1) The Euro version of Contra was called "Probotectors" and featured robots. Because obviously a bunch of robots killing aliens is much less violent than two Rambo clones.
2) Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. They're definitely not ninjas.
I'm _amazed_ at how quiet it is... I think the price has dipped even lower than the $110 I paid for it (from newegg.com).
You're right, on both counts. It has dipped a little. I got mine from NewEgg last week for $92 shipped. And it is damn quiet. I burned my first disc with it last night and was amazed that I couldn't hear it. A happy side effect was that it burned my generic 1x media at 2x. w00t!
Lastly, don't forget, competition is a key to innovation. Having various distros competing for market share means they'll compete, and cooperate, meaing a better result for everyone. How can this be bad?
One would think, but for the most part I haven't really noticed that in the Linux community. Each distro seems to focus all their effort into their own implementation of the basic "distro toolset" (Installer, disk partitioning, system management, control panel, etc.) I think it would benefit the community as a whole to be able to take these components and be able to add them to the distro of your choice. For example, one thing I really love about Mandrake is the graphical disk utility, DiskDrake. I think it beats the pants off everything else out there for Linux. Is it possible to get this running easily on another distribution? Doubtful.
I applaud the work that the Debian (or was it Progeny) team has done to try using Red Hat's Anaconda installer system to install Debian. I hope to see more projects like this in the future.
Laugh it up, but Infopath would allow you to define a schema (DocBook) and let you use Word as an engine to enter the data as one gigantic "form".
Caveats: 1) I have no idea how well it would handle "non-form based" data such as this. It seems it was meant for work-flow enhancement for smaller amounts of data than a book. 2) Infopath seems to be really, really expensive. It is probably outside of the budget of any open-source project.
That is, a collection of packages that work together thematically. For example; a simple productivity module which includes mozilla firefox, evolution, and openoffice. Or a multimedia module which includes xmms, mplayer, and a smattering of DVD players. Or a server module, which includes apache, samba, et al.
I mentioned in another thread that Gentoo supports this (and that I didn't know if Debian did or didn't) The Gnome and KDE packages for Gentoo ("emerge gnome" or "emerge kde") are actually "meta-packages" that grab all the core packages for Gnome or KDE and installs them. Throw together some binary packages to go along with this and you've got your components.
I've thought about doing something like this myself. For example, I have a laptop that needs a few laptop-specific tools, and certain configuration files that won't change anytime soon (built-in wifi configuration, for example). So I would put together an ebuild ("emerge thinkpad_r31" or something) that installed all the packages I would want on there. Then if I needed to rebuild my system, one command would grab all the packages I want.
I think as more projects like Project Chinstrap show up, Gentoo's package management will really start to shine.
If you're going emerge precompiled binaries, what's the point in using Gentoo? Why not use a system that has a pretty frigging great packaging system.
While everybody is entitled to their opinion, you may want to actually use the product before disparaging it. Gentoo's package management *is* pretty great, IMO. Gentoo can just as easily handle binary packages. For larger installations, DistCC can be used to compile packages across multiple workstations & servers.
The reason that I think it would make a good starting point is because portage allows for multiple packages to be rolled into a sort of "meta-package" (I have no idea if that's what this is really called). If I type "emerge kde", it will grab not only the kde-libs but also a lot of the core apps & utilities. So while you're free to grab any core packages, you can also group them together. Maybe dpkg has something similar? I don't know, but I think that feature would be perfect for such a modular distribution.
httrack is also your friend. I just found this tool (via the SpiderZilla front-end for Mozilla/Firefox). Did a good job of spidering a couple sites I was having trouble with using wget.
All of this information can be collected for free (and in greater detail, I imagine) on the net. I mean, give me a day on google and a few hours to format it all into a nice pdf, and I could publish a cafepress book with the same info.
You know what I would give to have a whole day to research some of this stuff? Some of us have (more than) full-time jobs, families, kids, etc. I don't always have time to put in a lot of research before I tinker around with something. The book sounded interesting to me just based on the introduction to circuits and soldering, something I've never really done much with in the past.
I say go ahead and try to publish a book on the same subject. Better yet, post some links to some of this information. Spend a day if you have to. I'll check back tommorow;)
It's not like you'll have to worry about stores instituting such a policy anyway... simple economics says that if there is a market for those bare games (there is), they will support that market. As much as I hate seeing the games without their original packaging (except perhaps the SNES, with possibly the worst game packaging of any system) there's not much you can do about it. Perhaps the stores could offer an additional credit or two for games with their box and/or manual.
Having gotten my own house not too long ago, I've realized how much space that stuff takes up. I've actually gotten rid of quite a bit of boxes, or at least broken them down and put them in storage. I'm glad there are places online like MobyGames and The Video Game Museum to document the packaging of these games. And if you're an Amiga fan, don't forget to check out the CAPS project, which is not only providing *exact* replicas of original disks, but also high quality scans of the packaging.
This month's Linux Journal, in the "Cooking with Linux" column, describes how to setup multiple X sessions on the same box. Article is not online (yet?). It was an interesting read though... I had no idea that it was possible. Learn something new everyday.
I've been using Freemind for a few weeks now. I like the idea behind the mind management software. Very freeform, which is the way my brain tends to function. Just don't spend more time organizing your thoughts than you do actual work.
We all know the kids of today are going to do what they want to do, so please teach them about safe gaming. Try stretching a condom over your child's head (just enough to cover the eyes! we don't want to suffocate anybody!)
(All kidding aside, I hope you little one is better soon.)
Same goes for the GameCube also. $40-$50 for most premium titles. One thing the X-Box (and PS2) definitely have over the Cube right now is "Greatest Hits" titles. Nintendo has all of, what... 10 titles? And they're priced at $30, whereas the X-Box and PS2 GH titles are right around $20.
Don't get me wrong, I love my Cube. It's the only "next-gen" console I own right now. But I might be buying a PS2 pretty soon just for those Greatest Hits titles, and possibly an X-Box at $99, just so I can play Project Gotham Racing 1 & 2.
Experts Exchange is the epitome of what defines open vs. closed source products and knowledge.
I agree, but where's the open-source equivalent? Come on, it can't be that hard to put together. I'd love to see something like this that was free to use. I'm sure hosting would be the biggest issue.
The challenge is out there. Somebody do it. Meanwhile, I'll keep reading the Google cache of expert-exchange <grin/>
Separating content and presentation would be a good thing. But the currently supported web standards (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, DOM, CSS) don't let you do it by themselves.
I'd have to disagree with that. Most of the standards movement for web design focuses on "semantic markup". Only headings, paragraphs, and the like should be included here. No fonts, colors, etc. This is your content. Yes it has tags, but when using XHTML 1.0 Strict it is also XML, meaning that an XSLT could be used to generate that content from some XML source on the server if necessary. Using CSS to do placement & styling of elements is very feasible for 95+% of the market.
As others have mentioned, standards compliant != cross-platform. However, standards compliance is very much supported by the technologies you mentioned.
Additional reading: A List Apart - lots of articles on integrating useage of standards-based web design Jeffery Zeldman's Weblog - a big proponent of web standards
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1) The Euro version of Contra was called "Probotectors" and featured robots. Because obviously a bunch of robots killing aliens is much less violent than two Rambo clones.
2) Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. They're definitely not ninjas.
I'm _amazed_ at how quiet it is... I think the price has dipped even lower than the $110 I paid for it (from newegg.com).
You're right, on both counts. It has dipped a little. I got mine from NewEgg last week for $92 shipped. And it is damn quiet. I burned my first disc with it last night and was amazed that I couldn't hear it. A happy side effect was that it burned my generic 1x media at 2x. w00t!
So we've got The Twin Snakes, we've got the mushrooms (Mario Sunshine, sorta).
Now wears the Badger, Badger, Badgers?
Lastly, don't forget, competition is a key to innovation. Having various distros competing for market share means they'll compete, and cooperate, meaing a better result for everyone. How can this be bad?
One would think, but for the most part I haven't really noticed that in the Linux community. Each distro seems to focus all their effort into their own implementation of the basic "distro toolset" (Installer, disk partitioning, system management, control panel, etc.) I think it would benefit the community as a whole to be able to take these components and be able to add them to the distro of your choice. For example, one thing I really love about Mandrake is the graphical disk utility, DiskDrake. I think it beats the pants off everything else out there for Linux. Is it possible to get this running easily on another distribution? Doubtful.
I applaud the work that the Debian (or was it Progeny) team has done to try using Red Hat's Anaconda installer system to install Debian. I hope to see more projects like this in the future.
How about MS Word 2003?
Laugh it up, but Infopath would allow you to define a schema (DocBook) and let you use Word as an engine to enter the data as one gigantic "form".
Caveats:
1) I have no idea how well it would handle "non-form based" data such as this. It seems it was meant for work-flow enhancement for smaller amounts of data than a book.
2) Infopath seems to be really, really expensive. It is probably outside of the budget of any open-source project.
That said, the solution does exist.
have you ever tried to bust into the mozilla code? it's easier to become a mason!
If you mean Perl Mason, then that's *really* saying something!
That is, a collection of packages that work together thematically. For example; a simple productivity module which includes mozilla firefox, evolution, and openoffice. Or a multimedia module which includes xmms, mplayer, and a smattering of DVD players. Or a server module, which includes apache, samba, et al.
I mentioned in another thread that Gentoo supports this (and that I didn't know if Debian did or didn't) The Gnome and KDE packages for Gentoo ("emerge gnome" or "emerge kde") are actually "meta-packages" that grab all the core packages for Gnome or KDE and installs them. Throw together some binary packages to go along with this and you've got your components.
I've thought about doing something like this myself. For example, I have a laptop that needs a few laptop-specific tools, and certain configuration files that won't change anytime soon (built-in wifi configuration, for example). So I would put together an ebuild ("emerge thinkpad_r31" or something) that installed all the packages I would want on there. Then if I needed to rebuild my system, one command would grab all the packages I want.
I think as more projects like Project Chinstrap show up, Gentoo's package management will really start to shine.
Do you know of any Gentoo precompiled binaries repositories?
Chinstrap is a project to have a baseline of binaries for gentoo available. I've seen it mentioned in the Gentoo forums, but haven't used it myself.
If you're going emerge precompiled binaries, what's the point in using Gentoo? Why not use a system that has a pretty frigging great packaging system.
While everybody is entitled to their opinion, you may want to actually use the product before disparaging it. Gentoo's package management *is* pretty great, IMO. Gentoo can just as easily handle binary packages. For larger installations, DistCC can be used to compile packages across multiple workstations & servers.
The reason that I think it would make a good starting point is because portage allows for multiple packages to be rolled into a sort of "meta-package" (I have no idea if that's what this is really called). If I type "emerge kde", it will grab not only the kde-libs but also a lot of the core apps & utilities. So while you're free to grab any core packages, you can also group them together. Maybe dpkg has something similar? I don't know, but I think that feature would be perfect for such a modular distribution.
It is official; Scientists confirm: *saurs are dead
Of course *saurs are dead! Have you seen the latest Netcraft survey? They have even less market share than *BSD!
httrack is also your friend. I just found this tool (via the SpiderZilla front-end for Mozilla/Firefox). Did a good job of spidering a couple sites I was having trouble with using wget.
Did he get hired by Microsoft?
All of this information can be collected for free (and in greater detail, I imagine) on the net. I mean, give me a day on google and a few hours to format it all into a nice pdf, and I could publish a cafepress book with the same info.
;)
You know what I would give to have a whole day to research some of this stuff? Some of us have (more than) full-time jobs, families, kids, etc. I don't always have time to put in a lot of research before I tinker around with something. The book sounded interesting to me just based on the introduction to circuits and soldering, something I've never really done much with in the past.
I say go ahead and try to publish a book on the same subject. Better yet, post some links to some of this information. Spend a day if you have to. I'll check back tommorow
(I'll get you started: ArcadeControls.com for the MAME cabinet)
It's not like you'll have to worry about stores instituting such a policy anyway... simple economics says that if there is a market for those bare games (there is), they will support that market. As much as I hate seeing the games without their original packaging (except perhaps the SNES, with possibly the worst game packaging of any system) there's not much you can do about it. Perhaps the stores could offer an additional credit or two for games with their box and/or manual.
Having gotten my own house not too long ago, I've realized how much space that stuff takes up. I've actually gotten rid of quite a bit of boxes, or at least broken them down and put them in storage. I'm glad there are places online like MobyGames and The Video Game Museum to document the packaging of these games. And if you're an Amiga fan, don't forget to check out the CAPS project, which is not only providing *exact* replicas of original disks, but also high quality scans of the packaging.
This month's Linux Journal, in the "Cooking with Linux" column, describes how to setup multiple X sessions on the same box. Article is not online (yet?). It was an interesting read though... I had no idea that it was possible. Learn something new everyday.
I've been using Freemind for a few weeks now. I like the idea behind the mind management software. Very freeform, which is the way my brain tends to function. Just don't spend more time organizing your thoughts than you do actual work.
...maybe the counterfeiters will add CMYK support into the Gimp?
"emerge -u gaim" will upgrade its immediate dependencies.
"emerge gaim" will just upgrade to the needed packages, or only gaim.
Mod up parent please! I don't have any mod points and this concisely explains how portage works.
Any thoughts about where one might find these titles?
The only safe route is abstinance.
We all know the kids of today are going to do what they want to do, so please teach them about safe gaming. Try stretching a condom over your child's head (just enough to cover the eyes! we don't want to suffocate anybody!)
(All kidding aside, I hope you little one is better soon.)
If you check out the Eclipse site, you'll see that work has begun on a client-side GUI building framework.
I know I'd buy an X-Box if it came with a free happy meal.
Oh wait...
Same goes for the GameCube also. $40-$50 for most premium titles. One thing the X-Box (and PS2) definitely have over the Cube right now is "Greatest Hits" titles. Nintendo has all of, what... 10 titles? And they're priced at $30, whereas the X-Box and PS2 GH titles are right around $20.
Don't get me wrong, I love my Cube. It's the only "next-gen" console I own right now. But I might be buying a PS2 pretty soon just for those Greatest Hits titles, and possibly an X-Box at $99, just so I can play Project Gotham Racing 1 & 2.
Experts Exchange is the epitome of what defines open vs. closed source products and knowledge.
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I agree, but where's the open-source equivalent? Come on, it can't be that hard to put together. I'd love to see something like this that was free to use. I'm sure hosting would be the biggest issue.
The challenge is out there. Somebody do it. Meanwhile, I'll keep reading the Google cache of expert-exchange <grin
Separating content and presentation would be a good thing. But the currently supported web standards (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, DOM, CSS) don't let you do it by themselves.
I'd have to disagree with that. Most of the standards movement for web design focuses on "semantic markup". Only headings, paragraphs, and the like should be included here. No fonts, colors, etc. This is your content. Yes it has tags, but when using XHTML 1.0 Strict it is also XML, meaning that an XSLT could be used to generate that content from some XML source on the server if necessary. Using CSS to do placement & styling of elements is very feasible for 95+% of the market.
As others have mentioned, standards compliant != cross-platform. However, standards compliance is very much supported by the technologies you mentioned.
Additional reading:
A List Apart - lots of articles on integrating useage of standards-based web design
Jeffery Zeldman's Weblog - a big proponent of web standards