Yes, building your linux system from scratch is fun! I've been using various distros for a little over a year now, and I've only recently built my own from scratch just last week. It was an enlightening experience that taught me many of the little details that used to frustrate me so much in the past, like those confusing rc.N folders, and the common "Where is the config file for XXX?" questions that always appeared in my mind.
linuxfromscratch.org is a bible, a buggy bible, but one that teaches many great things in an easy to follow manner.
They were a mile beside the point when they mentioned Wild Tangent's WebDriver. This game is a mod, the developers of BFP didn't write the Q3 engine upon which it runs, they just did a truckload of new graphics and sounds, and wrote zillions of lines of gameplay code. That's why people make mods instead of standalone games : you save the hassle of writing your own game engine and easily benefit from the pros' work. If these guys were to actually make BFP in WebDriver, it would probably end up looking like an old playstation game (low-polys, cheap colors) because they might not be very familiar with the intricacies of 3d lighting and tesselation issues.
Infogrames's lawyers are either ignorant or well informed. Either they stated this out of pure idiocy, or someone in the know told them that it would not only look good to the press, but it would also stop the BFP team dead. I'm putting my money on #2.
Doh.. I wish this story were about Sega
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When I read "Genesis Launches" I immediately recalled fond memories of the old 16-bit console that still holds all my favorite RPG's.
Rosenbaum said. "It's only been in the last 18 to 24 months that PDF...use has really exploded."
Could this be somehow related to the fact that so many open-source free-beer PDF writers have cropped up ? Heck, anyone can throw together a PDF on demand with Perl or PHP plugins. Once again, the irony is that every non-Adobe alternative is immune to these virii. The masses have embraced PDF, and will now suck it from the creator:)
Well my main gripe is that it binds itself to network adapters, not ip addresses. That poses a problem to me (and probably many others) since I have a single nic in my Windows box that handles both my external ip to the cable modem, and an alias to my internal 192.x.x.x ip. I want to share only locally, but there is no way to restrict that with windows file sharing, not even through an obscure registry tweak.
If I want something clean and moderately secure, right now I'd need to install a 2nd nic (which will of course screw with my IRQ's and make things unlivable again for my heavily tweaked gaming/graphics box. Under linux, Samba is a walk in the park, just tell it which IPs to serve on and which ones to reject. Sure, I could set up a linux file server, but I already have 80 gb's of storage on my win box and there's plenty free space on there. I don't see the justification of buying another 200$ hard drive just for my little tinkering experiments (especially since I'm broke and full of debt:)
defending a product from being used by the masses. There once was a time when widespread recognition and free popularity was a good thing. The more people have access to decoders, be it hardware or software, the more people will _WANT_ that AC3 goodness in the first place, which means Dolby will be marketing more encoders at their high price tag. This threat will only make the BSD people grow spiteful of Dolby. You don't score customers by walking all over them (unless you're Microsoft).
Well first of all, I live in Ottawa. Probably the main reason why I'd be tempted to leave is for those blasted taxes that gouge out half of my paycheck every two weeks, and it is said that the salaries are relatively low up here when compared to equivalent jobs in the states or overseas. Ottawa is a huge confusing crowded overpriced city that sucks the life out of everything around it. All the surrounding cities are dull, even the once active and fruitful city of Hull is now turned into the government workers' wasteland.
The problem with these high tech fast-moving cityscapes is that they're expensive to start up and maintain, so that funding comes at the expense of other aspects of city management.
I've been asking for this for the last couple of weeks! Why use Windows' own rather limited file sharing services when I could have the full featured tremendously tweakable Samba ?
I want to do this because I'm still tied to Windows on my main station (think games), thus it has the best hardware and storage of all my PC's, but I want to set up an SMB share so that my linux boxen can access files on my win box painlessly (I'm setting up a box as a centralized mp3 jukebox, and another for arcade emulation:)
Porting Samba to windows (which has already begun AFAIK) would be an excellent upgrade for anyone using Windows as a file server.
You seem to be sidestepping the fact that this is QNX, not Linux. They may look similar, but QNX is a whole different ballgame for a whole different crowd of fans. It's not faked, this is very normal in QNX.
nobody in their right mind would run an enterprise-class database on a PC that you can buy at Wal-Mart
No one in the right mind would buy a PC from Wal-Mart in the first place. And I think it's perfectly find to run a strong database on a pair of Athlon-1333's with a pair of Escalade 7000 IDE-Raid controllers and sixteen 80gb hard drives, with 2 gigs of DDR ram. That's perfectly reasonable and about a third of the cost of any Compaq/DEC server half that powerful. We've reached a point where consumer-level hardware can be easily tinkered into posing as server-class gear. Just add your favorite corporate sticker, hire a kid for Grade-A tech support, and you've just started your own server company.
PNG can be much smaller than GIF, you just need to process your image correctly. The reason GIF files were so small is because they only use 8 bits of color, with transparency stored as a single byte (the index of the see-thru 'color'). With PNG, you can have full 32-bit color images (RGBA 8 bits each). That doesn't mean you _have_ to make every image 32 bits; quite often quantizing an image down to a 16 or 32-color palette will still yield an excellent image but with a much decreased file size. The compression algorithms in PNG are also superior to Gif's LZW, especially when using adaptive scanline encoding, which essentially figures out the best algorithm to use for each scanline (it does differential compression, usually quite efficient).
True, but no matter which refinery/storage facility it comes from, the raw product is all imported from the same cartel. You just can't boycott the root of the problem because it is practically impossible to discern; unlike music, where you could firmly refuse to purchase anything marketed by Arista or its subsidiaries (that'll teach them for signing Mariah Carey's new crap:)
Well, I for one can attest that I don't use a single GIF on my sites anymore. It's all either PNG or Jpeg, simple because 8-bit color Gifs just don't cut it anymore. If Ogg can boast new improved functionality over MP3 then I'll gladly switch over, but for now the tradeoff of smaller size and/or marginally higher quality vs mass incompatibility with any sort of hardware player just doesn't seem worth the jump.
I have bought plenty of CDs after listening to MP3s - indeed, when I left university and my free fast internet access, I didn't buy any CDs for 6 months.
That's because you were broke and looking for work.:)
Nice analogy but I'm afraid you can't quite apply your arguments to the music industry. To the unwashed masses, there is no difference between the products of Sony Music, BMG or Arista. They probably don't even know who their favorite artist or band is signed to. This is quite different when said consumer is a true music enthusiast, who often favor a few small productions houses with more specialized acts (and usually less commercial fluff).
Here in Quebec, Moonshine recordings is generally reputed as the best indie house/techno producer/promoter/distributor. Same goes for XL in Germany. Being smaller organisations than the monstrous Sony and its ilk, they have to choose their products wisely because they don't have much backbone to absorb the financial shock of a flopped release.
Music houses have names, but does the pump station tell you where your gas is coming from ? They don't know, and most likely their own distributor would have to think about it for a day or two before answering that question. Gas is gas. Perhaps the price fixing cartel scheme is similar in both industries, but only one market is truly homogenous.
Non-lethal weapons are still weapons and they are still very capable of causing serious injury or even death. Just think back at the Quebec protests just a few months ago and the many people who were poisoned by tear gas, and one particular individual who was hit in the throat by a rubber bullet at very close range. He now breathes with a metal tube in his throat because his oesophagus was crushed by that allegedly non-lethal weapon. He's fucked for life because of these idiot weapons that aren't supposed to be "dangerous".
Just as a kitchen knife isn't supposed to be dangerous if it's used PROPERLY and RESPONSIBLY, perhaps these mild weapons might also be safe if they were wielded by intelligent trained people; not common badge-bearing thugs whose checks are signed by the same fascist leaders we'd all like to strangle for selling out our lives to the highest bidder.
People didn't need these bullshit meta-weapons 20 years ago, I don't see why we'd need them now.
The movie was a huge disappointment and should never have been released in theatres. I've been spending the last few months telling the younger folk how great the original Planet of the Apes was, and now this hunk of shit makes me want to strangle someone.
Had it been released under a different name, I wouldn't be so pissed, but this is blasphemy.
Well then I'm glad to be Canadian! Up here anyone 14 years or older is fair game, as long as her folks like you (or are too retarded to establish a proper complaint).
I find it quite nice that this search engine totally ignored my robots.txt and scanned my entire site anyway. How can a search engine, so friggin complex and monstrous, ignore the basics of spider etiquette ?
But busting heads is so much fun ? Nothing feels more rewarding than grabbing your neighborhood meta-gangsta by the ears and unleashing the fury of a baseball bat upon his fragile ribs, exposing the weak little shitbag hiding underneath all that cheap jewelry and layers of CK1 "perfume". Some kids just grow into big kids but never into adults, well those big kids are too dumb to learn on their own so they sometimes need such tough love to get smart. The aggression isn't there solely to reprimand, it is there to attract awareness to a problem.
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LFS!
Yes, building your linux system from scratch is fun! I've been using various distros for a little over a year now, and I've only recently built my own from scratch just last week. It was an enlightening experience that taught me many of the little details that used to frustrate me so much in the past, like those confusing rc.N folders, and the common "Where is the config file for XXX?" questions that always appeared in my mind.
linuxfromscratch.org is a bible, a buggy bible, but one that teaches many great things in an easy to follow manner.
Red to Blue cloths, sizes going from bigger to smaller.
:)
How about an IR-remote that changes baggy t-shirts into semi-sheer micro-bikinis ?
I think the corporate pedophiles just like saying Pee-to-Pee out loud :)
A former co-worker of mine could make an NT server scream. It had uptimes of a year or more.
:)
I bet he just used VMWare to run Linux on top of it
They were a mile beside the point when they mentioned Wild Tangent's WebDriver. This game is a mod, the developers of BFP didn't write the Q3 engine upon which it runs, they just did a truckload of new graphics and sounds, and wrote zillions of lines of gameplay code. That's why people make mods instead of standalone games : you save the hassle of writing your own game engine and easily benefit from the pros' work. If these guys were to actually make BFP in WebDriver, it would probably end up looking like an old playstation game (low-polys, cheap colors) because they might not be very familiar with the intricacies of 3d lighting and tesselation issues.
Infogrames's lawyers are either ignorant or well informed. Either they stated this out of pure idiocy, or someone in the know told them that it would not only look good to the press, but it would also stop the BFP team dead. I'm putting my money on #2.
When I read "Genesis Launches" I immediately recalled fond memories of the old 16-bit console that still holds all my favorite RPG's.
I wish.
Rosenbaum said. "It's only been in the last 18 to 24 months that PDF...use has really exploded."
:)
Could this be somehow related to the fact that so many open-source free-beer PDF writers have cropped up ? Heck, anyone can throw together a PDF on demand with Perl or PHP plugins. Once again, the irony is that every non-Adobe alternative is immune to these virii. The masses have embraced PDF, and will now suck it from the creator
Well my main gripe is that it binds itself to network adapters, not ip addresses. That poses a problem to me (and probably many others) since I have a single nic in my Windows box that handles both my external ip to the cable modem, and an alias to my internal 192.x.x.x ip. I want to share only locally, but there is no way to restrict that with windows file sharing, not even through an obscure registry tweak.
:)
If I want something clean and moderately secure, right now I'd need to install a 2nd nic (which will of course screw with my IRQ's and make things unlivable again for my heavily tweaked gaming/graphics box. Under linux, Samba is a walk in the park, just tell it which IPs to serve on and which ones to reject. Sure, I could set up a linux file server, but I already have 80 gb's of storage on my win box and there's plenty free space on there. I don't see the justification of buying another 200$ hard drive just for my little tinkering experiments (especially since I'm broke and full of debt
defending a product from being used by the masses. There once was a time when widespread recognition and free popularity was a good thing. The more people have access to decoders, be it hardware or software, the more people will _WANT_ that AC3 goodness in the first place, which means Dolby will be marketing more encoders at their high price tag. This threat will only make the BSD people grow spiteful of Dolby. You don't score customers by walking all over them (unless you're Microsoft).
Well first of all, I live in Ottawa. Probably the main reason why I'd be tempted to leave is for those blasted taxes that gouge out half of my paycheck every two weeks, and it is said that the salaries are relatively low up here when compared to equivalent jobs in the states or overseas. Ottawa is a huge confusing crowded overpriced city that sucks the life out of everything around it. All the surrounding cities are dull, even the once active and fruitful city of Hull is now turned into the government workers' wasteland.
The problem with these high tech fast-moving cityscapes is that they're expensive to start up and maintain, so that funding comes at the expense of other aspects of city management.
I've been asking for this for the last couple of weeks! Why use Windows' own rather limited file sharing services when I could have the full featured tremendously tweakable Samba ?
:)
I want to do this because I'm still tied to Windows on my main station (think games), thus it has the best hardware and storage of all my PC's, but I want to set up an SMB share so that my linux boxen can access files on my win box painlessly (I'm setting up a box as a centralized mp3 jukebox, and another for arcade emulation
Porting Samba to windows (which has already begun AFAIK) would be an excellent upgrade for anyone using Windows as a file server.
You seem to be sidestepping the fact that this is QNX, not Linux. They may look similar, but QNX is a whole different ballgame for a whole different crowd of fans. It's not faked, this is very normal in QNX.
What will the fine folks who made cUrl ("the client that groks the urls") say of this ?
:)
If I had a chance to sue some vaporware e-bullshit company out of existence, I'd sure jump on the occasion
nobody in their right mind would run an enterprise-class database on a PC that you can buy at Wal-Mart
No one in the right mind would buy a PC from Wal-Mart in the first place. And I think it's perfectly find to run a strong database on a pair of Athlon-1333's with a pair of Escalade 7000 IDE-Raid controllers and sixteen 80gb hard drives, with 2 gigs of DDR ram. That's perfectly reasonable and about a third of the cost of any Compaq/DEC server half that powerful. We've reached a point where consumer-level hardware can be easily tinkered into posing as server-class gear. Just add your favorite corporate sticker, hire a kid for Grade-A tech support, and you've just started your own server company.
PNG can be much smaller than GIF, you just need to process your image correctly. The reason GIF files were so small is because they only use 8 bits of color, with transparency stored as a single byte (the index of the see-thru 'color'). With PNG, you can have full 32-bit color images (RGBA 8 bits each). That doesn't mean you _have_ to make every image 32 bits; quite often quantizing an image down to a 16 or 32-color palette will still yield an excellent image but with a much decreased file size. The compression algorithms in PNG are also superior to Gif's LZW, especially when using adaptive scanline encoding, which essentially figures out the best algorithm to use for each scanline (it does differential compression, usually quite efficient).
True, but no matter which refinery/storage facility it comes from, the raw product is all imported from the same cartel. You just can't boycott the root of the problem because it is practically impossible to discern; unlike music, where you could firmly refuse to purchase anything marketed by Arista or its subsidiaries (that'll teach them for signing Mariah Carey's new crap :)
Well, I for one can attest that I don't use a single GIF on my sites anymore. It's all either PNG or Jpeg, simple because 8-bit color Gifs just don't cut it anymore. If Ogg can boast new improved functionality over MP3 then I'll gladly switch over, but for now the tradeoff of smaller size and/or marginally higher quality vs mass incompatibility with any sort of hardware player just doesn't seem worth the jump.
Playboy ain't porn. It's tasteful imagery of cute chicks.
Now Hustler, that's porn!
I have bought plenty of CDs after listening to MP3s - indeed, when I left university and my free fast internet access, I didn't buy any CDs for 6 months.
:)
That's because you were broke and looking for work.
Nice analogy but I'm afraid you can't quite apply your arguments to the music industry. To the unwashed masses, there is no difference between the products of Sony Music, BMG or Arista. They probably don't even know who their favorite artist or band is signed to. This is quite different when said consumer is a true music enthusiast, who often favor a few small productions houses with more specialized acts (and usually less commercial fluff).
Here in Quebec, Moonshine recordings is generally reputed as the best indie house/techno producer/promoter/distributor. Same goes for XL in Germany. Being smaller organisations than the monstrous Sony and its ilk, they have to choose their products wisely because they don't have much backbone to absorb the financial shock of a flopped release.
Music houses have names, but does the pump station tell you where your gas is coming from ? They don't know, and most likely their own distributor would have to think about it for a day or two before answering that question. Gas is gas. Perhaps the price fixing cartel scheme is similar in both industries, but only one market is truly homogenous.
Non-lethal weapons are still weapons and they are still very capable of causing serious injury or even death. Just think back at the Quebec protests just a few months ago and the many people who were poisoned by tear gas, and one particular individual who was hit in the throat by a rubber bullet at very close range. He now breathes with a metal tube in his throat because his oesophagus was crushed by that allegedly non-lethal weapon. He's fucked for life because of these idiot weapons that aren't supposed to be "dangerous".
Just as a kitchen knife isn't supposed to be dangerous if it's used PROPERLY and RESPONSIBLY, perhaps these mild weapons might also be safe if they were wielded by intelligent trained people; not common badge-bearing thugs whose checks are signed by the same fascist leaders we'd all like to strangle for selling out our lives to the highest bidder.
People didn't need these bullshit meta-weapons 20 years ago, I don't see why we'd need them now.
The movie was a huge disappointment and should never have been released in theatres. I've been spending the last few months telling the younger folk how great the original Planet of the Apes was, and now this hunk of shit makes me want to strangle someone.
Had it been released under a different name, I wouldn't be so pissed, but this is blasphemy.
Well then I'm glad to be Canadian! Up here anyone 14 years or older is fair game, as long as her folks like you (or are too retarded to establish a proper complaint).
I find it quite nice that this search engine totally ignored my robots.txt and scanned my entire site anyway. How can a search engine, so friggin complex and monstrous, ignore the basics of spider etiquette ?
I guess it's time to rename my directories again.
But busting heads is so much fun ? Nothing feels more rewarding than grabbing your neighborhood meta-gangsta by the ears and unleashing the fury of a baseball bat upon his fragile ribs, exposing the weak little shitbag hiding underneath all that cheap jewelry and layers of CK1 "perfume". Some kids just grow into big kids but never into adults, well those big kids are too dumb to learn on their own so they sometimes need such tough love to get smart. The aggression isn't there solely to reprimand, it is there to attract awareness to a problem.