back when the G4 was in development they talked a whole lot about "multiple-core" G4s. As opposed to normal multiprocessor setups, these were just a number of G4s that had been wired to act as if they were only one G4. The point is unlike SMP where you have to rewrite the software to take advantage of it, the multicored g4s would not-- they acted as if they were one processor and you treated them as such. (my apologies if this is not a totally accurate discription; if you care go browse appleinsider's back issues, or something)
Whatever happened to this? This sounded like a really good idea. Has apple just forgotten about it, or did they spend so much time on altivec they just never got around to developing the idea fully?
> it has completely destroyed quake1 culture. team fortress players, a segment of quake players that never really moved on to q2 or q3, after a bit of wanning of interest have finally got there death blow.
heh.. bringing up the question.. what if Carmack did it this way on _purpose_..? i mean think about it.. now that it's OSS all these Q1 holdouts have had their game ruined. So what? So, they have to upgrade to Q2 or Q3. Meaning Carmack gets more money.
I don't honestly think this is the reason Carmack went open-source, and i think that the way ID is willing to let go of intellectual property they no longer use is wonderful.. but still, interesting to think about. Excessive paranoia is fun!
-mcc-baka listen to your heartbeat delete beep beep BEEP.
there was actually an SNL sketch about two weeks after that issue of the Onion came out (the week with Christina Ricci and Beck) that was exactly the same as the Onion article. It was called "who wants to eat" and had contestants from Bosnia, Etheopia, etc.
While it had some extremely clever interpretations of the Onion version (the set was the same wierd hi-tech thing as WWTBAM except the ceiling appeared to be made out of grass, the music was the same except it also had sitars.. the questions were rather funny, etc.) it's a sad day when you see the once-mighty Saturday Night Live stealing directly from the Onion.
hmm. is this the same security bug that got Segfault.org rooted and taken down for a bit?
"Hey folks, thats right we're back. The story is that Leonard's uni machine got hacked, and the hacker got into us using ssh (and you thought it was safe!). The hacker didn't seem to do anything, but he had compromised a few binaries (looked like a script kiddie root kit) so it was reinstall time... [continues]" --segfault this morning http://segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3846d0 88-03dd8580
first off, i'd guess greatdomains.com and NSI are both probably _already_ getting scads of flame mail for other things. i doubt they'll notice a slight/.-related surge.
if flmes _are_ a problem, well, they deserve it anyway. NSI has cost this person, and many people like him, a lot of money and inconvenience; they can deal with the slight karmic retribution of having their mail server crash.
The fact that companies like greatdomains.com exist is in my mind one of the biggest problems if not the biggest problem with the internet. The reason i am even slightly troubled by the fact that a thousand/. lamers are going to be doing nasty things to this company is that the other companies like it won't get any. It would be much more fair if slashdot would post a list of _all_ professional domain squatters and have them _all_ get badly flamed.
OK, maybe i'm a little bitter. whatever. I like the nic.cx people; they're cheap, and they have strict anti-domain-squatting-for-profit regulations that actually work.
i posted this reply once already, but it never appeared:
i didn't mean so much translating raw binary machine code as translating the assembly language code (you could maybe disassemble binaries but i don't know how useful that would be). At least there you kinda know what is code and what isn't, as well as some other random inforation that i don't know about because i've never written assembly.. should be a great deal easier than pure totally-compiled binary. I dunno.
The advantage of this over a simple processor emulation type thing is that it is much, much quicker, since the work isn't done at compile-time. The disadvantage is that it's almost useless. I mean, how many open-source assembly language products are there? At the least though it would be a nifty hack, and would mean maybe that i could run Second Reality on my mac.:)
Good luck with the x86->alpha thing.. as any mac user will tell you *cough cough* 680X0 *cough* having to emulate a different processor in almost everything you do is a signifigant problem; but it works much better than nothing at all. Why haven't FAT binaries caught on in the linux world..?
Well, it depends. Let's say the magazine your six-year-old kid is rating the german sports cars for happens to be a magazine targeted at six-year-olds. If the readership is all six-year-olds, then your six-year old would be in fact _very_ qualified to write the article, since he will base his ratings on issues important to six-year-olds, such as "shiny", "red", and "vrooooooom". Whereas a forty-year-old would ignore these issues and concentrate on meaningless [to a six year old] things like transmission and price.
Look at it that way, only replace "six year old" with "windows user" and "german sports car" with "linux". Hmm.
Meanwhile, i can't wait for the next issue of "Highlights". I hear they're going to rate different high-end stereo systems.
i was actually thinking about the garage band/small software company thing, but decided not to put it in the original post cuz i thought it would take up too much space. what i think is:
first off, i seriously doubt this is the most cost-efficient way to press a lot of CDs. You could probably go to a service beaureu or something and not have to go to extreme amounts of bother making one copy at a time.
second off, the fact that the garage band has a source cd to copy to begin with kinda implies you already have access to some kind of CD-R drive, which would seem to make the phillips thing redundant. unless the phillips recorder has some kind of direct-record-from-tape thing, whcih i doubt.
third off, the target market is tiny. i'm sure there are a small number of people somewhere to which this device really is incredibly useful for legal uses and superior to the alternatives.. but these people aren't who Phillips is targeting, at least not with the commercials.
Of course, it's possible i'm completely wrong about these three things, but in any case i'd say the phillips thing is a good bit more likely to be used for illegal purposes than Napster is.
Sony sells its minidisc almost completely on the basis of its ability to make copies. Every single commercial i've seen for the minidisc consists of nothing but the people making copies of minidiscs. They put a heavy emphasis on "mix tapes". Mix tapes.. riiiight. I'm sure that's really it.:P If the attraction is really in being able to make legal copies of things you own for the purpose of putting all of your good music in one, convenient place.. isn't that exactly the same idea as mp3? Isn't that what SDMI is designed to prevent? But the RIAA has no problem with the minidisc.
Phillips is currently selling a standalone CD writer that makes exact copies of CDs, and does nothing else. They boast about this in their commercials. Unlike conventional computer CD-R drives, which _can_ be used for completely legal purposes, or for making mixtapes of the cds you already own a la minidisc, the CD writer they're selling makes an exact copy of a CD you have already. There is NO POSSIBLE PURPOSE for this device except for making copies and then distributing them illegally. But the RIAA has no problem with it.
None of this is about copyright violation at _all_. (If it were, they'd go after copyright violations.) It's about the RIAA maintaining a monopoly; it's about elitism; it's about keeping anyone outside of the small group of ultrarich megacorporations from operating without going through the ultrarich corporations, or keeping small groups from gaining cultural power.
It's about destroying anyone who can't afford a lawyer.
(p.s. this is offtopic, but doesn't Phillips own some of the patents on mp3 or something? if so, where are they now? Not helping napster, apparently..)
i wonder how difficult it would be to write an assembler that translated between machine codes. If it's at all possible, i'd say it should be a _lot_ easier to go from a heavily CISC chip like the x86 to a heavily RISC one like the PPC than the other way around. But then again i wouldn't know-- i know next to nothing about assembly, and i don't know how things like different registers affect the basic way the code is written, never mind instruction sets.
since you asked, i'm going to suggest you try icab. It's still in development. However it's quick, light, and about as stable as MSIE. It doesn't have _any_ javascript support as of last time i checked. It has some PNG support and it's at least woth looking at.
next time try the always-useful (No Break SPace) thing./. allows that fine. I tried using <pre> but that is apparently just one of the many useful tags/. does not allow, along with <code>.
For some odd reason whenever you try to post something on slashdot with &-based symbols, when you preview it converts all the &-based symbols in the html form you're typing into into their symbol equivilents. I keep having to copy and paste. Maybe this is just a bug in MSIE4/macintosh. I wish they'd allow a few more HTML tags.
aarrgghh.. i _realize_ you like to put up humorous headlines, but DON'T GET MY HOPES UP LIKE THAT!!
there was only about a tenth of a second betwen the time i read the headline and the time i saw that you meant web browser cookies. But that tenth of a second was so filled with wonder and hope that maybe, just maybe it could be true.. that when those hopes came crashing down it felt horrible.
next time think about the consequences of your actions before you post..
then again.. maybe we could MAKE it true. i wonder what the security at the Childrens Television Workshop equipment storage areas are like.. hmm
um. More likely, MS will simply not include the offending program in the German-language version of the W2K bug. That won't be the least bit difficult for them, i'm sure..
This was an announced change they have been publicly planning to do for two weeks.
Next time read what's already been posted before posting your comment. Had you done that you would have seen: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/12/01/133 4235&cid=26
hmm, so does that mean that the.cx domain i just got can't have any porn on it because of austrailias internet censorship laws? or does the fact the.cx domain simply redirects to the united states make austrailia's laws irrelivant? You'd think it would, but then again they don't need a real reason to yank my access to the domain.
i'm NOT going to be any porn up on the domain (drowned.cx)-- in fact it doesn't have anything there right now, as i'm still trying to find someone to get to host my DNS and set up a VirtualNameHost-- but i'm just curious.
and PPC? is it likely debian will ever come to the PPC platform in any real form?
there's a PPC section of the Potato part of the debian ftp site, but it doesn't have a lot of support, and last time i checked there was _no_ documentation. and potato's supposedly unstable anyway.
Please, please say this will eventually come to be a full distribution. i would _really_ rather have debian on this here mac than the quasi-redhat that is linuxppc. Not to mention that linuxppc's distribution, well, isn't perfect. there are a _lot_ of things broken right out of the box. It would be nice to have something resembling an alternative.
i saw toy story 2 last night.. i loved it.. the amount of sheer detail was amazing, and it was a good movie anyway. Anyone else catch all the references to other pixar stuff? While they were flipping through tv channels looking for the commercial i noticed the Pixar lamp and the Tin Toy short were playing on some of the channels.. And then of course there was the "toy cleaner".. i'm sure nobody else in the theater understood why i was laughing hysterically when he came in.
I noticed "Bruce Perens" float by during the final credits for some kind of software job.. that was surprising.. i left the theater thinking No, it couldn't be THAT Bruce Perens.. heh.. i guess it was.
Notice Pixar has once again created history, by for the first time in the history of CG creating 3d rendered dredlocks.
-mcc-baka
p.s. Anyone know how i can get hold of a copy of the Gerri's Game short? i want to see that..
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i saw that preview.. exactly how much of that was CG and how much was actual film footage?? that was either filmed live, or the most breathtakingly amazing rendered water i've ever seen..
i really can't stand Hotline, and i suggest you at least try Carracho if you like Hotline. Hotline's _idea_ is great. If implemented correctly it could be a wonderful graphical approximation of the BBS community feel-- or at least a nice reimplemntation of what "finger", "talk", "mail", "write", ftp and all those other UNIX utilities provide if you can actually still find a box that multiple people are going to be connected to at once. But hotline _isn't_ implemented correctly. It's marred by so many interface quirks the interface gets in the way of whatever you're trying to do. Carracho, on the other hand, is hotline done right; everything Hotline falls short in, Carracho does beautifully.
And the thing is that for some reason, it really feels to me like carracho has much more of a community feel to it. maybe because it's so much smaller, maybe it's because of the interface. But it just doesn't feel as much like you're wandering by random faceless faces-in-the-crowd..
Of course i'm not saying Hotline is useless. I've found some really nice places (community-wise) there; i just think carracho deserves more attention as an alternative. Note that carracho is still kinda beta-ish and crashes from time to time. Also, and maybe more importantly, it's currently macintosh-only as far as i know. But then again, for a long time the only windows hotline software was third-party, and the only current linux clients/servers are implemented by third parties..
http://www.carracho.com/ http://www.hotlinesw.com/ http://www.freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=hotli ne
The entire idea of using record turntable scratching to create music is, i think, one of the greatest "hack"s of all times. of course it's not a single identafiable hack but an entire methodology of music.. but still, its pioneers need some recognition.
The first record by the ultraindustrial group Coil, "How to destroy angels", deserves _some_ kind of recognition as a hack. I have never heard this album-- i wish i had-- but from what i've heard, it was apparently all noise-- noise so heavy that certain record players were unable to play parts of it. It also supposedly contained a grooveless song-- that is, there were no grooves to hold the needle in place, making it impossible to play as the needle just skitters across the surface. a search on Google just now turned up: http://www.brainwashed.com/coil/music/angels.htm l
i'd also heard of a humor record released by Monty Python called "Matching tie and hankercheif" or something, where it actually contained two seperate concentric grooves. That is, there were two completely different recordings on one surface, and depending on which of the grooves your needle happened to fall in you'd hear something different.
I'd also like to take this moment to give recognition to all the great useless mac extentions i was so addicted to once upon a time. This is "hacking" at its purest-- short, quick, dirty little things for a specific task with no practical value. The obvious ones are things like Zipple, which made the little apple in the apple menu be animated. But that's so _obvious_! the great ones were the truly _wierd_ ones-- Kilroy, which made the wierd bald little "kilroy is here" guy pop up over the top of the window with eyes that followed the cursor if you went a preset amount of time without clicking. "Mittens Touch Typist", which would inperceptably change random keystrokes into typos, driving you crazy. I'm trying to remember some others but failing- it was so long ago. My personal favorite in terms of sheer niftiness value though was one called "sdrowkcaB". This patched basically every routine the mac os had for displaying text in such a way that any string that a program tried to print to the screen through the toolbox was reversed before being displayed. So that the menus said "eliF tidE weiV" and so on. It worked beautifully. And of course there was the famous NetBunny-- you secretly installed an extention on every computer in a computer lab or office, and then those extentions would lie in wait for a particular signal from the host program. Once that signal was sent out, the energizer bunny would walk across each screen on the network one by one, in an order you set up to make it appear he was walking from screen to screen. And what about Cthugha? that had a DOS version did it not? the program that would turn music input from the CD into shifting shapes on the screen? the oscillator on acid? sorry.. i'm being overwhelmed by nostalgia here.. -_-
i also have a program i wrote which i'm proud enough of that i'll have the egotistical audacity to mention it among these others.. it's called "recursive mirrors" and it uses a mac function called "copybits" to copy the contents of the screen into a window. Except in copying the screen it copies its own display window so you get this cool staring-into-infinity tunnel effect. Or a totally different effect depending on how you have the settings set.. i dunno. check it out if you're bored. http://home.earthlink.net/~mcclure111/prog.html
and as long as i'm rambling.. another great hack would be the idea in WW2 on the japaneese front of using Navajo indians speaking in Navajo as the one truly unbreakable code.. the japaneese never figured it out.
-mcc-baka i will show you fear in a handful of dust. --t.s.eliot
i realize GIF wasn't the important part of your message, but it may be worth noting (as others in this thread have) that the/images directory actually contained one PNG: http://www.transmeta.com/images/arrive2.png there were also GIF and JPG versions of this same image. strange things..
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back when the G4 was in development they talked a whole lot about "multiple-core" G4s. As opposed to normal multiprocessor setups, these were just a number of G4s that had been wired to act as if they were only one G4. The point is unlike SMP where you have to rewrite the software to take advantage of it, the multicored g4s would not-- they acted as if they were one processor and you treated them as such. (my apologies if this is not a totally accurate discription; if you care go browse appleinsider's back issues, or something)
Whatever happened to this? This sounded like a really good idea. Has apple just forgotten about it, or did they spend so much time on altivec they just never got around to developing the idea fully?
> it has completely destroyed quake1 culture. team fortress players, a segment of quake players that never really moved on to q2 or q3, after a bit of wanning of interest have finally got there death blow.
heh.. bringing up the question.. what if Carmack did it this way on _purpose_..?
i mean think about it.. now that it's OSS all these Q1 holdouts have had their game ruined. So what? So, they have to upgrade to Q2 or Q3. Meaning Carmack gets more money.
I don't honestly think this is the reason Carmack went open-source, and i think that the way ID is willing to let go of intellectual property they no longer use is wonderful.. but still, interesting to think about. Excessive paranoia is fun!
-mcc-baka
listen to your heartbeat delete beep beep BEEP.
there was actually an SNL sketch about two weeks after that issue of the Onion came out (the week with Christina Ricci and Beck) that was exactly the same as the Onion article. It was called "who wants to eat" and had contestants from Bosnia, Etheopia, etc.
While it had some extremely clever interpretations of the Onion version (the set was the same wierd hi-tech thing as WWTBAM except the ceiling appeared to be made out of grass, the music was the same except it also had sitars.. the questions were rather funny, etc.) it's a sad day when you see the once-mighty Saturday Night Live stealing directly from the Onion.
hmm. is this the same security bug that got Segfault.org rooted and taken down for a bit?
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"Hey folks, thats right we're back. The story is that Leonard's uni machine got hacked, and the hacker got into us using ssh (and you thought it was safe!). The hacker didn't seem to do anything, but he had compromised a few binaries (looked like a script kiddie root kit) so it was reinstall time... [continues]" --segfault this morning
http://segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3846d
first off, i'd guess greatdomains.com and NSI are both probably _already_ getting scads of flame mail for other things. i doubt they'll notice a slight /.-related surge.
/. lamers are going to be doing nasty things to this company is that the other companies like it won't get any. It would be much more fair if slashdot would post a list of _all_ professional domain squatters and have them _all_ get badly flamed.
if flmes _are_ a problem, well, they deserve it anyway. NSI has cost this person, and many people like him, a lot of money and inconvenience; they can deal with the slight karmic retribution of having their mail server crash.
The fact that companies like greatdomains.com exist is in my mind one of the biggest problems if not the biggest problem with the internet. The reason i am even slightly troubled by the fact that a thousand
OK, maybe i'm a little bitter. whatever.
I like the nic.cx people; they're cheap, and they have strict anti-domain-squatting-for-profit regulations that actually work.
-mcc-baka
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS THEFT
i posted this reply once already, but it never appeared:
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i didn't mean so much translating raw binary machine code as translating the assembly language code (you could maybe disassemble binaries but i don't know how useful that would be). At least there you kinda know what is code and what isn't, as well as some other random inforation that i don't know about because i've never written assembly.. should be a great deal easier than pure totally-compiled binary. I dunno.
The advantage of this over a simple processor emulation type thing is that it is much, much quicker, since the work isn't done at compile-time. The disadvantage is that it's almost useless. I mean, how many open-source assembly language products are there? At the least though it would be a nifty hack, and would mean maybe that i could run Second Reality on my mac.
Good luck with the x86->alpha thing.. as any mac user will tell you *cough cough* 680X0 *cough* having to emulate a different processor in almost everything you do is a signifigant problem; but it works much better than nothing at all. Why haven't FAT binaries caught on in the linux world..?
Well, it depends. Let's say the magazine your six-year-old kid is rating the german sports cars for happens to be a magazine targeted at six-year-olds. If the readership is all six-year-olds, then your six-year old would be in fact _very_ qualified to write the article, since he will base his ratings on issues important to six-year-olds, such as "shiny", "red", and "vrooooooom". Whereas a forty-year-old would ignore these issues and concentrate on meaningless [to a six year old] things like transmission and price.
Look at it that way, only replace "six year old" with "windows user" and "german sports car" with "linux". Hmm.
Meanwhile, i can't wait for the next issue of "Highlights". I hear they're going to rate different high-end stereo systems.
i was actually thinking about the garage band/small software company thing, but decided not to put it in the original post cuz i thought it would take up too much space. what i think is:
first off, i seriously doubt this is the most cost-efficient way to press a lot of CDs. You could probably go to a service beaureu or something and not have to go to extreme amounts of bother making one copy at a time.
second off, the fact that the garage band has a source cd to copy to begin with kinda implies you already have access to some kind of CD-R drive, which would seem to make the phillips thing redundant. unless the phillips recorder has some kind of direct-record-from-tape thing, whcih i doubt.
third off, the target market is tiny. i'm sure there are a small number of people somewhere to which this device really is incredibly useful for legal uses and superior to the alternatives.. but these people aren't who Phillips is targeting, at least not with the commercials.
Of course, it's possible i'm completely wrong about these three things, but in any case i'd say the phillips thing is a good bit more likely to be used for illegal purposes than Napster is.
-mcc
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS THEFT
Sony sells its minidisc almost completely on the basis of its ability to make copies. Every single commercial i've seen for the minidisc consists of nothing but the people making copies of minidiscs. They put a heavy emphasis on "mix tapes". Mix tapes.. riiiight. I'm sure that's really it. :P If the attraction is really in being able to make legal copies of things you own for the purpose of putting all of your good music in one, convenient place.. isn't that exactly the same idea as mp3? Isn't that what SDMI is designed to prevent? But the RIAA has no problem with the minidisc.
Phillips is currently selling a standalone CD writer that makes exact copies of CDs, and does nothing else. They boast about this in their commercials. Unlike conventional computer CD-R drives, which _can_ be used for completely legal purposes, or for making mixtapes of the cds you already own a la minidisc, the CD writer they're selling makes an exact copy of a CD you have already. There is NO POSSIBLE PURPOSE for this device except for making copies and then distributing them illegally. But the RIAA has no problem with it.
None of this is about copyright violation at _all_. (If it were, they'd go after copyright violations.) It's about the RIAA maintaining a monopoly; it's about elitism; it's about keeping anyone outside of the small group of ultrarich megacorporations from operating without going through the ultrarich corporations, or keeping small groups from gaining cultural power.
It's about destroying anyone who can't afford a lawyer.
(p.s. this is offtopic, but doesn't Phillips own some of the patents on mp3 or something? if so, where are they now? Not helping napster, apparently..)
dude-- that's what EMULATORS are for!
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i wonder how difficult it would be to write an assembler that translated between machine codes. If it's at all possible, i'd say it should be a _lot_ easier to go from a heavily CISC chip like the x86 to a heavily RISC one like the PPC than the other way around. But then again i wouldn't know-- i know next to nothing about assembly, and i don't know how things like different registers affect the basic way the code is written, never mind instruction sets.
oops.. sorry.. accidentally hit "submit" before i typed in the URL. i feel stupid.
http://www.icab.de
mac os browsers?
since you asked, i'm going to suggest you try icab. It's still in development. However it's quick, light, and about as stable as MSIE. It doesn't have _any_ javascript support as of last time i checked. It has some PNG support and it's at least woth looking at.
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next time try the always-useful (No Break SPace) thing. /. allows that fine. /. does not allow, along with <code>.
I tried using <pre> but that is apparently just one of the many useful tags
For some odd reason whenever you try to post something on slashdot with &-based symbols, when you preview it converts all the &-based symbols in the html form you're typing into into their symbol equivilents. I keep having to copy and paste. Maybe this is just a bug in MSIE4/macintosh.
I wish they'd allow a few more HTML tags.
aarrgghh.. i _realize_ you like to put up humorous headlines, but DON'T GET MY HOPES UP LIKE THAT!!
there was only about a tenth of a second betwen the time i read the headline and the time i saw that you meant web browser cookies. But that tenth of a second was so filled with wonder and hope that maybe, just maybe it could be true.. that when those hopes came crashing down it felt horrible.
next time think about the consequences of your actions before you post..
then again.. maybe we could MAKE it true. i wonder what the security at the Childrens Television Workshop equipment storage areas are like.. hmm
um. More likely, MS will simply not include the offending program in the German-language version of the W2K bug. That won't be the least bit difficult for them, i'm sure..
(blinks a couple times).. whoa.
This was an announced change they have been publicly planning to do for two weeks.
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Next time read what's already been posted before posting your comment. Had you done that you would have seen:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/12/01/13
hmm, so does that mean that the .cx domain i just got can't have any porn on it because of austrailias internet censorship laws? or does the fact the .cx domain simply redirects to the united states make austrailia's laws irrelivant? You'd think it would, but then again they don't need a real reason to yank my access to the domain.
i'm NOT going to be any porn up on the domain (drowned.cx)-- in fact it doesn't have anything there right now, as i'm still trying to find someone to get to host my DNS and set up a VirtualNameHost-- but i'm just curious.
nope, not like wine at all. it's still simple hardware abstraction, but it doesn't re-implement APIs-- it just runs the mac os outright.
if you're looking for an x86 equivilent, try VMWare, which as far as i can tell is exactly the same thing as sheepshaver.
i, meanwhile, have great hopes for mac-on-linux and hope soon they'll get to the point where the macos can crash without crashing linux..
and PPC? is it likely debian will ever come to the PPC platform in any real form?
there's a PPC section of the Potato part of the debian ftp site, but it doesn't have a lot of support, and last time i checked there was _no_ documentation. and potato's supposedly unstable anyway.
Please, please say this will eventually come to be a full distribution. i would _really_ rather have debian on this here mac than the quasi-redhat that is linuxppc. Not to mention that linuxppc's distribution, well, isn't perfect. there are a _lot_ of things broken right out of the box. It would be nice to have something resembling an alternative.
i saw toy story 2 last night.. i loved it.. the amount of sheer detail was amazing, and it was a good movie anyway.
Anyone else catch all the references to other pixar stuff? While they were flipping through tv channels looking for the commercial i noticed the Pixar lamp and the Tin Toy short were playing on some of the channels.. And then of course there was the "toy cleaner".. i'm sure nobody else in the theater understood why i was laughing hysterically when he came in.
I noticed "Bruce Perens" float by during the final credits for some kind of software job.. that was surprising.. i left the theater thinking No, it couldn't be THAT Bruce Perens.. heh.. i guess it was.
Notice Pixar has once again created history, by for the first time in the history of CG creating 3d rendered dredlocks.
-mcc-baka
p.s. Anyone know how i can get hold of a copy of the Gerri's Game short? i want to see that..
i saw that preview.. exactly how much of that was CG and how much was actual film footage?? that was either filmed live, or the most breathtakingly amazing rendered water i've ever seen..
i really can't stand Hotline, and i suggest you at least try Carracho if you like Hotline.
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Hotline's _idea_ is great. If implemented correctly it could be a wonderful graphical approximation of the BBS community feel-- or at least a nice reimplemntation of what "finger", "talk", "mail", "write", ftp and all those other UNIX utilities provide if you can actually still find a box that multiple people are going to be connected to at once.
But hotline _isn't_ implemented correctly. It's marred by so many interface quirks the interface gets in the way of whatever you're trying to do. Carracho, on the other hand, is hotline done right; everything Hotline falls short in, Carracho does beautifully.
And the thing is that for some reason, it really feels to me like carracho has much more of a community feel to it. maybe because it's so much smaller, maybe it's because of the interface. But it just doesn't feel as much like you're wandering by random faceless faces-in-the-crowd..
Of course i'm not saying Hotline is useless. I've found some really nice places (community-wise) there; i just think carracho deserves more attention as an alternative.
Note that carracho is still kinda beta-ish and crashes from time to time. Also, and maybe more importantly, it's currently macintosh-only as far as i know. But then again, for a long time the only windows hotline software was third-party, and the only current linux clients/servers are implemented by third parties..
http://www.carracho.com/
http://www.hotlinesw.com/
http://www.freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=hotl
The entire idea of using record turntable scratching to create music is, i think, one of the greatest "hack"s of all times. of course it's not a single identafiable hack but an entire methodology of music .. but still, its pioneers need some recognition.
m l
The first record by the ultraindustrial group Coil, "How to destroy angels", deserves _some_ kind of recognition as a hack. I have never heard this album-- i wish i had-- but from what i've heard, it was apparently all noise-- noise so heavy that certain record players were unable to play parts of it. It also supposedly contained a grooveless song-- that is, there were no grooves to hold the needle in place, making it impossible to play as the needle just skitters across the surface. a search on Google just now turned up:
http://www.brainwashed.com/coil/music/angels.ht
i'd also heard of a humor record released by Monty Python called "Matching tie and hankercheif" or something, where it actually contained two seperate concentric grooves. That is, there were two completely different recordings on one surface, and depending on which of the grooves your needle happened to fall in you'd hear something different.
I'd also like to take this moment to give recognition to all the great useless mac extentions i was so addicted to once upon a time. This is "hacking" at its purest-- short, quick, dirty little things for a specific task with no practical value. The obvious ones are things like Zipple, which made the little apple in the apple menu be animated. But that's so _obvious_! the great ones were the truly _wierd_ ones-- Kilroy, which made the wierd bald little "kilroy is here" guy pop up over the top of the window with eyes that followed the cursor if you went a preset amount of time without clicking. "Mittens Touch Typist", which would inperceptably change random keystrokes into typos, driving you crazy. I'm trying to remember some others but failing- it was so long ago. My personal favorite in terms of sheer niftiness value though was one called "sdrowkcaB". This patched basically every routine the mac os had for displaying text in such a way that any string that a program tried to print to the screen through the toolbox was reversed before being displayed. So that the menus said "eliF tidE weiV" and so on. It worked beautifully.
And of course there was the famous NetBunny-- you secretly installed an extention on every computer in a computer lab or office, and then those extentions would lie in wait for a particular signal from the host program. Once that signal was sent out, the energizer bunny would walk across each screen on the network one by one, in an order you set up to make it appear he was walking from screen to screen.
And what about Cthugha? that had a DOS version did it not? the program that would turn music input from the CD into shifting shapes on the screen? the oscillator on acid?
sorry.. i'm being overwhelmed by nostalgia here.. -_-
i also have a program i wrote which i'm proud enough of that i'll have the egotistical audacity to mention it among these others.. it's called "recursive mirrors" and it uses a mac function called "copybits" to copy the contents of the screen into a window. Except in copying the screen it copies its own display window so you get this cool staring-into-infinity tunnel effect. Or a totally different effect depending on how you have the settings set.. i dunno. check it out if you're bored. http://home.earthlink.net/~mcclure111/prog.html
and as long as i'm rambling.. another great hack would be the idea in WW2 on the japaneese front of using Navajo indians speaking in Navajo as the one truly unbreakable code.. the japaneese never figured it out.
-mcc-baka
i will show you fear in a handful of dust. --t.s.eliot
i realize GIF wasn't the important part of your message, but it may be worth noting (as others in this thread have) that the /images directory actually contained one PNG:
http://www.transmeta.com/images/arrive2.png
there were also GIF and JPG versions of this same image.
strange things..