Actually, this site dodesn't profit from the banners. It is a namezero.com site, which is a company that gives out free domain names. They provide free e-mail accounts and web redirectors. The catch is, of course, that they have a frame at the bottom of everything to help pay for the domain and hosting costs.
Therefore, the person who registered salshdot.org doesn't make one cent. Granted, that means that he didn't pay one cent either, but...
It all fairness, it was a guy with a bit time on his hands who decided to fill in a few forms and get a "free" domain. (They charge you $15 to transfer your domain out, since domains registered through namezero do not actually have your name on them.) These domains are good for dicksize wars between grade 10 students.:P
Right. I don't trust them anymore either. What I do now is have a copy of the file on my desktop at home for backup, and then carry around the file in my laptop's (PLUG: Toshiba Portege 3480, 2.2lbs!) hard drive. When I need to get it off onto another computer (typically for printing), I plug in my floppy drive, get a floppy, copy the file over, and then copy it onto the hard drive/network drive of the destination computer.
3DO was a specification, and the technology was licensed (sp?) out to third party manufacturers to make. As long as your device met the 3DO specs, it was a 3DO device.
This might mean that we will eventually get a Sorenson codec working without any ugly tricks in Linux!
However, Real likes to lag their Linux releases behind... so we don't know WHEN we'll see RealPlyaer 8 for Linux.
- Ed.
Anybody seen the Phantom Menace Pinball game?
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The Episode 1 Pinball game is one of the more interesting pinball games I have seen in a while - but it seems to be a deviation from other pinball games. Essentially, you shoot a ball into a black space, where an image is reflected from a CRT display hanging upside down. No more bumpers and lights and whatnot. The machine tracks the position of the ball as you fling the ball at images reflected onto the glass plate.
Actually, the PPC is no slouch when it comes to instruction count. In fact, if you take into account the AltiVec extensions in the G4, the PPC G4 actually has more instructions than the P3's. AltiVec is one hell of a monster.
I use StarOffice 5.1 for school work on my Libretto 100CT. One of my friends was away from class one day and wanted the notes. I did the Word97 export, and we opened up the file on his Sharp Mebius (running Office 2000).
When we opened the file, what we found was that the line drawings I did (for some small diagrams) were not exported at all. Of course, that kind of thing is not really used by most users anyway, but this is something to keep in mind.
I also can't figure out how to make only *PART* of a page columnized in StarOffice - I have to resort to using tables.
With regards to export to Power Point, here is what I have found in my experience:
When exporting from a presentation which links to images, all the links are converted to embeds, and the end result is one monster file (in comparison to the original file size).
It also doesn't like to export the bullets properly, and fonts are kind of shaky.
You're thinking about Ultimate Doom, which was DOOM 1 with the extra episode "Thy Flesh Consumed". You could actually get DOOM 1.9 sans Ultimate DOOM, although Ultimate DOOM was actually free and the patch from 1.9 to Ultimate was and still is freely available from id's ftp site.
Final DOOM was two 32 level sets - "TNT: Evilution" and "The Plutonia Experiment" done by Team TNT for id.
(A lot of people think Final DOOM is only Plutonia, since some warez kiddies decided that Plutonia == Final DOOM and released it on its own.)
Actually, a potato-powered device would still run on electricity, the difference is that the electricity comes from potatoes as opposed to a {coal|nuclear|gas|oil|solar|hydraulic|insert_power _source_of_choice_here} power plant.
The Game Gear had a smaller screen and an expanded colour palette. If memory serves correct, it actually displayed 8 bits of colour (256) out of a number that I have forgotten. 12-bit?
Seeing as how RDRAM is still a lot more expensive than SDRAM these days, I'd be inclined to take up on the RAM replacement offer as opposed to a new motherboard....
Not to mention the fact that i820 + SDRAM = huge latency, which then translates into slow speed. A new 820 board + SDRAM is going to be a lot slower than the old 820 with RDRAM...
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Actually, this site dodesn't profit from the banners. It is a namezero.com site, which is a company that gives out free domain names. They provide free e-mail accounts and web redirectors. The catch is, of course, that they have a frame at the bottom of everything to help pay for the domain and hosting costs.
:P
Therefore, the person who registered salshdot.org doesn't make one cent. Granted, that means that he didn't pay one cent either, but...
It all fairness, it was a guy with a bit time on his hands who decided to fill in a few forms and get a "free" domain. (They charge you $15 to transfer your domain out, since domains registered through namezero do not actually have your name on them.) These domains are good for dicksize wars between grade 10 students.
- Ed.
Right. I don't trust them anymore either. What I do now is have a copy of the file on my desktop at home for backup, and then carry around the file in my laptop's (PLUG: Toshiba Portege 3480, 2.2lbs!) hard drive. When I need to get it off onto another computer (typically for printing), I plug in my floppy drive, get a floppy, copy the file over, and then copy it onto the hard drive/network drive of the destination computer.
Total time data spends on floppy disk: 15 seconds
- Ed.
The one thing that shits me about WinME is this:
The DOS prompt totally sucks. It sucks more than a 1 year old baby sucks his thumb.
The input is *DELAYED*, for god's fscking sake!
And I, knight of the Command Line that I am, rely on a command prompt of some kind to launch programs and do file management tasks.
In a word, it's unbearable.
Then again, maybe something is fscking with my WinME install. But it was freshly installed off the full install CD.
- Ed.
3DO was a specification, and the technology was licensed (sp?) out to third party manufacturers to make. As long as your device met the 3DO specs, it was a 3DO device.
- Ed.
Doh, take that foot and take it out of my mouth.
Didn't read article properly. Heh.
Ignore me.
- Ed.
This might mean that we will eventually get a Sorenson codec working without any ugly tricks in Linux!
However, Real likes to lag their Linux releases behind... so we don't know WHEN we'll see RealPlyaer 8 for Linux.
- Ed.
The Episode 1 Pinball game is one of the more interesting pinball games I have seen in a while - but it seems to be a deviation from other pinball games. Essentially, you shoot a ball into a black space, where an image is reflected from a CRT display hanging upside down. No more bumpers and lights and whatnot. The machine tracks the position of the ball as you fling the ball at images reflected onto the glass plate.
It's some freaky stuff.
Actually, the PPC is no slouch when it comes to instruction count. In fact, if you take into account the AltiVec extensions in the G4, the PPC G4 actually has more instructions than the P3's. AltiVec is one hell of a monster.
- Ed.
I use StarOffice 5.1 for school work on my Libretto 100CT. One of my friends was away from class one day and wanted the notes. I did the Word97 export, and we opened up the file on his Sharp Mebius (running Office 2000).
When we opened the file, what we found was that the line drawings I did (for some small diagrams) were not exported at all. Of course, that kind of thing is not really used by most users anyway, but this is something to keep in mind.
I also can't figure out how to make only *PART* of a page columnized in StarOffice - I have to resort to using tables.
With regards to export to Power Point, here is what I have found in my experience:
When exporting from a presentation which links to images, all the links are converted to embeds, and the end result is one monster file (in comparison to the original file size).
It also doesn't like to export the bullets properly, and fonts are kind of shaky.
Import works a LOT better than export, though.
Put a recording device with a mic and see.
- Ed.
You're thinking about Ultimate Doom, which was DOOM 1 with the extra episode "Thy Flesh Consumed". You could actually get DOOM 1.9 sans Ultimate DOOM, although Ultimate DOOM was actually free and the patch from 1.9 to Ultimate was and still is freely available from id's ftp site.
Final DOOM was two 32 level sets - "TNT: Evilution" and "The Plutonia Experiment" done by Team TNT for id.
(A lot of people think Final DOOM is only Plutonia, since some warez kiddies decided that Plutonia == Final DOOM and released it on its own.)
Before somebody marks me down as "redundant", Tom (if you don't know already) has been known to take "corporate bribes" to write positive articles.
(Read: nVidia)
Haha, very sad, yet very true.
Actually, a potato-powered device would still run on electricity, the difference is that the electricity comes from potatoes as opposed to a {coal|nuclear|gas|oil|solar|hydraulic|insert_power _source_of_choice_here} power plant.
- Ed.
The Game Gear had a smaller screen and an expanded colour palette. If memory serves correct, it actually displayed 8 bits of colour (256) out of a number that I have forgotten. 12-bit?
- Ed.
Seeing as how RDRAM is still a lot more expensive than SDRAM these days, I'd be inclined to take up on the RAM replacement offer as opposed to a new motherboard....
Not to mention the fact that i820 + SDRAM = huge latency, which then translates into slow speed. A new 820 board + SDRAM is going to be a lot slower than the old 820 with RDRAM...
- Ed.
Notice that the Linux kernel that this thing runs is uClinux, of which the first working platform it ran on was the PalmPilot.
Also notice that the Motorola processor used in this computer is the same Dragonball processor used in the Palm IIIx and Palm V.
PocketPC = new version of WinCE and supporting applications
The above mentioned devices are just newer WinCE devices.
Nothing new.
I still like my Toshiba Libretto better.
You have to set the timezone to EDT yourself in the user preferences.
Replying to my own message. :)
Doesn't look like nerdout's web server is too happy about it, though. I've got a quick and dirty mirror (hey, it works) setup here:
http://members.xoom.c om/areal ms0/Secret_Menu/secret_menu.html
Nah, not pulled, It's a broken link.
The correct URL is here: http://www.nerd-out.com/a pex/Secret_Menu/secret_menu.html
- Ed.
As I mentioned above, SanDisk is accessible just like a standard hard drive. No programming required. It's visible as a 16MB ATAPI device.
SanDisk is otherwise known as CompactFlash, or PicoFlash. A lot of digital cameras use it.
You can read/write to it like a regular hard drive.
You can probably do it over USB-serial for around 5mbps of bandwidth...
This is a standard x86 box. It not only runs ttyquake, it runs squake and xquake.
And it shouldn't be too shoddy either.
Hell, it would run Quake2. Might want to swap out the IDT WinChip for something else for that, though...
(and the DSTN display refresh rates would be horrible)