Anyone else find it amusing that they saw AOL Instant Messenger listed in the Click and Run and yet they still took the trouble to go the advanced route of installing gaim from the command line? What is this AIM client? Is is from AOL? Is it from Mozzila? Is it some KDE app renamed? It would have been acceptable if it was part of a screenshot or something, but it was one of the 10 or so Apps they listed.
I have been thinking of getting one of the shuttle computers and having them boot off of my lan grab linux, nfs the drive etc. In essence make it a terminal. The reason I love them so much is that they are very small, compact, can run with a C3 cpu (thus 1 less fan and even less noise) and have slots for a CD-ROM and Floppy. So my remote terminal could have a local cdrom and floppy (which I have dozens lying around). Most remote terminals cost about the same, but have no spot of cdrom or floppy (or any expandability for that matter. But doing some searching last night I wasn't able to find any information of anyone else doing that with the shuttle computer.
Does anyone know of anyone who made one of there shuttle computers bootonlan?
Yes, but just think of trying to cordinate the deletion of episodes. Did you see this one? Did you- don't know what it is? hold... ok it is the one where... ok . Ok next one... Living with two other guys on a 40hour it only took up a few minutes, but imagine with 1200 hours.
For those of you who were are Linux World last month Sharp had one at the Intel booth for anyone to see and play with. It is the smallest and thinest pda out there currently. Next week at the Intel developers converace there might be one also. (Don't know for sure, but I know for sure I will be there! Stop by the Sharp booth and say Hi!). For those of you who _really_ _really_ want the Documents tab that is on the A300 I can tell you right now that the A300 ROM is not compatible with the 5500 so don't try. If you do try you 5500 will die and will cost you $500 or however much you paid for it. (Although you could rip apart the rom, grab the launcher exe and get the english translations off the cd or course this isn't supported by sharp, probably wont work, use at your own risk, it might explode in a nuclear reaction and it wouldn't be there fault bla bla bla). BUT you can put Open Zaurus on your 5500. For those of you who hang out on IRC in the #Zaurus you will know that the A300 currently has no plans to come to the USA, but there is a different pda coming to the us. The only information known about it for _sure_ is that it has an xscale. Anything else that anyone tells you is just made up cr.. to make them seem like they know something they don't.
-Benjamin Meyer
P.S. You _HAVE_ to check out this game for the Zaurus.: Buzzword Bingo I am thinking of bringing it with me to the Intel conference. hehe
It depends on the chipset of the wireless card that you were using. If you were using one of the old Prizim2 chipset cards your battery usage could be as bismal as 1 hour. The reason is that it is set to allways on full strengh. The prizim2.5 as found in the Socket and Symbol cards have power managment so that they can drop all the way down to 20mA when not in transfering data and the driver is availble as a ipk install file.
When I was (on a break right now) at the Computer Science House at the Rochester Institute of Technology there were very frequent seminars given. To be a active member you have to do projects over the year. Many members fufill this requirment by giving a lecture on speciallized knowledge that they have. I myself have given a half dozen seminars. While at RIT I have to say that I learned more from these seminars then I did in classes. Frequently the speaker would compress down an entire course into 2 hours and because you actually wanted to goto this seminar you would pay attention, take notes and ask questions (gasp!). Requests for seminars would frequently get filled. Some seminars that I can remember include: OpenGL Programming, BeOS Programming, CVS/Perforce, Securing Linux, UML, Intro to Linux (A Geek intro, not mom&pop intro), Qt Programming, UI Design, OS Design, Computer science theory, logic, compression algorithems, genetic algorithms, DNA computing, neural networks, parallel computing, network design, network programming, and java. Pretty much anything went. I remember saturday mornings waking up and walking down the hall to spending the rest of the day learning about circut design.
If you are in the Rochester NY area check them out. CSH is a very cool place that always has something going on (ping our soda machine!). Maybe you could give a seminar?
Well I was a Debian user from 98 till last month when I found that on not 3 completely different system could I install debian. (going from the stable 6.2r6 cd's to unstable for X4 which I have to have) A laptop, desktop and small X-terminal type box. The big problem was that there is parts of X3 and parts of X4 tossed all over the place so attempting to upgrade X is just about impossible and after 2 1/2 months I finally gave up and loaded Red Hat to my dismay. (At first I thought it was just a bad package, but those are normally fixed within minutes and not months) On the bright side Red Hat has a nice cool installer and gives me a lot more of what I want to start from. I remember spending a good day after getting Debian up and running configuring everything from X11, my mouse, my network, my firwall, etc etc. Untill there is a debian release that has X4 as the default I will be unfortunettly watching from the sidelines, but when it does I will be back there in a heartbeat simply for apt-get.
-Benjamin Meyer
P.S. Why isn't kde3.0 intigraded into unstable yet???
Well I pretty much went to the library and grabbed the first 50 cd's that they had (the limit) and used them as test material. _A_my Grant as you can see would be in that pile.
But yes that is in fact one of the reasons why I wrote it. I wanted to be able to rip 30 cd's and have them just "encode" overnight. Encoding takes that longest time always. Thus I made a job control system where it will create jobs of ripping and encoding automaticly. So other then setting up the cd info you just have to click rip.
As many of you know kde2->3 was not much for eye candy and was more underneith and even then was mainly bug fixes. 3.1 was the first time that developers got to put up new stuff. One of the least known new items is KAudioCreator which is a ogg/mp3/everything audio ripping tool. From the website:
KAudioCreator is an audio file creation solution for kde. It allows you to use whatever encoder you wish to encode your audio files while providing a comfortable gui. KAudioCreator also provides a job control system so you can see what files have succeeded, failed and stop or cancel jobs as the application progresses.
The game in the upper left hand corner that is show isn't mulitplayer or wireless. It was just a demo of hammerhead's 3d engine (which by the way kicks ass). Gotta love the writers for picking the picture that is pretty rather then the right one. Don't know about the other 3 though.
Sounds like the Zaurus. My microdrive works in it. I have 802.11, I play mp3's, I watch mpeg4 movies, I have kinkattalist for aim, I have a wireless cell adaptor with a flat fee. And best of all no microsoft.
How about a GUI Server manager for these? (screenshots)
Maybe put MySQL on it too have some more fun!
How about instructions on how to set up all of the servers (including smb)
There is nothign quite like getting your data by putting your sd card into the Z, selecting it as the root page and then browsing to it from another box.
Benjamin Meyer
P.S. How would you like to play Doom full framerate, multiplayer on the Zaurus! (for free too) It is coming soon! (Quake is more of a technical demo, can't do much without a floatingpoint, but if you want to see Quake on the Zaurus packages are already made.)
Re:Caffeine toxicity - material safety data
on
The Plague of Frogs
·
· Score: 3, Funny
When I was working on the LSDVD project someone sent us 80lbs of Jolt. It came in two crates of 20oz bottles. I put one of the crates in my cube and over the course of the day would chain drink the soda. About 2pm I found I couldn't control the mouse anymore. As not amused as I was I repeated it for a few more days untill the Jolt was all gone. (The other three memebers of the team did get some, but I am fairly sure that I accidently got most of it.)
For those that don't know www.transfandom.com is the place to get up to date information on transformers. Also this past year they re-released most of the original 1984 tranformers and some from 1985. Optimus prime, the evil jets, many of the cars etc. Ultra magnus is scheduled to come to the USA shortly and if you go down to your toys-r-us you will see it in there computer. A new comic is coming out (is out actually) with some really good artwork done. Just about each page could be a poster. They are also putting out a number of high quality posters
Also if you want a in box brand new Optimus Prime the have re-released him and you can pick him up at any transformers site. www.bigbadtoystore.com is one such place.
For those that missed it the Robots In Desgise were pretty good. The autobots being cars, firetrucks, etc ruled and I even imported the (2 foot tall) fortess maximus from japan (which might come to the us this christmas)
Remember Jazz, well you can buy him for $35 come June, but don't expect this reproduction to last very long (being one of the most saught after repros)!
Also those expensive pvc's from japan are coming to america shortly and also will be at toys-r-us for a _lot_ less.
Good luck actually finding this box set. Everywhere you go you wont be able to find it. So if you do think ebay... Rihno even stated something about being sold out.
Some Posters: http://www.cableone.net/skydive/dreamwav e/autobots 4.jpg http://www.tfgen3.com/comics.shtml
The one of Prediking vs protectobots and arialbots is my favorite and I have that one to be framed.
Just think with this you could "move" the cube farm from one room to another without killing the power or anything. Just move 1 cube at a time from one side to the other. haha
I guess you don't understand what I was talking about. I am not talking about coming up with the new xyz widget or abc way of doing things I am talking about simply going through applications and make sure that they use the word Quit and not Exit, that the application can resize properly, the tooltips match what objects do, etc. It isn't the most wonderfull job in the world, but more often then not it is these little things that drive people up the wall. We are improving the consistancy of applications within kde.
Think of it as polishing up your car. You don't really need to, but when you do it makes your car look so much better. (and we do file bug reports too when we find them)
Kscd had a bunch of work done to it and is improved for KDE 3.0 just to let you know.
The kde usability group http://usability.kde.org itself has been going through kde applications and writing up reports on applications (both ui and bug reports). (We don't just sit down in a room with 10 mom's and do ui studies.) So even though Corel is no longer sending in reports kde still has someone working on improving the ui.
We have also started an app of the week on the mailinglist. So come every Monday we all take a look at one of the kde applications and begin to make up a lists of changes that should be implimented to make the application better. By the end of the week the majority of these changes have been handed off to someone who will get them into cvs. If you are interested in helping out in this effort or just interested in writing up a list of things in an application that don't follow the ui standard head on over to the website and join the mailinglist. Can't code, but want to help out in kde? This might be a perfect spot for you to contribute.
We are also working on improving the website to allow for usabity reports to be given just like the current kde bug report system so you can submit items with minimal effort.
Before you blast me, here me out. I had wrist problems and tried a number of different mice. I have a little collection of mice in storage now. You know what one did more (for my wrists that is) then any other one? A trackball. And when you think about it you can relize why. With a normal mouse you mover your wrist all around, but with a trackball you use your thumb for everything. This drematicly reduces the amount of stress on your wrists. Granted it took me two weeks to be able to master it and another month to get my gimp skills back, but it was worth it. Unfortunetly for you lefties it is a little harder to find a trackball, but give it a shot.
As for keyboard I ended up getting a Kinesis, but that is for another post.
As for desk I built my own to match my height so my wrists are in the least amount of pain. (90 angle at elbo)
Actually what I would like is clear simply instructions on how to have the kde call openBrowser(url) open in something other then Konq. This is one of the major reasons why Kinkatta (kinkatta.sourceforge.net) isn't in KDE. Kinkatta gives the user the option to select what browser to use because I can't answer the e-mails on how to have openBrowser(url) use Galian or Mozzila, Opera, etc. I have many non-kde users that use Kinkatta, but giving users options is "not the kde way" acording to *someone* in kde.
1) I have never had any problems with multiple TOC connections. Heck I know someone who runs ~20 copies of Kinkatta 24/7... I am not sure where your source is, but I don't think it is true.
2) The plugins are pretty generic, For the most part they don't assume any AOLness so any other qt application could take the code and dump it right into their app if they wanted. In fact the code is so generic that you could make a plugin that was in fact a msn, yahoo etc plugin. (wouln't work the best, but it could be done)
3) If anyone is willing to get oscar working for Kinkatta I would be happy to help them. It is already abstracted out from the gui so it should be too much work.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmmmm.... As the author of Kinkatta I am curius to know what the "error" was. That lock out from last February lasted about 2 days.
Anyone else find it amusing that they saw AOL Instant Messenger listed in the Click and Run and yet they still took the trouble to go the advanced route of installing gaim from the command line? What is this AIM client? Is is from AOL? Is it from Mozzila? Is it some KDE app renamed? It would have been acceptable if it was part of a screenshot or something, but it was one of the 10 or so Apps they listed.
-Benjamin Meyer
Does anyone know of anyone who made one of there shuttle computers bootonlan?
-Benjamin Meyer
Yes, but just think of trying to cordinate the deletion of episodes. Did you see this one? Did you- don't know what it is? hold... ok it is the one where... ok . Ok next one... Living with two other guys on a 40hour it only took up a few minutes, but imagine with 1200 hours.
Actually it does have a type of cf sled in which you can add cf etc.
For those of you who were are Linux World last month Sharp had one at the Intel booth for anyone to see and play with. It is the smallest and thinest pda out there currently. Next week at the Intel developers converace there might be one also. (Don't know for sure, but I know for sure I will be there! Stop by the Sharp booth and say Hi!). For those of you who _really_ _really_ want the Documents tab that is on the A300 I can tell you right now that the A300 ROM is not compatible with the 5500 so don't try. If you do try you 5500 will die and will cost you $500 or however much you paid for it. (Although you could rip apart the rom, grab the launcher exe and get the english translations off the cd or course this isn't supported by sharp, probably wont work, use at your own risk, it might explode in a nuclear reaction and it wouldn't be there fault bla bla bla). BUT you can put Open Zaurus on your 5500. For those of you who hang out on IRC in the #Zaurus you will know that the A300 currently has no plans to come to the USA, but there is a different pda coming to the us. The only information known about it for _sure_ is that it has an xscale. Anything else that anyone tells you is just made up cr.. to make them seem like they know something they don't.
-Benjamin Meyer
P.S. You _HAVE_ to check out this game for the Zaurus.: Buzzword Bingo
I am thinking of bringing it with me to the Intel conference. hehe
It depends on the chipset of the wireless card that you were using. If you were using one of the old Prizim2 chipset cards your battery usage could be as bismal as 1 hour. The reason is that it is set to allways on full strengh. The prizim2.5 as found in the Socket and Symbol cards have power managment so that they can drop all the way down to 20mA when not in transfering data and the driver is availble as a ipk install file.
Check out the official page here.
If you are in the Rochester NY area check them out. CSH is a very cool place that always has something going on (ping our soda machine!). Maybe you could give a seminar?
-Benjamin Meyer
mpeg_encoding_howto
Enjoy
Benjamin Meyer
Well I was a Debian user from 98 till last month when I found that on not 3 completely different system could I install debian. (going from the stable 6.2r6 cd's to unstable for X4 which I have to have) A laptop, desktop and small X-terminal type box. The big problem was that there is parts of X3 and parts of X4 tossed all over the place so attempting to upgrade X is just about impossible and after 2 1/2 months I finally gave up and loaded Red Hat to my dismay. (At first I thought it was just a bad package, but those are normally fixed within minutes and not months) On the bright side Red Hat has a nice cool installer and gives me a lot more of what I want to start from. I remember spending a good day after getting Debian up and running configuring everything from X11, my mouse, my network, my firwall, etc etc. Untill there is a debian release that has X4 as the default I will be unfortunettly watching from the sidelines, but when it does I will be back there in a heartbeat simply for apt-get.
-Benjamin Meyer
P.S. Why isn't kde3.0 intigraded into unstable yet???
Well I pretty much went to the library and grabbed the first 50 cd's that they had (the limit) and used them as test material. _A_my Grant as you can see would be in that pile.
But yes that is in fact one of the reasons why I wrote it. I wanted to be able to rip 30 cd's and have them just "encode" overnight. Encoding takes that longest time always. Thus I made a job control system where it will create jobs of ripping and encoding automaticly. So other then setting up the cd info you just have to click rip.
-Benjamin Meyer
KAudioCreator is an audio file creation solution for kde. It allows you to use whatever encoder you wish to encode your audio files while providing a comfortable gui. KAudioCreator also provides a job control system so you can see what files have succeeded, failed and stop or cancel jobs as the application progresses.
Screenshots!
and for those kde 2 users I have back ported it to kde2 and put it on my webpage. -Benjamin Meyer
The game in the upper left hand corner that is show isn't mulitplayer or wireless. It was just a demo of hammerhead's 3d engine (which by the way kicks ass). Gotta love the writers for picking the picture that is pretty rather then the right one. Don't know about the other 3 though.
-Benjamin Meyer
Sounds like the Zaurus. My microdrive works in it. I have 802.11, I play mp3's, I watch mpeg4 movies, I have kinkattalist for aim, I have a wireless cell adaptor with a flat fee. And best of all no microsoft.
The link to the Quake demo:
here
For those that have a Sharp Zaurus pda we have been doing this for a while.
How about Apache with PHP
Or maybe the smaller Boa web server
How about a GUI Server manager for these? (screenshots)
Maybe put MySQL on it too have some more fun!
How about instructions on how to set up all of the servers (including smb)
There is nothign quite like getting your data by putting your sd card into the Z, selecting it as the root page and then browsing to it from another box.
Benjamin Meyer
P.S. How would you like to play Doom full framerate, multiplayer on the Zaurus! (for free too) It is coming soon! (Quake is more of a technical demo, can't do much without a floatingpoint, but if you want to see Quake on the Zaurus packages are already made.)
When I was working on the LSDVD project someone sent us 80lbs of Jolt. It came in two crates of 20oz bottles. I put one of the crates in my cube and over the course of the day would chain drink the soda. About 2pm I found I couldn't control the mouse anymore. As not amused as I was I repeated it for a few more days untill the Jolt was all gone. (The other three memebers of the team did get some, but I am fairly sure that I accidently got most of it.)
-Benjamin
A few more comments:
2 82
1 17.htm?28 3w ave / redaking_litho.htm
The dreamwave comic has been the #1 comic for the last two months. and issue number 2 was ordered by retailers more than any other book that month.
Fortmax coming this chrismas:
http://tfexchange.com/article.php?sid=
fantastic prediking poster:
http://dreamwave.safeshopper.com/117/cat
http://www.pinkyching.com/theyareamongus/dream
For those that don't know www.transfandom.com is the place to get up to date information on transformers. Also this past year they re-released most of the original 1984 tranformers and some from 1985. Optimus prime, the evil jets, many of the cars etc. Ultra magnus is scheduled to come to the USA shortly and if you go down to your toys-r-us you will see it in there computer. A new comic is coming out (is out actually) with some really good artwork done. Just about each page could be a poster. They are also putting out a number of high quality posters
v e/autobots 4.jpg
Also if you want a in box brand new Optimus Prime the have re-released him and you can pick him up at any transformers site. www.bigbadtoystore.com is one such place.
For those that missed it the Robots In Desgise were pretty good. The autobots being cars, firetrucks, etc ruled and I even imported the (2 foot tall) fortess maximus from japan (which might come to the us this christmas)
Remember Jazz, well you can buy him for $35 come June, but don't expect this reproduction to last very long (being one of the most saught after repros)!
Also those expensive pvc's from japan are coming to america shortly and also will be at toys-r-us for a _lot_ less.
Good luck actually finding this box set. Everywhere you go you wont be able to find it. So if you do think ebay... Rihno even stated something about being sold out.
Some Posters:
http://www.cableone.net/skydive/dreamwa
http://www.tfgen3.com/comics.shtml
The one of Prediking vs protectobots and arialbots is my favorite and I have that one to be framed.
Just think with this you could "move" the cube farm from one room to another without killing the power or anything. Just move 1 cube at a time from one side to the other. haha
I guess you don't understand what I was talking about. I am not talking about coming up with the new xyz widget or abc way of doing things I am talking about simply going through applications and make sure that they use the word Quit and not Exit, that the application can resize properly, the tooltips match what objects do, etc. It isn't the most wonderfull job in the world, but more often then not it is these little things that drive people up the wall. We are improving the consistancy of applications within kde.
Think of it as polishing up your car. You don't really need to, but when you do it makes your car look so much better. (and we do file bug reports too when we find them)
-Benjamin Meyer
Kscd had a bunch of work done to it and is improved for KDE 3.0 just to let you know.
The kde usability group http://usability.kde.org itself has been going through kde applications and writing up reports on applications (both ui and bug reports). (We don't just sit down in a room with 10 mom's and do ui studies.) So even though Corel is no longer sending in reports kde still has someone working on improving the ui.
We have also started an app of the week on the mailinglist. So come every Monday we all take a look at one of the kde applications and begin to make up a lists of changes that should be implimented to make the application better. By the end of the week the majority of these changes have been handed off to someone who will get them into cvs. If you are interested in helping out in this effort or just interested in writing up a list of things in an application that don't follow the ui standard head on over to the website and join the mailinglist. Can't code, but want to help out in kde? This might be a perfect spot for you to contribute.
We are also working on improving the website to allow for usabity reports to be given just like the current kde bug report system so you can submit items with minimal effort.
-Benjamin Meyer
Before you blast me, here me out. I had wrist problems and tried a number of different mice. I have a little collection of mice in storage now. You know what one did more (for my wrists that is) then any other one? A trackball. And when you think about it you can relize why. With a normal mouse you mover your wrist all around, but with a trackball you use your thumb for everything. This drematicly reduces the amount of stress on your wrists. Granted it took me two weeks to be able to master it and another month to get my gimp skills back, but it was worth it. Unfortunetly for you lefties it is a little harder to find a trackball, but give it a shot.
As for keyboard I ended up getting a Kinesis, but that is for another post.
As for desk I built my own to match my height so my wrists are in the least amount of pain. (90 angle at elbo)
-Benjamin Meyer
Actually what I would like is clear simply instructions on how to have the kde call openBrowser(url) open in something other then Konq. This is one of the major reasons why Kinkatta (kinkatta.sourceforge.net) isn't in KDE. Kinkatta gives the user the option to select what browser to use because I can't answer the e-mails on how to have openBrowser(url) use Galian or Mozzila, Opera, etc. I have many non-kde users that use Kinkatta, but giving users options is "not the kde way" acording to *someone* in kde.
1) I have never had any problems with multiple TOC connections. Heck I know someone who runs ~20 copies of Kinkatta 24/7... I am not sure where your source is, but I don't think it is true.
2) The plugins are pretty generic, For the most part they don't assume any AOLness so any other qt application could take the code and dump it right into their app if they wanted. In fact the code is so generic that you could make a plugin that was in fact a msn, yahoo etc plugin. (wouln't work the best, but it could be done)
3) If anyone is willing to get oscar working for Kinkatta I would be happy to help them. It is already abstracted out from the gui so it should be too much work.