I know for a fact, because i was attempting to sell my DC with the cable, and they came back with a "illegal materials" notice, so i took off a note I had about some copied games on the auction listing -- thinking that was what they were after! So, i reposted, with the cable still on it, and they canned my account! I had no idea you could copy games with it! Oh well -- so they are getting a bum rap, methinks...
While i'm happy that Sony is going to release this version of Linux for the PS2 in America -- who is going to buy it with these seemingly draconian limitations! I don't want to have to boot from a cd, and I'd like to do with the system as I please!
It just doesn't make sense to me as a consumer -- if this PS2 Linux allowed you to do anything with the system, would that not drive MORE people to BUY a PS2? Oh wait, that's right -- Sony sells them at a loss, and hopes that the software makes it up.
Oh hell, i don't know. Someone needs to hack it up so I can put a kernel on it that isn't 3 YEARS OLD.
Having had to work with those bastards, I'd have to give extra kudos to Google! There are few places in the United States that can actually read them, and get you the data from them anymore, and they must've been lovingly cared for, with some of them being 20 years old!
I think I speak for everyone when I say "Thank you Google for arming me with the information contained in old USENet posts to bring up embarassing teenage posts to my friends!"
Wil, what is up with Killoggs.com? Yer cartoon mug is all over it.
Oh dear... the Kerslappage is HUGE.
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Where I work, we have a term for finding embarassing things on the web from people we know... it's "Kerslap!". It's a little like ego-surfing, except in reverse.
Imagine what you could find for "CmdrTaco" or "JonKatz" through this amazing search engine? Naked photos? Embarassing drunken pee-pee shots? Oh yes. All this and more....
Frankly, i LOVE Galeon. I can't get enough of it. It's almost like someone actually PAID ATTENTION TO THE USER FOR ONCE. We don't need these all-in-one bloatfests (Where's my StarOffice CD?), we need applications that do one thing, do it well, and have features relevant to the application.
My only wish: that there was a Windows port of Galeon i could use at work on my NT box (nudge,nudge).
This was shown on an episode of "Beyond 2000" years ago, where it was used in a supermarket to change prices on little LCD pricetags on the shelves. If it got hot outside, while a few keystrokes, a grocery manager in the back could up the price of soda $.10 or whatever. And all of this was done by manipulating the fluctuation of frequency of the fluorescents in the building. Pretty cool.
Whenever CompUSA sells 100 CDR's for $15, i'm there like johnny-on-the-spot! I think that any cd-burning geek worth his/her salt has probably already managed to squirrel away at least 200 discs! (I know I have).
Yay! The MPAA is concerning themselves with unscalable, little-used software! Sweet! Meanwhile, we are arduously working on giga-Hyrdonet.
Is there some other out-moded, ill-fitting technology we can through in their tracks? Maybe we should bring back Beta. Or, make vinyl pirated copies of new CDs.
Perl vs. Python. What is your take? It's a common argument, and I'd just like to hear it from the horse's mouth (er, rather the snake's mouth).
I personally am a Python man myself, but only after attempting Perl on a project, becoming frustrated, and then writing the app in Python instead, in a fraction of the time (and NOT knowing Python at the beginning).
Python is gaining much ground, especially in the realm of embedded scripting. Does Perl stand a chance in the future?
...the Red Menace (the Redmond menace, perhaps)... has been in our backyard.
For a company such as Microsoft, that grew up out of the free-market capitilism of the United States to impose such freedom-crippling ideas is beyond me. I'm no basher of Microsoft. They have done some good things, and some silly things.
The pigs have turned into humans, friends.
Give me open file formats. You can have your proprietary software.
Well, the article doesn't mention anything about "Payback", except for the title, folks.
It's not like a leather-clad BP is gonna stroll into the HP boardroom with James Brown blaring ("i can dig codin! i can dig debuggin'! But i can't dig, back- back-stabbin!"), and shoot up the joint for "Payback".
BP isn't an idiot. Personally, i think this is a good thing (TM), and the media has decided it's "Payback" time. No one is getting "Paid" any "Back". It'd be nice, sure, and definitely lead the big boys down the 12-fold path to true software divinity, but we're just asking.
Oh well, i had to put SOMETHING in this article that was remotely Linux-based.
((Interoperability || Freedom) && Future) == ?
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In the recent Doug Miller interview, he speaks a LOT of interoperability. Most of that interoperability he speaks of is over the internet. My worry is of interoperability on the desktop.
For example, we Linux users have a choice of either KDE or Gnome for a desktop. We have a choice of prompts, choice of window managers, choice of MANY different things. For the tech-head, this is great. Freedom in development is great. Though, for the average, ever-elusive novice Linux user, this freedom to choose is complicated and can be very confusing.
How is Red Hat planning on this interoperability/easy user experience without pigeon-holeing(sp?) themselves into one market or another, or splintering into sub-distributions?
I was pretty disappointed with LinuxVideo (LiVid) as I only got 6 fps TOPS on a Duron 700, however, a discrete link in a recent Slashdot story linked to VideoLan.org, and THEY have a client that works and works SPLENDIDLY. I got FULL framerate and EXCELLENT AUDIO as well. I've never turned back!
Page Creators has ceased to operate. Route questions to pcoffice@pagecreators.net.
The first ever Slashdotting that has resulted in complete and total collapse of a company.
Oooh! Gotta go report it at FuckedCompany!
What the MGMT thinks, versus what the Geek thinks.
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To management, CS and CIS are essentially the same. However, to the discerning geek, CS is techie-engineer style stuff, whereas CIS is the business/planning end.
One could think of it like this:
CS is to Physics as CIS is to Theoretical Physics
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this just in -- dancefloors, bars, other public settings rumored to be HACKER FREE!
howzabout if it sits around to long, it sends a message to your boss to replace you, the lazy admin, you frickin' slacker!
that'd be preferable.
Matrix Collectibles
Toys N Joys
Kicks Hobby
I know for a fact, because i was attempting to sell my DC with the cable, and they came back with a "illegal materials" notice, so i took off a note I had about some copied games on the auction listing -- thinking that was what they were after! So, i reposted, with the cable still on it, and they canned my account! I had no idea you could copy games with it! Oh well -- so they are getting a bum rap, methinks...
It just doesn't make sense to me as a consumer -- if this PS2 Linux allowed you to do anything with the system, would that not drive MORE people to BUY a PS2? Oh wait, that's right -- Sony sells them at a loss, and hopes that the software makes it up.
Oh hell, i don't know. Someone needs to hack it up so I can put a kernel on it that isn't 3 YEARS OLD.
I think I speak for everyone when I say "Thank you Google for arming me with the information contained in old USENet posts to bring up embarassing teenage posts to my friends!"
Ahh yes... and what else would they call it? CmdrTacoNet?
SweetCode had you beat on this one! It's a great little site. Imagine, if you will, Freshmeat with all the chaff removed.
Wil, what is up with Killoggs.com? Yer cartoon mug is all over it.
Imagine what you could find for "CmdrTaco" or "JonKatz" through this amazing search engine? Naked photos? Embarassing drunken pee-pee shots? Oh yes. All this and more....
My only wish: that there was a Windows port of Galeon i could use at work on my NT box (nudge,nudge).
This was shown on an episode of "Beyond 2000" years ago, where it was used in a supermarket to change prices on little LCD pricetags on the shelves. If it got hot outside, while a few keystrokes, a grocery manager in the back could up the price of soda $.10 or whatever. And all of this was done by manipulating the fluctuation of frequency of the fluorescents in the building. Pretty cool.
1.) http://www.goatse.cx
2.) http://www.memepool.com
3.) the refresh button while I'm at Slashdot
Whenever CompUSA sells 100 CDR's for $15, i'm there like johnny-on-the-spot! I think that any cd-burning geek worth his/her salt has probably already managed to squirrel away at least 200 discs! (I know I have).
And who says you can't teach old dogs (or mainframe jockeys) new tricks?
Is there some other out-moded, ill-fitting technology we can through in their tracks? Maybe we should bring back Beta. Or, make vinyl pirated copies of new CDs.
I personally am a Python man myself, but only after attempting Perl on a project, becoming frustrated, and then writing the app in Python instead, in a fraction of the time (and NOT knowing Python at the beginning).
Python is gaining much ground, especially in the realm of embedded scripting. Does Perl stand a chance in the future?
For a company such as Microsoft, that grew up out of the free-market capitilism of the United States to impose such freedom-crippling ideas is beyond me. I'm no basher of Microsoft. They have done some good things, and some silly things.
The pigs have turned into humans, friends.
Give me open file formats. You can have your proprietary software.
It's not like a leather-clad BP is gonna stroll into the HP boardroom with James Brown blaring ("i can dig codin! i can dig debuggin'! But i can't dig, back- back-stabbin!"), and shoot up the joint for "Payback".
BP isn't an idiot. Personally, i think this is a good thing (TM), and the media has decided it's "Payback" time. No one is getting "Paid" any "Back". It'd be nice, sure, and definitely lead the big boys down the 12-fold path to true software divinity, but we're just asking.
Oh well, i had to put SOMETHING in this article that was remotely Linux-based.
For example, we Linux users have a choice of either KDE or Gnome for a desktop. We have a choice of prompts, choice of window managers, choice of MANY different things. For the tech-head, this is great. Freedom in development is great. Though, for the average, ever-elusive novice Linux user, this freedom to choose is complicated and can be very confusing.
How is Red Hat planning on this interoperability/easy user experience without pigeon-holeing(sp?) themselves into one market or another, or splintering into sub-distributions?
Unexpandable? Unupgradeable? Cutsey UI?
So, are you interested in selling that powerbook G4?
I was pretty disappointed with LinuxVideo (LiVid) as I only got 6 fps TOPS on a Duron 700, however, a discrete link in a recent Slashdot story linked to VideoLan.org, and THEY have a client that works and works SPLENDIDLY. I got FULL framerate and EXCELLENT AUDIO as well. I've never turned back!
The first ever Slashdotting that has resulted in complete and total collapse of a company.
Oooh! Gotta go report it at FuckedCompany!
One could think of it like this: CS is to Physics as CIS is to Theoretical Physics