I never heard the term "take the piss out" before. Where are you from? I have hear the term "took a piss" and I thought it ment to make a mistake, or screw up. Is this a variation?
well there are good parts to the job too. We do have Sun, linux and mac clients, and the servers are all either solaris and linux. Its just they suckiest parts of the job revolve around Microsoft. And since I'm using the tuition remission to finish my degree I don't want to switch. (besides the job market sucks now.
I looked at the webpage, but it doesn't say. Can anyone tell me what iCommune did?
Offtopic: Anyone have any good suggestions for a linux mp3 player? Looking for one that is easy for my wife to use, but lets you search for different songs. (not xmms)
I know just how you feel. I hate consoles for those reasons too. Also dislike how they all use different incompatible controlers, memory cards and even av cables. So stupid. I have a ps2 (bought it because the have the most $20 games), and will probably buy a cube when it comes free with metroid next month. (I think metroid on a pc with keyboard, mouse and controller would be so much better.) But, I refuse to give MS money since they are a suck company they make my life hell. (Have to support MS crap at work, God I hate ntfs) So I miss out on all the cool exclusive Sega games.
Secondly, how many people really use only Linux? Even the most hardcore Linux geeks I know have Win2k or WinXP dual-boots. No need to make Office there.
Dude, then you really don't know any hardcore linux geeks. I am friends with at least two people who have no Windows partitions, the third might (he installed XP to see what MS has been up to since he hadn't used windows since 98, not sure if he still has it on his machine). I myself do have windows partitions on 2 out of my 4 machines, but they are used only very rarely and only because I have to support windows. And my main work machine is debian only box, so I use Abiword, gnumeric and openoffice.
Now the real question is, would I bother buying Office if it was released for Linux. The answer is no, since the alternative are perfectly fine for what I do.
Flash works fine with Mozilla 1.2a/1.2b. (It may not work with Mozilla 1.1a.) Java, on the other hand, does not (at least not with Mozilla compiled with GCC 3.0 or later).
The problem isn't flash, its director. Basic flash exists on linux and works great, flash with director, (which uses activex stuff) doesn't exist. The kids sites make heavy use of director. My wife likes to play these kiddy games, so I ended up buying the Crossover plugin. Now those stupid sites work pretty well.
Also the benefit of linux IMHO isn't about the money. Its about the freedom, and really learning how a computer works.
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tar with the appropriate flags works much better.
I've tried doing that, and it works well for *nix systems. However it doesn't work for FAT systems that well. The problem is when tar writes back the file it changes the created time. So when you boot windows it give you all these stupid errors about system files being the wrong version.
The other option is to get a Sony Clie that has the software-drawn graffiti area. Those models feature the draw-behind by default. Very smart, but then again, Sony has always made cool stuff cooler.
Yeah, they copied this from the Handera 330. It has a bunch of nifty improvements.
Seems like the site is slashdotted. Anyone got a mirror. Also, anyone know why they canned Mission Hill, that was one of my favorite shows on TV. (Certainly much much much better than ripping friends)
So, did you create that clever login name just for this reply?
Nope if you looked at my User# you would realize that. And Tivo only discourages hacking that tries to decrypt or transfer the programming off of the machine. Actually with the v3.0 of the software they included drivers for the ethernet card (a 3rd party addon) to make installation easier.
There isn't anything wrong with that per se, but how do you get the source to the GPL parts?
They have this. The Series2 Tivo's can use a usb to ethernet adapter. And Series 1 users can buy a Turbonet card . (You have to open the Tivo, but it is just as easy as installing a PCI card.) The TIVO with OS > version3 has the drivers built in. You just tell it your dialing prefix is ",#401", and it knows to use the ethernet card.
If it wasn't a closed box... You'd be able to add a second (or third) tuner channel and record several shows at the same time.
You're wrong. The TIVO uses a hardware mpeg encoding and decoder chip. It is only capable of encoding one show at a time. This is why only the Direct/Tivo's can do two channels at a time, they don't need to encode the incoming stream, they can just dump it to disk.
Also hackers have hacked this box to include stuff. They created a NIC for it. (Just installed mine last week) They also made a web interface for it. Series 2 has a PCI bus so adding stuff is even easier. (Hell it has USB)
Anyway if you don't know what you are talking about, don't just make shit up
Actually I think the two big features was the "stop" button and the ability to open more than one connection as a time. (So it would load the images much faster)
Offtopic, but Tivo is soooo much nicer than using a VCR. What you should be doing is use the Tivo and only have the VCR record stuff that conflicts with the Tivo.
Deignan says the company is considering producing an 80-ounce cold drink cup - that's 5 pints, folks. Christ, how much do these companies think people need to drink, anyway?"
The reason we need bigger cups is that they give you so much damn ice that you are lucky to get 6oz. of drink out of a 12oz.cup.
There are new energy efficient light bulbs that run on under 20 watts, are blindingly bright, but best of all now cost less than (afaicr) a couple of quid.
Aren't these the lightbulbs that disrupt 802.11b signals for big radius? I would rather keep my WiFi going than save a few bucks on lightbulbs.
Rutgers University is the same way. Your programs must compile on Solaris. They even teach you basic emacs in one of the beginning classes. (or at least they did a couple years ago)
I would say Japan is behind. Late at night and between tv shows (which doesn't really happen since I have a TiVo) I use my laptop with 802.11b. This way I can do all the same crap they do (and much, much more) all at blazing speeds. And the cost is cheaper, my cable modem is flat monthly unlimited fee.
And if I really want to play stupid little games while I'm away from home, I just use my palm pilot.
because the only single released so far kinda sucks. I bought Moby's last 2 cds. If I heard decents songs from 18 I'll buy it too, but so far nothing. (Also since Napster's demise, I don't hear as much music and don't buy as much)
I have some problems with your arguments. First, you exagerate the problems with getting X to work. If you buy decently supported card and use a recent distro. X setup usually works out of the box and is a piece of cake. (And windows usually has to download drivers too.
Also linux does have a directInput equivalent, SDL. And while SDL doesn't yet support force feed back (which is kinda pointless IMO) it does everything else DirectInput does, while being much nicer to use. (at least that is what my friend told me who rewrote his directX based game to a SDL based game)
Your right Linux can be a pain in the ass, if you don't have the right equipment, and if you don't know what you are doing. However, the same can be said about windows. I know plenty of people who have stability problems playing windows games.
Dude, have fun coding on Win32. Personally as a recreational programmer I find linux alot more fun. Everything is there for the examining and comes with free compilers for most languages. And the OS doesn't hide stuff from you and treat you like a dummy.
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Why buy the console at launch? If you wait a few months all the bugs are usually worked out and the console is sometimes cheaper. (You may also be able to buy it used). Honestly are people this impatient to buy these things. Its a console, the hardware is fixed for years. Its not like hitting the price perfomance sweet spot of computer gaming hardware.
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I run an old Ximian gnome (1.2) on a redhat 6.2 box. It has never crashed. ever. And this is with 6 desktops, many, many xterms, XMMS with visualization, Netscape and Opera. I even occasionaly play heroes 3 or task to a vitual console and bring up a second X.
Gnome with redhat 7.1 on my laptop, has also never crashed. (The video driver has, but this is not Gnome's fault, but rather the X4 S3 driver.)
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I never heard the term "take the piss out" before. Where are you from? I have hear the term "took a piss" and I thought it ment to make a mistake, or screw up. Is this a variation?
You think Deus Ex is better than System Shock 1 or 2?
well there are good parts to the job too. We do have Sun, linux and mac clients, and the servers are all either solaris and linux. Its just they suckiest parts of the job revolve around Microsoft. And since I'm using the tuition remission to finish my degree I don't want to switch. (besides the job market sucks now.
I looked at the webpage, but it doesn't say. Can anyone tell me what iCommune did?
Offtopic: Anyone have any good suggestions for a linux mp3 player? Looking for one that is easy for my wife to use, but lets you search for different songs. (not xmms)
I know just how you feel. I hate consoles for those reasons too. Also dislike how they all use different incompatible controlers, memory cards and even av cables. So stupid. I have a ps2 (bought it because the have the most $20 games), and will probably buy a cube when it comes free with metroid next month. (I think metroid on a pc with keyboard, mouse and controller would be so much better.) But, I refuse to give MS money since they are a suck company they make my life hell. (Have to support MS crap at work, God I hate ntfs) So I miss out on all the cool exclusive Sega games.
Secondly, how many people really use only Linux? Even the most hardcore Linux geeks I know have Win2k or WinXP dual-boots. No need to make Office there.
Dude, then you really don't know any hardcore linux geeks. I am friends with at least two people who have no Windows partitions, the third might (he installed XP to see what MS has been up to since he hadn't used windows since 98, not sure if he still has it on his machine). I myself do have windows partitions on 2 out of my 4 machines, but they are used only very rarely and only because I have to support windows. And my main work machine is debian only box, so I use Abiword, gnumeric and openoffice.
Now the real question is, would I bother buying Office if it was released for Linux. The answer is no, since the alternative are perfectly fine for what I do.
Flash works fine with Mozilla 1.2a/1.2b. (It may not work with Mozilla 1.1a.) Java, on the other hand, does not (at least not with Mozilla compiled with GCC 3.0 or later).
The problem isn't flash, its director. Basic flash exists on linux and works great, flash with director, (which uses activex stuff) doesn't exist. The kids sites make heavy use of director. My wife likes to play these kiddy games, so I ended up buying the Crossover plugin. Now those stupid sites work pretty well.
Also the benefit of linux IMHO isn't about the money. Its about the freedom, and really learning how a computer works.
I've tried doing that, and it works well for *nix systems. However it doesn't work for FAT systems that well. The problem is when tar writes back the file it changes the created time. So when you boot windows it give you all these stupid errors about system files being the wrong version.
Yeah, they copied this from the Handera 330. It has a bunch of nifty improvements.
Seems like the site is slashdotted. Anyone got a mirror. Also, anyone know why they canned Mission Hill, that was one of my favorite shows on TV. (Certainly much much much better than ripping friends)
Nope if you looked at my User# you would realize that. And Tivo only discourages hacking that tries to decrypt or transfer the programming off of the machine. Actually with the v3.0 of the software they included drivers for the ethernet card (a 3rd party addon) to make installation easier.
There isn't anything wrong with that per se, but how do you get the source to the GPL parts?
Why you get them from here of course, hardly hidden. There isn't that many addons because there isn't much of a market. And there is quite a bit you can do with it since, its easy to get a bash prompt. Compile what ever you want on it.
They have this. The Series2 Tivo's can use a usb to ethernet adapter. And Series 1 users can buy a Turbonet card . (You have to open the Tivo, but it is just as easy as installing a PCI card.) The TIVO with OS > version3 has the drivers built in. You just tell it your dialing prefix is ",#401", and it knows to use the ethernet card.
If it wasn't a closed box... You'd be able to add a second (or third) tuner channel and record several shows at the same time.
You're wrong. The TIVO uses a hardware mpeg encoding and decoder chip. It is only capable of encoding one show at a time. This is why only the Direct/Tivo's can do two channels at a time, they don't need to encode the incoming stream, they can just dump it to disk.
Also hackers have hacked this box to include stuff. They created a NIC for it. (Just installed mine last week) They also made a web interface for it. Series 2 has a PCI bus so adding stuff is even easier. (Hell it has USB)
Anyway if you don't know what you are talking about, don't just make shit up
Actually I think the two big features was the "stop" button and the ability to open more than one connection as a time. (So it would load the images much faster)
Offtopic, but Tivo is soooo much nicer than using a VCR. What you should be doing is use the Tivo and only have the VCR record stuff that conflicts with the Tivo.
Deignan says the company is considering producing an 80-ounce cold drink cup - that's 5 pints, folks. Christ, how much do these companies think people need to drink, anyway?"
The reason we need bigger cups is that they give you so much damn ice that you are lucky to get 6oz. of drink out of a 12oz.cup.
There are new energy efficient light bulbs that run on under 20 watts, are blindingly bright, but best of all now cost less than (afaicr) a couple of quid.
Aren't these the lightbulbs that disrupt 802.11b signals for big radius? I would rather keep my WiFi going than save a few bucks on lightbulbs.
Rutgers University is the same way. Your programs must compile on Solaris. They even teach you basic emacs in one of the beginning classes. (or at least they did a couple years ago)
I think cleartype is only supposed to look good on LCD displays. It does look nice on my laptop. Don't use it on a Trinitron.
I would say Japan is behind. Late at night and between tv shows (which doesn't really happen since I have a TiVo) I use my laptop with 802.11b. This way I can do all the same crap they do (and much, much more) all at blazing speeds. And the cost is cheaper, my cable modem is flat monthly unlimited fee.
And if I really want to play stupid little games while I'm away from home, I just use my palm pilot.
because the only single released so far kinda sucks. I bought Moby's last 2 cds. If I heard decents songs from 18 I'll buy it too, but so far nothing. (Also since Napster's demise, I don't hear as much music and don't buy as much)
But can that play vbr mp3's. The specs seem say it doesn't? (Most of my mp3's are vbr encoded.)
I have some problems with your arguments. First, you exagerate the problems with getting X to work. If you buy decently supported card and use a recent distro. X setup usually works out of the box and is a piece of cake. (And windows usually has to download drivers too.
Also linux does have a directInput equivalent, SDL. And while SDL doesn't yet support force feed back (which is kinda pointless IMO) it does everything else DirectInput does, while being much nicer to use. (at least that is what my friend told me who rewrote his directX based game to a SDL based game)
Your right Linux can be a pain in the ass, if you don't have the right equipment, and if you don't know what you are doing. However, the same can be said about windows. I know plenty of people who have stability problems playing windows games.
Dude, have fun coding on Win32. Personally as a recreational programmer I find linux alot more fun. Everything is there for the examining and comes with free compilers for most languages. And the OS doesn't hide stuff from you and treat you like a dummy.
Why buy the console at launch? If you wait a few months all the bugs are usually worked out and the console is sometimes cheaper. (You may also be able to buy it used). Honestly are people this impatient to buy these things. Its a console, the hardware is fixed for years. Its not like hitting the price perfomance sweet spot of computer gaming hardware.
I run an old Ximian gnome (1.2) on a redhat 6.2 box. It has never crashed. ever. And this is with 6 desktops, many, many xterms, XMMS with visualization, Netscape and Opera. I even occasionaly play heroes 3 or task to a vitual console and bring up a second X.
Gnome with redhat 7.1 on my laptop, has also never crashed. (The video driver has, but this is not Gnome's fault, but rather the X4 S3 driver.)