Wanna know how to stop commercial radio?
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Homogenized Music
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Support listener-supported, public radio like the Pacifica Network. I gave $150 to WBAI this year and they are a great radio station in New York. They are part of the Pacifica network which also has stations in California. I definitely recommend them!
I couldn't delete it because when I tried to go through the motions of deleting it, it asked for some arcane information I had bogusly put in years ago and couldn't remember, so I couldn't delete my account!
I figured, in 4 months of not using it, it will lapse and disappear from Yahoo completely, so I'm not bothered. It's one less service I'm using.
I'm convincing my friends who use Yahoo Groups for mailing lists to switch to another provider.
Maybe more people should start buying organic, non-GMO food. That will send a clear message to Monsanto, and other GM companies that think they can muscle their way around with the way our food is produced.
When I heard Dubya wanted to get rid of the ABM treaty, I knew his true intentions.
He and his republican cronies want to continue their warmongering just like Daddy Bush and Ronnie Raygun.
This is pointless. War gets us nowhere. The truly horrifying point is that Bush Inc. is using 9/11 to further their conservative agenda: War, Anti-choice, big fat paybacks to corporations, the further screwing of the middle and lower classes, spying on our own citizens, the continuation of the media as a propaganda tool for the military-industrial complex.
Granted, the democrats aren't much better. They are just as beholden to the big corporations ad the republicans, and day by day, the differences between the two parties shrinks and shrinks.
We have to stop the insanity. It's clear that the Bush administration have lost whatever shreds of sanity they ever had and are mad-bent on controlling the rest of the world through deployed groundtroops in various countries and nukes... and for what!? More 3rd world countries to exploit for the IMF and the World Bank? More "U.S. sponsored terrorism"? More CIA-trained terrorists to help the U.S. (and in 10 years we'll be fighting them.)
Both my wife and I have sent the BBC positive, glorious feedback about their OGG streaming. My wife, who isn't even computer literate, says she prefers the OGGS greatly over the Real Audio format.
I'm glad the BBC is listening and is supporting OGG Vorbis. I'm hoping other broadcasters will catch on and ditch the proprietary formats of Windows Media Player and Real Player.
Voting with one's wallet rarely works
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Last Word on Loki
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If you vote with your wallet, I don't think it makes much of a difference:
1. If the company is HUGE, one person not buying their product isn't going to hurt them. Something that would hurt would be a class-action lawsuit or something similar.
2. If the company is small, one person isn't enough when they vote with their wallets.
I think in the grander scheme of things, (Loki's demise aside, and how the big companies continue to get away with crimes), corporate lobbying must be curtailed, campaign reform laws must be enacted, and the right of the government to revoke corporate charters should be fully reinstated.
Oh and I am no hypocrite. I have bought many titles from Loki games. I fully supported their goals and vision. Sadly they are gone, but I hope a new company can take their place and do a better job at managing the funds, or at least try to change the perception of the "BIG BOYS" games companies (Blizzard comes to mind) that Linux ports are A Good Thing (tm).
Not really. Tolkien was a very esteemed scholar of things Anglo-Saxon. His books are a combination of Norse/Anglo-Saxon and Celtic mythology.
The whole good vs. evil paradigm does exist in Norse mythology because there's Ragnarok where the Gods fight with the Giants, so there are similarities.
At the end of Ragnarok, everything begins anew. The earth rises again and Balder comes back from Hela's realm.
In many ways it's a neverending cycle and you see these things in Tolkien's work. The fact that there are different "ages". Heroes rise, fight and fall, then there is a quiet time.. and then it begins anew.
Actually, The developers at OGG Vorbis are working on an open video format called "Tarkin" which is based on wavelets, rather than MDCT which is what MPEG-4 and other video codecs are based on.
Does anyone remember that Gates/Ballmer spoof video of "Duh Dah Dah Dah" (was it from Yellow or some weird 80's band?) and they pick up a Mac in the car, then they both sniff, and seconds later the Mac is left on the next corner.
They should have Alan Cox and Linus Torvalds driving around with an NT Server in the car doing that. LOL!
Loop-AES is a great loopback encrypted fs. I've been using it on my boxen both at work and at home, and it doesn't suffer the fs corruption bugs that the International Kernel patch suffers from.
You don't need to even install NFS to get it working, just go to their web page. Make sure you set the loopback in your kernel compilation to N (do not use 'Y' or 'M' on the option!). Then all you need to do is patch util-linux to create the new versions of losetup, mount and umount and you're ready to go!
Strangely enough, they have been silent about this
save for one e-mail from them saying that service
would not be interrupted. Somehow I don't think
they're being totally honest with their customers.
I'm going to www.dslreports.com and seeing if I can
get DSL. At least if I switch away from Comcast@HOME,
I won't have to worry about really draconian AUPs.
Fialar
Wrong. Vmware v2.04 DOES work with 2.4.14
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Linux 2.4.16 Released
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I'm running 2.4.14 and VMWare 2.04 right now.
You need to patch the VMWare modules.
While in college, I took programming courses, and I worked summers as an intern programming in C. I also ran a multi-line BBS under OS/2. By the early 90's I had a very healthy disdain of Microsoft products. Not because of their popularity (they were nowhere near as popular then), but because of their inherent inferiority to other OS's. (OS/2 was light-years ahead of Win 3.x)
However, after graduating college with a B.S. in Computer Science, I had only the odd dabble with SunOS 4 and compiling things. I had shell accounts, but I didn't do anything on the admin end of the spectrum. I went out into the "real world" and started off at the lowest common deniminator: Helpdesk. I got sucked into the screwed up world of Windows 3.xx/95 and NT 3.51. I even took Microsoft classes on SMS, Exchange, and Server.
It was 2 years before I got entirely fed up with the Microsoft world. Then, I was a Microsoft Exchange administrator (woe is me!). I took the plunge and joined the UNIX mail support at the place I was at and was working for a complete arsehole.
I lost my job after a month and a half there not from lack of experience, but because one of the guys there was intimidated by my UNIX knowledge. (I apparently had "corrected" him on how to do a symlink properly, even though he had supposedly been working with UNIX for more than 8 years at the time. Yeah right!)
After that stint, I was pressed for cash and ended up landing a contracting desktop support job working primarily with Windoze, but I set up a Linux box at work that acted as a knowledge base for all of us techs. It worked really well.
(I really wanted to replace that ailing 486 running NT 4 as the file/print server but they wouldn't let me!)
After that ended, I landed a job at an educational institution as a Solaris admin. Though I do some desktop support as well, that is starting to fall away as the company just signed a 10 year contract with an outsourcing company to handle their helldesk/mainframe/desktop support. (Thankfully, I was spared!)
My advice to you is.. never stop learning. Never stop asking questions. Set up boxen at home with various flavours of *IX and play away.
I think many people find 3rd person combat confusing, myself included. When I first played it, it took me a few hours just to get view down. Sometimes if I hit the wrong key, it would zoom in or out too much and totally screw up my estimation of distance, that usually meant getting my head lopped off.
One of the things I noticed the other guys I was playing with at the LAN party were just running and banging on keys and they generally got lots of kills. Utterly amazing. Maybe if I programmed lots of key commands in on one of those monster joysticks and just ran around swinging, I'd get a lot of dumb kills too.:)
I got it when it come out for Windows, and it was pretty sluggish on a K6-2 450 OC'd to 500 with 192 MB RAM running 98 SE.
When I read that the Linux version needed tons of memory, that turned me off. What do they need the memory for? Storing textures? I thought the vid cards did all that? It uses the Unreal engine so it shouldn't be memory hoggy at all. UT: GOTY runs nice and fast on my machine, Tribes 2 isn't half bad either.
Perhaps they should be working on trimming down those memory requirements, it would boost the game performance overall.
Yeah, Katz needs to do more research before spouting.
I like when Jet Li finds his "center" in the movie.
He starts doing Tai-Chi and turns bad Jet Li's
moves against himself. This reminds me of the end
scene in Tai Chi Master!!:)
Makes me want to go back and start practicing my
36 move competition form (Yang style) again.
Try LOOP-AES and stay far, far, FAR away from the international kernel patch if you are using 2.4 kernels. It has bad bugs in it which will crash your crypto'd FS.
(moderators please mod this up to get the word out.. thanks!)
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Support listener-supported, public radio like the Pacifica Network. I gave $150 to WBAI this year and they are a great radio station in New York. They are part of the Pacifica network which also has stations in California. I definitely recommend them!
No TV at all (no cable, no satellite, no reception).
I have a TV but with just a DVD player and VCR connected to it for movies that I own/rent.
I haven't watched "TV" in a year and I don't miss it.
I couldn't delete it because when I tried to go through the motions of deleting it, it asked for some arcane information I had bogusly put in years ago and couldn't remember, so I couldn't delete my account!
I figured, in 4 months of not using it, it will lapse and disappear from Yahoo completely, so I'm not bothered. It's one less service I'm using.
I'm convincing my friends who use Yahoo Groups for mailing lists to switch to another provider.
-Fialar
I de-registered my Hushmail because Hushmail v2.0
doesn't work with Mozilla or Linux.
I believe Netscape 4.xx is crippled to that aspect, so I dropped the account.
heck, if you can't "upgrade" your account without having to boot into windows and use IE, what's the point?
fialar
Or did they finally release an anti-alias process for fonts that doesn't make them look fugly? :)
-f-
When I heard Dubya wanted to get rid of the ABM treaty, I knew his true intentions.
He and his republican cronies want to continue their warmongering just like Daddy Bush and Ronnie Raygun.
This is pointless. War gets us nowhere. The truly horrifying point is that Bush Inc. is using 9/11 to further their conservative agenda: War, Anti-choice, big fat paybacks to corporations, the further screwing of the middle and lower classes, spying on our own citizens, the continuation of the media as a propaganda tool for the military-industrial complex.
Granted, the democrats aren't much better. They are just as beholden to the big corporations ad the republicans, and day by day, the differences between the two parties shrinks and shrinks.
We have to stop the insanity. It's clear that the Bush administration have lost whatever shreds of sanity they ever had and are mad-bent on controlling the rest of the world through deployed groundtroops in various countries and nukes... and for what!? More 3rd world countries to exploit for the IMF and the World Bank? More "U.S. sponsored terrorism"? More CIA-trained terrorists to help the U.S. (and in 10 years we'll be fighting them.)
It's a vicious cycle.
-f-
Raisethefist.com was shut down because Sherman posted recipes on making Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, soda bottle bombs, and the like.
That will get you on ANY fed or law enforcement radar screen these days.
The fact is, by law it's ok to post that sort of thing for informational purposes only. I don't think he had any disclaimers up to that effect.
Anyhow, if you really want to see the site, Google has it in its caches.
Both my wife and I have sent the BBC positive, glorious feedback about their OGG streaming. My wife, who isn't even computer literate, says she prefers the OGGS greatly over the Real Audio format.
I'm glad the BBC is listening and is supporting OGG Vorbis. I'm hoping other broadcasters will catch on and ditch the proprietary formats of Windows Media Player and Real Player.
If you vote with your wallet, I don't think it makes much of a difference:
1. If the company is HUGE, one person not buying their product isn't going to hurt them. Something that would hurt would be a class-action lawsuit or something similar.
2. If the company is small, one person isn't enough when they vote with their wallets.
I think in the grander scheme of things, (Loki's demise aside, and how the big companies continue to get away with crimes), corporate lobbying must be curtailed, campaign reform laws must be enacted, and the right of the government to revoke corporate charters should be fully reinstated.
Oh and I am no hypocrite. I have bought many titles from Loki games. I fully supported their goals and vision. Sadly they are gone, but I hope a new company can take their place and do a better job at managing the funds, or at least try to change the perception of the "BIG BOYS" games companies (Blizzard comes to mind) that Linux ports are A Good Thing (tm).
-fialar
I bought F.A.K.K. 2 and the Rune/HOV bundle
for a whopping total (with shipping) $85.
I don't mind supporting these folks. I own Tribes 2, Alpha Centauri, nreal Tournament:GOTY, and Quake 3 and have enjoyed all 4 games immensely.
Not really. Tolkien was a very esteemed scholar of things Anglo-Saxon. His books are a combination of Norse/Anglo-Saxon and Celtic mythology.
The whole good vs. evil paradigm does exist in Norse mythology because there's Ragnarok where the Gods fight with the Giants, so there are similarities.
At the end of Ragnarok, everything begins anew. The earth rises again and Balder comes back from Hela's realm.
In many ways it's a neverending cycle and you see these things in Tolkien's work. The fact that there are different "ages". Heroes rise, fight and fall, then there is a quiet time.. and then it begins anew.
Fialar
Actually, The developers at OGG Vorbis are working on an open video format called "Tarkin" which is based on wavelets, rather than MDCT which is what MPEG-4 and other video codecs are based on.
Fialar
I couldn't believe the Ballmer video either.:)
Does anyone remember that Gates/Ballmer spoof video of "Duh Dah Dah Dah" (was it from Yellow or some weird 80's band?) and they pick up a Mac in the car, then they both sniff, and seconds later the Mac is left on the next corner.
They should have Alan Cox and Linus Torvalds driving around with an NT Server in the car doing that. LOL!
Fialar
> Have a picture of Queen Victoria
:)
:)
No thanks! I'm trying to give them up!
XOR encrypted loopback? LOL.. that'll get solved in 10 seconds flat on any machine.
Here, play this record of an old 1970's mainframe while I encrypt your files for you.
Ftang! Ying tong iddle I po!
-Fialar
You don't need to even install NFS to get it working, just go to their web page. Make sure you set the loopback in your kernel compilation to N (do not use 'Y' or 'M' on the option!). Then all you need to do is patch util-linux to create the new versions of losetup, mount and umount and you're ready to go!
Fialar
Strangely enough, they have been silent about this
save for one e-mail from them saying that service
would not be interrupted. Somehow I don't think
they're being totally honest with their customers.
I'm going to www.dslreports.com and seeing if I can
get DSL. At least if I switch away from Comcast@HOME,
I won't have to worry about really draconian AUPs.
Fialar
You can get the patch here.
-Fialar
When I connect, I get prompted for a server password. :(
However, after graduating college with a B.S. in Computer Science, I had only the odd dabble with SunOS 4 and compiling things. I had shell accounts, but I didn't do anything on the admin end of the spectrum. I went out into the "real world" and started off at the lowest common deniminator: Helpdesk. I got sucked into the screwed up world of Windows 3.xx/95 and NT 3.51. I even took Microsoft classes on SMS, Exchange, and Server.
It was 2 years before I got entirely fed up with the Microsoft world. Then, I was a Microsoft Exchange administrator (woe is me!). I took the plunge and joined the UNIX mail support at the place I was at and was working for a complete arsehole.
I lost my job after a month and a half there not from lack of experience, but because one of the guys there was intimidated by my UNIX knowledge. (I apparently had "corrected" him on how to do a symlink properly, even though he had supposedly been working with UNIX for more than 8 years at the time. Yeah right!)
After that stint, I was pressed for cash and ended up landing a contracting desktop support job working primarily with Windoze, but I set up a Linux box at work that acted as a knowledge base for all of us techs. It worked really well. (I really wanted to replace that ailing 486 running NT 4 as the file/print server but they wouldn't let me!)
After that ended, I landed a job at an educational institution as a Solaris admin. Though I do some desktop support as well, that is starting to fall away as the company just signed a 10 year contract with an outsourcing company to handle their helldesk/mainframe/desktop support. (Thankfully, I was spared!)
My advice to you is.. never stop learning. Never stop asking questions. Set up boxen at home with various flavours of *IX and play away.
-Fialar
I think many people find 3rd person combat confusing, myself included. When I first played it, it took me a few hours just to get view down. Sometimes if I hit the wrong key, it would zoom in or out too much and totally screw up my estimation of distance, that usually meant getting my head lopped off.
:)
One of the things I noticed the other guys I was playing with at the LAN party were just running and banging on keys and they generally got lots of kills. Utterly amazing. Maybe if I programmed lots of key commands in on one of those monster joysticks and just ran around swinging, I'd get a lot of dumb kills too.
I got it when it come out for Windows, and it was pretty sluggish on a K6-2 450 OC'd to 500 with 192 MB RAM running 98 SE.
When I read that the Linux version needed tons of memory, that turned me off. What do they need the memory for? Storing textures? I thought the vid cards did all that? It uses the Unreal engine so it shouldn't be memory hoggy at all. UT: GOTY runs nice and fast on my machine, Tribes 2 isn't half bad either.
Perhaps they should be working on trimming down those memory requirements, it would boost the game performance overall.
Yeah, Katz needs to do more research before spouting. :)
I like when Jet Li finds his "center" in the movie.
He starts doing Tai-Chi and turns bad Jet Li's
moves against himself. This reminds me of the end
scene in Tai Chi Master!!
Makes me want to go back and start practicing my
36 move competition form (Yang style) again.
-fialar
(moderators please mod this up to get the word out.. thanks!)
-fialar