C users still have the same tired misconceptions about Macs that have been around for years.
Heh. Someone actually asked me the other day if Macs had color graphics yet. Apparently the last one he saw was a toaster Mac circa 1986 or so and he didn't realize that things had advanced a bit past that point.
I don't mind people who dislike Macs if they've actually used them, but people who just bitch about a platform they've never used are as bad as the "M$ sucks!@!!@!1" Linux assclowns and the "Bill Gates has the biggest wang in the world" MCSEs, along with the elitist shithead Mac users that I hate being associated with.
ust get 5 or 6 miniDV camcorders, and modify a helmet so you can mount all of them to cover 360 degrees.
But how would you edit the separate footages together so they play simultaneously?
I actually saw a demo at Apple's WWDC this year where the guy did something like this. He used some kind of bridge software to combine traditional Quicktime with Quicktime VR, producing a movie that the viewer could swivel the point of view in. It was pretty neat -- his example was one of those extreme sport street luge events, and while the fellow that the cameras were mounted on was rocketing down a hill, the viewer could pan around to the sidelines and up and down without interrupting the flow of the action.
So, I think that the grandparent post's question has been answered -- it is possible, if crudely, to do that sort of thing.
my only concern is that i haven't found a good jdk for linux ppc. maybe IBM has one.
Blackdown makes the one I use on my Yellow Dog box. I don't know how hardcore it is -- I only use it for my undergrad CS programming assignments -- but it seems nice enough to me.
noticed in the bugs list someone has my pet peeve mentioned, namly the updating packages suck. There's nothing worse than updating libiconv and wondering why gnome and kde collection has disappeared. I've gotten to where instead of pkg_delete, I just do rm -rf/var/db/pkg/package_name Hopefully this will improve.
Amen. Especially with all of these OpenSSH and OpenSSL bugs recently. I rebuild OpenSSL and then I have to rebuild OpenSSH and Pine, because they use the OpenSSL libraries.
This is painful on a P-75. Not painful enough to get me to switch over to Debian or something like that, but painful.
(And I know there are precompiled binaries for some of this stuff, but not for i386. Gee, I wish I had some kind of fucked up Japan only computer so that I didn't have to build everything by hand.)
I guess MS Software Update Server is an absolute necessity. No two ways about it. Weird how it doesn't get more discussion.
I work for a college, and with the dorm kids coming back with Welchia infected machines just in time for the start of the school year, we really got our asses handed to us in terms of network bandwidth. We're looking at SUS, and I'm sure we're not the only ones.
He said malicious hackers and virus writers tended to concentrate on the most widespread loopholes to ensure any pernicious program they write would spread far and wide.
It's sure a good thing that sshd is such an uncommon piece of code. I'm sure there can't be more than a few computers out there running it.
And by your own admission, you were FINE with the blue collars losing THEIR jobs, ya goddamn hypocrite. It's only now that the "white collars" are losing theirs that you care. That totally invalidates your whole "bleeding-heart" angle, which only applied to the blue-collars.
I'm not entirely sure who you're thinking of here, but the post you responded to was my first post in this thread. As the son of a Kodak lifer, and the grandson of a tool and die maker, I've probably got more empathy for the blue collar worker than most people.
First, it may surprise you,but I don't really give a damn what you think. Second, you don't have a fucking clue. You don't know what disadvantage is, how it works, nor what to do about it. You grew up rich (by my standards, middle class was rich),
It's really not terribly appropriate to make wild-assed guesses about people's economic backgrounds. You have no way of knowing if I grew up with money or not.
Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that the world is not as cut-and-dried as you seem to be planning for. "If I work hard and make myself indispensable I'll have a job forever!" might have worked at one point, but it doesn't any more. Assuming that the only people who get outsourced are "people who suck at their jobs making too much money" and who "lacked the talent or initiative" to "have DONE MORE with their lives" is remarkably naive.
Nobody is indispensable. Hopefully you'll learn that before the axe falls.
Those of us who made sure to be worth more as employees reap the rewards.
It's sure a good thing that the world works according to sterile, mechanistic, meritocratic principles, isn't it? Nope, nothing can possibly go wrong if you make plans in advance.
Oh, and for those of you keeping score at home:
* Only businesses run by the lazy and incompetent fail. * There are a lot of poor minorities because they are lazy and stupid and didn't prepare for the future. * Anyone who wants to can go to a "top 5" college, no matter what their background is. * Essentially, if you're poor, it's your own fucking fault, so stop crying in your beer.
That sum it up? God, you come across as a real cock, and on a board as full of libertarians as this Randian circle jerk that's really an impressive feat.
Maybe when Silican Valley becomes a ghost town like Detroit and the steel towns will we see it as a problem.
I doubt it. As someone who lives in Buffalo, one of the old steel towns, nobody seems to give a damn about us one way or the other. And our jobs were all shipped out years ago.
(On the other hand, Buffalo has developed into a much different city than it ever would have if the mills were still running. But that's another issue. At this point, it's more convenient to just go along with what everyone thinks my adopted hometown is like. Millions of Polack steelworkers can't be wrong!)
This ensures that when we make lossless audio files from the recording we will get the best possible quality, in effect an exact copy of what we recorded.
And yet after all that careful equipment selection and use, you're still stuck with a Phish tape. It doesn't really seem fair, somehow.
Unfortunately, Kodak bailed out of the CD-R business. With the declining prices of CD-Rs, they couldn't make a profit on the disks.
No, they probably just wanted to funnel the money into something less useful. You know, Advantix cameras, or PhotoCD, or some similar pile of unmarketable shit.
Pinnacle Micro Systems
1000 RCD (double speed) available for under $1,100 (including software)
CD blanks cost >$25.
This price should come down further as technology develops.
I actually used one of these for my primary burner up until a couple of years ago. Caddy loading goodness. Come to think of it, the thing never burned a coaster, either.
(And it was under $1,100. I believe it was about $1,100 dollars less than that. A friend found it in a dumpster and knew I didn't have a burner.)
Does that also work under OS9? I know there's some utility to help out under OSX, but due to software compatability we're stuck with OS9 for some time to come.
There's a little utility for OS 9 to handle it -- just use Key Caps (I think... haven't used OS 9 in a while) to bind whatever key you like to it.
Or you could always do what I did before figuring out the F12 key under OS X -- keep a copy of iTunes open and use the eject button in that. Heh.
--saint (Who is using an Extended Keyboard ][ ADB keyboard through an iMate on his Quicksilver G4. Ah, clicky.)
Another doozy is the recent G4s with no eject button on the CD-ROM - great if you like an Apple keyboard with eject key, infuriating if you happen to need another kind of keyboard on your mac, and it doesn't have an eject key. Why, exactly, should they deliberately make it impossible to eject the CD-ROM manually WHEN EMPTY?
Use the F12 key.
BTW, I still have a small collection of pucks, and will be keeping them until I can throw them off a/really/ tall building, and see how many times they bounce.
I work at a college, and we use the puck mice on the iMacs we have set up as public Internet access stations. That way, we don't really care if the mouse gets killed/spilled on/stolen, and it has the nice side effect of annoying users enough that they move along quickly and there's rarely a queue.
I just tried to go to #linux -- despite the fact that I've never been there before, I'm already banned. Maybe they just don't like my college's address space. Who knows.
I dropped in on #linuxhelp, too, because I'm having a problem with Yellow Dog Linux and I figured it might be a good place. When I asked if anyone had PPC Linux experience, one guy told me to install Gentoo (YDL is insufficiently leet, I guess) and nobody else responded.
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C users still have the same tired misconceptions about Macs that have been around for years.
Heh. Someone actually asked me the other day if Macs had color graphics yet. Apparently the last one he saw was a toaster Mac circa 1986 or so and he didn't realize that things had advanced a bit past that point.
I don't mind people who dislike Macs if they've actually used them, but people who just bitch about a platform they've never used are as bad as the "M$ sucks!@!!@!1" Linux assclowns and the "Bill Gates has the biggest wang in the world" MCSEs, along with the elitist shithead Mac users that I hate being associated with.
--saint
I used to think Macs were good, but after using them, i sware i'll never buy a Mac. Ever.
That's too bad. Safari does spell checking so you don't make such a screaming ass of yourself on web-based message boards.
--saint
ust get 5 or 6 miniDV camcorders, and modify a helmet so you can mount all of them to cover 360 degrees.
But how would you edit the separate footages together so they play simultaneously?
I actually saw a demo at Apple's WWDC this year where the guy did something like this. He used some kind of bridge software to combine traditional Quicktime with Quicktime VR, producing a movie that the viewer could swivel the point of view in. It was pretty neat -- his example was one of those extreme sport street luge events, and while the fellow that the cameras were mounted on was rocketing down a hill, the viewer could pan around to the sidelines and up and down without interrupting the flow of the action.
So, I think that the grandparent post's question has been answered -- it is possible, if crudely, to do that sort of thing.
--saint
This article on the recent vulnerability refers to "make replace" as "experimental". Have you successfully used it in situations like this?
(I've never seen it mentioned anywhere before -- if it can actually replace stuff in-line like it sounds like, that would be heaven.)
--saint
my only concern is that i haven't found a good jdk for linux ppc. maybe IBM has one.
Blackdown makes the one I use on my Yellow Dog box. I don't know how hardcore it is -- I only use it for my undergrad CS programming assignments -- but it seems nice enough to me.
--saint
noticed in the bugs list someone has my pet peeve /var/db/pkg/package_name
mentioned, namly the updating packages suck. There's
nothing worse than updating libiconv and wondering
why gnome and kde collection has disappeared. I've gotten
to where instead of pkg_delete, I just do rm -rf
Hopefully this will improve.
Amen. Especially with all of these OpenSSH and OpenSSL bugs recently. I rebuild OpenSSL and then I have to rebuild OpenSSH and Pine, because they use the OpenSSL libraries.
This is painful on a P-75. Not painful enough to get me to switch over to Debian or something like that, but painful.
(And I know there are precompiled binaries for some of this stuff, but not for i386. Gee, I wish I had some kind of fucked up Japan only computer so that I didn't have to build everything by hand.)
--Matt
I guess MS Software Update Server is an absolute necessity. No two ways about it. Weird how it doesn't get more discussion.
I work for a college, and with the dorm kids coming back with Welchia infected machines just in time for the start of the school year, we really got our asses handed to us in terms of network bandwidth. We're looking at SUS, and I'm sure we're not the only ones.
--saint
(Who does Mac support, thank heavens.)
not in response to legitimate need ;)
You've never worked in a call center before, have you?
I had a caller who borrowed the DSL installation disk from her friend and was trying to install "The Internet" on her DVD player.
Yes, this FAQ was needed. Desperately.
--saint
It'll be nice to see something that can actually break _faster_ than the butterfly keyboards on those Thinkpads back in the day.
Nice idea, but I want a laptop that takes a beating.
--saint
He said malicious hackers and virus writers tended to concentrate on the most widespread loopholes to ensure any pernicious program they write would spread far and wide.
It's sure a good thing that sshd is such an uncommon piece of code. I'm sure there can't be more than a few computers out there running it.
Come on, worm.
--saint
And by your own admission, you were FINE with the blue collars losing THEIR jobs, ya goddamn hypocrite. It's only now that the "white collars" are losing theirs that you care. That totally invalidates your whole "bleeding-heart" angle, which only applied to the blue-collars.
I'm not entirely sure who you're thinking of here, but the post you responded to was my first post in this thread. As the son of a Kodak lifer, and the grandson of a tool and die maker, I've probably got more empathy for the blue collar worker than most people.
First, it may surprise you,but I don't really give a damn what you think. Second, you don't have a fucking clue. You don't know what disadvantage is, how it works, nor what to do about it. You grew up rich (by my standards, middle class was rich),
It's really not terribly appropriate to make wild-assed guesses about people's economic backgrounds. You have no way of knowing if I grew up with money or not.
Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that the world is not as cut-and-dried as you seem to be planning for. "If I work hard and make myself indispensable I'll have a job forever!" might have worked at one point, but it doesn't any more. Assuming that the only people who get outsourced are "people who suck at their jobs making too much money" and who "lacked the talent or initiative" to "have DONE MORE with their lives" is remarkably naive.
Nobody is indispensable. Hopefully you'll learn that before the axe falls.
--saint
Those of us who made sure to be worth more as employees reap the rewards.
It's sure a good thing that the world works according to sterile, mechanistic, meritocratic principles, isn't it? Nope, nothing can possibly go wrong if you make plans in advance.
Oh, and for those of you keeping score at home:
* Only businesses run by the lazy and incompetent fail.
* There are a lot of poor minorities because they are lazy and stupid and didn't prepare for the future.
* Anyone who wants to can go to a "top 5" college, no matter what their background is.
* Essentially, if you're poor, it's your own fucking fault, so stop crying in your beer.
That sum it up? God, you come across as a real cock, and on a board as full of libertarians as this Randian circle jerk that's really an impressive feat.
--saint
Maybe when Silican Valley becomes a ghost town like Detroit and the steel towns will we see it as a problem.
I doubt it. As someone who lives in Buffalo, one of the old steel towns, nobody seems to give a damn about us one way or the other. And our jobs were all shipped out years ago.
(On the other hand, Buffalo has developed into a much different city than it ever would have if the mills were still running. But that's another issue. At this point, it's more convenient to just go along with what everyone thinks my adopted hometown is like. Millions of Polack steelworkers can't be wrong!)
--saint
This ensures that when we make lossless audio files from the recording we will get the best possible quality, in effect an exact copy of what we recorded.
And yet after all that careful equipment selection and use, you're still stuck with a Phish tape. It doesn't really seem fair, somehow.
--saint
(the chip-shouldered child of hippies.)
and there are lots of photos including the obligatory group photo
Wow, look at all the chicks.
*crickets*
So I suppose becoming an Open Source developer isn't going to get me lots of hot action, huh?
--saint
Well, I guess I won't be getting that Mac client I wanted, then. It's sort of a shame -- this looked like a good game, too.
--saint
(Who is a computer geek _and_ a gearhead, a combination that's more common than people think.)
I'll take a non-tech manager anyday - at least they know that they don't know.
No they don't.
--saint
La, la, la, 20 second rule, la la, Taco blows zombies under the bridge at the edge of town, la la la.
Unfortunately, Kodak bailed out of the CD-R business. With the declining prices of CD-Rs, they couldn't make a profit on the disks.
No, they probably just wanted to funnel the money into something less useful. You know, Advantix cameras, or PhotoCD, or some similar pile of unmarketable shit.
--saint
(The bitter son of a Kodak lifer.)
From the link you provided:
Pinnacle Micro Systems
1000 RCD (double speed) available for under $1,100 (including software)
CD blanks cost >$25.
This price should come down further as technology develops.
I actually used one of these for my primary burner up until a couple of years ago. Caddy loading goodness. Come to think of it, the thing never burned a coaster, either.
(And it was under $1,100. I believe it was about $1,100 dollars less than that. A friend found it in a dumpster and knew I didn't have a burner.)
--saint
Does that also work under OS9? I know there's some utility to help out under OSX, but due to software compatability we're stuck with OS9 for some time to come.
There's a little utility for OS 9 to handle it -- just use Key Caps (I think... haven't used OS 9 in a while) to bind whatever key you like to it.
Or you could always do what I did before figuring out the F12 key under OS X -- keep a copy of iTunes open and use the eject button in that. Heh.
--saint
(Who is using an Extended Keyboard ][ ADB keyboard through an iMate on his Quicksilver G4. Ah, clicky.)
Another doozy is the recent G4s with no eject button on the CD-ROM - great if you like an Apple keyboard with eject key, infuriating if you happen to need another kind of keyboard on your mac, and it doesn't have an eject key. Why, exactly, should they deliberately make it impossible to eject the CD-ROM manually WHEN EMPTY?
/really/ tall building, and see how many times they bounce.
Use the F12 key.
BTW, I still have a small collection of pucks, and will be keeping them until I can throw them off a
I work at a college, and we use the puck mice on the iMacs we have set up as public Internet access stations. That way, we don't really care if the mouse gets killed/spilled on/stolen, and it has the nice side effect of annoying users enough that they move along quickly and there's rarely a queue.
--saint
2.5: throw that godawful puck out the window, and plug in a decent 3 button mouse, while cursing apple for their infuriating habits.
1999 called. They want their knee-jerk reaction back.
Not that I like the new mice, really, but Apple stopped shipping those terrible hockey pucks a few years ago.
--saint
(Who is still pissed about having to use Fn-Option to middle click on his old Powerbook running Yellow Dog)
And thus, why #linuxhelp exists.
I just tried to go to #linux -- despite the fact that I've never been there before, I'm already banned. Maybe they just don't like my college's address space. Who knows.
I dropped in on #linuxhelp, too, because I'm having a problem with Yellow Dog Linux and I figured it might be a good place. When I asked if anyone had PPC Linux experience, one guy told me to install Gentoo (YDL is insufficiently leet, I guess) and nobody else responded.
Woo-hoo. Back to Google.
--saint
Those old Power Macs don't make bad MP3/stereo systems if you've an A/V card for it, and they're fairly cheap at thrift stores and the like.
They make pretty good television sets, too.
--saint
Do you guys say "Pee see em see eye aye" or "pecumsiuh"? I've heard both, just curious.
I've always called them "picky-micky" myself.
--saint