There is an Open GL Version of Doom available, it is called "Doom Legacy" and available here.
It has impressive features like Chase cam (you see your player from behind) along with split-screen to deathmatch with a friend on the same computer.
Don't worry, it will normally be there soon enough in unstable/testing which is actually as usable as any other Debian around, provided you remember to apt-get on a regular basis...
But, hey, are there still decent geeks using the "stable" Debian?
Just choose your favorite language amongst the ones used in the "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" gallery.
I'll personally offer 99 bottles of Chimay Belgian beer to the winner of he does it in BrainF***! --
I'd like to create a Forth Team as I consider this rather ignored language as one of the most elegant solutions in terms of language simplicity as well as interpreter efficiency.
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who the tell talked about a gui ?
I meant something uniform across Linux version, like dselect or dpkg for example (-1-when it comes to packages -2-yep, I'm a biaised Debianist but which other distro do you still see there in 10 years ? This is the only one which doesn't belong to a financially unstable company) and the others tools (backup, fdisk, etc.) may also be made "similar" in terms of interaction.
and, you're right, it rather has to be in text mode so tha twe can script it... --
Even though this book might be useful in this direction I can't help but feeling the need for a unified administration tool for Linux as this is becoming somehow discouraging to see so much differences between SuSe, Debian, RedHat, etc.
Maybe a unique book covering all these topics at once like this one but only aimed at Linux distros? --
OK, either he paid some kids to play instead of him (When I was young this was my dream):
"Hey, I'll give you $10 for your +10 axe"
or he'll send the buyer some nice mail: "I send you this file in order to have your advice..." --
Yep, here's a $250 bow.
Amazing.
I actually don't play Diablo at all but I am suddenly sort of feeling interested in doing such commerce.
Easy indeed: Get a $15 sorcerer, buy him a $20 axe and $30 worth of hit points (is it still called this way?), then sell it for $100...
I'm not sure one could buy a Ferrari within a week, though.
So, who is more complaining?
People that sell, people that bought or just the ones who are not in there for the money? --
Funny that you mention this as I just remembered "The World Is Not Enough" when the bomb which explosion James Bond is trying to abort is equiped with a WinCE interface.
Maybe were the filmmakers less interrogative than you are.;-) --
RFC959 was issued in 1985 but refers to older documents such as Telnet (RFC854)...
Note this extract from the latter: "It is
envisioned that the protocol may also be used for terminal-terminal
communication ("linking") and process-process communication
(distributed computation)."
Not quite sure lawyers would be happy with this point, though. --
Actually, if you remember this story, you might be interested to view the 110-million particles simulations in details on such a big display...
But well, they'll have to process very-high-res movies, first, which might be much more expensive in terms of supercomputing power. --
Cooperative multitasking is not a real problem if you are not considering RiscOS stations as servers.
IMHO, if the Wimp (RiscOS GUI - a FLA for Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointer) is so responsive (and I doubt there is anywhere a so full-featured responsive GUI) it is because Acorn aimed it at the end user which is not a bad concept.
If you consider what RiscOS platform excell at, then you won't need real-time multitasking. Of course, now their technology may now seem obsolete but I still make an heavy use of my RiscPC as no other environment can provide me with such optimal and ergonomic tools, especially when it comes to DTP.
The "death" of Acorn was not its community's and there are still lots of unique concepts which come from them.
Look at ROX, for instance...
Anyway, I'd also like to say that some "multithreading-like" is still possible under RiscOS as the fact switching betwen apps is not that optimal doesn't mean we are monotasking.
Though we still are far from what Unices may offer, in the user's point of view we have here quite a solid and sufficient solution. My company considers using it as the low-level layer for our Java multithreaded platform (our 50kB JVM, Zhaba is available for free on our web site)... --
I have been using RiscOS computers for 6 years (and I am not a veteran) and I currently feel quite happy to see that other people tend to agree on its qualities in terms of power consumption, but also modularity, ergonomy...
>A HREF="http://www.riscos.org">RiscOS is IMHO one of the most optimized operating systems ever. It usually comes in 4-8MB ROM from which he boots in a few seconds.
It includes an excellent GUI and whatever you need to start work (TCPIP stack, Draw, Paint, Editor, tools, etc.).
It is the only 100% Plug'n Play Platform I have ever used and, most of all, as it is fully modular, whatever you dislike in this system can have its original ROM module be replaced with one of your RAM modules.
Now, if you consider that RiscOS has only been ported to specific architectures such as Acorn Computers' which implement the excellent ARM processor then it is obvious why this product is so power-efficient.
Now, an even more interesting case would be to implement a RiscOS platform around a forthcoming Amulet asynchronous processor which hardly consummes a single milliwatt when on idle. --
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Then we'll realize that the bottleneck is the servers themselves:
I work as a System Management Unit leader for one of the biggest Swiss companies.
I administer big -public oriented- servers which have to handle hundreds/thousands? Of https simultaneous connections.
I just consider how responsive some of our Top End (E10K, HP, AIX) servers are during the rush hours (whether I access these with my home cable connection or from the company's local - Gigabyte - network, I hardly see any difference...)...
If they want to make it faster, then they'll have to upgrade all the servers, replace the Broadvision shit with some real application framework, replace the Frontpage coders with professional coders who know how painful it si to connect through a 2400bauds modem and then they might get something.
When we'll be on the Internet2, we might not notice any real difference under strict conditions until the providers themselves upgrade.
Maybe they'll have to wait some more to make it carry television streams or voice/IP. --
Yes, this was part of my playlist around 15 years ago and as I still have it in LP -which I am too lazy to take the time to sample correctly (no noise, etc)-, I consider I have the right to just collect it from anywhere as I already payed for it.
BTW, I consider I don't require anyone's permission to listen to whatever I want. --
Last time I connected to Napster, I wanted to perform a search about David Lee Roth.
No result.
I then mis-typed his name "Dave Lee Roth" and, hey ! Almost all...
If this is only what these so called filters consist of, then I guess some r3b3lZ L4ngu4g3 might do the trick?
Of course, we will have to change the way we write names whenever a new "adapted" Napster version will occur, but... well, ain't this a typical example of Darwinian Evolution, where the predators are the Majors?
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The real problem with Linux is, due to the hardware manufacturers miscommunication of their specs, it is quite hard to have up-to-date stable drivers as soon as some new product is available.
Hence the lack of sound on this iBook.
I just checked its price on http://www.apple.ch and it is comparable to 14 or even 15" TFT screen-PC laptops.
So, how much do we pay for its design too (and maybe for the *bundled* OS and apps which you won't necessarily want to keep) ?
OK, we've got the battery life and... well, it seems it is all.
I personnally went for an "old" (one year old) PC Laptop with a P3, 3-hour battery life and DVD (dezonable) laptop.
Debian Linux installs itself automatically and anything I have tried worked immediately.
So, my advice on choosing a good laptop for Linux would be that if this is your first Linux laptop, just take a not-so-old second-hand one that might be very cheap and have fun.
Now, if you feel like experimenting and kernel hacking, well, OK, this is the best machine you may find.
I'd have really appreciated to read a proper description of what this guy does with his laptop : coding, surfing, whatever else ?
Maybe this'd have helped a lot relativizing his superlative point of view. --
ca ne reste pas dans les mains du dernier descendant vivant durant 50 ou 70 ans apres la mort ? (droit d'auteur typique) ???
sinon, je leur avais demande une fois si, ayant des albums en vynil, je pouvais les recuperer en meupeuh3 sur le woueuhwoueuhwoueuh sans probleme de copyright.
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There is an Open GL Version of Doom available, it is called "Doom Legacy" and available here.
It has impressive features like Chase cam (you see your player from behind) along with split-screen to deathmatch with a friend on the same computer.
maybe this won't use roman but arabic notation, like in this example...
Don't worry, it will normally be there soon enough in unstable/testing which is actually as usable as any other Debian around, provided you remember to apt-get on a regular basis...
But, hey, are there still decent geeks using the "stable" Debian?
> The software, which turns printed text into synthesized speech[...]
And how good is its OCR subsystem ?
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The C Program implementing this algorithm has been noded on Everything 2.
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Just choose your favorite language amongst the ones used in the "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" gallery.
I'll personally offer 99 bottles of Chimay Belgian beer to the winner of he does it in BrainF***!
--
I'd like to create a Forth Team as I consider this rather ignored language as one of the most elegant solutions in terms of language simplicity as well as interpreter efficiency.
--
I believe Lucy should have asked him to take his cape off before attempting to sew it with a silex needle.
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who the tell talked about a gui ?
I meant something uniform across Linux version, like dselect or dpkg for example (-1-when it comes to packages -2-yep, I'm a biaised Debianist but which other distro do you still see there in 10 years ? This is the only one which doesn't belong to a financially unstable company) and the others tools (backup, fdisk, etc.) may also be made "similar" in terms of interaction.
and, you're right, it rather has to be in text mode so tha twe can script it...
--
Even though this book might be useful in this direction I can't help but feeling the need for a unified administration tool for Linux as this is becoming somehow discouraging to see so much differences between SuSe, Debian, RedHat, etc.
Maybe a unique book covering all these topics at once like this one but only aimed at Linux distros?
--
OK, either he paid some kids to play instead of him (When I was young this was my dream):
"Hey, I'll give you $10 for your +10 axe"
or he'll send the buyer some nice mail:
"I send you this file in order to have your advice..."
--
Yep, here's a $250 bow.
Amazing.
I actually don't play Diablo at all but I am suddenly sort of feeling interested in doing such commerce.
Easy indeed: Get a $15 sorcerer, buy him a $20 axe and $30 worth of hit points (is it still called this way?), then sell it for $100...
I'm not sure one could buy a Ferrari within a week, though.
So, who is more complaining?
People that sell, people that bought or just the ones who are not in there for the money?
--
Funny that you mention this as I just remembered "The World Is Not Enough" when the bomb ;-)
which explosion James Bond is trying to abort is equiped with a WinCE interface.
Maybe were the filmmakers less interrogative than you are.
--
ARM also patented revolutionary network technologies such as a (V22 soft modem) based on their lovely chip so we might soon see some real and versatile alternatives to these phone/organizers behemots.
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I was wondering whether playing around with Quartus Forth was like on the original thing as it can be so low-level it could still be surprising.
--
RFC959 was issued in 1985 but refers to older documents such as Telnet (RFC854)...
Note this extract from the latter:
"It is envisioned that the protocol may also be used for terminal-terminal communication ("linking") and process-process communication (distributed computation)."
Not quite sure lawyers would be happy with this point, though.
--
Actually, if you remember this story, you might be interested to view the 110-million particles simulations in details on such a big display...
But well, they'll have to process very-high-res movies, first, which might be much more expensive in terms of supercomputing power.
--
Cooperative multitasking is not a real problem if you are not considering RiscOS stations as servers.
IMHO, if the Wimp (RiscOS GUI - a FLA for Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointer) is so responsive (and I doubt there is anywhere a so full-featured responsive GUI) it is because Acorn aimed it at the end user which is not a bad concept.
If you consider what RiscOS platform excell at, then you won't need real-time multitasking. Of course, now their technology may now seem obsolete but I still make an heavy use of my RiscPC as no other environment can provide me with such optimal and ergonomic tools, especially when it comes to DTP.
The "death" of Acorn was not its community's and there are still lots of unique concepts which come from them.
Look at ROX, for instance...
Anyway, I'd also like to say that some "multithreading-like" is still possible under RiscOS as the fact switching betwen apps is not that optimal doesn't mean we are monotasking.
Though we still are far from what Unices may offer, in the user's point of view we have here quite a solid and sufficient solution.
My company considers using it as the low-level layer for our Java multithreaded platform (our 50kB JVM, Zhaba is available for free on our web site)...
--
I have been using RiscOS computers for 6 years (and I am not a veteran) and I currently feel quite happy to see that other people tend to agree on its qualities in terms of power consumption, but also modularity, ergonomy...
>A HREF="http://www.riscos.org">RiscOS is IMHO one of the most optimized operating systems ever. It usually comes in 4-8MB ROM from which he boots in a few seconds.
It includes an excellent GUI and whatever you need to start work (TCPIP stack, Draw, Paint, Editor, tools, etc.).
It is the only 100% Plug'n Play Platform I have ever used and, most of all, as it is fully modular, whatever you dislike in this system can have its original ROM module be replaced with one of your RAM modules.
Now, if you consider that RiscOS has only been ported to specific architectures such as Acorn Computers' which implement the excellent ARM processor then it is obvious why this product is so power-efficient.
Now, an even more interesting case would be to implement a RiscOS platform around a forthcoming Amulet asynchronous processor which hardly consummes a single milliwatt when on idle.
--
Then we'll realize that the bottleneck is the servers themselves:
I work as a System Management Unit leader for one of the biggest Swiss companies.
I administer big -public oriented- servers which have to handle hundreds/thousands? Of https simultaneous connections.
I just consider how responsive some of our Top End (E10K, HP, AIX) servers are during the rush hours (whether I access these with my home cable connection or from the company's local - Gigabyte - network, I hardly see any difference...)...
If they want to make it faster, then they'll have to upgrade all the servers, replace the Broadvision shit with some real application framework, replace the Frontpage coders with professional coders who know how painful it si to connect through a 2400bauds modem and then they might get something.
When we'll be on the Internet2, we might not notice any real difference under strict conditions until the providers themselves upgrade.
Maybe they'll have to wait some more to make it carry television streams or voice/IP.
--
Yes, this was part of my playlist around 15 years ago and as I still have it in LP -which I am too lazy to take the time to sample correctly (no noise, etc)-, I consider I have the right to just collect it from anywhere as I already payed for it.
BTW, I consider I don't require anyone's permission to listen to whatever I want.
--
Last time I connected to Napster, I wanted to perform a search about David Lee Roth.
No result.
I then mis-typed his name "Dave Lee Roth" and, hey ! Almost all...
If this is only what these so called filters consist of, then I guess some r3b3lZ L4ngu4g3 might do the trick?
Of course, we will have to change the way we write names whenever a new "adapted" Napster version will occur, but... well, ain't this a typical example of Darwinian Evolution, where the predators are the Majors?
--
The real problem with Linux is, due to the hardware manufacturers miscommunication of their specs, it is quite hard to have up-to-date stable drivers as soon as some new product is available.
Hence the lack of sound on this iBook.
I just checked its price on http://www.apple.ch and it is comparable to 14 or even 15" TFT screen-PC laptops.
So, how much do we pay for its design too (and maybe for the *bundled* OS and apps which you won't necessarily want to keep) ?
OK, we've got the battery life and... well, it seems it is all.
I personnally went for an "old" (one year old) PC Laptop with a P3, 3-hour battery life and DVD (dezonable) laptop.
Debian Linux installs itself automatically and anything I have tried worked immediately.
So, my advice on choosing a good laptop for Linux would be that if this is your first Linux laptop, just take a not-so-old second-hand one that might be very cheap and have fun.
Now, if you feel like experimenting and kernel hacking, well, OK, this is the best machine you may find.
I'd have really appreciated to read a proper description of what this guy does with his laptop : coding, surfing, whatever else ?
Maybe this'd have helped a lot relativizing his superlative point of view.
--
l'idee est en fait de savoir si je peux, possedant le vinyl, revendiquer le droit d'avoir les mp3 correspondants realises a partir du CD d'autrui.
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ca ne reste pas dans les mains du dernier descendant vivant durant 50 ou 70 ans apres la mort ? (droit d'auteur typique) ??? sinon, je leur avais demande une fois si, ayant des albums en vynil, je pouvais les recuperer en meupeuh3 sur le woueuhwoueuhwoueuh sans probleme de copyright.
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