"I'd be curious to see how they manage windwos 3d accelerated applications."
I do that right now with X window. I recently added the 3D hardware acceleration drivers from nVidia. Now when I run programs like flightgear (a rather cool flight simulator), it comes up as a window with 3D graphics in it, in the meantime, I can be running netscape or xterm and doing other stuff while I fly my plane. There doesn't seem to be any slowdown at all. I am even running fvwm95 with 6 seperate virtual screens, and I can switch back and forth no problem - at least no problem with speed - a bit of the HUD graphics appears on the other screens.
I'm not a real programmer, but I do on occassion look into other peoples code and try to make it do something a little different. Recently I tried to look at code for text editors, and I found the source for kedit (part of KDE) a joy to look at and very easy to modify.
I also did the same with kmines, changing minesweeper so that it does a few more fun things.
I did this with no training in C++ (I know only C), and certainly no knowledge of Qt.
(Note the link does not work when you click on it because somehow an extra space is put into the web address, and I just cannot get it to disappear. So click on it, then remove the space, then it will work.)
RE: "Open Source has become just another buzzword, everybodies talking about it. But besides Netscape, which `corporation' has actually gave us any interesting source code (not hidden behind 1,0000 lines of legal crap)? "
Also, look inside the source code of XFree86, for example, xc/lib/xkbfile - in just about every file you will see a copywrite notice from Silicon Graphics giving this software away.
"Lieut. Col. David Grossman, the point man in the effort to blame computer games for Littleton, says players learn to move quickly from a single target to the next, making 'one-shot kills' as they go."
I got the book Programming Perl - it is a great book, but not really a good place to start. It is rather like if you didn't know how to play poker, and someone starts to explain it "so black eyed jacks are wild." Before you get started, you need some context, and a gentle tutorial.
So I got Learning Perl. That, and the downloadable Perl reference, and the Programming Perl, are about all I need (except I also got Perl/Tk so I could do GUI stuff).
The book on a programming language I liked best was Kernigan and Richie's book on C. It really was a very straightforward book - not much fluff, but starting from the ground up. I really like a linear style in my books, and I find the "post modernist" (if that's what it is) approach to learning can be a little confusing.
So is the "pinkness" the result of Hawking Radiation from the black holes? Steven Hawking (did I spell his name right?) predicted many years ago that black holes emmitted radiation - kind of combining gravatation theory with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
I recall seeing a TV program in England about 1982/3 where Hawking said that if they ever actually found his radiation, he would get a Nobel Prize.
Well, I am sure that these Australians would have thought of this (since Hawking Radiation is rather well known) and maybe it just isn't in the right frequency range.
(P.S. that TV show had a 1 second shot of me crossing the street - I just happened to be in front of the camera when they were filming Trinity Street in Cambridge.)
You may find the article "Trained to Kill" at http://www2.christianity.net/ct/8T9/8T9030.html to be a very interesting read. This article by David Grossman addresses the issue that in many ways our culture trains kids to kill in this manner.
For myself, I have found that vitamin B supplements are particularly effective at dealing with any RSI I get. I pop a few of them, and a day or two later, the problem is gone. It is one of the B's, maybe B6 or B12, that actually does the job. But I was told that a vitamin B complex is more effective.
Don't overdose on them for any consistant period of time - apparently that can cause nerve problems in its own right.
I wanted to get sticky keys to work on X windows under FreeBSD. It was very difficult to obtain this info. After a week of extensive web searching, I found out that it was already built in under the name accessx. After another week of extensive web searching, I found out how to switch it on.
My findings are at http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen/software/#acce ssx
I hope that this information will become more widespread.
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"I'd be curious to see how they manage windwos 3d accelerated applications."
I do that right now with X window. I recently added the 3D hardware acceleration drivers from nVidia. Now when I run programs like flightgear (a rather cool flight simulator), it comes up as a window with 3D graphics in it, in the meantime, I can be running netscape or xterm and doing other stuff while I fly my plane. There doesn't seem to be any slowdown at all. I am even running fvwm95 with 6 seperate virtual screens, and I can switch back and forth no problem - at least no problem with speed - a bit of the HUD graphics appears on the other screens.
I'm not a real programmer, but I do on occassion look into other peoples code and try to make it do something a little different. Recently I tried to look at code for text editors, and I found the source for kedit (part of KDE) a joy to look at and very easy to modify.
I also did the same with kmines, changing minesweeper so that it does a few more fun things.
I did this with no training in C++ (I know only C), and certainly no knowledge of Qt.
If you use FreeBSD, use it with softupdates (look in /sys/ufs/ffs) - it makes things a LOT faster !!!!
http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen/software/xfsft/F reeBSD-3.x/xfsft-1.0.3.patch1/XF86-3.3.3 .1/.
(Note the link does not work when you click on it because somehow an extra space is put into the web address, and I just cannot get it to disappear. So click on it, then remove the space, then it will work.)
RE: "Open Source has become just another buzzword, everybodies talking about it. But besides Netscape, which `corporation' has actually
gave us any interesting source code (not hidden behind 1,0000 lines of legal crap)? "
Also, look inside the source code of XFree86, for example, xc/lib/xkbfile - in just about every file you will see a copywrite notice from Silicon Graphics giving this software away.
He wrote an article in August 1998. You can see it at http://www2.christianity.net/ct/8T9 /8T9030.html.
How about renaming Linux:
GNGL
which stands for:
GNGL's not GNU/Linux
I got the book Programming Perl - it is a great book, but not really a good place to start. It is rather like if you didn't know how to play poker, and someone starts to explain it "so black eyed jacks are wild." Before you get started, you need some context, and a gentle tutorial.
So I got Learning Perl. That, and the downloadable Perl reference, and the Programming Perl, are about all I need (except I also got Perl/Tk so I could do GUI stuff).
The book on a programming language I liked best was Kernigan and Richie's book on C. It really was a very straightforward book - not much fluff, but starting from the ground up. I really like a linear style in my books, and I find the "post modernist" (if that's what it is) approach to learning can be a little confusing.
So is the "pinkness" the result of Hawking Radiation from the black holes? Steven Hawking (did I spell his name right?) predicted many years ago that black holes emmitted radiation - kind of combining gravatation theory with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
I recall seeing a TV program in England about 1982/3 where Hawking said that if they ever actually found his radiation, he would get a Nobel Prize.
Well, I am sure that these Australians would have thought of this (since Hawking Radiation is rather well known) and maybe it just isn't in the right frequency range.
(P.S. that TV show had a 1 second shot of me crossing the street - I just happened to be in front of the camera when they were filming Trinity Street in Cambridge.)
You may find the article "Trained to Kill" at http://www2.christianity.net/ct/8T9 /8T9030.html to be a very interesting read. This article by David Grossman addresses the issue that in many ways our culture trains kids to kill in this manner.
For myself, I have found that vitamin B supplements are particularly effective at dealing with any RSI I get. I pop a few of them, and a day or two later, the problem is gone. It is one of the B's, maybe B6 or B12, that actually does the job. But I was told that a vitamin B complex is more effective.
Don't overdose on them for any consistant period of time - apparently that can cause nerve problems in its own right.
These are just my experiences - YMMV.
I wanted to get sticky keys to work on X windows under FreeBSD. It was very difficult to obtain this info. After a week of extensive web searching, I found out that it was already built in under the name accessx. After another week of extensive web searching, I found out how to switch it on.
e ssx
My findings are at
http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen/software/#acc
I hope that this information will become more widespread.