Lemme guess, you've never administered a mailserver.
Or DNS... Your email address has never been discovered through WHOIS.
I spend way too much time each day just creating filters for SPAM. That's company time wasted. It is not equitable that people may send me junk, wasting my (and thus the company's) time, utilising the company's resources for little cost to them.
> Considering that Linus is almost fanatical about needing to "break" backwards compatibility in the Linux kernel in order to develop it as fast as possible.
Eh? I think that's a bit of an exaggeration.
Linus seems to think it's OK to break certain things during a development kernel . It's not like he goes round breaking things for the hell of it. He has reasons, usually based on technical arguments (maintainability, performance, correctness).
There's still heaps of compatibility garbage in the linux kernel. Currently there's a couple of dudes trying to depricate the hacks^H^H support for Disk Managers such as OnTrack for example.
Another practical example is/proc. There's some goddamn ugly stuff in there but it's being cleaned out quite carefully. There's people stracing apps such as kuzdu and harddrake to check what files they rely on before they go removing stuff.
I agree that "backwards compatibility" tends to be a lower priority than correctness, performance etc. and this is A Good Thing but saying that Linus is almost fanatical about needing compatibility breakage is a bit rich 8)
I don't tend to run windows but my friends do and I've noticed an alarming trend: proliferation of adware.
I know a lot of you will be saying "well duh" but I don't run Windows' desktops much. I run Linux as a desktop/workstation OS and I administer Linux and W2K servers. Windows, to me, is a shell for running Warcraft 3 and Operation FlashPoint 8)
An alarming amount of windows software (especially "shareware" or "freeware") installs all sorts of annoying adware. Popups, animations, banners: cpu-wasting, flashing, scrolling, dancing cruft. Think of a website with really annoying advertising methods and then think "What if my destop randomly did that" and you'll get an idea of what it's like.
During installation of these adware-containing programs you probably wouldn't realise that your computer is about to be seriously cruftified.
The adware is usually embedded in.dlls.
There's special programs you can download for windows that just try to remove/disable as much adware from the OS as they can.
I must say I don't miss windows one iota. I know with a bit of hacking I'd be able to disable any adware "suprises" but I think I'd pop a vein in my forehead before long.
That may be true but IIRC (what a disclaimer!) the EULA explicity prohibits you to run the player on a non-MS OS. So you've broken their EULA.
Practically that probably doesn't make much of a difference but it does give you a little insight into the way MS restrictively licence their software in order to retain control.
TerminatorX is suprisingly good. I've been checking it out for a few years now and have been very impressed with the quality of the program.
The scratching sounds great (really quite realistic: not bad at all) and the GUI interface is nicely polished and intuitive IMNSHO. One of the most polished apps I've seen in X11. Check it out. Limited usefullness sure but really quite a bit of fun!
>I personally don't think people have a right to buy the xbox to simply run linux on it. It wasn't made for that purpose.
There has been times (e.g. camping) when I have needed to tighten an old flathead screw but there was no screwdrivers available so I've used a spoon, for instance.
The spoon was never designed to act as a screwdriver and if it bent I certainly wouldn't expect a refund. However I wouldn't expect the spoon manufacturer to be chasing after me for any reason. I bought the spoon, who cares how I utilise it?
MS is selling the X-Box at a loss but that's their gamble. It may pay off, it may not. That's the way it goes. MS would have understood this from day zero: it would have been an integral part of the plan.
Please listen to this guy. Stratum 2 or higher is perfectly fine for a corporate network let alone a home network.
Please don't overload the stratum 1 servers, it really doesn't buy you anything.
As others have suggested, please set up one machine to run an ntp server e.g. xntpd, and sync off the remote ntp server and have other hosts sync off the local ntp server. This is desirable from your POV anyway. Why send NTP traffic across the internet if you don't really have to? That means more traffic (yeah, negligable) and higher and unpredictable latency to the ntp server. That latency matters: ntp tries to compensate for it but of course the lower and more constant the latency the better.
Also if you're running linux (and perhaps other *nixes), learn about/sbin/hwclock --systohc. Very useful, especially as a cron job on the local ntp server.
Hi there. I run it on an old Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. (256M Ram, 500/600MHz P3) Of course all my video options are on "As low as you can go".
Anyway I find it playable. Not nice but playable. Of course when there's 5/6 armies in a battle the thing has real problems. Prolly about 5fps, if that.
Still, I can play the thing.
>Wouldn't be a problem, if you didn't need to click on your troops to tell them what to do.
You absolutely *need* to use command-grouping dude IMNSHO. i.e. select troops, ctrl-1. Next time you press 1 it will select the relevant troops. Otherwise you are seriously SOL on a sub-800MHz machine with a GeForce equiv. video card.
Personally I think the game is great. Me and my rts-playing buds have had a lot of fun with it.
> Wasn't this guy arrested for drug use? I don't want my children watching a show made by a coke fiend
What a great idea! You better investigate every writer of every show they watch, just in case.
Also, make sure that they can't get access to R&S anywhere else. Perhaps you should make a law that states they can only watch TV: 1. At your house 2. When you're home. They are not allowed to watch tv at other kid's places.
Next step, stop your children from listening to music created by drug users.
The only alternative to the above is to remove your head from your arse.
Is this how you normally behave, or did you leave your brain at home?
"At least SuSE produces these tools on their own, so it's up to them to choose the license."
thanks but no thanks... when I INSTALL Linux, I want to INSTALL GNU stuff. I can install non-gnu stuff later. The GPL stuff will remain GPL. RH won't suddenly yank these tools out from under us.
RH stick to the GPL when they produce tools (although I must admit a lot of the tools such as the control panel, netcfg, tksysv, etc aren't _great_), provide a entry for corporates into the Linux community, etc etc etc
You refer to their sponsorship of Gnome "Hijacking". How very strange. So if I allow (read: don't deny) the world to contribute to Gnome, and pay a team to do the stuff the rest of the world isn't interested in doing, I'm "Hijacking a project"?
Gnome wasn't redhat-specific last I checked.
Stor
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try :
cd/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/ttf
mkfontdir
you may need to output it to fonts.scale :
mkfontdir > fonts.scale
possibly... sorry it's just off the top of my head.
I dunno, I've just been readint he comments and I was suprised to see how many people _didn't_ say "See!!!! Linux rools!!! NT sux!" and how many people _did_ say "benchmarks suck"
I was also seeing a couple of reasonable comments from people who I recognise as being MS advocates.
Damn! I thought we were getting somewhere.:(
It will be a wonderful day when people start thinking before posting to Slashdot. Informed discussion between people using varieties of OSes, apps, computers, etc without the obstinance would be nirvana.
>'f you've ever had your back stabbed just as you >turn it you'd have some rather scathing things to >say too.
Erm... no, raster dude. Some things are better left unsaid. In business, there is no point in burning bridges, even if the company is treating you like crap.
The company I started working for (Access One, Australia) got bought by Solution 6, then OzEmail, now UUNet. During this process - as you would expect - there has been a fair amount of blood-letting, tears, anger... I have seen my friends get screwed, myself get screwed... all sorts of nasty things have gone on. Redundancies, sackings, new position descriptions, new head office dictating your work from another state. It's not worth worrying about, it's just business. You'll never get anywhere thinking that work is going to be a bed of roses, or that your employer _really_ cares about you.
Problems regularly form when personal issues are brought into the office. I'm not saying _you_ have personal "issues" dude, it's just that E is your baby, and I guess you appreciate the fact that many people around the world (including myself - I've been running e for about 2 1/2 yrs) appreciate your software. When your project, yourself, or your supporters are attacked you feel personally attacked, and are responding with what you consider appropriate, justified behaviour.
The truth is it's not. Rading your page now leaves a sour taste in the mouth. I am sympathetic, but really don't believe you should pull out your dirty laundry to show the linux community.
If RH/ labs/ whatever have some nasty people working there, that will all come out naturally. People with bad attitudes tend to get bad reputations.
It would have been a much cleaner break, and you'd have more support, if you had just cruised. Mandrake would have known what was going on for a while... so would the members of the labs and others in the Linux/e community. This stuff usually gets out... you don't need to "plaster it on a billboard"/ post it on a web page.
Just some advice for next time mate. I really appreciate your work raster... I love e and all it stands for and am excited about the further development of e:)
RH ship xfstt (or is is xfsft...??) w/ rh6. It's started in an initscript.
To install tt fonts in rh6.0, follow my simple instructions :
As root :
- Get a dir worth of ttf fonts. cd into it. - mkdir/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf - cp */usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf - cd/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf -/usr/sbin/ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale -/usr/sbin/mkfontdir
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Machines sometimes fail before boot. Think memory errors, hard drives, controller failures...
They happen. 8(
Cheers
Stor
Indeed.
Maybe we should talk to these guys? I've heard that they're totally awesome:
http://www.realultimatepower.net/
Be careful when talking to them though: say one wrong thing and they may just totally flip out and cut your head off.
Cheers
Stor
Lemme guess, you've never administered a mailserver.
Or DNS... Your email address has never been discovered through WHOIS.
I spend way too much time each day just creating filters for SPAM. That's company time wasted. It is not equitable that people may send me junk, wasting my (and thus the company's) time, utilising the company's resources for little cost to them.
Cheers
Stor
> Considering that Linus is almost fanatical about needing to "break" backwards compatibility in the Linux kernel in order to develop it as fast as possible.
/proc. There's some goddamn ugly stuff in there but it's being cleaned out quite carefully. There's people stracing apps such as kuzdu and harddrake to check what files they rely on before they go removing stuff.
Eh? I think that's a bit of an exaggeration.
Linus seems to think it's OK to break certain things during a development kernel . It's not like he goes round breaking things for the hell of it. He has reasons, usually based on technical arguments (maintainability, performance, correctness).
There's still heaps of compatibility garbage in the linux kernel. Currently there's a couple of dudes trying to depricate the hacks^H^H support for Disk Managers such as OnTrack for example.
Another practical example is
I agree that "backwards compatibility" tends to be a lower priority than correctness, performance etc. and this is A Good Thing but saying that Linus is almost fanatical about needing compatibility breakage is a bit rich 8)
Perhaps I'm just being a pedant.
Cheers
Stor
Hello all.
.dlls.
I don't tend to run windows but my friends do and I've noticed an alarming trend: proliferation of adware.
I know a lot of you will be saying "well duh" but I don't run Windows' desktops much. I run Linux as a desktop/workstation OS and I administer Linux and W2K servers. Windows, to me, is a shell for running Warcraft 3 and Operation FlashPoint 8)
An alarming amount of windows software (especially "shareware" or "freeware") installs all sorts of annoying adware. Popups, animations, banners: cpu-wasting, flashing, scrolling, dancing cruft. Think of a website with really annoying advertising methods and then think "What if my destop randomly did that" and you'll get an idea of what it's like.
During installation of these adware-containing programs you probably wouldn't realise that your computer is about to be seriously cruftified.
The adware is usually embedded in
There's special programs you can download for windows that just try to remove/disable as much adware from the OS as they can.
I must say I don't miss windows one iota. I know with a bit of hacking I'd be able to disable any adware "suprises" but I think I'd pop a vein in my forehead before long.
Cheers
Andy
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Not a flame but I gotta pull you up on this one:
"Remember, the media player is a free download."
That may be true but IIRC (what a disclaimer!) the EULA explicity prohibits you to run the player on a non-MS OS. So you've broken their EULA.
Practically that probably doesn't make much of a difference but it does give you a little insight into the way MS restrictively licence their software in order to retain control.
And then there's this:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/29/125
I believe a bit of cynicism is justified.
Cheers
Andy
Sounds like you're after a FreeBSD-centric site. Perhaps you should just jump on the FreeBSD mailing list or something.
Cheers
Stor
p.s. Ahh sheet, IHBT.
I was about to mention the same thing.
TerminatorX is suprisingly good. I've been checking it out for a few years now and have been very impressed with the quality of the program.
The scratching sounds great (really quite realistic: not bad at all) and the GUI interface is nicely polished and intuitive IMNSHO. One of the most polished apps I've seen in X11. Check it out. Limited usefullness sure but really quite a bit of fun!
Of course, ymmv.
Cheers
Stor
I agree with you almost completely. It was just this bit that I take issue with:
"Lucas can't write and direct worth crap anymore."
What do you mean "anymore" ? 8)
Cheers
Stor
>I personally don't think people have a right to buy the xbox to simply run linux on it. It wasn't made for that purpose.
There has been times (e.g. camping) when I have needed to tighten an old flathead screw but there was no screwdrivers available so I've used a spoon, for instance.
The spoon was never designed to act as a screwdriver and if it bent I certainly wouldn't expect a refund. However I wouldn't expect the spoon manufacturer to be chasing after me for any reason. I bought the spoon, who cares how I utilise it?
MS is selling the X-Box at a loss but that's their gamble. It may pay off, it may not. That's the way it goes. MS would have understood this from day zero: it would have been an integral part of the plan.
Cheers
Stor
Hello there.
I have done all of this before in a commercial environment using Glimpse and Perl.
I'd recommend you check out glimpse and webglimpse. They ought to do what you are after, for free.
Cheers
Stor
Indeed.
/sbin/hwclock --systohc. Very useful, especially as a cron job on the local ntp server.
Please listen to this guy. Stratum 2 or higher is perfectly fine for a corporate network let alone a home network.
Please don't overload the stratum 1 servers, it really doesn't buy you anything.
As others have suggested, please set up one machine to run an ntp server e.g. xntpd, and sync off the remote ntp server and have other hosts sync off the local ntp server. This is desirable from your POV anyway. Why send NTP traffic across the internet if you don't really have to? That means more traffic (yeah, negligable) and higher and unpredictable latency to the ntp server. That latency matters: ntp tries to compensate for it but of course the lower and more constant the latency the better.
Also if you're running linux (and perhaps other *nixes), learn about
Cheers
Andy
Sorry if this sounds completely stupid and obvious but did you try changing the PCI slot the card was in?
I found that this solution works alarmingly often.
Cheers
Stor
Hi there. I run it on an old Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. (256M Ram, 500/600MHz P3) Of course all my video options are on "As low as you can go".
Anyway I find it playable. Not nice but playable. Of course when there's 5/6 armies in a battle the thing has real problems. Prolly about 5fps, if that.
Still, I can play the thing.
>Wouldn't be a problem, if you didn't need to click on your troops to tell them what to do.
You absolutely *need* to use command-grouping dude IMNSHO. i.e. select troops, ctrl-1. Next time you press 1 it will select the relevant troops. Otherwise you are seriously SOL on a sub-800MHz machine with a GeForce equiv. video card.
Personally I think the game is great. Me and my rts-playing buds have had a lot of fun with it.
Cheers
Stor
Yeah, R&S is so damn low-brow compared to the wrestling.
Cheers
Stor
> Wasn't this guy arrested for drug use? I don't want my children watching a show made by a coke fiend
What a great idea! You better investigate every writer of every show they watch, just in case.
Also, make sure that they can't get access to R&S anywhere else. Perhaps you should make a law that states they can only watch TV:
1. At your house
2. When you're home.
They are not allowed to watch tv at other kid's places.
Next step, stop your children from listening to music created by drug users.
The only alternative to the above is to remove your head from your arse.
Cheers
Stor
I am so hoping this isn't all going to turn out vaporware.
:)
It seems every few years the moons of Zendar align and another amiga is announced, with all the fanfare of "the second coming" to boot.
Problem is, the moons don't stay aligned for long enough for the incantation to be completed and the amiga promptly evaporates into a cloud of vapor.
Please be real this time.
Stor
Is this how you normally behave, or did you leave your brain at home?
"At least SuSE produces these tools on their own, so it's up to them to choose the license."
thanks but no thanks... when I INSTALL Linux, I want to INSTALL GNU stuff. I can install non-gnu stuff later. The GPL stuff will remain GPL. RH won't suddenly yank these tools out from under us.
RH stick to the GPL when they produce tools (although I must admit a lot of the tools such as the control panel, netcfg, tksysv, etc aren't _great_), provide a entry for corporates into the Linux community, etc etc etc
You refer to their sponsorship of Gnome "Hijacking". How very strange. So if I allow (read: don't deny) the world to contribute to Gnome, and pay a team to do the stuff the rest of the world isn't interested in doing, I'm "Hijacking a project"?
Gnome wasn't redhat-specific last I checked.
Stor
try :
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/ttf
cd
mkfontdir
you may need to output it to fonts.scale :
mkfontdir > fonts.scale
possibly... sorry it's just off the top of my head.
Cheers
Stor
I dunno, I've just been readint he comments and I was suprised to see how many people _didn't_ say "See!!!! Linux rools!!! NT sux!" and how many people _did_ say "benchmarks suck"
:(
I was also seeing a couple of reasonable comments from people who I recognise as being MS advocates.
Damn! I thought we were getting somewhere.
It will be a wonderful day when people start thinking before posting to Slashdot. Informed discussion between people using varieties of OSes, apps, computers, etc without the obstinance would be nirvana.
Stor
Whoa.. I was just looking at asp2php today!
It's not 100% free/gpl/open source... but free for personal use.
http://home.i1.net/~naken/asp2php/
Stor
>Is this worth dignifying with a response?
:)
Obviously not. Waste of 0s and 1s.
>'f you've ever had your back stabbed just as you >turn it you'd have some rather scathing things to >say too.
Erm... no, raster dude. Some things are better left unsaid. In business, there is no point in burning bridges, even if the company is treating you like crap.
The company I started working for (Access One, Australia) got bought by Solution 6, then OzEmail, now UUNet. During this process - as you would expect - there has been a fair amount of blood-letting, tears, anger... I have seen my friends get screwed, myself get screwed... all sorts of nasty things have gone on. Redundancies, sackings, new position descriptions, new head office dictating your work from another state. It's not worth worrying about, it's just business. You'll never get anywhere thinking that work is going to be a bed of roses, or that your employer _really_ cares about you.
Problems regularly form when personal issues are brought into the office. I'm not saying _you_ have personal "issues" dude, it's just that E is your baby, and I guess you appreciate the fact that many people around the world (including myself - I've been running e for about 2 1/2 yrs) appreciate your software. When your project, yourself, or your supporters are attacked you feel personally attacked, and are responding with what you consider appropriate, justified behaviour.
The truth is it's not. Rading your page now leaves a sour taste in the mouth. I am sympathetic, but really don't believe you should pull out your dirty laundry to show the linux community.
If RH/ labs/ whatever have some nasty people working there, that will all come out naturally. People with bad attitudes tend to get bad reputations.
It would have been a much cleaner break, and you'd have more support, if you had just cruised. Mandrake would have known what was going on for a while... so would the members of the labs and others in the Linux/e community. This stuff usually gets out... you don't need to "plaster it on a billboard"/ post it on a web page.
Just some advice for next time mate. I really appreciate your work raster... I love e and all it stands for and am excited about the further development of e
Cheers
AndyM/ stor
RH ship xfstt (or is is xfsft...??) w/ rh6. It's started in an initscript.
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf /usr/sbin/ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale /usr/sbin/mkfontdir
To install tt fonts in rh6.0, follow my simple instructions :
As root :
- Get a dir worth of ttf fonts. cd into it.
- mkdir
- cp *
- cd
-
-
restart x
enjoy
Stor
You so seriously don't get it.
MS embrace and extend web protocols, other OSes suffer as a result, and you believe that this sort of asshole-act should be encouraged.
Would you like it if I converted all the roads in the world to dirt tracks and started selling tractors?
You are a very ignorant human being.
Stor
You forgot:
Gnome sux... blah blah... windowmaker/ gnustep blah blah... c++ sux... blah blah blah... rpm sux... blah... kde sux... blah blah... proprietary toolkit blah blah... enlightenment sux.. blah... why have i been moderated blah... hemos sux... blah blah... microsoft designed the best interface blah blah... marketshare blah.
cheers
stor