> Unfortunately, the Xfree 4.0.1 version does not > work with our drivers. We hope to have out a > new release for that version out shortly.
They're working so hard on the new version that they have no time for grammar!:)
Note: flaming nvidia won't get the drivers fixed quicker. This is just a note so that other people don't waste time trying to get the nvidia drivers to work.
I couldn't get the newest nvidia drivers to work with xfree 4.0.1. I thought maybe my configuration was wrong, but when I reinstalled xfree 4.0 it worked fine. I would have thought that the xfree people would check to see if they were breaking someone else's drivers!
Has anyone gotten the.93 drivers to work with xfree 4.0.1?
I would ban windows networking first. If you go online in any dorm, you'll see a whole host of people happily sharing their hard drives and printers with full permissions. Telnet and FTP take some effort to set up, at least on win9x.
The real solution is to ban nothing, and try to educate the users about security. Little things like, "turn off inetd," "disable sharing," "if you do share, give it a good password," etc. Colleges throw persistant megabit connections at their students without so much as a flyer for common security issues.
I don't want to start a download of the entire tree just to get a little bit of info... namely, have they fixed dga mouse support yet? This question gets asked day-in and day-out on the newsgroups by all of us l33t gamerz who need a smoother mouse to play quake under linux.
So, has it been fixed in CVS, or are you guys going to make me download it to find out?:P
www.minidisco.com. You don't need any special cables beyond a miniplug-to-RCA cable, something that most sound cards come with, or cost 5 bucks. I can't believe people are willing to buy 200$ mp3 players with one 100$ one-hour flash card, when MD recorders cost 250$ and discs cost 2.50 a piece for 74 minutes or rewritable goodness.
I write a lot of my mp3s to minidisc with almost no loss of quality. Minidisc is 284kbps, so it can handle mp3s with ease.
I find that Java forces me to think about structure when I program. Sure, it means you can't rattle off a quicky program, but sometimes quicky programs become "mission critical" and turn in to big hulking mounds of spaghetti. Java forces you to create the most efficient code possible: what data do I need? who should have access to it? Where should I leave room for extensions?
Case in point: I wrote a software program that decodes satellite data and parses the output. I was able to add a whole host of features by touching a single class for each case: support for multiple data formats in one file, extensible support for any future data format, cleaner file handling routines, new ways of gathering data. I never had to go back and rework major portions of code. This assumes you design the program well to begin with:)
Another feature that goes untouted in Java is error handling. The "try{} catch()" method of trapping errors is pure genius. I can effectively trap and collect any errors and find out where they occured in the stack trace. Because all of the errors are caught in one place (the catch statements), I don't have to clutter my code with error checking. EOF? Don't worry about it, if it happens I can catch it later!
Lastly, having a main() function for _every_ class makes testing a piece of cake. If I create a main() function that tests the class, and it passes, I know I never have to debug that class and I can use its interface without worry. If something goes wrong in a class I can go back to the main function and play around with it until it works.
Oh yeah, and I need not deal with pointers or memory management:)
I've been trying to figure out if it's possible to connect a Visor modem to a cell phone to dial in to an account. The upside, of course, would be wireless interenet access to porn wherever you go! From what I've seen, it looks like some GSM phones support this feature (ericsson ones seem better), but I'm still not sure if it is doable in the US. Can anyone say definatively if this is possible, and how?
If we have trouble with old articles now, what will happen in ten years when the net is overstuffed with documents? How are we going to know what was made when, and if it's out of date? Sometimes there is a date on a website, but others are long dead, and it's difficult to tell how long they've been sitting around. Imagine the same slashdot stories being posted years apart because no one remembers the originals? Perhaps links will simply die? How many web pages from '96 still exist today? Should we be archiving web pages, lest we end up with a web memory of only 4 years?
In quake, texture-intensive levels that really sucked in windows (q3tourney4) now run as fast as everything else.
My only concern is the mouse input. has anyone found a good bunch of settings that make the mouse input smoother? Things I've tried: in_dgamouse, sensitivity, and xset m X Y. anyone have the magic combination?
I've noticed that cameras with only a model number only incrementally higher tend to have the same protocol as their predicessors (sp).
side note: I've sent the gphoto people perl source for the kodak DC-120 that someone else sent me, and they never ever put it into the main source! I've given it to them like three times, and they always ignore it! I would port it myself, but I don't know perl.
> the WinCE devices were designed to play MP3's, > MPEG's, and generally to be impress-the-chicks > devices.
Dude, tsk tsk. There are plenty of Palm apps with good "wow" factor. My favorite is the "Suck-o-meter," which tells you if an object you point the palm at sucks or not. I aimed it my friend eight times in a row, and he sucked everyone one of those time. Besides that, there is freecell, minesweeper, avantgo, and some other cool games. Color sucks too much batteries, and mp3s are pointless because you can only carry around the equivalent of 1 CD or so with you. And mpegs on a palm-sized device are pointless.
What type of name changes is Taco talking about? I'm just curious to see what type of names were forced to be changed to what "D&D-ish" names. I would suspect that there's not much to complain about if your current name is "buttfuck," or something.
Mine just crashes with an exception c0000005, which if I remember my windows programming is the standard "there is no variable there" error. I have a newly-upgraded redhat 6.2, and xfree 4.0. any simliar probs?
I read some pages about Black and White, and I'm really pissed. Now I'll have to follow its development until september when it's released. I thought I was over anxious awaiting of hit games when Q3A was released, but now I've got this. Thanks a lot.:P
I have a Fast AV Master, which comes with Ulead Media Studio. While the package isn't as unified as Media 100's system or Avid, it is a very capable system that will certainly do the job. This package definately gives Adobe Primiere a run for its money.
As for storage space, you should get a Medea VideoRAID (find it on www.videoguys.com). These things can do 24 MB/s sustained, even when the drive is full. Moreover, it just plugs into a scsi chain and requires no drivers or striping tools. I attached it to my machine, and suddenly linux saw/dev/sdc5, a 50 gig partition. Piece o' cake.
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> Unfortunately, the Xfree 4.0.1 version does not
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> work with our drivers. We hope to have out a
> new release for that version out shortly.
They're working so hard on the new version that they have no time for grammar!
Note: flaming nvidia won't get the drivers fixed quicker. This is just a note so that other people don't waste time trying to get the nvidia drivers to work.
I couldn't get the newest nvidia drivers to work with xfree 4.0.1. I thought maybe my configuration was wrong, but when I reinstalled xfree 4.0 it worked fine. I would have thought that the xfree people would check to see if they were breaking someone else's drivers!
.93 drivers to work with xfree 4.0.1?
Has anyone gotten the
notepad - gedit (with GNOME)
word - wordperfect 8 (free version) (linux.corel.com)
excel - gnumeric (with GNOME)
wsftp - gftp (gftp.seul.org)
photoshop - gimp (with GNOME)
free agent (news) - pan (with GNOME)
winamp - xmms (www.xmms.org)
visio - dia (with GNOME)
freecell - freecell (with GNOME)
minesweeper too!
mirc - xchat (with GNOME)
napster - gnapster (with GNOME)
eudora - balsa (http://www.newton.cx/balsa/)
netscape (shockwave flash is available)
any more obvious ones I missed?
All of these programs are top-notch in quality, although some are less finished than others.
I would ban windows networking first. If you go online in any dorm, you'll see a whole host of people happily sharing their hard drives and printers with full permissions. Telnet and FTP take some effort to set up, at least on win9x.
The real solution is to ban nothing, and try to educate the users about security. Little things like, "turn off inetd," "disable sharing," "if you do share, give it a good password," etc. Colleges throw persistant megabit connections at their students without so much as a flyer for common security issues.
I don't want to start a download of the entire tree just to get a little bit of info... namely, have they fixed dga mouse support yet? This question gets asked day-in and day-out on the newsgroups by all of us l33t gamerz who need a smoother mouse to play quake under linux.
:P
So, has it been fixed in CVS, or are you guys going to make me download it to find out?
Sounds like the Bastard Operator From Hell!
I installed the NT boot loader in the _partition_, and lilo on the master boot record. It works flawlessly. Is one better than the other?
BTW, you said that you have a "shared" win32 partition. I thought winnt didn't support win32?
www.minidisco.com. You don't need any special cables beyond a miniplug-to-RCA cable, something that most sound cards come with, or cost 5 bucks. I can't believe people are willing to buy 200$ mp3 players with one 100$ one-hour flash card, when MD recorders cost 250$ and discs cost 2.50 a piece for 74 minutes or rewritable goodness.
I write a lot of my mp3s to minidisc with almost no loss of quality. Minidisc is 284kbps, so it can handle mp3s with ease.
stupid stupid. ALL HAIL BRAAAAAAK! You get the idea.
> ALL HAIL BRAAAAAAK!</a>
I find that Java forces me to think about structure when I program. Sure, it means you can't rattle off a quicky program, but sometimes quicky programs become "mission critical" and turn in to big hulking mounds of spaghetti. Java forces you to create the most efficient code possible: what data do I need? who should have access to it? Where should I leave room for extensions?
:)
:)
Case in point: I wrote a software program that decodes satellite data and parses the output. I was able to add a whole host of features by touching a single class for each case: support for multiple data formats in one file, extensible support for any future data format, cleaner file handling routines, new ways of gathering data. I never had to go back and rework major portions of code. This assumes you design the program well to begin with
Another feature that goes untouted in Java is error handling. The "try{} catch()" method of trapping errors is pure genius. I can effectively trap and collect any errors and find out where they occured in the stack trace. Because all of the errors are caught in one place (the catch statements), I don't have to clutter my code with error checking. EOF? Don't worry about it, if it happens I can catch it later!
Lastly, having a main() function for _every_ class makes testing a piece of cake. If I create a main() function that tests the class, and it passes, I know I never have to debug that class and I can use its interface without worry. If something goes wrong in a class I can go back to the main function and play around with it until it works.
Oh yeah, and I need not deal with pointers or memory management
I've been trying to figure out if it's possible to connect a Visor modem to a cell phone to dial in to an account. The upside, of course, would be wireless interenet access to porn wherever you go! From what I've seen, it looks like some GSM phones support this feature (ericsson ones seem better), but I'm still not sure if it is doable in the US. Can anyone say definatively if this is possible, and how?
If we have trouble with old articles now, what will happen in ten years when the net is overstuffed with documents? How are we going to know what was made when, and if it's out of date? Sometimes there is a date on a website, but others are long dead, and it's difficult to tell how long they've been sitting around. Imagine the same slashdot stories being posted years apart because no one remembers the originals? Perhaps links will simply die? How many web pages from '96 still exist today? Should we be archiving web pages, lest we end up with a web memory of only 4 years?
AWESOME.
In quake, texture-intensive levels that really sucked in windows (q3tourney4) now run as fast as everything else.
My only concern is the mouse input. has anyone found a good bunch of settings that make the mouse input smoother? Things I've tried: in_dgamouse, sensitivity, and xset m X Y. anyone have the magic combination?
Is this the same format that everyone promised to boycott? Certianly doesn't seem that way.
It's tough when the format is so wonderful (except for CSS and region coding), but the businessmen behind it are such dolts.
I've noticed that cameras with only a model number only incrementally higher tend to have the same protocol as their predicessors (sp).
side note: I've sent the gphoto people perl source for the kodak DC-120 that someone else sent me, and they never ever put it into the main source! I've given it to them like three times, and they always ignore it! I would port it myself, but I don't know perl.
> the WinCE devices were designed to play MP3's,
> MPEG's, and generally to be impress-the-chicks
> devices.
Dude, tsk tsk. There are plenty of Palm apps with good "wow" factor. My favorite is the "Suck-o-meter," which tells you if an object you point the palm at sucks or not. I aimed it my friend eight times in a row, and he sucked everyone one of those time. Besides that, there is freecell, minesweeper, avantgo, and some other cool games. Color sucks too much batteries, and mp3s are pointless because you can only carry around the equivalent of 1 CD or so with you. And mpegs on a palm-sized device are pointless.
Does this article remind anyone else of a very similar one in May's Brill's Content?
He has also talked a lot about Snow Crash, specifically, that he knew he could do most of it. cue a Homer drool: "agggllraglrlalgrlallagr...."
is the site slashdotted? I can't get in
I've found I can play worms on _other_ servers masq'ed, but I can't host a server (which would be expected). Is there any way around this?
What type of name changes is Taco talking about? I'm just curious to see what type of names were forced to be changed to what "D&D-ish" names. I would suspect that there's not much to complain about if your current name is "buttfuck," or something.
Mine just crashes with an exception c0000005, which if I remember my windows programming is the standard "there is no variable there" error. I have a newly-upgraded redhat 6.2, and xfree 4.0. any simliar probs?
I read some pages about Black and White, and I'm really pissed. Now I'll have to follow its development until september when it's released. I thought I was over anxious awaiting of hit games when Q3A was released, but now I've got this. Thanks a lot. :P
I have a Fast AV Master, which comes with Ulead Media Studio. While the package isn't as unified as Media 100's system or Avid, it is a very capable system that will certainly do the job. This package definately gives Adobe Primiere a run for its money.
/dev/sdc5, a 50 gig partition. Piece o' cake.
As for storage space, you should get a Medea VideoRAID (find it on www.videoguys.com). These things can do 24 MB/s sustained, even when the drive is full. Moreover, it just plugs into a scsi chain and requires no drivers or striping tools. I attached it to my machine, and suddenly linux saw