Of course, being a [legal] alien living in the US , some of you may not like me because of that. (Lemme just say that MY reason for living here & working here is because of family, not financial/gloryfied US/whatever.
Anyways, I has always been my opinion that a company and a country has an obligation to take care of itself and itsown first, then deal with the rest of the world later. I'm sure some companies need to save money to survive. But atm, I think one would be able to hire locally for almost the same amount. Plus, by having VPN access or otherwise, they can work from home. No more paying for expensive office space. I have tried this myself, and it really works. Many coders would work for a bit less pay if they don't have to travel to work every day, and thus can code in the relaxed atmosphere or their own home. I'm sure many of/.'s readers would agree to this.
Please try and come up with a local (national?) solution first, globalize later. ATM, we need everybody to help out getting this place back in shape. Later, we can save the world....
Whatever happened to Intervideo's "LinDVD"?? It's been ready for 2 years now. I've never even seen a screenie. I want a DVD player that works under Linux. The free ones are nice, but I don't wanna have to track down a DeCSS plugin. http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Product_Pro file.jsp? p=LinDVD
The best solution would be, naturally, to have DeCSS de-criminalized (well, it's still a grey area).
Does anyone know about another commercial DVD player for Linux?
- Block the ports + all other unnecessary ports. - Write a policy using common sense, explaining why the school needs it. - Tell them you're doing what you were hired to do: keep the network going, keep it secure and clean. - Take a deep breath; it might just take a 'miracle'...:-P
There are two or three GOOD reasons why managers make the big bucks. In theory, they are the RESPONSIBLE ones.
Now THAT'S a load of crap. The OLDEST excuse in the book. How many IT jobs have you had? Managers never loose. If they get fired or laid off, they'll have a new managment job somewhere else. Managers simply don't HAVE TO care. They'll land on their feet anyways. Always. And who takes the blame an' gets laid off an' has to spend months getting a new job? Us coders, that's who!
Heh. Have you EVER watched upper managmnt at work?
Lemme sum it up for you: THEY'RE the ones getting paid to do jack shit! THEY'RE the ones that take the company car on a personal vacation! THEY'RE the ones sending Christmas presents thru the company's FedEx accounts to their sluts in New York! THEY'RE the ones that send personal email on company time! THEY'RE actually the ones reading the latest John Grisham novel when they should be working! THEY'RE the ones who, when they get fired for doing a shitty job, get a golden parachute to keep them rich forever.
It's us peons work our asses off for these assholes every single day. While they get fat, we get worn down and suicidal.
Fuck, man! I admit that there are certain things that shouldn't be allowed, such as pr0n. That's fine. But email? And the latest Userfriendly during lunch? That's a privilege. And if you keep your deadlines, turn in your work on time, and work your ass off for the fat cats... well, it's NOBODY'S business if you use the company's phat T1 to check your personal email!
Do you really like working 8 hrs without a break? Never able to do anything personal, like checking your email for that email from your wife telling you she's gonna work late? Or reading the daily userfriendly during lunch?
The point here is actually PRIVACY! Apparently, you don't deserve any.
I cant wait for the days where a high speed access point and a video phone are all you will need and you can work from anywhere.
I wish. Due to the unemployment rate of high-tech workers atm, less and less are given the opportunity to work from home because you're so god-damn easy to replace. The whole situation bites. I want the.com's back!
Actually, might there be a better, viable solution to port games to Linux as a service for the actual [Windoze] developer / publisher getting paid by them to provide the Linux port + support? I need help to see why this couldn't be a more viable business solution than porting + publishing Linux specific shrink-wrap software... Alltho, I have to admint, seeing the little Tux on the cover of Loki's ports always makes me smile...:-)
Excellent point! I just stumbled over this today. Writing a #!/bin/sh script today on my RH 7.2 workstation with vim, watching my script in all it's color-coded glory. Ran perfectly on my box. Moved it to the Solaris 2.7 server. Ouch. It bombed big-time. Easy fix, tho... Just ran it with #!/bin/ksh instead:p... Not exactly what I was expecting, but it worked withour any further mod...
It's not a bad price, but remember that when comparing to SuSe, RH and Slack, you get tons of [in slackware's case] excellent documentation distributed over a couple thick manuals... $40 is still worth it, tho....
the lightning-bolt SS sigil has Nordic occult meaning.
Indeed it does: This is what the lightningbolt-S means as a runestone: Sowilo: (S: The sun.) Success, goals achieved, honor. The life-force, health. A time when power will be available to you for positive changes in your life, victory, health, and success. Contact between the higher self and the unconscious. Wholeness, power, elemental force, sword of flame, cleansing fire. Sowilo Merkstave (Sowilo cannot be reversed, but may lie in opposition): False goals, bad counsel, false success, gullibility, loss of goals. Destruction, retribution, justice, casting down of vanity. Wrath of god.
Basically, tho, it's just a symbol of Hitler's "Schutz Staffel", his "elite arian warrior gods reborn" made into a "logo" using [Norse] rune letters...The rune thing fits perfectly in with the high-ranking German elite's fascination of the occult and Norse mythology...
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
My vote goes to Return to Castle Wolfenstein without a doubt. Even tho the single-player binaries have not yet been released, the multiplayer part will keep you busy for a while. It's being ported to single player as we speak, and the binaries can be found on iD Software's FTP server... Support gaming under Linux; buy Return to Castle Wolfenstein from TuxGames!!
I have also enjoyed numerous games ported by LokiGames. Go to their site, and browse thru their catalog. Titles I have enjoyed in 2001: Rune, Unreal Tourney, FAKK2, Soldier of Fortune, Tribes 2 and Alpha Centauri...
But RTCW [Return to Castle Wolfenstein] is still no. 1;-) Get progress reports on Castle Wolfenstein port on LinuxGames and Christian Antkow's.plan file.
It's been a very good year for gaming in our favourite OS, let's hope it gets even better in 2002!!
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
I've had the (un)fortunate luxury of working with several just-out-of-college programmers and so-called techies/SA's. One thing has become painfully clear to me: tech education means dick. I'd hire a taught-myself-everything dude any day, rather than taking on a fresh-out-of-college mush-for-brains. That's my opinion, an' I'm stickin' to it!
In that case, you were lucky. More power to you, then. The few times I've been on ANY linux irc (usually linuxhelp channels) I've been kicked, banned and verbally abused for trying to help someone out with their Linux problems. Only 133t hax0rs and their script-kiddie friends hang out on IRCs.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
[The Product] wasn't "good enough" to start a monopoly.
MS [Bill] was in the right place at the right time, and was sneakier, more ruthless than the competition.
Oh, and they [he] also had the RIGHT CONNECTIONS, socially. THAT'S why MS is a near-monopoly on the desktop...
I bought a Sony PCG-F650 a bout a year ago. I've run Mandrake, OpenBSD and Various Debian based distros on it, and everything works perfectly. I get a nice, crisp 1024x768x32 res, and with 650Mhz, it's a good laptop for coding, webstuff and such. Added 128Mb for a total of 196Mb, and I'm running VmWare with WindozeNT4 for [proprietary Cisco] IPSec to connect to work... It's a nice laptop, and I'll recommend it. You can get one for about $1000 (check www.pricewatch.com)...Spare parts are a bit steep in price, tho...
So you don't think the cross-platform capabilities merit an extra hundred bucks?
Nope. I don't. not if I don't need it. Which I don't. Because in order to take advantage of the cross-platform "capabilities", I'd have to buy Delphi 6 too. Which brings our total up to: $298!. And remember, the $199 special price for the "Desktop Developer" Version of Kylix, is normally $999. So normally, the price would be *gasp* $1998... And that's not a good deal in my book.
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... is a stun-gun.
This is true, and I have to agree with you.
/.'s readers would agree to this.
Of course, being a [legal] alien living in the US , some of you may not like me because of that. (Lemme just say that MY reason for living here & working here is because of family, not financial/gloryfied US/whatever.
Anyways, I has always been my opinion that a company and a country has an obligation to take care of itself and itsown first, then deal with the rest of the world later. I'm sure some companies need to save money to survive. But atm, I think one would be able to hire locally for almost the same amount. Plus, by having VPN access or otherwise, they can work from home. No more paying for expensive office space. I have tried this myself, and it really works. Many coders would work for a bit less pay if they don't have to travel to work every day, and thus can code in the relaxed atmosphere or their own home. I'm sure many of
Please try and come up with a local (national?) solution first, globalize later. ATM, we need everybody to help out getting this place back in shape. Later, we can save the world....
-iie1195
Whatever happened to Intervideo's "LinDVD"?? It's been ready for 2 years now. I've never even seen a screenie. I want a DVD player that works under Linux. The free ones are nice, but I don't wanna have to track down a DeCSS plugin.o file.jsp? p=LinDVD
http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Product_Pr
The best solution would be, naturally, to have DeCSS de-criminalized (well, it's still a grey area).
Does anyone know about another commercial DVD player for Linux?
-iie1195
- Block the ports + all other unnecessary ports. :-P
- Write a policy using common sense, explaining why the school needs it.
- Tell them you're doing what you were hired to do: keep the network going, keep it secure and clean.
- Take a deep breath; it might just take a 'miracle'...
-iie1195
There are two or three GOOD reasons why managers make the big bucks. In theory, they are the RESPONSIBLE ones.
Now THAT'S a load of crap. The OLDEST excuse in the book.
How many IT jobs have you had? Managers never loose. If they get fired or laid off, they'll have a new managment job somewhere else. Managers simply don't HAVE TO care. They'll land on their feet anyways. Always.
And who takes the blame an' gets laid off an' has to spend months getting a new job? Us coders, that's who!
-ksc
I'm not kidding!
-iie1195
...is "encouraging" :p
-iie1195
Heh. Have you EVER watched upper managmnt at work?
Lemme sum it up for you:
THEY'RE the ones getting paid to do jack shit!
THEY'RE the ones that take the company car on a personal vacation!
THEY'RE the ones sending Christmas presents thru the company's FedEx accounts to their sluts in New York!
THEY'RE the ones that send personal email on company time!
THEY'RE actually the ones reading the latest John Grisham novel when they should be working!
THEY'RE the ones who, when they get fired for doing a shitty job, get a golden parachute to keep them rich forever.
It's us peons work our asses off for these assholes every single day. While they get fat, we get worn down and suicidal.
Fuck, man! I admit that there are certain things that shouldn't be allowed, such as pr0n. That's fine. But email? And the latest Userfriendly during lunch? That's a privilege. And if you keep your deadlines, turn in your work on time, and work your ass off for the fat cats... well, it's NOBODY'S business if you use the company's phat T1 to check your personal email!
Fucker.
-iie1195
You fucking Troll!
You make me sick.
Do you really like working 8 hrs without a break? Never able to do anything personal, like checking your email for that email from your wife telling you she's gonna work late? Or reading the daily userfriendly during lunch?
The point here is actually PRIVACY! Apparently, you don't deserve any.
-iie1195
... after the Natives, obvioudly.
North America therefore belongs to us, the mighty vikings.
-iie1195
What took them so long? I mean... really.
-iie1195
"Audaces fortuna juvat"
I agree completely. This is probably the BEST option for a school / college on a budget!!!
I cant wait for the days where a high speed access point and a video phone are all you will need and you can work from anywhere.
.com's back!
I wish. Due to the unemployment rate of high-tech workers atm, less and less are given the opportunity to work from home because you're so god-damn easy to replace.
The whole situation bites. I want the
Actually, might there be a better, viable solution to port games to Linux as a service for the actual [Windoze] developer / publisher getting paid by them to provide the Linux port + support? I need help to see why this couldn't be a more viable business solution than porting + publishing Linux specific shrink-wrap software... Alltho, I have to admint, seeing the little Tux on the cover of Loki's ports always makes me smile... :-)
Excellent point! I just stumbled over this today. Writing a #!/bin/sh script today on my RH 7.2 workstation with vim, watching my script in all it's color-coded glory. Ran perfectly on my box. Moved it to the Solaris 2.7 server. Ouch. It bombed big-time. Easy fix, tho... Just ran it with #!/bin/ksh instead :p ... Not exactly what I was expecting, but it worked withour any further mod...
.sig goes here.
Blah, blah, blah... --
It's not a bad price, but remember that when comparing to SuSe, RH and Slack, you get tons of [in slackware's case] excellent documentation distributed over a couple thick manuals... $40 is still worth it, tho....
-iie1195
the lightning-bolt SS sigil has Nordic occult meaning.
Indeed it does:
This is what the lightningbolt-S means as a runestone:
Sowilo: (S: The sun.) Success, goals achieved, honor. The life-force, health. A time when power will be available to you for positive changes in your life, victory, health, and success. Contact between the higher self and the unconscious. Wholeness, power, elemental force, sword of flame, cleansing fire. Sowilo Merkstave (Sowilo cannot be reversed, but may lie in opposition): False goals, bad counsel, false success, gullibility, loss of goals. Destruction, retribution, justice, casting down of vanity. Wrath of god.
Basically, tho, it's just a symbol of Hitler's "Schutz Staffel", his "elite arian warrior gods reborn" made into a "logo" using [Norse] rune letters...The rune thing fits perfectly in with the high-ranking German elite's fascination of the occult and Norse mythology...
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
My vote goes to Return to Castle Wolfenstein without a doubt.
;-) .plan file.
Even tho the single-player binaries have not yet been released, the multiplayer part will keep you busy for a while. It's being ported to single player as we speak, and the binaries can be found on iD Software's FTP server...
Support gaming under Linux; buy Return to Castle Wolfenstein from TuxGames!!
I have also enjoyed numerous games ported by LokiGames. Go to their site, and browse thru their catalog.
Titles I have enjoyed in 2001: Rune, Unreal Tourney, FAKK2, Soldier of Fortune, Tribes 2 and Alpha Centauri...
But RTCW [Return to Castle Wolfenstein] is still no. 1
Get progress reports on Castle Wolfenstein port on LinuxGames and Christian Antkow's
It's been a very good year for gaming in our favourite OS, let's hope it gets even better in 2002!!
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
I've had the (un)fortunate luxury of working with several just-out-of-college programmers and so-called techies/SA's. One thing has become painfully clear to me: tech education means dick. I'd hire a taught-myself-everything dude any day, rather than taking on a fresh-out-of-college mush-for-brains. That's my opinion, an' I'm stickin' to it!
In that case, you were lucky. More power to you, then. The few times I've been on ANY linux irc (usually linuxhelp channels) I've been kicked, banned and verbally abused for trying to help someone out with their Linux problems. Only 133t hax0rs and their script-kiddie friends hang out on IRCs.
... a smudge :p
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
[The Product] wasn't "good enough" to start a monopoly.
MS [Bill] was in the right place at the right time, and was sneakier, more ruthless than the competition.
Oh, and they [he] also had the RIGHT CONNECTIONS, socially. THAT'S why MS is a near-monopoly on the desktop...
... the only people that hang out on those fucking things are "l33t d00dz"-fuckheads anyway.
I hate IRC. Really do.
I bought a Sony PCG-F650 a bout a year ago. I've run Mandrake, OpenBSD and Various Debian based distros on it, and everything works perfectly. I get a nice, crisp 1024x768x32 res, and with 650Mhz, it's a good laptop for coding, webstuff and such. Added 128Mb for a total of 196Mb, and I'm running VmWare with WindozeNT4 for [proprietary Cisco] IPSec to connect to work... It's a nice laptop, and I'll recommend it. You can get one for about $1000 (check www.pricewatch.com)...Spare parts are a bit steep in price, tho...
So you don't think the cross-platform capabilities merit an extra hundred bucks?
Nope. I don't. not if I don't need it. Which I don't. Because in order to take advantage of the cross-platform "capabilities", I'd have to buy Delphi 6 too. Which brings our total up to: $298!.
And remember, the $199 special price for the "Desktop Developer" Version of Kylix, is normally $999. So normally, the price would be *gasp* $1998... And that's not a good deal in my book.