Alas I was late to the MUD scene. I stumbled across a nice UK-based MUD (see sig). Plenty of UK and geek-centric references. The server is all but abandoned now. No-one to group with to level up.
In typical/. fashion, headline is designed to get people impassioned about a poor console modder. A fairer headline would be "ESA Initiates Police Raid Against Games Counterfeiter." Yes, it says that in the summary but how many around here even RTFS nevermind RTFA?
Speaking of alarming, the previous owners had an alarm installed, and it's got a bug or two. It's one of those nice ones that cuts power to the ignition until the alarm is disarmed. Fine, but unfortunately it also cuts power to the ignition if the alarm is never armed in the first place, every time the car is turned off! If I just get out to pump some gas, I still have to "disarm" the alarm to start the car.
This sounds like more of a security design feature. The ignition immobiliser automatically cutting in after a pre-determined time once the engine has been switched off. My last car had that feature. The remote plipper would unlock the doors and disarm both the alarm and the immobiliser. If I didn't get in and turn the ignition within 30 seconds the immobiliser would activate again requiring a second disarm press. My current car is a bit smarter, the immobiliser still activates after 30 seconds but if I turn the ignition it can sense that the plipper is in range and the immobiliser disarms.
By looking at the release dates of CentOS 4.x and comparing them to the release dates of RHEL 4.x, it looks like we can expect to see CentOS 5 released on 28th March 2007.
The two weeks lead time would appear to be borne out by this CentOS FAQ entry.
The original Carmageddon was genius. A no rules driving game, with no penalties for not sticking to the course. If you wanted to complete a race by chasing checkpoints, you could. Alternatively, you could win by destroying all your opponents or killing all the pedestrians, having fun by destroying the scenery. Race after race of carnage. MaxCam and DiannaCam were funny as well.
Carmageddon II introduced missions after every 3 races, which sort of took the edge of the free-for-all play. However, there were only 10 missions and 30 races so it was still good. Plus the pedestrians were polygon-based rather than sprites, so a tap with your car would cause them to lose a limb but not kill them:)
Carmageddon TDR 3000 was where is all went wrong. Every other race was a mission and on the proper races you didn't get as generous a time bonus for killing pedestrians, forcing you to actually race and hit the checkpoints to increase the time available.
If someone would produce an update of the original with improved graphics, Sims 2-like pedestrians and reinstate MaxCam, I'd be the first in line to buy it.
A few years ago, I bought a packet of peanuts. As I had to watch my fat and salt levels I was looking over the packaging for the nutritional information, when I found Warning: Contains peanuts. Um, like the fact that it says peanuts on the front of the packet isn't enough of a clue for someone with a peanut allergy?
I love this quote by Melinda Messenger: "Why should I allow my body or my children to be filled with man-made chemicals, when I don't know what the health effects of these substances will be."
That would be the same Melinda Messenger that has breast implants.
Typically a Fedora Core release comes out every six or seven months. Red Hat's flagship offering, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), by contrast, comes out every 18 to 24 months. Under the new lifecycle plan a Fedora Core release would have 13 months of support.
"Anything beyond this really seems to be corner cases that would really be better served by something like CentOS for free, RHEL for rock solid support, or Oracle for crackmonkies," Keating wrote. "What does this mean for the "Legacy" project? We feel that the resources currently and in the past that have contributed to the Legacy project could be better used within the Fedora project space."
Typically a Fedora Core release comes out every six or seven months. Red Hat's flagship offering, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), by contrast, comes out every 18 to 24 months. Under the new lifecycle plan a Fedora Core release would have 13 months of support.
"Anything beyond this really seems to be corner cases that would really be better served by something like CentOS for free, RHEL for rock solid support, or Oracle for crackmonkies," Keating wrote. "What does this mean for the "Legacy" project? We feel that the resources currently and in the past that have contributed to the Legacy project could be better used within the Fedora project space."
As SCO's share price seems to be plummeting a bit today, I decided to download a stock ticker for my desktop to watch the price fall in all its glory. The one I went for, CoolTick, is limited to two symbols in the trial version. Fine by me, I only want to watch SCOX. I now have scrolling across the top of my screen "SCOX v 1.25 -0.75 N/A Purchase License".
As someone always comments on Fedora's (and by proxy, Red Hat's) multimedia support, here it is from the horse's mouth:
15.3. MP3, DVD, and Other Excluded Multimedia Formats Fedora Core and Fedora Extras software repositories cannot include support for MP3 or DVD video playback or recording. The MP3 formats are patented, and the patent holders have not provided the necessary patent licenses. DVD video formats are patented and equipped with an encryption scheme. The patent holders have not provided the necessary patent licenses, and the code needed to decrypt CSS-encrypted discs may violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a copyright law of the United States. Fedora also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright or license restrictions, including Adobe's Flash Player and and Real Media's Real Player. For more on this subject, please refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems.
While other MP3 options may be available for Fedora, Fluendo now offers a free MP3 plugin for GStreamer that has the necessary patent license for end users. This plugin enables MP3 support in applications that use the GStreamer framework as a backend. Fedora does not include this plugin since we prefer to support and encourage the use of patent unrestricted open formats instead. For more information about the MP3 plugin, visit Fluendo's website at http://www.fluendo.com/.
Just had a quick run through their therms[sic] and at the bottom there's a URL for http://www.vcodec.com/terms.html. However, that URL just leads to a page of sponsored links.
They also have a Support form on their site. Wonder if they actually are reading the support enquiries or just harvesting emails?
Which brings to mind a Dilbert strip about how the outsourced work had been so undercut while being bounced to foreign markets that eventually it went to the lowest bidder -- the original company.
Spookily enough, if you have the Dilbert Strip-a-day desk calendar (well, the UK one), this Sunday's strip is that exact same one.
Nope, previous version was 1.5.0.3. I am using the en-GB build of Firefox, I wonder if that has any effect? I'll see what happens this evening with my home PCs when I launch Firefox.
I thought one of the benefits of Firefox 1.5 was incremental updates i.e. patches that that are in the 100s of KBs range. However, watching the progress meter for this latest update it will have eventually downloaded 6.1MB, which is basically the full version of Firefox.
MP3 encoding/decoding support is not included in any Fedora application because MP3 is heavily patented in several regions including the United States. The patent holder is unwilling to give an unrestricted patent grant, as required by the GPL. Other platforms might have paid the royalty and/or included proprietary software. Other Linux distributions not based in a region affected by the patent might ship MP3 decoders/encoders or they might have included proprietary software. However, Fedora Core cannot and does not ship MP3 decoders/encoders in order to serve the goal of shipping only free and open source software that is not restricted by software patents.
Fedora Suggests: If possible, use patent unrestricted formats such as Ogg Vorbis (a lossy audio codec that has better quality than MP3), or FLAC (a lossless audio codec).
0.44%? Oh no! The sky's falling in. Good job it wasn't 1% or we'd be back to the days of the Great Depression with music execs throwing themselves out of windows. Sheesh! 0.44% is within statistical variance.
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Finally, I can automate my production of D6s/D20s with all the 1's rolled out of them.
And will this game cost $6m to make?
I'll get me coat...
Alas I was late to the MUD scene. I stumbled across a nice UK-based MUD (see sig). Plenty of UK and geek-centric references. The server is all but abandoned now. No-one to group with to level up.
In typical /. fashion, headline is designed to get people impassioned about a poor console modder. A fairer headline would be "ESA Initiates Police Raid Against Games Counterfeiter." Yes, it says that in the summary but how many around here even RTFS nevermind RTFA?
Speaking of alarming, the previous owners had an alarm installed, and it's got a bug or two. It's one of those nice ones that cuts power to the ignition until the alarm is disarmed. Fine, but unfortunately it also cuts power to the ignition if the alarm is never armed in the first place, every time the car is turned off! If I just get out to pump some gas, I still have to "disarm" the alarm to start the car.
This sounds like more of a security design feature. The ignition immobiliser automatically cutting in after a pre-determined time once the engine has been switched off. My last car had that feature. The remote plipper would unlock the doors and disarm both the alarm and the immobiliser. If I didn't get in and turn the ignition within 30 seconds the immobiliser would activate again requiring a second disarm press. My current car is a bit smarter, the immobiliser still activates after 30 seconds but if I turn the ignition it can sense that the plipper is in range and the immobiliser disarms.
By looking at the release dates of CentOS 4.x and comparing them to the release dates of RHEL 4.x, it looks like we can expect to see CentOS 5 released on 28th March 2007.
The two weeks lead time would appear to be borne out by this CentOS FAQ entry.
As in reference to THX 1138?
Of course, it could just be a coincidence.
The original Carmageddon was genius. A no rules driving game, with no penalties for not sticking to the course. If you wanted to complete a race by chasing checkpoints, you could. Alternatively, you could win by destroying all your opponents or killing all the pedestrians, having fun by destroying the scenery. Race after race of carnage. MaxCam and DiannaCam were funny as well.
:)
Carmageddon II introduced missions after every 3 races, which sort of took the edge of the free-for-all play. However, there were only 10 missions and 30 races so it was still good. Plus the pedestrians were polygon-based rather than sprites, so a tap with your car would cause them to lose a limb but not kill them
Carmageddon TDR 3000 was where is all went wrong. Every other race was a mission and on the proper races you didn't get as generous a time bonus for killing pedestrians, forcing you to actually race and hit the checkpoints to increase the time available.
If someone would produce an update of the original with improved graphics, Sims 2-like pedestrians and reinstate MaxCam, I'd be the first in line to buy it.
A few years ago, I bought a packet of peanuts. As I had to watch my fat and salt levels I was looking over the packaging for the nutritional information, when I found Warning: Contains peanuts. Um, like the fact that it says peanuts on the front of the packet isn't enough of a clue for someone with a peanut allergy?
I love this quote by Melinda Messenger: "Why should I allow my body or my children to be filled with man-made chemicals, when I don't know what the health effects of these substances will be."
That would be the same Melinda Messenger that has breast implants.
From Internet News
Typically a Fedora Core release comes out every six or seven months. Red Hat's flagship offering, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), by contrast, comes out every 18 to 24 months. Under the new lifecycle plan a Fedora Core release would have 13 months of support.
"Anything beyond this really seems to be corner cases that would really be better served by something like CentOS for free, RHEL for rock solid support, or Oracle for crackmonkies," Keating wrote. "What does this mean for the "Legacy" project? We feel that the resources currently and in the past that have contributed to the Legacy project could be better used within the Fedora project space."
From Internet News
Typically a Fedora Core release comes out every six or seven months. Red Hat's flagship offering, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), by contrast, comes out every 18 to 24 months. Under the new lifecycle plan a Fedora Core release would have 13 months of support.
"Anything beyond this really seems to be corner cases that would really be better served by something like CentOS for free, RHEL for rock solid support, or Oracle for crackmonkies," Keating wrote. "What does this mean for the "Legacy" project? We feel that the resources currently and in the past that have contributed to the Legacy project could be better used within the Fedora project space."
As SCO's share price seems to be plummeting a bit today, I decided to download a stock ticker for my desktop to watch the price fall in all its glory. The one I went for, CoolTick, is limited to two symbols in the trial version. Fine by me, I only want to watch SCOX. I now have scrolling across the top of my screen "SCOX v 1.25 -0.75 N/A Purchase License".
Well, it made me chuckle anyway.
As someone always comments on Fedora's (and by proxy, Red Hat's) multimedia support, here it is from the horse's mouth:
15.3. MP3, DVD, and Other Excluded Multimedia Formats
Fedora Core and Fedora Extras software repositories cannot include support for MP3 or DVD video playback or recording. The MP3 formats are patented, and the patent holders have not provided the necessary patent licenses. DVD video formats are patented and equipped with an encryption scheme. The patent holders have not provided the necessary patent licenses, and the code needed to decrypt CSS-encrypted discs may violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a copyright law of the United States. Fedora also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright or license restrictions, including Adobe's Flash Player and and Real Media's Real Player. For more on this subject, please refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems.
While other MP3 options may be available for Fedora, Fluendo now offers a free MP3 plugin for GStreamer that has the necessary patent license for end users. This plugin enables MP3 support in applications that use the GStreamer framework as a backend. Fedora does not include this plugin since we prefer to support and encourage the use of patent unrestricted open formats instead. For more information about the MP3 plugin, visit Fluendo's website at http://www.fluendo.com/.
Just had a quick run through their therms[sic] and at the bottom there's a URL for http://www.vcodec.com/terms.html. However, that URL just leads to a page of sponsored links.
They also have a Support form on their site. Wonder if they actually are reading the support enquiries or just harvesting emails?
... get the Zik Zak Corporation on the phone. I have an advertising idea for them that is, like, 20 minutes into the future!
Which brings to mind a Dilbert strip about how the outsourced work had been so undercut while being bounced to foreign markets that eventually it went to the lowest bidder -- the original company.
Spookily enough, if you have the Dilbert Strip-a-day desk calendar (well, the UK one), this Sunday's strip is that exact same one.
So that would be the Debian Debian Project Leader?
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Nope, previous version was 1.5.0.3. I am using the en-GB build of Firefox, I wonder if that has any effect? I'll see what happens this evening with my home PCs when I launch Firefox.
I thought one of the benefits of Firefox 1.5 was incremental updates i.e. patches that that are in the 100s of KBs range. However, watching the progress meter for this latest update it will have eventually downloaded 6.1MB, which is basically the full version of Firefox.
Short answer is no.
From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
MP3 encoding/decoding support is not included in any Fedora application because MP3 is heavily patented in several regions including the United States. The patent holder is unwilling to give an unrestricted patent grant, as required by the GPL. Other platforms might have paid the royalty and/or included proprietary software. Other Linux distributions not based in a region affected by the patent might ship MP3 decoders/encoders or they might have included proprietary software. However, Fedora Core cannot and does not ship MP3 decoders/encoders in order to serve the goal of shipping only free and open source software that is not restricted by software patents.
Fedora Suggests: If possible, use patent unrestricted formats such as Ogg Vorbis (a lossy audio codec that has better quality than MP3), or FLAC (a lossless audio codec).
BSD-style based distribution
Linux® based distribution
I think we need to drop them an e-mail suggesting that the page needs updating :)
0.44%? Oh no! The sky's falling in. Good job it wasn't 1% or we'd be back to the days of the Great Depression with music execs throwing themselves out of windows. Sheesh! 0.44% is within statistical variance.
Not the same mechanism as in the article, but will this satisfy your needs?
The only dupe around here would be you. They actually link back to that article in the summary at the top of the page. Nevermind RTFA, how about RTFS?