies a life of hardship and harsh discipline) and is a phenomenal prodigy (which is often associated with an unusually mature demeanor).
And, since we're on the subject, how the hell does a slave boy have the time and resources to build a droid either a or pod-racer much less both?
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I had thought of options to break the file up myself, but I wasn't sure of the definition of "file materials". Is that any one file or does that include an entire package for a single project that may or may not be broken into separate volumes? It would seem like something like RAR would violate the spirit of the law in any case.
Can try another compression program? Maybe bzip2 will get you under the magic 100MB.
I've had the typical sort of experiences with customs and the DMV. And, the US Postal service has given me a few headaches. But otherwise I'd say that I usually get pretty friendly treatment.
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Used computer stores generally reformat hard drives before they resell computers. Imagine the fate of a store that resells a computer loaded with internet porn. *nix
There were also the Sorcery! books from Steve Jackson and the Tolkien Quest Games based on I.C.E.'s MERP rules. I didn't think much of the Tolkien Quest series. They had an interesting idea though. They used a hexagonal map to tell the player what paragraph to read rather than just rely on pointers in the text. The Sorcery! books were a little more like Choose Your Own Adventure but as brilliant as they were lame. I remember hearing once that they were based on an earlier project by Steve Jackson. If anyone can remember what they were titled they will be really really cool in my book :)
Then put . in your PATH.
GNUstep is an API, not a window manager. From the www.gnustep.org home page:
GNUstep is an attempt to provide an Object-Oriented application development framework and tool set for use on a wide variety of computer platforms. GNUstep is based on the original OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc. (now Apple).
Perhaps you were thinking of either of the NeXT/OpenSTEP inspired window managers, Window Maker and Afterstep.
I'm no great fan of Carl Sagan, he always came off as a bit self-absorbed to me. But I really do not understand your post. The fraternity hung a sign in lights facing his house with a vulgar message and Dr. Sagan is the one who owes an apology? In what way was their behavior even remotely excuseable and deserving further correspendance with the possible exception of a citation from the city or a letter of reprimand from the dean or the greek counsel?
It sounds cheesy, but I would not be a bit surprised if you were right. This reminds me a lot of the unfortunate name given to Motorola's short-lived Mac clones, StarMax. It was supposed to be star="stellar performance" + max="maximum and or Mac" according to the ad agency who sold them the name.
The company was Master-McNeil for the curious. They were also responsible for FirePower's name, another unfortunate PPC clone maker as well as a long list of other lame monikers which I don't doubt cost their clients a fortune. Is it just me, or does that job look way too easy?
I really agree with you on the 600 series DeskJets from HP. I think they're the best budget color inkjets on the market.
Don't worry about the suffixes though. When you see the same model number (like the 895) with C, Cse, and Cxi suffixes they are all the same printer. The C model is for the Canadians, the Cse is for the big chains, and the Cxi is for the small HP reseller shops. The same is often true for two printers that seem identical spec-wise but one has a model number incremented by two. The 720 and the 722 are an example. Sometimes the software bundles are different, but its the same printer in both boxes.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I am not sure if the designer gave that any thought. But you can bet that the people who are backing did and are gonna use that (subtly mind you) in their marketing.
If GNOME served no purpose other than to encourage Troll Tech to open QT then I'd say in the big scheme of things that the redundancy of the GNOME effort was worthwhile. But, I think that's just scratching the surface of the advantages that two GUI's competing for Linux can give us as long as both sides stride for interpretability.
Exactly, the more tasks that we want to be able to efficiently address with computers the more tools we need. Scott was right too, the open source movement is a kind of chaos, but it is not chaotic enough to produce all the variations that even our current needs demand. I would love to have more access to more hardware platforms, operating systems, developent paradigms (neither 'cathedral' nor 'bazaar' could address all needs better than the other in every case), API's, development tools, etc. To me the ideal future isn't world domination by any OS (regardless of how open or flexible it may be), hardware platform, etc. but a chaos of options each evolving in their own directions by their own means but made more or less interchangeable by the adherence to a well thought out series of open standards.
Remember, evolution isn't about the dominance of one species but the increase in complexity and bio-diversity of the ecosystem as a whole. It is this increase which enables further evolution and bifurcation of the member species and thus the emergence of new possibilities.
Phew.
Apple has done a lot of things to make people like us hate them. A few broken promises about their various proposed PowerPC native OS's come to mind. But the users they have catered to far better than any other computer company are the newbies, artists, children, persons with various disabilities, and others who want to get the most possible use out of a computer with the least possible investment of their time. Computers and the internet are far to important in our world to deny anyone any degree of access to them. If MacOS gives many people better access to these resources either directly through the use of Apple products or indirectly through the use of products that borrow their design from Apple innovations then that is enough reason for us to accept Apple, even if we may not like Apple for other reasons. Remember, that is the very reason why we (I think I'm speaking for many /.ers here) like Linux and the BSD's so much is that they give us much more access to those same resources. It's just that for us, access to the internet means something a little different than it does for most Mac users. Of course, I would love for some company or organization comes to fulfill the same role that Apple has over the past 20 years in a way that is a little less reprehensible. I just don't see that happening anytime soon.
So yank out the power supply and take it to the closest computer store with people who actually know how to build and repair PC's. All of the Power Computing systems I've seen use PC standard PS/2 power supplies. If you show your power supply to someone who knows what to look for they should be able to tell you if you can swap yours out for a generic one. It shouldn't cost you more than $50 and hopefully that'll carry you over til when the G4's ship.
On the other hand, if you need to slap together a quick and dirty X86, you could likewise keep your current hard drive and CD-ROM drive (maybe with a cheap Linux compataible SCSI2 card if either is SCSI) and probably buy the rest of the parts you need (even good quality ones) for about $500.
I had the same problem with samba. After trying a few different things I commented out the "printcap name" and "load printers" options and set "printing = bsd", and now all is fine.
My wife and I had tickets to see it again last night. (We saw it first on opening day like all good Star Wars fans.) But, we decided to stay home and rent Rush Hour instead.
Ben didn't say that Anakin wasn't Vader but that Vader wasn't Anakin. That is, he said that there was no longer any Anakin Skywalker left in the man called Darth Vader. (Which, as we all know, was wrong anyway.) He never addressed the issue that we are discussing here.
The criticism scales with the hype.
I try to never tear movies apart. I sincerely want to enjoy myself and will try to give the movie every chance to entertain me. But Lucas really blew it with this one. He had all the time, talent, technology, and money to make this movie the best Episode yet. Instead, he gives us a cheesy spoof of his previous films with way too much reliance on CGI. Armaggedon was just bad. This movie actually pissed me off. And I'm not Asian, Jamiacan, or Sicillian/Itallian. Who were the people who worked on this movie? Were they all a bunch of yesmen afraid to question the great George Lucas?
And here's couple you can add to your list:
101. How does a nine year old slave have the resources to build a robot and a pod racer and without his master even knowing about the racer?
102. Jabba in the remastered New Hope is much smaller and more mobile than the Return of the Jedi Jabba. I could buy that because he had a few years to add the pounds. But here, he is as big as ever. What is this, yo-yo dieting?
Sorry, but Anakin IS Darth Vader, at least in the sense that he is destined to become Darth Vader, and should behave accordingly. Also remember, he is a slave child (typically that implies a life of hardship and harsh discipline) and is a phenomenal prodigy (which is often associated with an unusually mature demeanor).
And, since we're on the subject, how the hell does a slave boy have the time and resources to build a droid either a or pod-racer much less both?