Dapple development has usually been done by 2 people also. There was just a point when I knew what I wanted but couldn't pull it off, but there were devs willing to help me get it working.
(3 devs total worked directly on the code, no more than 2 at once.)
Yeah, I've done some dogfood tests with my FOX project and found that the user interface, while similar enough to GNU for your average Linux user, is different enough to feel slightly alien to your average Linux user. Of course this is because it's based on BSD, and it does feel a lot like BSD.
The whole point of FOX was initially to prove Linux didn't need GNU.
Both phrases, "Free Software" and "Open Source Software" can be misleading.
Free Software, because the first thing that comes to mind is price.
Open Source Software, because to many people it simply means source available, and nothing about what you can do with it.
It isn't just for trying to come up with a catchy acronym that I'm calling my project (a mix of BSD, Heirloom Toolchest, and my own code under BSD and ZLIB-like licenses that can be used as a lightweight substitute for GNU) "FOX" - it stands for Free Open *X, because I believe that you can't just describe it as one or the other without misleading people.
Free Open *X is "Free and Open Software", the term I prefer. It's free to the world to do practically whatever they want with it, and open for the world to see how it ticks, and just about the only requirement is to give credit where credit's due - the way I've always believed in.
Well, there's a small annoyance, that if you get a domain, they default-direct it to one of those generic squat pages until the first change perks down, and it has an expire time of about a week. So rotate your dns servers in that case.
Any rate, I bought from them through a reseller, who a friend of mine was using (I covered his domain renewal, then bought a domain of my own), other than this, seems to be not bad, not much trickier than the dyndns way and a lot cheaper than buying a domain through them or through my ISP, the $9.96 I paid was prolly comparable to GoDaddy...or not much more...
The last time I had to do that was back when I was using RH8.
I've had Ubuntu on this computer for a year and never touched the kernel, haven't had to, haven't seen any reason to. And contrary to my practice on RH8 and NetBSD, I hardly ever touched source for anything but particularly obscure applications, unless I had a particular reason to (e.g., wanted to customize Firefox to report itself as Icefox).
I've been starting to cap a few particularly popular shows, and I think at least one of them (Ugly Betty) streams online for free but it still gets thousands of hits a week when I torrent it.
I watch some older stuff and some stuff you can't get outside of premium digital cable, so as long as I have $75 to burn that money's going to keep me from boredom one way or another.
Let's see.
Dateline NBC - NBC don't come in too well on my aerial. 20/20 - well, I don't need cable for this... America's Most Wanted - nor this but it helps...
MythBusters (standard tier) Pokemon: Battle Frontier (standard tier) Kimba: The White Lion (digital tier) Power Rangers: Time Force (reruns) and later Operation Overdrive (digital variety tier) Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck (reruns) (digital variety tier)
and you know, I do buy shows on DVD too (TMNT '87, Winx Club)...
though perhaps the content industry don't make back as much from me as I rip them off by torrenting all sorts of stuff that I cap off the TV... am I bothered though? Look, face, bothered?
Are the ads being made for HD? Because my box (from TWC) scales HD down to SD and I'd rather cap at the highest resolution available to me, keeping in mind, that's 704x470 for the regular CBS and 704x360 for the widescreen version.
That's because no self-respecting business wants to pay to improve their system when they can bilk their consumers for what they already offer when there's no competition. Why else does Internet in, say, New Zealand suck so horribly?
Why, NetBSD of course - they don't pay lipservice to standards but are actively aiming at being a free AND fully POSIX-compliant OS and seem to be headed more in that direction than Linux or GNU (I am recognizing here Linux distros' dependency on GNU).
I use Linux because it Just Works, but I prefer NetBSD because it's More Standard and Less Bloated compared to GNU.
(then again one could prolly get NetBSD's userland running on Linux/glibc?)
That's because parents should BE THERE and WATCH their kids. A computer is not an electronic babysitter and should never be used as such. To use it as such is irresponsible. And I agree with another poster here, these parents should be made to give their kids up to foster care because obviously they can't raise them.
The Web wasn't made for heavy sites built on proprietary toolkits. It was made for content, delivered in the form of HTML pages. I think Flash is a blight on the whole Web and should not be used ANYWHERE.
Full disclosure, this is my project (and I'll admit, it's not that great, but it works pretty well on Linux with 95% of the features of the old DOS version...)
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I think the word you're looking for is Schadenfreude
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FVWM ftw
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(Yes, I'm using Ubuntu)
Not that you couldn't just drop in Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" in place of "Under Pressure" and it wouldn't still work. (Done it)
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I went for Computer Information Services because my college required calculus courses of people taking Computer Science.
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I flunked Basic Calculus in high school
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Dapple development has usually been done by 2 people also. There was just a point when I knew what I wanted but couldn't pull it off, but there were devs willing to help me get it working.
(3 devs total worked directly on the code, no more than 2 at once.)
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Yeah, I've done some dogfood tests with my FOX project and found that the user interface, while similar enough to GNU for your average Linux user, is different enough to feel slightly alien to your average Linux user. Of course this is because it's based on BSD, and it does feel a lot like BSD.
The whole point of FOX was initially to prove Linux didn't need GNU.
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Both phrases, "Free Software" and "Open Source Software" can be misleading.
Free Software, because the first thing that comes to mind is price.
Open Source Software, because to many people it simply means source available, and nothing about what you can do with it.
It isn't just for trying to come up with a catchy acronym that I'm calling my project (a mix of BSD, Heirloom Toolchest, and my own code under BSD and ZLIB-like licenses that can be used as a lightweight substitute for GNU) "FOX" - it stands for Free Open *X, because I believe that you can't just describe it as one or the other without misleading people.
Free Open *X is "Free and Open Software", the term I prefer. It's free to the world to do practically whatever they want with it, and open for the world to see how it ticks, and just about the only requirement is to give credit where credit's due - the way I've always believed in.
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I did say through a reseller, right? RegistryRocket.com was part of the url while registering; ppnhosting.info was the actual site I registered from.
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Well, there's a small annoyance, that if you get a domain, they default-direct it to one of those generic squat pages until the first change perks down, and it has an expire time of about a week. So rotate your dns servers in that case.
Any rate, I bought from them through a reseller, who a friend of mine was using (I covered his domain renewal, then bought a domain of my own), other than this, seems to be not bad, not much trickier than the dyndns way and a lot cheaper than buying a domain through them or through my ISP, the $9.96 I paid was prolly comparable to GoDaddy...or not much more...
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The last time I had to do that was back when I was using RH8.
I've had Ubuntu on this computer for a year and never touched the kernel, haven't had to, haven't seen any reason to. And contrary to my practice on RH8 and NetBSD, I hardly ever touched source for anything but particularly obscure applications, unless I had a particular reason to (e.g., wanted to customize Firefox to report itself as Icefox).
Not every Linux user uses Gentoo, you know.
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I've been starting to cap a few particularly popular shows, and I think at least one of them (Ugly Betty) streams online for free but it still gets thousands of hits a week when I torrent it.
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I watch some older stuff and some stuff you can't get outside of premium digital cable, so as long as I have $75 to burn that money's going to keep me from boredom one way or another.
Let's see.
Dateline NBC - NBC don't come in too well on my aerial.
20/20 - well, I don't need cable for this...
America's Most Wanted - nor this but it helps...
MythBusters (standard tier)
Pokemon: Battle Frontier (standard tier)
Kimba: The White Lion (digital tier)
Power Rangers: Time Force (reruns) and later Operation Overdrive (digital variety tier)
Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck (reruns) (digital variety tier)
and you know, I do buy shows on DVD too (TMNT '87, Winx Club)...
though perhaps the content industry don't make back as much from me as I rip them off by torrenting all sorts of stuff that I cap off the TV... am I bothered though? Look, face, bothered?
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Are the ads being made for HD? Because my box (from TWC) scales HD down to SD and I'd rather cap at the highest resolution available to me, keeping in mind, that's 704x470 for the regular CBS and 704x360 for the widescreen version.
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Vending machines don't accept pennies anyway, at least none I've ever seen.
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Australia doesn't have it too bad, at least compared to NZ, so that argument doesn't hold all that well.
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That's because no self-respecting business wants to pay to improve their system when they can bilk their consumers for what they already offer when there's no competition. Why else does Internet in, say, New Zealand suck so horribly?
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In the real word, "the standard *nix" would be AIX, HP-UX or Solaris.
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Why, NetBSD of course - they don't pay lipservice to standards but are actively aiming at being a free AND fully POSIX-compliant OS and seem to be headed more in that direction than Linux or GNU (I am recognizing here Linux distros' dependency on GNU).
I use Linux because it Just Works, but I prefer NetBSD because it's More Standard and Less Bloated compared to GNU.
(then again one could prolly get NetBSD's userland running on Linux/glibc?)
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mIRC script, eh? I could use a SysReset or UPP here on X-chat... rather than having to run wine for mirc or use the braindead irssi fserv...
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That's because parents should BE THERE and WATCH their kids. A computer is not an electronic babysitter and should never be used as such. To use it as such is irresponsible. And I agree with another poster here, these parents should be made to give their kids up to foster care because obviously they can't raise them.
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If you're being sued for $20 or more, you are guaranteed the right to a jury.
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The Web wasn't made for heavy sites built on proprietary toolkits. It was made for content, delivered in the form of HTML pages. I think Flash is a blight on the whole Web and should not be used ANYWHERE.
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http://sf.net/projects/dapple/
Full disclosure, this is my project (and I'll admit, it's not that great, but it works pretty well on Linux with 95% of the features of the old DOS version...)
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At 15 I was attracted to women in their 30s and 40s, it's not impossible...
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Signed it already. #1112
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