In case you haven't played it, there is a totally incredible class based mod, Weapons Factory for quake 3. The classes are more refined, you have stuff like laser guns and alarm systems, mines, and each class has a different model. The levels in this mod are pretty spectacular. There are actual dark places to hide (its not camping, its war) and other than that the levels just have a great look and feel. Now one model I would like to see ported to linux quake2 or a whole new quake3 version is the class based aliens vs humans mod that I just can't quite think of the name at the moment. Oh well...
I really do not know who to listen to anymore! ZDTV is sponsored by macmillan who distributes Mandrake, and ZDNN is the ones complaining? What are they off their rocker? Why was this even brought up anyway? I read the ZDNN article and it seemed to defend mandrake (big surprise). Oy vay... whats next?
If you ever watch ZDTV, they are sponsored by Macmillan who sells the Mandrake boxed distros... So who the hell can we trust anymore?! Everyone is owned by some corperation!
A link to a site that says another site has a rumor that he is on the board? Don't get me wrong, but why cant we just have news and not links to links to links to links? Go Figure.
I am sure ZDNN isnt swayed by any companies. Nice to see them let mandrake have a rebuttal, espcially seeing as how ZDTV IS SPONSORED BY MACMILLAN WHICH SELLS MANDRAKE!!!!! You think ZDNN is going to bad mouth their sponsors?
You know... I don't get why KDE has such a bad rap. This might be offtopic but any time I mention that I use KDE all the hackers tell me how "it sucks." Ok, I am sorry that I got used to a desktop environment that is comfortable to use, easy to configure and comes with a nice suite of applications. If you don't use something, why does that mean everything else has to suck? I don't go around saying how other window managers suck because I have used them and I know its a matter of personal preferance and taste. So, for a desktop that has been around so long... Why does it have such a bad rap? Is it because it looks like windows in some twisted way of looking at it? I thought personally it looked more like mac. It actually is neither and who cares because if you don't like it, dont use it because this is linux and linux is all about freedom of choice. So happy birthday KDE, from us users who don't care what other people say sucks.
Most of the files I got from http://www.fission.net/otr/archive.html but there are some pay places like rusc.com and one at http://www.oldtimeradiovault.com that has soooo much that if I had a large bandwidth I would sign up for a month at least to grab files (Which they do sell the whole set of 97 CDs or something which is insane!) Then if you have the player you just decode and re-encode the files... but there has to be a simple command line way with mpeg123 that I havent bothered to mess with yet, maybe next batch. They have a free ftp, but is as slow as hell.
I had pretty much the same experiences... Since I had my old plain sony discman with no shock protection, I just took the AC adapter from that. The ear buds broke on me a couple weeks ago... the wire from the one just came right out from the rest of it... I love the ni-cad battery charging feature. I keep the AC adapter near my bed with some old PC speakers so I can use it to listen to old radio shows and it charges up the batteries while I sleep. One thing about those old radio shows, they were recorded at 22Khz, and the player uses 44.1Khz, so I had to do a lot of re-encoding but music files are pretty much all 44.1Khz and anything 192bps on down to 32bps plays fine. Even VBR files play ok, even though the counter goes crazy heheh. What I would like to see in the next generation is a screen that would tell you what exactly you are listening to so I wouldnt have to make printouts of the directories. Also perhaps more randomization functions so that you can have it not only play a random song, but not play two songs from the same album in a row. But, at the price it was, even if the cheap earbuds and useless adapter didnt come with it... it would still be worth it. I love the thing! I mean... 14 hours of music on a single CD!!
I happed to own the "mptrip" or whatever it is really called (the actual player has no real brand on it, just says 'MP3') and I find having the CDR as media to be really convenient. You can buy blank CDR in bulk for under 40 cents a piece and burn discs like crazy. The player finds Mp3 even on mixed data/mp3 CDRs, so if your friend has a CD with his backup or whatever on it, you can just pop it in. Another great thing is that I can put the CD into anyones computer and play it. How many people have minidisc hooked up to their PCs?
As soon as sites like this get posted on slashdot they immediately get swamped, the service goes to hell, and nobody can use it... or it attracts attention from outside sources. This does not sound like a big commercial website that has backing for their systems by outside funding... and now they will be overun by slashdotters trying to use the service... Do you ask the permission of web sites before posting them on here? If not, that might be a good idea to let them know their system is gonna be clogged with users for the next week, or next few days at the least.
If a bunch of the machines are the same, install one one machine how you like it and then look into making an image (ISO or something) of the hard drive and basically just plastering that onto hard drives instead of actually installing. Also, if they are networked... there should be some way to install over the network to make it a lot easier. Or even find the offending directories in the install, make a new install which has them removed and burn that to a CD.
I could just imagine how good these people who won are if my group didnt even make it through the regional competition. They must be getting job offers like crazy... And if they arent, they should.
I had this dream last night that for some reason the AMD stock went plummeting or something else happend and that caused them to totally go out of business. I was so mad and was confused why it was happening. I remember saying "Dammit, now chip prices are gonna skyrocket! They were just going down too!" It was quite odd... Can anyone analyze it perhaps? hehe
Finally I get some recognition here. Glad to see more info on this processor. What a great name for it! Finally they name something after me! I feel so honored.
I really do think there are too many books that teach you how to program using a specific language and often don't concentrait enough on why you would choose one algorithm over another, or how to make your code clean and readable. I learned a hell of a lot more in my "programming language concepts" class than I did in the first two "intro to programming" classes, which by the way everyone in the school calls them "C++," which totally agrivates me due to the fact that they should be learning how to program and not the specifics of a language like that. It is the little time savers and the methodologies that go along with programming that help the job go smoothly, not the fact that you hacked up some code that finally works in such a short period of time. That my friends produces bad code which has no thought behind it.
1. [common] Abbreviation for the phrase "Birds Of a Feather" (flocking together), an informal discussion group and/or bull session scheduled on a conference program. It is not clear where or when this term originated, but it is now associated with the USENIX conferences for Unix techies and was already established there by 1984. It was used earlier than that at DECUS conferences and is reported to have been common at SHARE meetings as far back as the early 1960s. 2. Acronym, `Beginning of File'.
Now, if the acronym was not contained in the jargon file, I would have gotten quite angry. Nice to have it, but it would have been nice if they said what the hell a BOF was somewhere in the "article"
I actually have experience with this because I beta tested AOL 5.0 for a while. It would in fact create something in the dial up networking settings, and after using AOL you could not use your other ISP's if you had one. Now, this would only happen I think if you used AOL first, If you reboot the other ISP would work... or maybe you had to create the connections over again and then it was ok. I haven't however tested any of the recent versions so they might have changed something. The problem I think is that a lot of beta testers really did not know what they were doing, and did not know how to properly use the bug report system. I remember that a few suggested to reccomend features to the non-beta suggestion section of AOL instead of adressing it in the beta newsboard (Which the beta staff did read.)
Just so you know, there already is a "Linux for Dummies" book out, and it has been out for a few years. This new book is just focused on Redhat. (even though the other one is still Redhat centric) I doubt that imac users would buy this book seeing as they do not own a PC, so I really don't see where you are coming from on that remark.
I think games like SimCity is what linux is missing. One thing I hope that does happen is that they port the new "The Sims" game to Linux also. I want to experiment with houses of people... but not have to use windows to do it!
To me, the dali clock doing something strange... Just seems so fitting. They didn't call it the Dali clock for nothing. You would think that if you name it after Salvadore Dali it would be expected to do something strange. Isn't that what surrealism is all about?
Steve Jobs just happened to save apples collective ass, and don't forget that they were the ones to really put the gui in the laps of the world. Do you think microsoft would have came up with a GUI without apple trying to hard to put theirs out? Sure they both saw what was at xerox parc, but Jobs was the man to bring it to the table. Jobs is an artist *cough*pixar*cough*. Nuff said.
All that from someone who doesnt even use a mac on a regular basis... I guess I just have admiration for the man...
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In case you haven't played it, there is a totally incredible class based mod, Weapons Factory for quake 3. The classes are more refined, you have stuff like laser guns and alarm systems, mines, and each class has a different model. The levels in this mod are pretty spectacular. There are actual dark places to hide (its not camping, its war) and other than that the levels just have a great look and feel. Now one model I would like to see ported to linux quake2 or a whole new quake3 version is the class based aliens vs humans mod that I just can't quite think of the name at the moment. Oh well...
_joshua_
I really do not know who to listen to anymore! ZDTV is sponsored by macmillan who distributes Mandrake, and ZDNN is the ones complaining? What are they off their rocker? Why was this even brought up anyway? I read the ZDNN article and it seemed to defend mandrake (big surprise). Oy vay... whats next?
_joshua_
If you ever watch ZDTV, they are sponsored by Macmillan who sells the Mandrake boxed distros... So who the hell can we trust anymore?! Everyone is owned by some corperation!
*spits on the capitalist society*
_joshua_
A link to a site that says another site has a rumor that he is on the board? Don't get me wrong, but why cant we just have news and not links to links to links to links? Go Figure.
_joshua_
I am sure ZDNN isnt swayed by any companies. Nice to see them let mandrake have a rebuttal, espcially seeing as how ZDTV IS SPONSORED BY MACMILLAN WHICH SELLS MANDRAKE!!!!! You think ZDNN is going to bad mouth their sponsors?
_joshua_
You know... I don't get why KDE has such a bad rap. This might be offtopic but any time I mention that I use KDE all the hackers tell me how "it sucks." Ok, I am sorry that I got used to a desktop environment that is comfortable to use, easy to configure and comes with a nice suite of applications. If you don't use something, why does that mean everything else has to suck? I don't go around saying how other window managers suck because I have used them and I know its a matter of personal preferance and taste. So, for a desktop that has been around so long... Why does it have such a bad rap? Is it because it looks like windows in some twisted way of looking at it? I thought personally it looked more like mac. It actually is neither and who cares because if you don't like it, dont use it because this is linux and linux is all about freedom of choice. So happy birthday KDE, from us users who don't care what other people say sucks.
_joshua_
Most of the files I got from http://www.fission.net/otr/archive.html but there are some pay places like rusc.com and one at http://www.oldtimeradiovault.com that has soooo much that if I had a large bandwidth I would sign up for a month at least to grab files (Which they do sell the whole set of 97 CDs or something which is insane!) Then if you have the player you just decode and re-encode the files... but there has to be a simple command line way with mpeg123 that I havent bothered to mess with yet, maybe next batch. They have a free ftp, but is as slow as hell.
_joshua_
I had pretty much the same experiences... Since I had my old plain sony discman with no shock protection, I just took the AC adapter from that. The ear buds broke on me a couple weeks ago... the wire from the one just came right out from the rest of it... I love the ni-cad battery charging feature. I keep the AC adapter near my bed with some old PC speakers so I can use it to listen to old radio shows and it charges up the batteries while I sleep. One thing about those old radio shows, they were recorded at 22Khz, and the player uses 44.1Khz, so I had to do a lot of re-encoding but music files are pretty much all 44.1Khz and anything 192bps on down to 32bps plays fine. Even VBR files play ok, even though the counter goes crazy heheh. What I would like to see in the next generation is a screen that would tell you what exactly you are listening to so I wouldnt have to make printouts of the directories. Also perhaps more randomization functions so that you can have it not only play a random song, but not play two songs from the same album in a row. But, at the price it was, even if the cheap earbuds and useless adapter didnt come with it... it would still be worth it. I love the thing! I mean... 14 hours of music on a single CD!!
_joshua_
I happed to own the "mptrip" or whatever it is really called (the actual player has no real brand on it, just says 'MP3') and I find having the CDR as media to be really convenient. You can buy blank CDR in bulk for under 40 cents a piece and burn discs like crazy. The player finds Mp3 even on mixed data/mp3 CDRs, so if your friend has a CD with his backup or whatever on it, you can just pop it in. Another great thing is that I can put the CD into anyones computer and play it. How many people have minidisc hooked up to their PCs?
_joshua_
As soon as sites like this get posted on slashdot they immediately get swamped, the service goes to hell, and nobody can use it... or it attracts attention from outside sources. This does not sound like a big commercial website that has backing for their systems by outside funding... and now they will be overun by slashdotters trying to use the service... Do you ask the permission of web sites before posting them on here? If not, that might be a good idea to let them know their system is gonna be clogged with users for the next week, or next few days at the least.
_joshua_
If a bunch of the machines are the same, install one one machine how you like it and then look into making an image (ISO or something) of the hard drive and basically just plastering that onto hard drives instead of actually installing. Also, if they are networked... there should be some way to install over the network to make it a lot easier. Or even find the offending directories in the install, make a new install which has them removed and burn that to a CD.
_joshua_
I could just imagine how good these people who won are if my group didnt even make it through the regional competition. They must be getting job offers like crazy... And if they arent, they should.
_joshua_
I had this dream last night that for some reason the AMD stock went plummeting or something else happend and that caused them to totally go out of business. I was so mad and was confused why it was happening. I remember saying "Dammit, now chip prices are gonna skyrocket! They were just going down too!" It was quite odd... Can anyone analyze it perhaps? hehe
_joshua_
Finally I get some recognition here. Glad to see more info on this processor. What a great name for it! Finally they name something after me! I feel so honored.
_joshua_
How did you come to live in New Jersey and do you ever wish ATT Reasearch was some place else (perhaps some place closer to a larger city)?
_joshua_
I really do think there are too many books that teach you how to program using a specific language and often don't concentrait enough on why you would choose one algorithm over another, or how to make your code clean and readable. I learned a hell of a lot more in my "programming language concepts" class than I did in the first two "intro to programming" classes, which by the way everyone in the school calls them "C++," which totally agrivates me due to the fact that they should be learning how to program and not the specifics of a language like that. It is the little time savers and the methodologies that go along with programming that help the job go smoothly, not the fact that you hacked up some code that finally works in such a short period of time. That my friends produces bad code which has no thought behind it.
_joshua_
Judging by the amount of suits at Linuxworld last week... I would have to say that you are wrong.
_joshua_
Simply checking the jargon file we see:
/B-O-F/ or /bof/ n.
BOF
1. [common] Abbreviation for the phrase "Birds Of a Feather" (flocking together), an informal discussion group and/or bull session scheduled on a
conference program. It is not clear where or when this term originated, but it is now associated with the USENIX conferences for Unix techies and
was already established there by 1984. It was used earlier than that at DECUS conferences and is reported to have been common at SHARE
meetings as far back as the early 1960s. 2. Acronym, `Beginning of File'.
Now, if the acronym was not contained in the jargon file, I would have gotten quite angry. Nice to have it, but it would have been nice if they said what the hell a BOF was somewhere in the "article"
_joshua_
I actually have experience with this because I beta tested AOL 5.0 for a while. It would in fact create something in the dial up networking settings, and after using AOL you could not use your other ISP's if you had one. Now, this would only happen I think if you used AOL first, If you reboot the other ISP would work... or maybe you had to create the connections over again and then it was ok. I haven't however tested any of the recent versions so they might have changed something. The problem I think is that a lot of beta testers really did not know what they were doing, and did not know how to properly use the bug report system. I remember that a few suggested to reccomend features to the non-beta suggestion section of AOL instead of adressing it in the beta newsboard (Which the beta staff did read.)
_joshua_
Just so you know, there already is a "Linux for Dummies" book out, and it has been out for a few years. This new book is just focused on Redhat. (even though the other one is still Redhat centric) I doubt that imac users would buy this book seeing as they do not own a PC, so I really don't see where you are coming from on that remark.
_joshua_
I think games like SimCity is what linux is missing. One thing I hope that does happen is that they port the new "The Sims" game to Linux also. I want to experiment with houses of people... but not have to use windows to do it!
_joshua_
I think they called is OS2 before it was called NT, which is something different from IBM OS/2.
_joshua_
To me, the dali clock doing something strange... Just seems so fitting. They didn't call it the Dali clock for nothing. You would think that if you name it after Salvadore Dali it would be expected to do something strange. Isn't that what surrealism is all about?
_joshua_
Steve Jobs just happened to save apples collective ass, and don't forget that they were the ones to really put the gui in the laps of the world. Do you think microsoft would have came up with a GUI without apple trying to hard to put theirs out? Sure they both saw what was at xerox parc, but Jobs was the man to bring it to the table. Jobs is an artist *cough*pixar*cough*. Nuff said.
All that from someone who doesnt even use a mac on a regular basis... I guess I just have admiration for the man...
_joshua_
I know how cool it is to most of you athiests to look at giant petegrams, and 666 markings
Let me break the news to you, atheists dont worship the devil, certain satanists do.
_joshua_