Why are you making yet another Distro? From your specs page , it looks like it is fairly standard, not too much new. nman sounds cool, same with some of your new config tools. mdevelop/xmdevelop sound like overkill...why not wpe, and xwpe?
To me a Fork off an existing distro would be best..
oh, and are you going to be following the LSB and the FHS to the letter? (it would be a nice change)
tuz my (checking web site for probable gender..) man , it's good ta have ya back. We have all thought about going out and getting lives, but it would be just plain wrong. Hopefully you don't have any more relapses, but if ya do, don't worry you are always welcome back:)
as a side note, careful what ya say to Hemos, he is a soft fellow, we all know the Cmdr can take it, but old Hemos doesn't stand up as well to it. (Where is Taco anyway? that lazt sack hasn't posted since yesterday morning!)
go down to X10, and pick up a DVD anywhere so that you can throw that noisy beast in the basement, and have it play video/audio up in your livingroom. And of course it also comes with a RF remote so you can control your mp3 player/dvd player. (and it is a universial remote too, so it'll control a TV/VCR).
add in a TV tuner card, and write a little software and you have a TiVo.
Works pretty well.
To combat this they have isntalled sprinklers inside. I guess wet radioactive dust won't fly as easily.
Of course the problem with that is polluting the ground water.
Which is worse, breathing radioactive dust, or drinking radioactive water? (and growing food in it, kids playing in it, etc)
then added Option "Tv" "yes" to the device section..Then told it to use
Monitor "TV"
in the Screen Section
Make sure you are using 640x480 resolution, and 24-bit color depth..
that was with a Matrox G400 DualHead vid card (AGP)
but it seems generic enough that it should work for you too..msg me if you wnat a copy of the XF86Config file..
my question is:
Is there a way to setup multihead such that both screens are completely independant?? the only way I have seen to do it so far is with +xinerama..which just make one huge screen. that sucks. I need 'em to be completely separate for a project I am working on..
I have been working front line tech support for 15 months straight now (worked it for summer jobs before this)..I can not wait to get out.
At first it wasn't too bad..."yeah sure I get the occasional irrate caller, and get yelled at all the time...but I get to _help_ people" I thought to myself..
After the past summer I no longer think that way. There were two of us supporting an entire university for four months (summer, but still) right after a major switch in our dial up facilities. We had to support everything under the sun, win 9x, win3.1, macs winNT, win2k,winME, some linux, any app that anyone can find...You'd think that people with PhD's would have at least half a clue...nope.
I can't even express the pain. I'd have to go 4 hours non-stop on the phone...that is hang up the phone, then have it ring, and have to answer it. THen go for a 2o minute lunch and go at it again for another 4 hours.
(people who are on hold for more than 20 minutes get quite irate)
On another note, what's your feeling about commercial use of OpenBSD?
The OpenBSD team is happy to have the commercial use of OpenBSD...a quote from their web page:"OpenBSD encourages companies and independent developers to create products for use with OpenBSD, or based on OpenBSD itself. "[1]
They may or may not implement "X" for you though. I would imagine that if what you want is of general interest to everyone, they would probably do it for free, if not you could contact some of the developers on this page, and they would probably be happy to help you out..for a price.
GTKextra looks like a nice widget set, in particular gtksheet should be able to make a nice table-like interface for showing a grid of tv listings..Of course it would mean running X and gtk, and some wm...(lots of overhead)
What tivo clones are available? I haven't seen any mentioned on freshmeat..
There are some components available..tvguide and xmltv to grab listings, mp1e to compress it to an mpeg1 movie file, and maybe mpeg2-movie to compress it a bit more after you are finished recording the show. [xtheatre, xmovie, mtv] will play the movie, lirc to provide the driver for your remote control..but there is nothing tying them all together.
I will be attempting to do so, but getting around to writting the code is somewhat difficult right now...has anyone actually started doing it?
switching to Exchange means putting a Windows box on *every* desktop.
exchange will run on a mac without troubles. There may even be a version of Lookout for the mac as well...
You are pretty much out of luck for unix stations though:( I believe there is a program called Mailone or something that lets you read exchange email on unix...I think evolution is supposed to support exchange as well..but not in the near future.
as others have said, its just a text file...edit it.
to take it another step..read this That will get rid of all the crap on the tool bar. Also edit the Netscape.ad file (forget where it is), to make a ton of changes to the way netscape looks, and feels.
Currently they can't do it for fear of being sued in areas where gambling is illegal.
why should they be afraid? There has been numerous cases where people in countries that don't have any anti-cracking laws couldn't be touched by US laws for crimes they committed in the US...why should it be different the other way around?
Gambling is legal in North America..the only catch I can see is making sure that the gambler is 18 (or 21 or what ever).
In what way is it a crime to have mp3's/dvd's?
Who wants to sit there and swap CD's in and out of a piddly little 6 disc changer...when you could simply rip them on to hard drive, and relax with a remote?
Same deal with DVD's...
The first thing I do when I get a new CD is rip it. As soon as you get a couple of little scratches on a CD, it'll skip to no end...what if you leave that CD somewhere, or someone steals it...it is much nicer to have a backup, so you don't have to worry about....you just burn it.
This is such a good idea, that the Canadian Gov't is charging you for the privilege!
Russia pledged 750 million rubles ($27 million) on Thursday to launch two supply craft to keep its aging Mir space station flying until February, Itar-Tass reported, but its fate beyond that remained unclear.
The first line if the article.
Wasn't this the plan last week when you posted a very similar article?
Mir will crash and burn soon.
"Freedom uses an untraceable transaction system that prevents the association of user identity information revealed during the purchase of a Serial Number
(for both cash and credit card transactions) to be connected in any way with any Nyms that are created."
I've never had a problem buying from the states (I'm in Canada as well)...except for the crappy exchange rates, it's always been fine.
The only time I ran into a problem was when I bought from Canadian companies...Once from www.dealsdirect.com, they lied to me, ignored me, and in general gave really crappy service.
And once from ATI...they are a canadian company, but absolutley refuse to sell products in Canada.
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Why are you making yet another Distro? From your specs page , it looks like it is fairly standard, not too much new. nman sounds cool, same with some of your new config tools. mdevelop/xmdevelop sound like overkill...why not wpe, and xwpe?
To me a Fork off an existing distro would be best..
oh, and are you going to be following the LSB and the FHS to the letter? (it would be a nice change)
Just Curious...
tuz my (checking web site for probable gender..) man , it's good ta have ya back. We have all thought about going out and getting lives, but it would be just plain wrong. Hopefully you don't have any more relapses, but if ya do, don't worry you are always welcome back :)
as a side note, careful what ya say to Hemos, he is a soft fellow, we all know the Cmdr can take it, but old Hemos doesn't stand up as well to it. (Where is Taco anyway? that lazt sack hasn't posted since yesterday morning!)
Merry Christmas All.
that's why you have children.
(or roommates)
go down to X10, and pick up a DVD anywhere so that you can throw that noisy beast in the basement, and have it play video/audio up in your livingroom. And of course it also comes with a RF remote so you can control your mp3 player/dvd player. (and it is a universial remote too, so it'll control a TV/VCR).
add in a TV tuner card, and write a little software and you have a TiVo.
Works pretty well.
To combat this they have isntalled sprinklers inside. I guess wet radioactive dust won't fly as easily.
Of course the problem with that is polluting the ground water.
Which is worse, breathing radioactive dust, or drinking radioactive water? (and growing food in it, kids playing in it, etc)
I've gotten TV output to work in XFree 4.0.1, I just specified the:
Option "Tv"
then added a section to the Monitor Section:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "TV"
HorizSync 30-50
VertRefresh 60
EndSection
then added Option "Tv" "yes" to the device section..Then told it to use
Monitor "TV"
in the Screen Section
Make sure you are using 640x480 resolution, and 24-bit color depth..
that was with a Matrox G400 DualHead vid card (AGP)
but it seems generic enough that it should work for you too..msg me if you wnat a copy of the XF86Config file..
my question is:
Is there a way to setup multihead such that both screens are completely independant?? the only way I have seen to do it so far is with +xinerama..which just make one huge screen. that sucks. I need 'em to be completely separate for a project I am working on..
Good Luck.
while I can't think of any off the top of my head (i'll be looking for examples in a bit), I think this AS is definatley front page material..
why would you omit this from the Front page Cliff?
I do work at the university..I spend half the time on the phone, and half the time just outside a large lab that is always full.
I have been working front line tech support for 15 months straight now (worked it for summer jobs before this)..I can not wait to get out.
At first it wasn't too bad..."yeah sure I get the occasional irrate caller, and get yelled at all the time...but I get to _help_ people" I thought to myself..
After the past summer I no longer think that way. There were two of us supporting an entire university for four months (summer, but still) right after a major switch in our dial up facilities. We had to support everything under the sun, win 9x, win3.1, macs winNT, win2k,winME, some linux, any app that anyone can find...You'd think that people with PhD's would have at least half a clue...nope.
I can't even express the pain. I'd have to go 4 hours non-stop on the phone...that is hang up the phone, then have it ring, and have to answer it. THen go for a 2o minute lunch and go at it again for another 4 hours.
(people who are on hold for more than 20 minutes get quite irate)
PLease make the pain stop.
It is the 1st edition by that publisher..It was printed in '82 by Pocket Books...maybe published earlier than that too...here is a link
On another note, what's your feeling about commercial use of OpenBSD?
The OpenBSD team is happy to have the commercial use of OpenBSD...a quote from their web page:"OpenBSD encourages companies and independent developers to create products for use with OpenBSD, or based on OpenBSD itself. "[1]
They may or may not implement "X" for you though. I would imagine that if what you want is of general interest to everyone, they would probably do it for free, if not you could contact some of the developers on this page, and they would probably be happy to help you out..for a price.
[1] taken from http://openbsd.org/products.html
alas, since he has not Alan Cox et all back him up...mistakes may happen.
GTKextra looks like a nice widget set, in particular gtksheet should be able to make a nice table-like interface for showing a grid of tv listings..Of course it would mean running X and gtk, and some wm...(lots of overhead)
What tivo clones are available? I haven't seen any mentioned on freshmeat..
There are some components available..tvguide and xmltv to grab listings, mp1e to compress it to an mpeg1 movie file, and maybe mpeg2-movie to compress it a bit more after you are finished recording the show. [xtheatre, xmovie, mtv] will play the movie, lirc to provide the driver for your remote control..but there is nothing tying them all together.
I will be attempting to do so, but getting around to writting the code is somewhat difficult right now...has anyone actually started doing it?
yup...still there
/usr/src/linux/CREDITS
N: Raymond Chen
E: raymondc@microsoft.com
D: Author of Configure script
S: 14509 NE 39th Street #1096
S: Bellevue, Washington 98007
S: USA
in
and that from a 2.4test series kernel
switching to Exchange means putting a Windows box on *every* desktop.
:( I believe there is a program called Mailone or something that lets you read exchange email on unix...I think evolution is supposed to support exchange as well..but not in the near future.
exchange will run on a mac without troubles. There may even be a version of Lookout for the mac as well...
You are pretty much out of luck for unix stations though
as others have said, its just a text file...edit it.
to take it another step..read this
That will get rid of all the crap on the tool bar. Also edit the Netscape.ad file (forget where it is), to make a ton of changes to the way netscape looks, and feels.
Heck....I'll pay anyone one of you $30 (canadian) for _new_ computers!!
(heh..what a bad joke)
Currently they can't do it for fear of being sued in areas where gambling is illegal.
why should they be afraid? There has been numerous cases where people in countries that don't have any anti-cracking laws couldn't be touched by US laws for crimes they committed in the US...why should it be different the other way around?
Gambling is legal in North America..the only catch I can see is making sure that the gambler is 18 (or 21 or what ever).
You talk about DoS attacks not being cool? how many times have you taken down small web servers with the power you wield (/. effect)?!?!
You do it on an almost daily basis!!
=P
In what way is it a crime to have mp3's/dvd's?
Who wants to sit there and swap CD's in and out of a piddly little 6 disc changer...when you could simply rip them on to hard drive, and relax with a remote?
Same deal with DVD's...
The first thing I do when I get a new CD is rip it. As soon as you get a couple of little scratches on a CD, it'll skip to no end...what if you leave that CD somewhere, or someone steals it...it is much nicer to have a backup, so you don't have to worry about....you just burn it.
This is such a good idea, that the Canadian Gov't is charging you for the privilege!
There is an article about this over at technocrat.
check it out..a good (if scary) read.
Russia pledged 750 million rubles ($27 million) on Thursday to launch two supply craft to keep its aging Mir space station flying until February, Itar-Tass reported, but its fate beyond that remained unclear.
The first line if the article.
Wasn't this the plan last week when you posted a very similar article?
Mir will crash and burn soon.
"Freedom uses an untraceable transaction system that prevents the association of user identity information revealed during the purchase of a Serial Number
(for both cash and credit card transactions) to be connected in any way with any Nyms that are created."
read their privacy statement
They do mention portability a few times on their site.. of course, I'd wait and see if they actually do any porting to other platforms..
I've never had a problem buying from the states (I'm in Canada as well)...except for the crappy exchange rates, it's always been fine.
The only time I ran into a problem was when I bought from Canadian companies...Once from www.dealsdirect.com, they lied to me, ignored me, and in general gave really crappy service.
And once from ATI...they are a canadian company, but absolutley refuse to sell products in Canada.
Gotta Love those Patriotic companies....