Speaking of Firefox... Can anyone tell me what that cool translation plugin is? They demo a Japanese to English translation of a Honda site on the Novel page (click on the Firefox icon). I've never seen that plugin before.
Not a good comparision. The Genesis outsold the SNES by a large margin, in spite of the SNES' technical superiority.
Nintendo has been quite successful with ever console so far, especially in the portable market, because they play it safe. Even the disappointing N64 did well enough to sustain the company for several years.
Actually, it's just an obvious step in order to extend the functionality of the XBox presence that is in many homes already. You remember the "Media Extender" package that was announced a week or two ago, right? This is all part of Microsoft's initiative to take over the living room. Not all that surprising that they'd convince HP to go with their own product, actually. They've been trying to do it for years.
The Linux version suffered a performance hit because of the lack of optimizations for certain instruction sets through compiling with GCC. I wonder if this will be similar on Mac machines because of GCC's G5 support? I do know that the Linux port, while functional, didn't run quite as well as I anticipated. I'm not running a "high-end" machine by any means, but I wasn't able to squeeze as much out of this game on my Athlon 2400+ with a GF FX 5900 XT as I had originally anticipated. The game is EXTREMELY CPU dependant. With a 3 GHz CPU, however, it probably could run very well in 1024x768 high detail with 4x gaussian 9-tap antialiasing. I think I was able to get 800x600 in medium detail on my machine (with 4x gaussian 9-tap antialiasing).
The performance on Linux was not comparable with Windows (with the initial binary release), and I suspect that the Mac performance will not be as nice as many people would hope as well. Maybe the Linux version performance will improve with the next release (there are some estimates of as much as 10%), but I think I'll wait to buy it until I can get the best performance possible.
Also, when they refer to a "24/7 computing environment", one would assume that they are talking about servers. Seldom are Macs used as servers (though they make good server machines) in comparision to Windows or Linux.
I would equate the percentage of breaches somewhere in-line with the percentage of instances as a server PC. We all know that Apache on Linux makes up a large majority of webservers out there.
What bothers me is that they fail to mention the percentage of exploits on desktop machines as well. The numbers don't provide a truly accurate indication of how often certain operating systems are exploited.
I'm not trying to diss the right (I'm probably best decribed as a right-leaning Libertarian, or what I'd consider to be the "Old Right"), but did anyone else notice that virtually all of these incidents on this fraud list have been committed by supporters of the "far right-wing"?
I know. The first things that caught my mind... What about Doom 3? What about Tales of Symphonia? What about Paper Mario? What about Pikmin 2? What about MGS: Twin Snakes? Maybe someone should notice that there are some kickass games beyond those on the PS2.
Doesn't surprise me. That's about like the DEC Alpha thing. I thought I heard that it was strictly a scare tactic against Intel. We had an Alpha machine that's gone to waste in a closet at work because it was designed to boot only NT4. Poor Deskstation Raptor, how I'd love to install Linux on you.
I kid you not... My friend, who (two weeks ago) saw the movie for the first time since he was a child, already planned to do this. He was going to write a musical for his electro-rock band to perform on stage. I thought that the idea was brilliant... Of course, I had to be the first to crush his hopes and dreams by telling him that someone else is going to beat him to this.
Nah. Some (most) of the bands are just not very well-known. Off the top of my head, I've purchased CDs from the following Magnatune artists with web sites:
I guess you get the point.;) Magnatune's "contract" isn't really like a contract at all. It's pretty liberal, actually. It merely consists of something like "We split profits with you 50/50 and you still keep the rights to your music".
http://magnatune.com/info/terms
Websites are probably part of the artist's own "PR", so it's their responsibility to have one if they want one. Magnatune's information is pretty much limited to what the artist gives them for the info page. Sometimes, there are external links to the artist's sits though.
The operators of Magnatune have some great ideas for music. I suggest anyone who is interested to read this page:
It's been in my sig for nearly a year now, and I post pretty often.
One of the things I really like about Magnatune (aside from the great music, free 128k MP3s, and fair treatment to artists) is the fact that they also have FLAC files (and even WAVs). Since I found Magnatune, I've been buying few CDs in stores and have been buying CDs in FLAC format instead.
So it's great music with great quality encoding. You don't normally find both of those from most much sites.
The content is very unique too. I like a lot of the CDs so much that I often leave them in my car CD play for weeks at a time. Right now, I'm listening to Clair Fitch's "Ambiencellist". Bad-ass CD. It's cello blended with synth. Fantastic stuff.
It takes some time to dig through the catalogue, but I'm sure that everyone will find at least a few fantastic gems to add to their music collection. Try something that you might not expect that you'd like (like the World Music), and you may be very surprised. Then move onto your typical rock, electronic, or classical genres.
It's truly a visually spectacular film. It draws a lot of influence from the 1930s/1940s, and the art just blows my mind. Everything about it is beautiful. It's a shame that the characters seemed shallow and the plot was a bit thin. Sure, it's probably intentional to some degree; it's supposed to be a beautiful action film and it succeeds in this area. I really feel that a lot more could have been done with it though. Neat ideas, but might have benefited from some better writing (and maybe a better actress than Paltrow). In the end, the movie seems almost like an anime movie with real actors - drawing influence from WW2 movies, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, comic book scifi, and classic love stories.
Ick! I DESPISE PCCHIPS. Several years ago, I had a PCCHIPS socket-7 mobo that was reboxed as an Amptron. It was the biggest turd ever. It lacked a PCI SERR device and therefore my soundcard couldn't do any DOS emulation (because they are cheapskates). Eventually it started flipping out and the PC speaker would whig out and start beeping over and over again from some unexplainable internal problem. Finally, it just died one day.
PCCHIPS is the company that is well-known for putting plastic cache chips in their mobos in the late-90's. I will never buy one of their prodcuts again. There are much better boards for around $40.
I just use my DirectPad Pro (on Linux) with Stepmania. Never failed me yet, though I doubt it will be of much use when parallel ports are phased out (some day).
Ryan "Icclus" Gordon, for all of his work on games (even though they are commercial games)
Michael Simms for publishing said commercial games for my open source platform of choice.
Oh, and Manuel Jander for hacking shit shit out of the Aureal Vortex (even though I'm not using it anymore, his work just really impresses me).
I wish I could personally thank everyone that contributes to the kernel, or my favorite programs that I use each day (Epiphany, Mozilla, Gnome, Evolution, X-Chat, etc.), but unfortuantely - such is the nature of software.
I don't really think that it is any different than proprietary software though. Sure, people get paid with closed-source (and open, for that matter), but that's about all they get in return. With Free/OSS software, we all get great software in return. So, the hard work ends up paying off in some form or fashion. I don't code by trade, but I devote time in forums to helping others and try to help test and patch things. It all counts in the end.
Yeah, right. Linux machines, and even Windows machines, get a tweaked and customized image in most situations. I can't think of any machines at my business that don't get wiped and reimaged when we get the hardware. That goes for servers as well.
My experience with the Audigy 2 ZS on Linux is quite good. The new 8-channel DACs produce high-quality sound, and it's one of the last PCI cards that you can buy with true hardware mixing support; a must-have on Linux.
I must admit though. I really liked the Aureal cards and the Cirrus Logic Soundfusion cards (like the Santa Cruz), but their features and drivers just don't do the job these days (on Linux). If I were still using Windows, I might have stuck with my Santa Cruz.
Manuel Jander is an amazing hacker. I was using his ALSA drivers for a long time, until I broke down and got an Audigy 2 ZS for proper 5.1 support. Too bad that there were never any more Aureal cards that were publicly released with 5.1 support and better codecs and DACs. I love my SQ2500 (own like 4 of them), and my other Aureal cards. They're great cards if you want a simple but functional quadraphonic card for a Linux box... Has hardware mixing and hardware EQ as well.
My co-worker and I went out of town on training for some hardware and software. The company gave us some of these small screwdrivers that you mentioned. I didn't take mine, because I didn't think that I would be able to get it on the plane without being thought a terrorist or something. He tooks his; left it in his suitcase. It went right through the machine without even showing up.
Makes me think that a lot of this extra "security" is more bullshit than anything.
Slashdot Mirror
Speaking of Firefox... Can anyone tell me what that cool translation plugin is? They demo a Japanese to English translation of a Honda site on the Novel page (click on the Firefox icon). I've never seen that plugin before.
Those are "frickin' lasers", if you wish to be exact.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought there was already a "Dashboard" for Gnome that has very similar functionality (thought development is slow).
http://www.nat.org/dashboard/
Ultimately, aren't they all just rip-offs of GDesklets and Karamba anyway?
Not a good comparision. The Genesis outsold the SNES by a large margin, in spite of the SNES' technical superiority.
Nintendo has been quite successful with ever console so far, especially in the portable market, because they play it safe. Even the disappointing N64 did well enough to sustain the company for several years.
Actually, it's just an obvious step in order to extend the functionality of the XBox presence that is in many homes already. You remember the "Media Extender" package that was announced a week or two ago, right? This is all part of Microsoft's initiative to take over the living room. Not all that surprising that they'd convince HP to go with their own product, actually. They've been trying to do it for years.
The Linux version suffered a performance hit because of the lack of optimizations for certain instruction sets through compiling with GCC. I wonder if this will be similar on Mac machines because of GCC's G5 support? I do know that the Linux port, while functional, didn't run quite as well as I anticipated. I'm not running a "high-end" machine by any means, but I wasn't able to squeeze as much out of this game on my Athlon 2400+ with a GF FX 5900 XT as I had originally anticipated. The game is EXTREMELY CPU dependant. With a 3 GHz CPU, however, it probably could run very well in 1024x768 high detail with 4x gaussian 9-tap antialiasing. I think I was able to get 800x600 in medium detail on my machine (with 4x gaussian 9-tap antialiasing).
The performance on Linux was not comparable with Windows (with the initial binary release), and I suspect that the Mac performance will not be as nice as many people would hope as well. Maybe the Linux version performance will improve with the next release (there are some estimates of as much as 10%), but I think I'll wait to buy it until I can get the best performance possible.
Also, when they refer to a "24/7 computing environment", one would assume that they are talking about servers. Seldom are Macs used as servers (though they make good server machines) in comparision to Windows or Linux.
I would equate the percentage of breaches somewhere in-line with the percentage of instances as a server PC. We all know that Apache on Linux makes up a large majority of webservers out there.
What bothers me is that they fail to mention the percentage of exploits on desktop machines as well. The numbers don't provide a truly accurate indication of how often certain operating systems are exploited.
I'm not trying to diss the right (I'm probably best decribed as a right-leaning Libertarian, or what I'd consider to be the "Old Right"), but did anyone else notice that virtually all of these incidents on this fraud list have been committed by supporters of the "far right-wing"?
Why's it too much work to simply download updated packages from Slackware-Current and run "upgradepkg"?
c pu =i386
Pat keeps the thing up to date at all times, and all critical exploits are practically always fixed in current. He updates practically every few days.
http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?
I know. The first things that caught my mind... What about Doom 3? What about Tales of Symphonia? What about Paper Mario? What about Pikmin 2? What about MGS: Twin Snakes? Maybe someone should notice that there are some kickass games beyond those on the PS2.
That press release is more bogus than ATI's press releases about their (dedication) to supporting 64 bit Linux.
Talk is cheap.
I think it still requires that you download a viewer though. Vino, as far as I am aware, is simply the server.
Doesn't surprise me. That's about like the DEC Alpha thing. I thought I heard that it was strictly a scare tactic against Intel. We had an Alpha machine that's gone to waste in a closet at work because it was designed to boot only NT4. Poor Deskstation Raptor, how I'd love to install Linux on you.
Hell. You can't even get me to switch to Windows, and I'm on an Athlon.
I kid you not... My friend, who (two weeks ago) saw the movie for the first time since he was a child, already planned to do this. He was going to write a musical for his electro-rock band to perform on stage. I thought that the idea was brilliant... Of course, I had to be the first to crush his hopes and dreams by telling him that someone else is going to beat him to this.
Nah. Some (most) of the bands are just not very well-known. Off the top of my head, I've purchased CDs from the following Magnatune artists with web sites:
u sic.html
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;) Magnatune's "contract" isn't really like a contract at all. It's pretty liberal, actually. It merely consists of something like "We split profits with you 50/50 and you still keep the rights to your music".
Claire Fitch (Ambiencellist) - http://www.fitchsounds.com/
Hans Christian (Surrender)- http://www.rasa-music.com/Bodies/Hans/body-hans-m
Anup (Embrace) - http://sitarrecords.com/anup%20bio.html
Curandero (Aras) - http://www.tyburhoe.com/discography.html
Shiva in Exile (Ethnic)- http://www.shiva-in-exile.com/
Michael Masely (Cymbalennium)
http://home.comcast.net/~agmasley
Shirra Kammen (Wild Wood) -
http://www.kammenandswan.com/
I guess you get the point.
http://magnatune.com/info/terms
Websites are probably part of the artist's own "PR", so it's their responsibility to have one if they want one. Magnatune's information is pretty much limited to what the artist gives them for the info page. Sometimes, there are external links to the artist's sits though.
The operators of Magnatune have some great ideas for music. I suggest anyone who is interested to read this page:
http://magnatune.com/info/why
It's been in my sig for nearly a year now, and I post pretty often.
One of the things I really like about Magnatune (aside from the great music, free 128k MP3s, and fair treatment to artists) is the fact that they also have FLAC files (and even WAVs). Since I found Magnatune, I've been buying few CDs in stores and have been buying CDs in FLAC format instead.
So it's great music with great quality encoding. You don't normally find both of those from most much sites.
The content is very unique too. I like a lot of the CDs so much that I often leave them in my car CD play for weeks at a time. Right now, I'm listening to Clair Fitch's "Ambiencellist". Bad-ass CD. It's cello blended with synth. Fantastic stuff.
It takes some time to dig through the catalogue, but I'm sure that everyone will find at least a few fantastic gems to add to their music collection. Try something that you might not expect that you'd like (like the World Music), and you may be very surprised. Then move onto your typical rock, electronic, or classical genres.
It's truly a visually spectacular film. It draws a lot of influence from the 1930s/1940s, and the art just blows my mind. Everything about it is beautiful. It's a shame that the characters seemed shallow and the plot was a bit thin. Sure, it's probably intentional to some degree; it's supposed to be a beautiful action film and it succeeds in this area. I really feel that a lot more could have been done with it though. Neat ideas, but might have benefited from some better writing (and maybe a better actress than Paltrow). In the end, the movie seems almost like an anime movie with real actors - drawing influence from WW2 movies, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, comic book scifi, and classic love stories.
Ick! I DESPISE PCCHIPS. Several years ago, I had a PCCHIPS socket-7 mobo that was reboxed as an Amptron. It was the biggest turd ever. It lacked a PCI SERR device and therefore my soundcard couldn't do any DOS emulation (because they are cheapskates). Eventually it started flipping out and the PC speaker would whig out and start beeping over and over again from some unexplainable internal problem. Finally, it just died one day.
PCCHIPS is the company that is well-known for putting plastic cache chips in their mobos in the late-90's. I will never buy one of their prodcuts again. There are much better boards for around $40.
I just use my DirectPad Pro (on Linux) with Stepmania. Never failed me yet, though I doubt it will be of much use when parallel ports are phased out (some day).
b el .com/dpadpro/
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/Mirrors/www.zipla
Probably some of those on the top of my list are;
Pat Volkerding (of Slackware)
Todd Kulesza (of Dropline Gnome, for Slackware).
Ryan "Icclus" Gordon, for all of his work on games (even though they are commercial games)
Michael Simms for publishing said commercial games for my open source platform of choice.
Oh, and Manuel Jander for hacking shit shit out of the Aureal Vortex (even though I'm not using it anymore, his work just really impresses me).
I wish I could personally thank everyone that contributes to the kernel, or my favorite programs that I use each day (Epiphany, Mozilla, Gnome, Evolution, X-Chat, etc.), but unfortuantely - such is the nature of software.
I don't really think that it is any different than proprietary software though. Sure, people get paid with closed-source (and open, for that matter), but that's about all they get in return. With Free/OSS software, we all get great software in return. So, the hard work ends up paying off in some form or fashion. I don't code by trade, but I devote time in forums to helping others and try to help test and patch things. It all counts in the end.
Yeah, right. Linux machines, and even Windows machines, get a tweaked and customized image in most situations. I can't think of any machines at my business that don't get wiped and reimaged when we get the hardware. That goes for servers as well.
My experience with the Audigy 2 ZS on Linux is quite good. The new 8-channel DACs produce high-quality sound, and it's one of the last PCI cards that you can buy with true hardware mixing support; a must-have on Linux.
I must admit though. I really liked the Aureal cards and the Cirrus Logic Soundfusion cards (like the Santa Cruz), but their features and drivers just don't do the job these days (on Linux). If I were still using Windows, I might have stuck with my Santa Cruz.
Manuel Jander is an amazing hacker. I was using his ALSA drivers for a long time, until I broke down and got an Audigy 2 ZS for proper 5.1 support. Too bad that there were never any more Aureal cards that were publicly released with 5.1 support and better codecs and DACs. I love my SQ2500 (own like 4 of them), and my other Aureal cards. They're great cards if you want a simple but functional quadraphonic card for a Linux box... Has hardware mixing and hardware EQ as well.
My co-worker and I went out of town on training for some hardware and software. The company gave us some of these small screwdrivers that you mentioned. I didn't take mine, because I didn't think that I would be able to get it on the plane without being thought a terrorist or something. He tooks his; left it in his suitcase. It went right through the machine without even showing up.
Makes me think that a lot of this extra "security" is more bullshit than anything.