I don't have time to play around with settings or trying to get stuff working. I got 9.1 Pro at Frys during lunch. That evening, I popped out my hard drive with SuSE 8.2, left in my data drive (backed up), and put in a new drive for the install, mounting my data drive as/home. A little while later, I went to sleep, and woke up the next morning at 6am and started my work day.
Everything works. That pretty much sums it up. Printing, seeing the network, burning CDs, listening to an NPR stream. Perfect. No extra configuration, aside from downloading lame and the full MPlayer from Packman (both of which SUSE can't distribute).
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since they don't supply you with the source of the kernel your running.
yast -i kernel-source
Not that difficult. It appears to be set up and patched for either 32 or 64 bit depending on what you've installed. You can also install kernel-smp for the a more "standard" kernel, or a couple of specialized/heavily modified kernels (for firewall usage, etc).
It's not really transparent, just a fake of it....kinda like transparency in the current Xserver.
I hate to tell you, but all the images on your monitor are fake. X does "real" transparency as much as it can display a "real" duck. The API has been around for quite awhile, it's been in KDE for a long time (you can turn the extension on or off, if your X server does not support it). KDE falls back to software transparency (at the widget level, rather than the X level) if it's not available.
There are no X drivers (afaik) that do it on hardware, if that's what you mean. But the hooks are there for it. There's no 3D hardware acceleration for my setup. but that doesn't mean I can't use OpenGL screensavers; they just run a bit slower.
Guy #1: The thing that the modern day pundits fail to realize is that
all the socioeconomical and psychological problems inherent in
modern society can be solved by the judicious application of way too
much beer
Guy #2: Black frost is the only beer.
Buffy: My mother always said that beer was evil
Guy #1: Evil... Good... These are moral absolutes that predate the
fermentation of malt and fine hops. You see, wait where was I?
Buffy: I'm really not sure:
Guy#4: Well, Thomas Aquinas said... (all the other guys stop him saying
"NO")
Guy #2: There will be no Thomas Aquinas at this table.
Guy#3: Keep your theology of providence to yourself frat boy
Guy#4: I was just drawing a parallel between...
Guy#1: Beer. Had the earliest morality developed under the influence
of beer there would be no good or evil. There would just be 'kinda nice'
and 'pretty cool'. Everything would be different.
Buffy: You guys really like to hear yourselves speak don't ya
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Evan "Copied from a really bad script site that spelled Aquinas Equines"
My point is, if you can call it that, is that it doesn't always take a 50 Billion dollar military grant to come up with something to change the world. Ask the guy that invented the wheel.
Once you adjust for inflation, the committee that designed the original wheel for $47,000 Atlantean dollars cost a little over $73 Billion US dollars. Of course, they didn't even tip the waiter who read over their shoulder and suggested they use a circle instead of the original triangle shape.
Some of us predate the time Slashdot lost all the passwords, killed all the accounts, and we didn't both to reregister afterwards for a long long time.. Heck, some date back to before it was Slashdot.
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Evan "If I knew UIDs would be inverse dicksize, I'd have reregistered sooner"
All email depends on trusting the server admins. Server administrators are very much key people in every company, although, like janitors (who hold all the physical keys), the sensitivity of their position is often forgotten.
Storing the mails on the server is no more risky than using the server. You're one rule away from having a mirror of all email sent to you away being stored, and likely anybody you're using for email has a record dating back at least six months, if not years, of all the email you've sent and received.
Leave the mail on the server, and don't store your mail password. Using IMAP means you can use just about any mail client, but are limited to certain mail servers. Webmail is available all over the place, but I don't like it. There are loads of decent text mode mail programs, and I'm sure there's a system somewhere on campus that allows you to connect and pull your mail.
You might look to a portable harddrive storage unit. Some have various media readers built in. The reason I suggest that is due to the fact that you're going to have quite a bit of dust grit and gravel working into everything, plus potential wipeouts. All of which adds up to the CD's survival being dubious. A parked harddrive (when shutdown), wrapped in a shirt (and the shockproof shell it comes with), seems to be much more likely to survive.
By the way, if you have any sort of sendoff from Sacto, let me know, and I'll buy you a beer. I was at the Trekkies II filming and also heard you (I think it was you) on KDVS awhile back, and I've been following your plans for travel here on Slashdot. No Kill I is one of the reasons I moved cross country. A region thick with Star Trek bands that don't take themselves seriously seemed pretty cool.
I have a feeling that all those abstract figures are controllable a la Syndicate. Think Syndicate in the world of TRON.
I'd like to see an RTS in the world of INWO. Build up your influence, encourage the drowth of your organizations and takeover various factions. Black helicopters and MiBs, orbital platforms, nanotanks and tinfoil hat armor upgrades. Then have the Xists arrive.
Sorry, just replying to the assertion (which appears to not have been made in your case, but is all too common) that a hack requires a computer being involved.
And hacking doesn't always involve computers. A good example of a hack is resting a laser pointer so it shines at a reflective windchime for a handsfree cat toy. The essence of a hack is the "ah ha!" idea of how to do something with available tools in a new and/or elegant way.
And if you're referring to hacking in the form of cracking, or breaking into computers, most of Mitnick's work involved talking to people rather than actually using computers.
Well, Kareoke CDs are available. These aren't CDs without lyrics, they are a special format, and drive specialized hardware (although some DVD players can play them). So, I could see it as a niche player, even as a fad phenomenon. Just not replacing the primary way artists put out their music.
Speaking as a musician who has spent time in studios with various bands, I've gotta say that there's no way whatsoever that that's going to happen. Studio time is insanely expensive as it is, and it's a rush to get the best takes put together as fast as is damn possible.
Plus, outside of gimmick and "neato" appeal, there's no reason to do it. Musicians make music, a sound engineer put it together to make sure it's balanced, and the musicians (and producer) sit in to make sure it sounds the way they want. They are working on a single perfectly crafted project. Then they send it to the label (assuming they have even a fairly small label), where an audio engineer fucks the sound and kills all life from every song so it will sound "current" and "radio friendly". The label wants it to sound like everything else that's selling, and letting people futz with individual tracks will screw that up big time.
So, doing you way occurs over the objections of the original artists, the studio engineer and the label. Pretty much everybody who is making the music.
Not to mention that there are plenty of cases where multiple instruments are recorded at the same time, or the demo and/or timing track is audable in the background if you play one track alone. It's hard run to get in and out of the studio as is, and it costs beaucoup bucks. No way is there time or money to do it the way you want. Only somebody like Bowie, who has the eccentricity, money, time and freedom to play around can do something like that. Working bands and artists can only have the first.
Not all recordings are multitrack or can have tracks removed without affecting the song. Beyond all the live recordings, one track with a loud moment (drum or guitar sound) may hide where they merged two vocal takes. Often a vocal only track has a quiet demo track or rhythm guitar in the background; or simply a click track that is audable when you kill everything else.
Bemani and Freq/Amp songs are recorded quite differently than normal studio sessions.
As for TV, you can turn off the laugh track quite easily. You turn off the TV as a whole, but any show with a laugh track (other than MASH), that's an improvement.
That's a pretty common thing in certain cultures. The American South and rural communities have a whole slew of items made specifically for doing that. Special soap jars, glycerine (I think) to add to it to make liquid soap, and sponges with pockets to put the slivers into so that they infuse the sponge with soap.
It's taken a turn into the whole "Do it yourself" crowd who uses candlestubs to make scented candles... you can get soap kits to make herbal infused and scented soaps out of the scraps. It becomes less of a cost saver and more of a hobby at that point.
Of course, I swipe a new bar of soap every day I'm in a hotel for when I go camping. The tiny ones are great and you can toss them when you're done (since they usually are full of fluff from the washcloth they are wrapped in after every bath/shower).
Seconded... Ben's is a good site to browse daily to watch for really good deals. I will often realize "in the next six months, I need a new printer", and start watching. Inside a month, I'll find one for free after rebates (or a third of the price it normally is). Really useful site.
Plus you get an idea of what good prices for good quality items are, as they will list high quality, more expensive brands at lower prices (but not the lowest in the category of device; just the lowest for that brand). Good stuff.
Plus he lists things like Amazon's periodic "really nice kitchenware for $10 deals" and other household stuff... not just tech stuff.
How often do you look at your keyboard? I rarely look down at my keyboard when I am typing. I mean, it isn't that hard to learn to type.
When I have my hands on a keyboard, it's not that bad. Also, if I'm only using one model of keyboard, it's not bad. When I'm switching back and forth from a laptop keyboard and a desktop, I need light. I installed a 25 watt purple lightbulb in a desklamp for that purpose. Seems to be the right shade and level of light for perfect "I can see everything, (quickly) read printouts and otherwise be aware of the desk, but focus on the screen and what I'm working on".
I use a Logitech Elite cordless desktop. It's a damn stupid name, but I've been using Logitech cordless mouses and keyboards for about five years now, and I love them (I have a small pile of the old off-white ones in the file cabinet I store components in). I wouldn't mind a model with keys that have some sort of orienting light. Two leds in the f and j keys (matching the bumps) to find homekeys would be find. You have to find your homekeys to find $HOME.
Now if I could find a keyboard model with a trackball on the right, mouse buttons on the left. cordless, with key illumination, I would snap it up - there's a perfect remote for a homebrew PVR and media computer.
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Believe it or not, not everything at an airshow is from the US Air Force. Not everything at a boatshow is from the US Navy. Not everything at a picklefarm is from the Arkansas Sheriff.
Aye, but not a cannon nor "widely recognized" representation. Too many variants.
Probably the most interesting example is James Bond. People picture him (a fictional character) as one of the actor - and tend to be very very defensive of who they picture as the quintessential Bond.
Simon Belmont is a Vampire Hunter. I included Van Helsing because that's what the most mainstream figure is. I excluded Myu and other anime figures for the reason they are not mainstream. In retrospect I should have included Wesley Snipes. Not only is Blade well known, he's also technically (by subtitle) Blade, the Vampire Slayer.
Remember, we're talking "widely recognized", not "considered by geeks to be the coolest".
When I think of Klingons, I think of John Colicos, but I understand that most people don't recognize his name nor connect it with Klingons. The name Simon Belmont is hardly "widely recognized", and there is no stable visual representation that is recognizably him.
I would say that the top five or ten most recognized detectives are all fictional (starting out with Sherlock Holmes). Telly Savalis's Kojack and Peter Falk's Columbo are up there on the list.
Recognition of an actor as a famous or 'most recognized' "something" is not confusing the fact that they are actors. It's merely shortcutting the phrase "{character}, as portrayed by {actor}, is the most recognized {type of character}. When people think of {actor}, they think of {type of character}, and if you think of a {type of character}, you think of {character} as portrayed by {actor}."
If you think of "Vampire Slayer", you are likely thinking of one of five actors who portrayed them. Probably one of two characters (Van Helsing or Buffy).
It doesn't mean any of it is real... but "recognized" is a slippery term when dealing with fiction.
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Slashdot Mirror
Everything works. That pretty much sums it up. Printing, seeing the network, burning CDs, listening to an NPR stream. Perfect. No extra configuration, aside from downloading lame and the full MPlayer from Packman (both of which SUSE can't distribute).
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I hate to tell you, but all the images on your monitor are fake. X does "real" transparency as much as it can display a "real" duck. The API has been around for quite awhile, it's been in KDE for a long time (you can turn the extension on or off, if your X server does not support it). KDE falls back to software transparency (at the widget level, rather than the X level) if it's not available.
There are no X drivers (afaik) that do it on hardware, if that's what you mean. But the hooks are there for it. There's no 3D hardware acceleration for my setup. but that doesn't mean I can't use OpenGL screensavers; they just run a bit slower.
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Evan "Thanks, Keith"
Cut to the pub. Buffy is chugging a beer
Guys: Chug, chug, chug, chug
Buffy finishes the beer and burps
Guy #1: The thing that the modern day pundits fail to realize is that all the socioeconomical and psychological problems inherent in modern society can be solved by the judicious application of way too much beer
Guy #2: Black frost is the only beer.
Buffy: My mother always said that beer was evil
Guy #1: Evil... Good... These are moral absolutes that predate the fermentation of malt and fine hops. You see, wait where was I?
Buffy: I'm really not sure:
Guy#4: Well, Thomas Aquinas said... (all the other guys stop him saying "NO")
Guy #2: There will be no Thomas Aquinas at this table.
Guy#3: Keep your theology of providence to yourself frat boy
Guy#4: I was just drawing a parallel between...
Guy#1: Beer. Had the earliest morality developed under the influence of beer there would be no good or evil. There would just be 'kinda nice' and 'pretty cool'. Everything would be different.
Buffy: You guys really like to hear yourselves speak don't ya
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Evan "Copied from a really bad script site that spelled Aquinas Equines"
Once you adjust for inflation, the committee that designed the original wheel for $47,000 Atlantean dollars cost a little over $73 Billion US dollars. Of course, they didn't even tip the waiter who read over their shoulder and suggested they use a circle instead of the original triangle shape.
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Evan "If I knew UIDs would be inverse dicksize, I'd have reregistered sooner"
Storing the mails on the server is no more risky than using the server. You're one rule away from having a mirror of all email sent to you away being stored, and likely anybody you're using for email has a record dating back at least six months, if not years, of all the email you've sent and received.
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Evan
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Evan "IMAP/Kontact user myself"
By the way, if you have any sort of sendoff from Sacto, let me know, and I'll buy you a beer. I was at the Trekkies II filming and also heard you (I think it was you) on KDVS awhile back, and I've been following your plans for travel here on Slashdot. No Kill I is one of the reasons I moved cross country. A region thick with Star Trek bands that don't take themselves seriously seemed pretty cool.
Good luck with the trip.
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Evan "Gorn Subgenius"
They're called freckles.
-- Evan "Solar powered, but the framerate is about a year"
I'd like to see an RTS in the world of INWO. Build up your influence, encourage the drowth of your organizations and takeover various factions. Black helicopters and MiBs, orbital platforms, nanotanks and tinfoil hat armor upgrades. Then have the Xists arrive.
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Evan "Mea Culpa"
And if you're referring to hacking in the form of cracking, or breaking into computers, most of Mitnick's work involved talking to people rather than actually using computers.
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Evan "But you can't lie to a lawman, no... he's better than you and I"
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Plus, outside of gimmick and "neato" appeal, there's no reason to do it. Musicians make music, a sound engineer put it together to make sure it's balanced, and the musicians (and producer) sit in to make sure it sounds the way they want. They are working on a single perfectly crafted project. Then they send it to the label (assuming they have even a fairly small label), where an audio engineer fucks the sound and kills all life from every song so it will sound "current" and "radio friendly". The label wants it to sound like everything else that's selling, and letting people futz with individual tracks will screw that up big time.
So, doing you way occurs over the objections of the original artists, the studio engineer and the label. Pretty much everybody who is making the music.
Not to mention that there are plenty of cases where multiple instruments are recorded at the same time, or the demo and/or timing track is audable in the background if you play one track alone. It's hard run to get in and out of the studio as is, and it costs beaucoup bucks. No way is there time or money to do it the way you want. Only somebody like Bowie, who has the eccentricity, money, time and freedom to play around can do something like that. Working bands and artists can only have the first.
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Bemani and Freq/Amp songs are recorded quite differently than normal studio sessions.
As for TV, you can turn off the laugh track quite easily. You turn off the TV as a whole, but any show with a laugh track (other than MASH), that's an improvement.
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Evan
It's taken a turn into the whole "Do it yourself" crowd who uses candlestubs to make scented candles... you can get soap kits to make herbal infused and scented soaps out of the scraps. It becomes less of a cost saver and more of a hobby at that point.
Of course, I swipe a new bar of soap every day I'm in a hotel for when I go camping. The tiny ones are great and you can toss them when you're done (since they usually are full of fluff from the washcloth they are wrapped in after every bath/shower).
--
Evan
Plus you get an idea of what good prices for good quality items are, as they will list high quality, more expensive brands at lower prices (but not the lowest in the category of device; just the lowest for that brand). Good stuff.
Plus he lists things like Amazon's periodic "really nice kitchenware for $10 deals" and other household stuff... not just tech stuff.
--
Evan
When I have my hands on a keyboard, it's not that bad. Also, if I'm only using one model of keyboard, it's not bad. When I'm switching back and forth from a laptop keyboard and a desktop, I need light. I installed a 25 watt purple lightbulb in a desklamp for that purpose. Seems to be the right shade and level of light for perfect "I can see everything, (quickly) read printouts and otherwise be aware of the desk, but focus on the screen and what I'm working on".
I use a Logitech Elite cordless desktop. It's a damn stupid name, but I've been using Logitech cordless mouses and keyboards for about five years now, and I love them (I have a small pile of the old off-white ones in the file cabinet I store components in). I wouldn't mind a model with keys that have some sort of orienting light. Two leds in the f and j keys (matching the bumps) to find homekeys would be find. You have to find your homekeys to find $HOME.
Now if I could find a keyboard model with a trackball on the right, mouse buttons on the left. cordless, with key illumination, I would snap it up - there's a perfect remote for a homebrew PVR and media computer.
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Evan
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Probably the most interesting example is James Bond. People picture him (a fictional character) as one of the actor - and tend to be very very defensive of who they picture as the quintessential Bond.
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Evan
Remember, we're talking "widely recognized", not "considered by geeks to be the coolest". When I think of Klingons, I think of John Colicos, but I understand that most people don't recognize his name nor connect it with Klingons. The name Simon Belmont is hardly "widely recognized", and there is no stable visual representation that is recognizably him.
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Recognition of an actor as a famous or 'most recognized' "something" is not confusing the fact that they are actors. It's merely shortcutting the phrase "{character}, as portrayed by {actor}, is the most recognized {type of character}. When people think of {actor}, they think of {type of character}, and if you think of a {type of character}, you think of {character} as portrayed by {actor}."
If you think of "Vampire Slayer", you are likely thinking of one of five actors who portrayed them. Probably one of two characters (Van Helsing or Buffy).
It doesn't mean any of it is real... but "recognized" is a slippery term when dealing with fiction.
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Evan "Didn't check any of the spelling of the names"