Funny you should ask. I wrote the 3D visualization tool for this while I was a grad student at USC. I used Torque game engine to use an existing model (aquired using LiDAR) and layered on an arial photograph on it for the textures - that's how much fancy I could have gotten given the time we had. I left in 2005 and am not sure if they are still using it though. But, the pictures you see on TFA are screenshots from the tool I developed. As to why I'm not listed on the list of grad students who participated on TFA is questionable. You can see the paper which talks about this here
The term Asia is a 'geographical classification'. The other end of the spectrum, which is prevalent all over the US and possibly elsewhere, is thinking the term 'Asian' just refers to peoeple from the far eastern countries and not India, Pakistan, etc. Your perception of geography is skewed when you call such classifications vague.
SMSTerm allows you to run a terminal over SSH. I wrote it to monitor servers from class. Its old, but still works. I use ICQ's SMS gateway. Get it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/smsterm/
Yes. I have a Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 and they come with an "Active Aero" spoiler which can tilt up at hih speed to increase downforce. But, they also have a manual override switch so that you can make it go up and down. I use it to wave at hot blondes in the car behind me when I'm cruising on the Pacific Coast Highway! =) Its also more prominent than the middle finger when you've just raced and car, beaten it, and are making circles around it! =)
I live in India, and SMS works like a charm here. Its incredibly useful in places where you can barely find any other way of messaging anyone. There are too many places in India where you wont find a phone booth, but you can always SMS away! Another advantage is that here, incoming SMS is free. Even, if you're on pre-paid, and you've run out of cash on your card, people can still message you. Delivery receipts are a boon too. I find SMS so useful that I wrote up an app to use it as a remote monitoring tool for servers anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world.:) Check out SMSTerm at http://freshmeat.net/projects/smsterm
U.S. watchmaker Steven Phillips patented a power supply for mechanical watches that requires only small changes in temperature to keep the watch in continual operation.
The first of its kind for mechanical watches, the power system is called "Eternal Winding System," and will be placed in several watches made by Phillips at his company, Budapest Watch Co., Guilford, CT.
Under development since early 2000, and granted a worldwide patent late this year, the watch and the power supply join as the first fully mechanical wristwatch that requires neither winding nor wearing to operate.
While several Japanese manufacturers offer watches that use temperature variations to operate quartz (non-mechanical) movements, Phillips says he is the first to develop the technology for a mechanical watch movement.
Similar to a mechanical thermostat, where a metal coil expands and contracts depending on the air temperature, Phillips developed a metallic coil with proprietary components so sensitive they will expand or contract at the slightest temperature variation. The movement of this coil, whether expanding or contracting, is transferred to a mainspring, the heart of a mechanical watch.
"Since there is no stopping the power, this system is well suited for perpetual watches," says Phillips, who makes the watches by hand. Phillips says the first watches using the new technology will premier at the Basel Show 2003, April 3-10. Details are in current issues of International Wristwatch magazine, a U.S.-based watch publication for consumers, www.internationalwristwatch.com. Later this month, details will be available at www.budapestwatch.com.
My approach to making a package format is running 'ldd' on every executable and then recording the dependencies, within the package. Any extra binary packages required (for eg. progs exec'ed from the application) can be entered by the user at the time of building the package.
This way, the package dependencies can be as trustworthy as./configure'ing it from source. I'd prefer an equivalent mechanism adapted into making a package and figuring out its dependencies.
I've been a long time slackware user, and i'm so in love with autoconf/automake that i wish someone extended them to binary packages as well.
Sometimes, you're just not in a mood to compile the stuff up from source. I wish someone makes something out of this idea of mine.
I've been at linux for the past 6 years, and I've never looked back from the day I started off with Slackware. The distribution is always stable. Even, the -current version, is mighty stable, when compared to testing/unstable. If I could get it installed as a 13 yr. old kid 6 years ago, anyone can. The installer hasn't changed over time. It still gets the job done:
Yes, dependencies are something that never existed in Slackware, but I never found it difficult to deal with. http://linuxmafia.org is a big help to get the binaries, in case u aren't in the mood to get on to a compilation spree, immediately, or are just in a hurry to get a package.
The FreeBSD ports system is great, and I think i heard someone mention it for linux in an earlier/. article http://slashdot.org/developers/01/09/21/1730210.sh tml
which can be downloaded from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnu-darwin/port s-user-linux.tar.gz
Slackware is getting better and better by the day, and I've seen very few Slackware users, that I know, who've switched to any other distribution, lately. The install follows the KISS philosophy, and its as fast as it gets, and relatively easy to the newbie, and more importantly gets the system ready, for more hacking.:)
I've been running on Slack since its ver. 1.00 with kernel 0.98, IIRC. I'm on 7.1 now, on the verge of running slackup to get synced with slackware-current.
I adore Patrick Volkerding for his stance on not
accepting some ideas to make it more user-friendly. All the other distros out there assume that a typical Linux user is a fool. Debian is a little on the safer side, but i still hate the dependency checking stuff. It's gonna be useful only if done right. Any experienced user is guaranteed to know what packages are on his system. I for one, like to install and remove packages at will. I prefer Slack's simple tgz format, cuz it allows me to do run the system with what _I_ think the proggie wants, than what _it_ thinks it wants. An O/S is s'posed to be an _interface_ between the user and the box, not takeover and tell u what to do.
Contrary to popular claims that Linux is mainly meant for the desktop, I've been using Linux (and yeah - Slackware) _only_ on the desktop for the past 5 1/2 years. I can dare say that I run one of the most kewl looking desktops. I'd love to give u a screenshot, but I guess i'm too lazy to take one now. If people depend on some other poer soul to make change diapers for them, all i can say is that they're not worth the box they're facing.
All I want out of a distro is that it should get the system up and running with the basic minimum required and allow _me_ to do whatever I want with it, and place it wherever I want. Slack is the only distros which deserves kudos in all these respects. Its amazing that you can setup a whole partition for a friend or u're ol' 386 lying beside u're box, just by mounting it on/whatever and running installpkg, with ROOT=/whatever. This makes it _really_ convenient. This makes it easy to setup directories for network booting clients too. There're a bunch of several other features which I dont seem to find in any other distro out there, and believe me, I've tried quite a few of 'em.
3 words - Slackware simply rox!
Is this valid _only_ is the US, or is it throughout the world? Is distributing MP3s still valid in a country like India? I know there is a lot of US pressure to comply to its rules, but I dont think other countries are obligated to implement this.
oh! finally i can render Q3A to multiple remote X terminals on my server. I hope something will be done in the DRI which can render the image using the local 3D accelerator card, and then drive the image accross the network to remote clients, a la vnc for OpenGL. does something like this exist?
ok. most of the OSS guys out there, including me, are solid in support of GNOME and Mozilla. I myself was a GNOME maniac, till i am forced to use this SuSE 6.3 (eval) system, which doesn't even have the courtesy to include GNOME along. I think people (call them lusers or anything) prefer a smooth transition onto Linux, and i think KDE gives them everything that they need. I'm not saying that the Helix Code guyz are beating around the bush, but i guess u've gotta give the credit to those who deserve it. whether we like it or not, Konqueror definitely opens up a new avenue in the list of Linux browsers, and Mozilla, howmuch ever it maybe hyped just hasn't got it. Its too slow, crashes a lot, and doesn't even have stable Java support. Opera seemed to be a good alternative for a brief period of time, but it looks like another looser. I've seen other projects (Mnemonic) have good ideals, but who never got anywhere. I think getting the ideas and implemeting them, and moreover, making them usable by the users, is a big concern, and guys no denying that the KDE guys are doing it all.
Slashdot Mirror
Funny you should ask. I wrote the 3D visualization tool for this while I was a grad student at USC. I used Torque game engine to use an existing model (aquired using LiDAR) and layered on an arial photograph on it for the textures - that's how much fancy I could have gotten given the time we had. I left in 2005 and am not sure if they are still using it though. But, the pictures you see on TFA are screenshots from the tool I developed. As to why I'm not listed on the list of grad students who participated on TFA is questionable. You can see the paper which talks about this here
The term Asia is a 'geographical classification'. The other end of the spectrum, which is prevalent all over the US and possibly elsewhere, is thinking the term 'Asian' just refers to peoeple from the far eastern countries and not India, Pakistan, etc. Your perception of geography is skewed when you call such classifications vague.
SMSTerm allows you to run a terminal over SSH. I wrote it to monitor servers from class. Its old, but still works. I use ICQ's SMS gateway. Get it at http://freshmeat.net/projects/smsterm/
Oh nevermind, I just need a Flash Player 7.0 - only had 6.0.
already - atleast the trailer seems to be. Is there any way to rip the trailer or its url out of the swf so that I cna host it elsewhere?
Yes. I have a Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 and they come with an "Active Aero" spoiler which can tilt up at hih speed to increase downforce. But, they also have a manual override switch so that you can make it go up and down. I use it to wave at hot blondes in the car behind me when I'm cruising on the Pacific Coast Highway! =) Its also more prominent than the middle finger when you've just raced and car, beaten it, and are making circles around it! =)
I live in India, and SMS works like a charm here. Its incredibly useful in places where you can barely find any other way of messaging anyone. There are too many places in India where you wont find a phone booth, but you can always SMS away! Another advantage is that here, incoming SMS is free. Even, if you're on pre-paid, and you've run out of cash on your card, people can still message you. Delivery receipts are a boon too. :)
I find SMS so useful that I wrote up an app to use it as a remote monitoring tool for servers anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world.
Check out SMSTerm at http://freshmeat.net/projects/smsterm
Nikhil.
U.S. watchmaker Steven Phillips patented a power supply for mechanical watches that requires only small changes in temperature to keep the watch in continual operation.
The first of its kind for mechanical watches, the power system is called "Eternal Winding System," and will be placed in several watches made by Phillips at his company, Budapest Watch Co., Guilford, CT.
Under development since early 2000, and granted a worldwide patent late this year, the watch and the power supply join as the first fully mechanical wristwatch that requires neither winding nor wearing to operate.
While several Japanese manufacturers offer watches that use temperature variations to operate quartz (non-mechanical) movements, Phillips says he is the first to develop the technology for a mechanical watch movement.
Similar to a mechanical thermostat, where a metal coil expands and contracts depending on the air temperature, Phillips developed a metallic coil with proprietary components so sensitive they will expand or contract at the slightest temperature variation. The movement of this coil, whether expanding or contracting, is transferred to a mainspring, the heart of a mechanical watch.
"Since there is no stopping the power, this system is well suited for perpetual watches," says Phillips, who makes the watches by hand. Phillips says the first watches using the new technology will premier at the Basel Show 2003, April 3-10. Details are in current issues of International Wristwatch magazine, a U.S.-based watch publication for consumers, www.internationalwristwatch.com. Later this month, details will be available at www.budapestwatch.com.
by Michael Thompson
Beowulf cluster of these. I bet you could run the ISS with astronauts from NASA and Russia having sex in turns. How costly is sex in russia?
My approach to making a package format is running 'ldd' on every executable and then recording the dependencies, within the package. Any extra binary packages required (for eg. progs exec'ed from the application) can be entered by the user at the time of building the package.
./configure'ing it from source. I'd prefer an equivalent mechanism adapted into making a package and figuring out its dependencies.
This way, the package dependencies can be as trustworthy as
I've been a long time slackware user, and i'm so in love with autoconf/automake that i wish someone extended them to binary packages as well.
Sometimes, you're just not in a mood to compile the stuff up from source. I wish someone makes something out of this idea of mine.
Nikhil.
I've been at linux for the past 6 years, and I've never looked back from the day I started off with Slackware. The distribution is always stable. Even, the -current version, is mighty stable, when compared to testing/unstable. If I could get it installed as a 13 yr. old kid 6 years ago, anyone can. The installer hasn't changed over time. It still gets the job done:
/. article http://slashdot.org/developers/01/09/21/1730210.sh tml
t s-user-linux.tar.gz
:)
1. Partition
2. Setup Swap
3. Select packages
4. Install
5. Configure fstab/gpm/timezone/etc.
Yes, dependencies are something that never existed in Slackware, but I never found it difficult to deal with. http://linuxmafia.org is a big help to get the binaries, in case u aren't in the mood to get on to a compilation spree, immediately, or are just in a hurry to get a package.
The FreeBSD ports system is great, and I think i heard someone mention it for linux in an earlier
which can be downloaded from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnu-darwin/por
Slackware is getting better and better by the day, and I've seen very few Slackware users, that I know, who've switched to any other distribution, lately. The install follows the KISS philosophy, and its as fast as it gets, and relatively easy to the newbie, and more importantly gets the system ready, for more hacking.
I've been running on Slack since its ver. 1.00 with kernel 0.98, IIRC. I'm on 7.1 now, on the verge of running slackup to get synced with slackware-current. I adore Patrick Volkerding for his stance on not accepting some ideas to make it more user-friendly. All the other distros out there assume that a typical Linux user is a fool. Debian is a little on the safer side, but i still hate the dependency checking stuff. It's gonna be useful only if done right. Any experienced user is guaranteed to know what packages are on his system. I for one, like to install and remove packages at will. I prefer Slack's simple tgz format, cuz it allows me to do run the system with what _I_ think the proggie wants, than what _it_ thinks it wants. An O/S is s'posed to be an _interface_ between the user and the box, not takeover and tell u what to do. Contrary to popular claims that Linux is mainly meant for the desktop, I've been using Linux (and yeah - Slackware) _only_ on the desktop for the past 5 1/2 years. I can dare say that I run one of the most kewl looking desktops. I'd love to give u a screenshot, but I guess i'm too lazy to take one now. If people depend on some other poer soul to make change diapers for them, all i can say is that they're not worth the box they're facing. All I want out of a distro is that it should get the system up and running with the basic minimum required and allow _me_ to do whatever I want with it, and place it wherever I want. Slack is the only distros which deserves kudos in all these respects. Its amazing that you can setup a whole partition for a friend or u're ol' 386 lying beside u're box, just by mounting it on /whatever and running installpkg, with ROOT=/whatever. This makes it _really_ convenient. This makes it easy to setup directories for network booting clients too. There're a bunch of several other features which I dont seem to find in any other distro out there, and believe me, I've tried quite a few of 'em.
3 words - Slackware simply rox!
Is this valid _only_ is the US, or is it throughout the world? Is distributing MP3s still valid in a country like India? I know there is a lot of US pressure to comply to its rules, but I dont think other countries are obligated to implement this.
oh! finally i can render Q3A to multiple remote X terminals on my server. I hope something will be done in the DRI which can render the image using the local 3D accelerator card, and then drive the image accross the network to remote clients, a la vnc for OpenGL. does something like this exist?
ok. most of the OSS guys out there, including me, are solid in support of GNOME and Mozilla. I myself was a GNOME maniac, till i am forced to use this SuSE 6.3 (eval) system, which doesn't even have the courtesy to include GNOME along. I think people (call them lusers or anything) prefer a smooth transition onto Linux, and i think KDE gives them everything that they need. I'm not saying that the Helix Code guyz are beating around the bush, but i guess u've gotta give the credit to those who deserve it. whether we like it or not, Konqueror definitely opens up a new avenue in the list of Linux browsers, and Mozilla, howmuch ever it maybe hyped just hasn't got it. Its too slow, crashes a lot, and doesn't even have stable Java support. Opera seemed to be a good alternative for a brief period of time, but it looks like another looser. I've seen other projects (Mnemonic) have good ideals, but who never got anywhere. I think getting the ideas and implemeting them, and moreover, making them usable by the users, is a big concern, and guys no denying that the KDE guys are doing it all.
I'd like a HD computer tho. who carez fer the idiot box NEwayz... gimme more bandwidth!!!