Surely you jest. I recorded an Invader Zim episode off Nickeloden and encoded it twice - once in MPEG-1, and once in Divx;-)
The MPEG-1 video is approximately 220 MB, clear with few artifacts.
The DivX;-) video is approximately 120 MB, with so many artifacts it's painful to watch. When a character raises his head suddenly it leaves a little trail of lower eyelid running down his face.
I hope they seriously improve the codec before using it for anything serious.
We totally revised the cit system before playing, of course. But some of them were great to read.
And you have to admit, they did come closer to making medieval style combat realistic than, say, AD&D. (where on one memorable occasion, a level 20 fighter got breathed acid on by a black dragon and was able to continue fighting at no penalty, still having over half his hit points.)
Oddly enough, I loved Demanufacture (except for that lame cover of Dog Day Sunrise) and Digimortal:)
I think the duet with the guy from Cypress Hill could use a little less repetition in the chorus, but hey, it's a rap song. Other than that, I've no complaints about the record (I got the digipak).
Fear Factory has been one of the few bands (along with Dream Theater, Rush, Tempest and Clutch) who puts out albums that are consistently good and almost all the tracks on every CD are worth listening to.
That's just my opinion, of course - you're entitled to yours as well:)
Or perhaps PostgreSQL?
NASA recently gave up Oracle in favor of MySQL, if I recall correctly.
Besides which, on the gaming end, I recently purchased Tribes2, but I still find myself playing GLtron and Freeciv and Nethack more than anything else.
Surprisingly enough, all those games are also under the GPL.
The difficulty of making a game engine is exactly why Free Software is an ideal solution.
I'll tell you one thing - I seem to be having a rough time. Maybe I'm too sensitive or something. I know I'm (at least physically) as attractive if not more so than many people...
It's pretty funny, objectively speaking. My apartment has basically become a flophouse for between four and eight males, and between two and ten females every night, but I still haven't gotten laid since Randy and I moved in last week.
C'est la vie, I suppose...
So, any single women in the Richmond, VA area who love Linux and wouldn't mind going out skateboarding with their boyfriend and his roommate once in a while? My email address above is correct...:)
Code only needs to be released along with the distribution of the object code. If the only people who you intend to use the code are in the hospital radio station, they're the only ones who need a copy of the code available to them. If you distribute the binaries over the internet, the source needs to be distributed as well.
I've got a friend who's beta-testing the current OS X beta, and we cannot get pppd up on his box. Apparently many other people are having the same problem, looking at the mailing lists.
I'm going to grab a tarball of pppd and try compiling it on his box tonight, and see if that works better than their included version.
Total, seamless integration of ICQ, AIM, Yahoo and MSN in one client. You just can't beat it.
You can refer to multiple accounts of people by a name you choose, so no matter whether he's using ICQ or AIM, he'll show up as "Dustin is now online".:)
I loved that game. I got the chance to play it again recently and found out that I'm not as good at figuring out what the computer wants me to type now as I was at seven years old;)
I spent all my time going "I remember there's something you need to get out of the fscking house that lets you go across the rainbow in the gulf or something like that... How do I get it?"
Wow, it's true - we are smarter when we're younger;)
I have purchased every game available commercially for Linux except for three:
Eric's Ultimate Solitaire (please, people).
Simcity 3000 (simcity has always been a big yawn to me. Now, if they would either port The Sims or bring back SimEarth, I would dig it).
and, Quake III. For the simple reason that Quake III Arena sucks. Big time.
UT - awesome.
Quake and Quake II - awesome.
Kingpin - awesome (except for their code. I'm writing a mod to fix coop, and my god! the horror!)
Myth II - awesome.
Heroes of M&M 3 - awesome
Heavy Gear II - awesome
Hell, I even bought Terminus! And that Aztec RTS!
Don't whine to me because Quake 3 sales suck - look at the product. If my friends who run Windows hadn't gotten the chance to buy it first and show me how much it sucked, I would have been tempted to blow $50 on it. Unfortunately for id, everybody running Linux got to see exactly how much Q3 blew before they decided whether or not to waste their money on it.
> Can you imagine the level of control this would give the government over the development of IPV7?
Yes, but their work will all be undermined by Eiri Masami, when he programs the Schumann Resonance into the Version 7 Protocol, and becomes the God of the Wired.
> You can't expect to cultivate such a distinctive feature and not expect reactions.
ummm - I think you misunderstood him, perhaps?
Most people don't willingly "cultivate" such "distinctive features" as genetic defects. (or abnormalities, at least).
Are you saying it's correct for people to persecute this person because he was born with a genetic abnormality? I really prefer to think that you didn't understand what he was talking about.
Found utilities to convert Word documents to HTML, Postscript, and other nifty formats.
I've never needed a way to batch-convert spreadsheets, so I haven't looked for that (I work for a printing company), but most of our internal forms are in Excel format, and Staroffice opens them just fine.
The point of upgrading is because the newer version does stuff better with fewer bugs, right?
If you have binaries that are linked against older versions of libc (and you don't want to download new versions / recompile stuff), you can just make symbolic links from the correct library file to the name your application is looking for.
By the way, I think glibc-2.2 is coming out really soon (if it's not already - I haven't checked in a little while).;)
but, I think most of the palmtops running Linux have at least resolutions of 320x200, and several also have IrDA capability.
palmtop computer != Palm
Palm had the advantage of being first to market, but now they have the decided disadvantage of being old, slow and clunky, without full color (or at least, very expensive color if you're willing to give up some other features).
I wouldn't try to run Freeciv (well... actually I would, just for coolness factor - just have to set up a 640x480 virtual desktop), but I could certainly watch MPEG videos, or play Heretic (if you've been following the Yopy announcements). Listen to MP3s, organize my e-mail...
1) Turn off everything that listens to the network (everything in/etc/inetd.conf, apache, ftpd, named, sendmail, you-name-itd, and use the --nolisten parameter when starting X)
2) Install sshd - configure to only accept connections from the local network
3) Install portsentry, and configure to add a reject route to anybody trying to connect to anything on the firewall (except sshd)
4) Setup ipchains and IP-masquerading to forward any connections not resolved on the local network.
Optional steps may include adding ipchain rules to forward things like cvs connections from outside to your local server, if you are running your own project (like me).
I want to know what window manager Lain's box was running in Serial Experiments: Lain!
It was obvious from a couple of things that either she was running X, or something highly influenced by it... but damn, I need a copy of that window manager.
And I also need to finally get around to installing IBM's ViaVoice, so next time I'm interrogating somebody in my bedroom I can just say "Play track 44" and the kickass interrogation music will bust out real loud to intimidate them.
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Quality? DivX;-) ?
Surely you jest. I recorded an Invader Zim episode off Nickeloden and encoded it twice - once in MPEG-1, and once in Divx;-)
The MPEG-1 video is approximately 220 MB, clear with few artifacts.
The DivX;-) video is approximately 120 MB, with so many artifacts it's painful to watch. When a character raises his head suddenly it leaves a little trail of lower eyelid running down his face.
I hope they seriously improve the codec before using it for anything serious.
At least, I loved reading through them.
We totally revised the cit system before playing, of course. But some of them were great to read.
And you have to admit, they did come closer to making medieval style combat realistic than, say, AD&D. (where on one memorable occasion, a level 20 fighter got breathed acid on by a black dragon and was able to continue fighting at no penalty, still having over half his hit points.)
I've got a Radeon - video playback is far from a pain :)
Lain looks *so* much better on a monitor than a TV screen.
Oddly enough, I loved Demanufacture (except for that lame cover of Dog Day Sunrise) and Digimortal :)
:)
I think the duet with the guy from Cypress Hill could use a little less repetition in the chorus, but hey, it's a rap song. Other than that, I've no complaints about the record (I got the digipak).
Fear Factory has been one of the few bands (along with Dream Theater, Rush, Tempest and Clutch) who puts out albums that are consistently good and almost all the tracks on every CD are worth listening to.
That's just my opinion, of course - you're entitled to yours as well
> second only in difficulty to programming enterprise-scale RDBMS systems.
You mean like Mysql?
Or perhaps PostgreSQL? NASA recently gave up Oracle in favor of MySQL, if I recall correctly. Besides which, on the gaming end, I recently purchased Tribes2, but I still find myself playing GLtron and Freeciv and Nethack more than anything else.
Surprisingly enough, all those games are also under the GPL.
The difficulty of making a game engine is exactly why Free Software is an ideal solution.
I'll tell you one thing - I seem to be having a rough time. Maybe I'm too sensitive or something. I know I'm (at least physically) as attractive if not more so than many people...
:)
It's pretty funny, objectively speaking. My apartment has basically become a flophouse for between four and eight males, and between two and ten females every night, but I still haven't gotten laid since Randy and I moved in last week.
C'est la vie, I suppose...
So, any single women in the Richmond, VA area who love Linux and wouldn't mind going out skateboarding with their boyfriend and his roommate once in a while? My email address above is correct...
Code only needs to be released along with the distribution of the object code. If the only people who you intend to use the code are in the hospital radio station, they're the only ones who need a copy of the code available to them. If you distribute the binaries over the internet, the source needs to be distributed as well.
Monitor activities? They may say they're looking for seismic disturbances, but we know who they're really looking for...
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
Ia, Ia, Cthulhu Ftaghn!
I've got a friend who's beta-testing the current OS X beta, and we cannot get pppd up on his box. Apparently many other people are having the same problem, looking at the mailing lists.
I'm going to grab a tarball of pppd and try compiling it on his box tonight, and see if that works better than their included version.
Total, seamless integration of ICQ, AIM, Yahoo and MSN in one client. You just can't beat it.
:)
;)
You can refer to multiple accounts of people by a name you choose, so no matter whether he's using ICQ or AIM, he'll show up as "Dustin is now online".
http://www.everybuddy.com
Sorry, no Windows port
If they're using the Mayan calendar, they're not looking from very far into the future ;)
The Mayan calendar says the world ends in 2012, AFAIK.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
;)
;)
I loved that game. I got the chance to play it again recently and found out that I'm not as good at figuring out what the computer wants me to type now as I was at seven years old
I spent all my time going "I remember there's something you need to get out of the fscking house that lets you go across the rainbow in the gulf or something like that... How do I get it?"
Wow, it's true - we are smarter when we're younger
Exactly.
;)
Well, almost. Personally, for me the release to Windows first was an issue with me not buying it, but not for that exact reason.
I didn't buy it because my friends who run windows did, and I got to see exactly how bad the game was before it was released for Linux.
I've purchased everything else Loki has been able to throw at me (except for Simcity 3000 and Eric's Ultimate Solitaire)
And even things you haven't (like Terminus and that bizarre Aztec RTS game).
But I will never buy Q3A for the simple reason that I will never play it.
I have purchased every game available commercially for Linux except for three:
Eric's Ultimate Solitaire (please, people).
Simcity 3000 (simcity has always been a big yawn to me. Now, if they would either port The Sims or bring back SimEarth, I would dig it).
and, Quake III. For the simple reason that Quake III Arena sucks. Big time.
UT - awesome.
Quake and Quake II - awesome.
Kingpin - awesome (except for their code. I'm writing a mod to fix coop, and my god! the horror!)
Myth II - awesome.
Heroes of M&M 3 - awesome
Heavy Gear II - awesome
Hell, I even bought Terminus! And that Aztec RTS!
Don't whine to me because Quake 3 sales suck - look at the product. If my friends who run Windows hadn't gotten the chance to buy it first and show me how much it sucked, I would have been tempted to blow $50 on it. Unfortunately for id, everybody running Linux got to see exactly how much Q3 blew before they decided whether or not to waste their money on it.
> Can you imagine the level of control this would give the government over the development of IPV7?
Yes, but their work will all be undermined by Eiri Masami, when he programs the Schumann Resonance into the Version 7 Protocol, and becomes the God of the Wired.
Props to Lain!
Not positive, but at a guess it might be this guy.
> You can't expect to cultivate such a distinctive feature and not expect reactions.
ummm - I think you misunderstood him, perhaps?
Most people don't willingly "cultivate" such "distinctive features" as genetic defects. (or abnormalities, at least).
Are you saying it's correct for people to persecute this person because he was born with a genetic abnormality? I really prefer to think that you didn't understand what he was talking about.
freshmeat.net, man.
Found utilities to convert Word documents to HTML, Postscript, and other nifty formats.
I've never needed a way to batch-convert spreadsheets, so I haven't looked for that (I work for a printing company), but most of our internal forms are in Excel format, and Staroffice opens them just fine.
umm... why do you need old versions of libc?
;)
The point of upgrading is because the newer version does stuff better with fewer bugs, right?
If you have binaries that are linked against older versions of libc (and you don't want to download new versions / recompile stuff), you can just make symbolic links from the correct library file to the name your application is looking for.
By the way, I think glibc-2.2 is coming out really soon (if it's not already - I haven't checked in a little while).
This is from their advertisement for DSL service at www.thinkgeek.com
Eat meat? No competition here, no carnivore plans either.
Either it means they only hire vegetarians (grin), or that they won't allow Carnivore to be put in their network (well, without a fight, at least).
That's Itanium - a 64-bit architecture chip.
This article is about Pentium 4, hopefully one of the last 32-bit architecture chips.
very good point...
but, I think most of the palmtops running Linux have at least resolutions of 320x200, and several also have IrDA capability.
palmtop computer != Palm
Palm had the advantage of being first to market, but now they have the decided disadvantage of being old, slow and clunky, without full color (or at least, very expensive color if you're willing to give up some other features).
I wouldn't try to run Freeciv (well... actually I would, just for coolness factor - just have to set up a 640x480 virtual desktop), but I could certainly watch MPEG videos, or play Heretic (if you've been following the Yopy announcements). Listen to MP3s, organize my e-mail...
1) Turn off everything that listens to the network (everything in /etc/inetd.conf, apache, ftpd, named, sendmail, you-name-itd, and use the --nolisten parameter when starting X)
2) Install sshd - configure to only accept connections from the local network
3) Install portsentry, and configure to add a reject route to anybody trying to connect to anything on the firewall (except sshd)
4) Setup ipchains and IP-masquerading to forward any connections not resolved on the local network.
Optional steps may include adding ipchain rules to forward things like cvs connections from outside to your local server, if you are running your own project (like me).
I hardly think so.
You obviously haven't looked here.
Or here.
I want to know what window manager Lain's box was running in Serial Experiments: Lain! It was obvious from a couple of things that either she was running X, or something highly influenced by it... but damn, I need a copy of that window manager. And I also need to finally get around to installing IBM's ViaVoice, so next time I'm interrogating somebody in my bedroom I can just say "Play track 44" and the kickass interrogation music will bust out real loud to intimidate them.