Sounds like a good idea, and then I went to recover our old tunes. Nice of them to say that you have to pay if you want to recover more than three, after signing up. Grrr.
Then it insists you choose three artists similar to you, from a rather limited drop down list. Someone should tell them that not everyone makes guitar-based music.
All our tunes are on our own website anyway. Couldn't find a link to delete the Garageband.com account (what a crap name anyway!) so I am awaiting an email back about it...
Oh, and download some tunes if you want, but I know they're not great, so don't bother flaming;)
The two aren't mutually exclusive. They could have done it with XML and HTTP, sending different XML (XHTML) to web browsers than to iTunes, with a common back-end. Or something..
iptables -A INPUT -s abuse.scanner.blueyonder.co.uk -j DROP
I question the sanity of always scanning from the same IP address, and having that as the reverse DNS to show up nicely in firewall logs... I have a sensible ISP on DSL now instead, which isn't bothered about what servers I run, and even support linux;)
Had a look at their website and clicked on "SCO information" to see what their position on the whole SCO thing was. Suprisingly it looks like they've been "in talks" with SCO and even drawn up a contract. Are they paying SCO licenses? Come on Robertson, I know you're trying to do what's best for your business and all that, but SCO? Not cool.
Without DirectX, few games ever make it to Linux. Thats because DirectX is much more than just a 3-D gaming API. It has other features that make games easier to develop for.
OK genius, what do you suggest is done about this? Shall we all ask Microsoft to port the DirectX API to linux? I'm sure they'd love to do that. If not, how about an independentreimplementation? Well, seeing as DirectX is a proprietary API with lots of Windows-specific dependencies and is changing with every revision, it's not an easy task. Although plenty of games work perfectly under WineX.
As other posters have mentioned, there is also OpenGL which works on both operating systems and more besides, and is an open standard with free, already completely working implementations.
No they are not, unless you have xft set up incorrectly. You are probably using sub-pixel rendering on a CRT, when it's designed for TFTs as they have a fixed pixel layout. Normal anti-aliasing works best for CRTs.
Incidentally, xft's sub-pixel rendering is much sharper and clearer on my 1600x1200 laptop than Cleartype is.
The KDE font installer takes care of this. Don't know about GNOME. It lets you install fonts to your own home directory (~/.fonts) or system-wide (prompts for root password).
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Wow, with an outlook like that, your life must really suck:P
"A variant of Unix called Linux became popular in the late 1990s. A Finnish graduate student named Linus Torvalds developed the software and purposely disclaimed any rights to it, leaving it in the public domain, with the condition that its code and all future versions developed from it remain open to view and change."
Well that's just wrong isn't it? Linus retains all rights to Linux and calls the shots for everything related to it. Seems like it's not just a case of bad attitudes towards Linux being spread around, but a lot of plain misinformation too...
First of all the menuconfig menus are a lot more well organised and there are a lot more options, too. Configured it up and it booted OK... I've upgraded to every version so far. The good things: * Much less work required with "external" device drivers. With 2.4 I had to separately compile ACPI, ALSA, the nVidia driver, PCMCIA and Lucent modem drivers. Now it's just the Lucent and nVidia drivers as the other three are now included already. * ACPI support is better. Won't bore you with the details, but it is;) * Everything's faster, although I was using the new scheduler stuff as a patch to 2.4 so it didn't make too much difference. * probably lots of little things I can't think of right now
The bad things - there seem to have been a few nasty bugs, but that's to be expected with such a big upgrade and most of them have been sorted. Currently ACPI battery support is doing funny things and occasionally reporting that the battery's empty, when it's not. Give it a couple of releases though and it should be all good:) With the addition of KDE 3.2 getting released this has been a really good upgrade and I would definitely recommend anyone else to do the same...
That's strange, my/etc/modules seems to be getting read just fine. No change there. Something you might try is installing "discover" which tries to detect all your hardware and load modules for it. It does it quite well, too, although it dumps a little too much crap to the console during boot for my liking.
They are both interdependant, you can't have one without the other. Mutual inductance will most definitely be happening in this case. It's all about conservation of energy as well - if all the energy that's going into lighting up those bulbs was just being radiated out and wasted anyway, don't you think there'd be a hell of a lot of energy going to waste? There is some loss on power transmission lines but it's not as much as that!
so the original "content producer" isn't getting any money for it.
Not everything's about money. Children don't get abducted and raped because there's a quick buck in it, it's because there's a sub-culture of paedophiles who get a kick out of it. And it's a high risk thing to be doing - it doesn't take much to be sniffed out and taken down for it. So anything that helps avoid detection just helps those people persue their sick activities with less fear of being caught. If freenet is seen as a risk-free way of distributing child porn then a lot more of it will be produced! It could be argued that by running a freenet node you're contributing to this...
someone invent an API,ABI,execution or whatever to work on all platforms.
While that wouldn't be impossible - we have cross platform toolkits already e.g. Qt and wxWindows - the problem is getting everyone to use it. Developers who only do MFC for example aren't going to switch to Qt just because they could compile it on Linux, which they probably wouldn't want to bother doing anyway. The only way something like this could possibly work is if Microsoft made it their new "standard", and what are the chances of Microsoft standardising on something open and cross-platform? Pretty slim, unless they break it such that it only works properly on Windows.
I've not really kept in touch with my friends from school as they were mostly dicks and not very good friends at all. Most of my good friends I have met through the internet - the people I've met and the influences I've had as a result have changed me so much I couldn't really imagine it any other way. Without the internet I'd have probably ended up a very lonely and reclusive person. So yes... yay for the internet:D
In my mind there's no question. It's obviously the former. Either that or completely unrelated, I play violent games and I'm not a violent person at all. I'm sure the same could be said for loads of other people here really.
Here's an analogous questionn. Does owning a gun make you a killer or does wanting to kill someonee make you more likely to get a gun?
Two teenagers kill a bunch of their schoolmates with guns and home made bombs. They happened to play violent games and listen to industrial metal. How the hell can any sane person draw the conclusion that it was these things that made them do it? How about the way the awful American high school system rejects anyone who doesn't conform? The way they felt isolated and alienated from everyone else? Sorry but you don't turn into a bloodthirsty killer from just playing games. You have to have those tendencies to begin with. Playing violent games is just something someone like that is likely to do.
I'm still stuck on 1.3 due to the Blackdown JVM's Debian package not being updated for 1.4. I could do it non packaged-managed, but I'd really rather not...
There's another annoying keyboard related bug as well - sometimes when I unplug my USB keyboard, something screws up in the input layer or something as the laptop internal keyboard stops working and so does the USB keyboard if I plug it back in.
Yeah yeah, use the PS/2 port you say.. well I have lots of USB devices and I like being able to just plug in one (the hub) when I get home with my laptop;)
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Sounds like a good idea, and then I went to recover our old tunes. Nice of them to say that you have to pay if you want to recover more than three, after signing up. Grrr.
;)
Then it insists you choose three artists similar to you, from a rather limited drop down list. Someone should tell them that not everyone makes guitar-based music.
All our tunes are on our own website anyway. Couldn't find a link to delete the Garageband.com account (what a crap name anyway!) so I am awaiting an email back about it...
Oh, and download some tunes if you want, but I know they're not great, so don't bother flaming
Go and read another article then.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. They could have done it with XML and HTTP, sending different XML (XHTML) to web browsers than to iTunes, with a common back-end. Or something..
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I dealt with this like so:
;)
iptables -A INPUT -s abuse.scanner.blueyonder.co.uk -j DROP
I question the sanity of always scanning from the same IP address, and having that as the reverse DNS to show up nicely in firewall logs... I have a sensible ISP on DSL now instead, which isn't bothered about what servers I run, and even support linux
Had a look at their website and clicked on "SCO information" to see what their position on the whole SCO thing was. Suprisingly it looks like they've been "in talks" with SCO and even drawn up a contract. Are they paying SCO licenses? Come on Robertson, I know you're trying to do what's best for your business and all that, but SCO? Not cool.
Much more money in PC games though I'm afraid. And as always, money talks.
Linux isn't about money, it's about high quality, free software.
Without DirectX, few games ever make it to Linux. Thats because DirectX is much more than just a 3-D gaming API. It has other features that make games easier to develop for.
OK genius, what do you suggest is done about this? Shall we all ask Microsoft to port the DirectX API to linux? I'm sure they'd love to do that. If not, how about an independent reimplementation? Well, seeing as DirectX is a proprietary API with lots of Windows-specific dependencies and is changing with every revision, it's not an easy task. Although plenty of games work perfectly under WineX.
As other posters have mentioned, there is also OpenGL which works on both operating systems and more besides, and is an open standard with free, already completely working implementations.
No they are not, unless you have xft set up incorrectly. You are probably using sub-pixel rendering on a CRT, when it's designed for TFTs as they have a fixed pixel layout. Normal anti-aliasing works best for CRTs.
Incidentally, xft's sub-pixel rendering is much sharper and clearer on my 1600x1200 laptop than Cleartype is.
The KDE font installer takes care of this. Don't know about GNOME. It lets you install fonts to your own home directory (~/.fonts) or system-wide (prompts for root password).
Wow, with an outlook like that, your life must really suck :P
If you didn't RTFA:
"A variant of Unix called Linux became popular in the late 1990s. A Finnish graduate student named Linus Torvalds developed the software and purposely disclaimed any rights to it, leaving it in the public domain, with the condition that its code and all future versions developed from it remain open to view and change."
Well that's just wrong isn't it? Linus retains all rights to Linux and calls the shots for everything related to it. Seems like it's not just a case of bad attitudes towards Linux being spread around, but a lot of plain misinformation too...
The main reason CIO's and managers dislike Linux is that there is no entity to wine them and dine them
IBM?
My setup - Debian on a Dell Inspiron 8100.
;)
:) With the addition of KDE 3.2 getting released this has been a really good upgrade and I would definitely recommend anyone else to do the same...
First of all the menuconfig menus are a lot more well organised and there are a lot more options, too. Configured it up and it booted OK... I've upgraded to every version so far. The good things:
* Much less work required with "external" device drivers. With 2.4 I had to separately compile ACPI, ALSA, the nVidia driver, PCMCIA and Lucent modem drivers. Now it's just the Lucent and nVidia drivers as the other three are now included already.
* ACPI support is better. Won't bore you with the details, but it is
* Everything's faster, although I was using the new scheduler stuff as a patch to 2.4 so it didn't make too much difference.
* probably lots of little things I can't think of right now
The bad things - there seem to have been a few nasty bugs, but that's to be expected with such a big upgrade and most of them have been sorted. Currently ACPI battery support is doing funny things and occasionally reporting that the battery's empty, when it's not. Give it a couple of releases though and it should be all good
That's strange, my /etc/modules seems to be getting read just fine. No change there. Something you might try is installing "discover" which tries to detect all your hardware and load modules for it. It does it quite well, too, although it dumps a little too much crap to the console during boot for my liking.
They are both interdependant, you can't have one without the other. Mutual inductance will most definitely be happening in this case. It's all about conservation of energy as well - if all the energy that's going into lighting up those bulbs was just being radiated out and wasted anyway, don't you think there'd be a hell of a lot of energy going to waste? There is some loss on power transmission lines but it's not as much as that!
so the original "content producer" isn't getting any money for it.
Not everything's about money. Children don't get abducted and raped because there's a quick buck in it, it's because there's a sub-culture of paedophiles who get a kick out of it. And it's a high risk thing to be doing - it doesn't take much to be sniffed out and taken down for it. So anything that helps avoid detection just helps those people persue their sick activities with less fear of being caught. If freenet is seen as a risk-free way of distributing child porn then a lot more of it will be produced! It could be argued that by running a freenet node you're contributing to this...
New series greenlighted. New nouns verbed. Here's Tom with the weather!
someone invent an API,ABI,execution or whatever to work on all platforms.
While that wouldn't be impossible - we have cross platform toolkits already e.g. Qt and wxWindows - the problem is getting everyone to use it. Developers who only do MFC for example aren't going to switch to Qt just because they could compile it on Linux, which they probably wouldn't want to bother doing anyway. The only way something like this could possibly work is if Microsoft made it their new "standard", and what are the chances of Microsoft standardising on something open and cross-platform? Pretty slim, unless they break it such that it only works properly on Windows.
I've not really kept in touch with my friends from school as they were mostly dicks and not very good friends at all. Most of my good friends I have met through the internet - the people I've met and the influences I've had as a result have changed me so much I couldn't really imagine it any other way. Without the internet I'd have probably ended up a very lonely and reclusive person. So yes... yay for the internet :D
In my mind there's no question. It's obviously the former. Either that or completely unrelated, I play violent games and I'm not a violent person at all. I'm sure the same could be said for loads of other people here really.
Here's an analogous questionn. Does owning a gun make you a killer or does wanting to kill someonee make you more likely to get a gun?
Two teenagers kill a bunch of their schoolmates with guns and home made bombs. They happened to play violent games and listen to industrial metal. How the hell can any sane person draw the conclusion that it was these things that made them do it? How about the way the awful American high school system rejects anyone who doesn't conform? The way they felt isolated and alienated from everyone else? Sorry but you don't turn into a bloodthirsty killer from just playing games. You have to have those tendencies to begin with. Playing violent games is just something someone like that is likely to do.
Gah, disregard that. Of course I meant, stuck on 1.4.0.99beta-1 (wanting 1.4.2) :)
I'm still stuck on 1.3 due to the Blackdown JVM's Debian package not being updated for 1.4. I could do it non packaged-managed, but I'd really rather not...
That got fixed? w00t!!! I'm upgrading ASAP.
;)
There's another annoying keyboard related bug as well - sometimes when I unplug my USB keyboard, something screws up in the input layer or something as the laptop internal keyboard stops working and so does the USB keyboard if I plug it back in.
Yeah yeah, use the PS/2 port you say.. well I have lots of USB devices and I like being able to just plug in one (the hub) when I get home with my laptop