Simple, ask the people who suffered from depression or people who deal with them.
My experience and the current practices on the subject of depression lead to two comments about your theory:
First, depression is generally caused by unconscious thinkings that come from the past (recent or not) and that you cannot consciously deal with. That's the reason it is advised to talk with a psy. It is important to understand what's happening and so, to think deeply.
Secondly, in a situation of crisis, thinking deeply only shows how bad the situation is (if it is) or can be (if you are depressed, you see things more bad than they are). At that point, it's better not to think.
Conclusion : avoiding to think (about one's situation) can be easier but only postpones the real solution of the problems and make it harder to solve.
The fact that depression is not socially accepted leads people to hide it and therefore to make it longer to get out of.
Since mid-2001, most Linux distributions include some patched versions of LILO (the LInux LOader) that support VGA or VESA graphical modes and make it possible to have a nice background image while booting. Starting with SuSE Linux 7.2, the SuSE distribution includes an interesting extension to LILO that allows a programmer to define some callback functions that are triggered when some events occur (key pressed, timeout,...). It gives a much greater flexibility than the other extensions that are provided by most of the other Linux distributions, including the new graphical modes that have recently been added to the official version of LILO 22.x.
While testing the SuSE version of LILO and the helper program mkbootmsg, I was wondering if the timer callbacks together with the function that copies parts of the image to the screen could be used for creating animations. I quickly found out that it was indeed possible to enhance the boot screen with animations. Since my friends liked the results, I decided to share them on this web site.
These animated boot screens have been tested with SuSE Linux 7.2 and 7.3. They should also work with other Linux distributions, as long as you install the appropriate version of LILO. This is explained on my help page.
Why?
Several people told me that LILO was not designed to do this kind of things and asked me why I did this. So here are some reasons: because LILO was not designed to do this kind of things, because it is fun, because some people like to waste their time looking at pretty animations when their computer is booting.
Of course, these boot screens will not be so useful for those who keep their Linux server running for several months without rebooting (some of my servers have been running for more than a year). But these animations were not designed for these servers: they are more interesting for desktop computers that are rebooted from time to time. I created the first boot screens for a laptop that I boot and shut down at least once a day.
Animated boot screens
Click on one of these images to go to a separate page from which you can download the file to use with LILO as well as all source files.
xray-green
640x480, 256 colors (VESA)
Animations:
- progress bar (timeout)
- hard disk motor
- two flashing lights
xray-blue
640x480, 256 colors (VESA)
Animations:
- progress bar (timeout)
- hard disk motor
- two flashing lights
- rotating fan
penguins
640x480, 256 colors (VESA)
Animations:
- walking penguin at the bottom of the screen
- walking X-Mas penguin on top of the menu
- falling penguin (tumbler) for the LILO timeout
Special keys: F1, F2, F3 influence the penguins
breakout
640x480, 256 colors (VESA)
This is a full, playable game, not a simple animation.
Special keys:
- F1 for help
- F2 starts a game
- Shift and Ctrl control the bat
Copyright
I am releasing these animated boot screens under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later (at your option).
This means that you are allowed to use, modify, copy and distribute them freely. You can even sell your own version if you want. But if you distribute them to others, then you must also distribute the source code for these boot screens. In this case, the "source code" ("the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it") means the configuration file(s) and the source of the image(s), including all layers and masks if applicable. It should be possible for those who get the source code to modify the animation easily, so distributing only the final PCX image is usually not sufficient because that would not be the the preferred form for making modifications to the image (unless you worked only on that bitmap file and painted it pixel by pixel, but then I pity you).
For more details, see the full text of the GPL (also available in HTML version from www.gnu.org).
KazAa is even worse as it installs a lot of ad-ware and stuff in the registry. As explained on this site, it installs multiple things that are very nasty to remove afterwards, including the onflow thing discussed in other posts.
The worst part is the newdotnet thing.
Just do a "kazaa spyware" search on google and read.
Now, if we want to buy a Universal music CD, we have to agree to a license agreement comparable to the average MS EULA.
This is another good reason to return those cd's and ask for a refund : just say you don't accept the license.
Usually, if you ask for a refund for a defective cd, the person will try it on the shop player and refuse the refund because it plays. Now, just skip this step and show the license.
Mmh that could be funny if we do that with software...
The truly successful technologies and technology companies are utilitarian and dull -- decidedly non-hip
I think it depends on the price range of a product and the cost of making it cool. Wireless phones, for example, can be cool at interesting prices. That's why nokia is number one : people prefer nokia phones because of the design at the same cost than dull phones.
On the other hand, a cool car or a cool house can be much more expensive than standard ones.
Computers are just a little too expensive for people to buy cool ones. But that can change, if IBM and Dell can make design computers at cheap prices, people will buy them. It's only an industrial challenge like in the car industry. Twenty years ago, the cars were utilitarian and dull. Now, even the cheapests cars are somehow cool.
We'll see in two or three years how computers will be.
Except that majijuana is not criminal in Belgium anymore
Breaking news (10 january 2002) :
The individual usage by adults whose consumption is not considered problem (that is out of control) and which does not cause social nuisance (confusions of the neighborhood or on the public highway, consumption in the presence of minors or on the public highway...) will not be pursued.
please note that me and my family relied on public assistance in the past (unfortunately). We never voted for socialists. Also, there are a lot of working people who vote for socialists.
I think your opinion is full of manicheism. the Dutch part is economically doing a great deal better than the French part mmh yes but what's the point ? The region of Liège is doing better than the region of Charleroi, the region of Brussels (french speaking at 80 pc) is doing better than some places in the dutch part and the dutch part is doing better than a lot of places in Europe (congratulations).
So what's the point of comparing linguistic regions on an economic basis ? Maybe the propaganda of some political people works in a way. What is funny is that some (all ?) of them want brussels as the capital of Vlaanderen. Looks like some french speaking people are necessary anyway.
All in all, I also think that some people are cheating on the welfare state and it is also possible that there are more of them in the french speaking side of the country (though some do not speak french). BUT I REFUSE THAT ANY CITIZEN CAN BE PUT IN A CATEGORY BECAUSE OF HIS LANGUAGE OR ETHNICS OR RELIGION, etc. More precisely, I consider stupid the opinions that "unemployed people are lazy", "walloons are lazy" and so on.
Concerning the silly suggestion concerning the airport, I suppose you do not live in Zaventem.
(disclaimer : I am from Belgium so my opinions might be biased:))))
A better use of the money would be to have computers in publicly accessible places like libraries.
They would be also appropriate in schools where proper training of teachers would be required so that they don't become m$ point'n-click zealots and teach it. Then, when the kids will be adults, they will be well educated, get a job or better, create a company and don't need a free computer paid by those who work.
If you give a computer to a man, he will play quake until windows crashes but if you teach him linux, he will be able to do whatever he wants with a computer for the rest of his life.
But sending out the same large numbers of the same email to people who haven't asked for it makes it unsolicited bulk email = UBE = Spam.
And what if I send my resume to companies asking for work ? As I said in a previous post, spontaneous job applications are common practice, appreciated by many human resources managers and should not be prevented.
Obviously, it should not be bulk as you'd better customize your applications but dumb people should also be allowed to search for a job.
When you have a publically accessible medium of communication you are implicitly agreeing that anyone may attempt to contact you at least once.
I disagree. How many business companies are there in the world ? If all of them send you an email for advertising, will you take the time to unsuscribe a few million times ? And if they are really nasty, they can even make the unsubscribe process a bit complicated or long.
So the basic question to ask is not who can send you an email but how did they get your email ?. It's a matter of privacy. If you give your email to one company, they should be prevented by law to give or sell your private records except if you authorize it.
Furthermore, you should have the right to see and edit your records for any company that have anything about you. I don't know for the US but, in Belgium, that's the way it works and I am happy with it.
Instead of spamming lots of people, those who are interested in giving someone employment would search a database of resumes. It's much more effective for everyone.
Do you know that spontaneous job applications are common practice ? They are appreciated by many companies and human resources managers who read them and put them in a database even if the company has no job available at the time of reading. Later, if a position needs someone, they usually look first in this database before posting ads or other means of asking for candidates.
I read somewhere that spontaneous job applications account for 50 percent of some hiring.
Of course, the person looking for a job should research the company he is sollicitating and customizing any email he sends. But opt-in only for job sollicitations is not appropriate and even human resources managers would not like it.
1. I have no problem at someone making money, even with the GPL. I was just saying that they will do whatever they can to stay closed source. See other posts about the Wine license.
2. I never said linux goal was the desktop but it better does without bad press.
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To answer your questions :
1. the pricing will be... 99 dolls. Wow isn't that inexpensive ? Like another poster said, this is way too much.
2. they won't contribute back to GPL. They are here to make money you know.
I see two possible outcomes :
1. They succeed. We are all morons because they did in a few months what we (open source developers) couldn't do in ten years.
2. They fail. We are all deeply fucked because evryone will laugh saying : "linux is not for the desktop", "windows is easier", etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Troll. Why don't you offer the hosting for slashdot for free if you think YOU care better than anybody else.
/. don't fsck'ing care.
The simple point is that the people running
They haven't cared for a long time.
The entire point of this place is just like any other whoring web site: generate click-through, get the eyeballs, count the page requests.
I suppose you never read a newspaper or even - cough - buy one, because you would notice the high level of ads in these.
At least, here you have the choice. You can support slashdot with money or viewing ads.
I think the parent post is not offtopic, I thought there was a typo in the slashdot post.
It's .ca.ca
...)
(Read this if you don't understand
As many posters wrote, many UCBE emails come from servers outside US and EU, so I don't see how a legislation could help for those cases.
That doesn't mean nothing can be done, but no solution will make spam disappear instantly.
You ask : How do I test it ?
:
Simple, ask the people who suffered from depression or people who deal with them.
My experience and the current practices on the subject of depression lead to two comments about your theory
First, depression is generally caused by unconscious thinkings that come from the past (recent or not) and that you cannot consciously deal with. That's the reason it is advised to talk with a psy. It is important to understand what's happening and so, to think deeply.
Secondly, in a situation of crisis, thinking deeply only shows how bad the situation is (if it is) or can be (if you are depressed, you see things more bad than they are). At that point, it's better not to think.
Conclusion : avoiding to think (about one's situation) can be easier but only postpones the real solution of the problems and make it harder to solve.
The fact that depression is not socially accepted leads people to hide it and therefore to make it longer to get out of.
Like the aussies who copyrighted ringing tones, someone should copyright those sequences.
Patent on DNA material is already there, so let's go one step further with proteins.
The site is slashdotted, so here are the link to the pictures and the text from the main page.
...). It gives a much greater flexibility than the other extensions that are provided by most of the other Linux distributions, including the new graphical modes that have recently been added to the official version of LILO 22.x.
pictures
green
blue
penguins
game
text
Animated splash screens for LILO
Introduction
Since mid-2001, most Linux distributions include some patched versions of LILO (the LInux LOader) that support VGA or VESA graphical modes and make it possible to have a nice background image while booting. Starting with SuSE Linux 7.2, the SuSE distribution includes an interesting extension to LILO that allows a programmer to define some callback functions that are triggered when some events occur (key pressed, timeout,
While testing the SuSE version of LILO and the helper program mkbootmsg, I was wondering if the timer callbacks together with the function that copies parts of the image to the screen could be used for creating animations. I quickly found out that it was indeed possible to enhance the boot screen with animations. Since my friends liked the results, I decided to share them on this web site.
These animated boot screens have been tested with SuSE Linux 7.2 and 7.3. They should also work with other Linux distributions, as long as you install the appropriate version of LILO. This is explained on my help page.
Why?
Several people told me that LILO was not designed to do this kind of things and asked me why I did this. So here are some reasons: because LILO was not designed to do this kind of things, because it is fun, because some people like to waste their time looking at pretty animations when their computer is booting.
Of course, these boot screens will not be so useful for those who keep their Linux server running for several months without rebooting (some of my servers have been running for more than a year). But these animations were not designed for these servers: they are more interesting for desktop computers that are rebooted from time to time. I created the first boot screens for a laptop that I boot and shut down at least once a day.
Animated boot screens
Click on one of these images to go to a separate page from which you can download the file to use with LILO as well as all source files.
xray-green
640x480, 256 colors (VESA)
Animations:
- progress bar (timeout)
- hard disk motor
- two flashing lights
xray-blue
640x480, 256 colors (VESA)
Animations:
- progress bar (timeout)
- hard disk motor
- two flashing lights
- rotating fan
penguins
640x480, 256 colors (VESA)
Animations:
- walking penguin at the bottom of the screen
- walking X-Mas penguin on top of the menu
- falling penguin (tumbler) for the LILO timeout
Special keys: F1, F2, F3 influence the penguins
breakout
640x480, 256 colors (VESA)
This is a full, playable game, not a simple animation.
Special keys:
- F1 for help
- F2 starts a game
- Shift and Ctrl control the bat
Copyright
I am releasing these animated boot screens under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later (at your option).
This means that you are allowed to use, modify, copy and distribute them freely. You can even sell your own version if you want. But if you distribute them to others, then you must also distribute the source code for these boot screens. In this case, the "source code" ("the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it") means the configuration file(s) and the source of the image(s), including all layers and masks if applicable. It should be possible for those who get the source code to modify the animation easily, so distributing only the final PCX image is usually not sufficient because that would not be the the preferred form for making modifications to the image (unless you worked only on that bitmap file and painted it pixel by pixel, but then I pity you).
For more details, see the full text of the GPL (also available in HTML version from www.gnu.org).
KazAa is even worse as it installs a lot of ad-ware and stuff in the registry. As explained on this site, it installs multiple things that are very nasty to remove afterwards, including the onflow thing discussed in other posts.
The worst part is the newdotnet thing.
Just do a "kazaa spyware" search on google and read.
Now, if we want to buy a Universal music CD, we have to agree to a license agreement comparable to the average MS EULA.
...
This is another good reason to return those cd's and ask for a refund : just say you don't accept the license.
Usually, if you ask for a refund for a defective cd, the person will try it on the shop player and refuse the refund because it plays. Now, just skip this step and show the license.
Mmh that could be funny if we do that with software
The truly successful technologies and technology companies are utilitarian and dull -- decidedly non-hip
I think it depends on the price range of a product and the cost of making it cool. Wireless phones, for example, can be cool at interesting prices. That's why nokia is number one : people prefer nokia phones because of the design at the same cost than dull phones.
On the other hand, a cool car or a cool house can be much more expensive than standard ones.
Computers are just a little too expensive for people to buy cool ones. But that can change, if IBM and Dell can make design computers at cheap prices, people will buy them. It's only an industrial challenge like in the car industry. Twenty years ago, the cars were utilitarian and dull. Now, even the cheapests cars are somehow cool.
We'll see in two or three years how computers will be.
Hi, I have a suggestion : you could mirror the text of the story in your journal.
On a related note, we need some kind of peer-to-peer mirroring system.
Very good idea, a bit similar than what I said about education.
Except that majijuana is not criminal in Belgium anymore
Breaking news (10 january 2002) :
The individual usage by adults whose consumption is not considered problem (that is out of control) and which does not cause social nuisance (confusions of the neighborhood or on the public highway, consumption in the presence of minors or on the public highway...) will not be pursued.
source : this site or this article
It' a small one but everything is in it.
Wout,
please note that me and my family relied on public assistance in the past (unfortunately). We never voted for socialists. Also, there are a lot of working people who vote for socialists.
I think your opinion is full of manicheism. the Dutch part is economically doing a great deal better than the French part mmh yes but what's the point ? The region of Liège is doing better than the region of Charleroi, the region of Brussels (french speaking at 80 pc) is doing better than some places in the dutch part and the dutch part is doing better than a lot of places in Europe (congratulations).
So what's the point of comparing linguistic regions on an economic basis ? Maybe the propaganda of some political people works in a way. What is funny is that some (all ?) of them want brussels as the capital of Vlaanderen. Looks like some french speaking people are necessary anyway.
All in all, I also think that some people are cheating on the welfare state and it is also possible that there are more of them in the french speaking side of the country (though some do not speak french). BUT I REFUSE THAT ANY CITIZEN CAN BE PUT IN A CATEGORY BECAUSE OF HIS LANGUAGE OR ETHNICS OR RELIGION, etc. More precisely, I consider stupid the opinions that "unemployed people are lazy", "walloons are lazy" and so on.
Concerning the silly suggestion concerning the airport, I suppose you do not live in Zaventem.
(disclaimer : I am from Belgium so my opinions might be biased :))))
A better use of the money would be to have computers in publicly accessible places like libraries.
They would be also appropriate in schools where proper training of teachers would be required so that they don't become m$ point'n-click zealots and teach it. Then, when the kids will be adults, they will be well educated, get a job or better, create a company and don't need a free computer paid by those who work.
If you give a computer to a man, he will play quake until windows crashes but if you teach him linux, he will be able to do whatever he wants with a computer for the rest of his life.
Moxi presented their media center at the CES 2002 in Las Vegas on monday. Oh wait, it has already made slashdot headlines !
Well my english is probably not accurate enough. You should have read :
And what if I send my resume to companies
,
asking for work ? (Myself asking for work)
But sending out the same large numbers of the same email to people who haven't asked for it makes it unsolicited bulk email = UBE = Spam.
And what if I send my resume to companies asking for work ? As I said in a previous post, spontaneous job applications are common practice, appreciated by many human resources managers and should not be prevented.
Obviously, it should not be bulk as you'd better customize your applications but dumb people should also be allowed to search for a job.
When you have a publically accessible medium of communication you are implicitly agreeing that anyone may attempt to contact you at least once.
I disagree. How many business companies are there in the world ? If all of them send you an email for advertising, will you take the time to unsuscribe a few million times ? And if they are really nasty, they can even make the unsubscribe process a bit complicated or long.
So the basic question to ask is not who can send you an email but how did they get your email ?. It's a matter of privacy. If you give your email to one company, they should be prevented by law to give or sell your private records except if you authorize it.
Furthermore, you should have the right to see and edit your records for any company that have anything about you. I don't know for the US but, in Belgium, that's the way it works and I am happy with it.
Instead of spamming lots of people, those who are interested in giving someone employment would search a database of resumes. It's much more effective for everyone.
Do you know that spontaneous job applications are common practice ? They are appreciated by many companies and human resources managers who read them and put them in a database even if the company has no job available at the time of reading. Later, if a position needs someone, they usually look first in this database before posting ads or other means of asking for candidates.
I read somewhere that spontaneous job applications account for 50 percent of some hiring.
Of course, the person looking for a job should research the company he is sollicitating and customizing any email he sends. But opt-in only for job sollicitations is not appropriate and even human resources managers would not like it.
Read the article and my post correctly. I wrote that the cable will be from the top of the tower. So the cable will be about 36.000 km long.
1. I have no problem at someone making money, even with the GPL. I was just saying that they will do whatever they can to stay closed source. See other posts about the Wine license.
2. I never said linux goal was the desktop but it better does without bad press.
1. the pricing will be
2. they won't contribute back to GPL. They are here to make money you know.
I see two possible outcomes :
1. They succeed. We are all morons because they did in a few months what we (open source developers) couldn't do in ten years.
2. They fail. We are all deeply fucked because evryone will laugh saying : "linux is not for the desktop", "windows is easier", etc.
I just noticed the community ads on linux.com and thought it would be interesting to put them on slashdot. Anyone hearing me ?