Lots of the Good Stuff (Monk, Coletrane, Ella, Brubeck) has already been mentioned.. But you should check out Django Reinhart, the original guitar god;)
They kind of have to.. SFU would not be much of an interop solution without GCC and Perl;) They are separate from the rest of the install though, "Interix GNU Components" and "Unix Perl"
Novalogic's original 2 Delta Force games were awesome over dialup. We used to play DF2 a lot back when I had 56k because it was the only game that three people could play sharing a 56k connection.
That's right, sharing a single 56k connection. I was amazed that it was playable.
DF2 forced you to use Novalogic's servers.. no idea if they are still running them or not, but I've seen DF2 in bargain bins for $9.99 CDN...
UT has low requirements but you really need a 500MHz computer and a 16Mb videocard to play it
Not really. My ad-hoc gaming LAN includes my wife's ancient Thinkpad (300 Mhz P2, 2 megabyte NeoMagic 256 card) and an old P2 / 266 with a Voodoo 2 daughtercard. UT is playable on both systems.
Granted, you have to dial the graphics down to 320x200 to play on the thinkpad but it's still more than playable at that resolution, she gets 30+ fps at that level.
We generally play Quake (I or II) more because they are more playable on the crappy hardware. We play the Airquake mod for Classic Quake a lot...
In my home town (Windsor, Ontario) you can rent PC games at a couple of retail stores. I dunno if it's different in the USA, but here in Canada it seems to be Kosher.
err.. I don't know what you're smoking but pass some this way;)
I use Linux on my work computer, and OS X on my home computer. The difference between the two, once you get beyond the consistent interface of OS X (no small thing!), is the integration.
Now, I use Xandros on my Thinkpad and I consider it to be the best desktop Linux by far (Corel's file manager + apt-get = w00t), but the fact that the applications come from the open source community at large means that Apple-style integration is nearly impossible.
The Xandros people do a great job but they can't possibly integrate hundreds of third-party open source apps into a coherent whole. In consequence I get one app in which Search is Ctrl-F , and another app in which Search is Ctrl-S. The great thing about OS X is that the application interfaces are so consistent as to make using them an almost mindless activity. And yes, I think that's a good thing! I need to use my mind for my work, not remembering which key combination activates the search function.
I've built worldwide remote site networks that have to have transparent file access back to civilization via a satellite telephone, (the worst latency environment within three planetary diameters)
err, wouldn't a message in a bottle have worse latency?
Maybe you should try interacting with some users and you will discover that the statement is true.
Of course, I think that what the original poster meant to say was "we've got a lot of users who don't care enough about their computers to learn about them". That's not a crime although it certainly is understandable why technical people would get frustrated by that attitude.
I don't know about you but I know that my attitude towards my car is VERY similar to the typical office drone's attitude towards their desktop PC. I know how to fuel it up, there is a little light that comes on when it is time to take it in for service, and I am deeply suspicious that the technical people responsible for maintaining and fixing it are not always truthful with me.
I think the real issue here is that the record labels are trying to stop us from format-shifting.
A lot of slashdotters might be too young to remember the mystical 80s when digital audio was new and we had re-issues of old stuff onto the new format with much fanfare and rejoicing ("The Beatles come to CD! Huzzah, hurray!"). The record companies were able to jerk all of us whose music collections existed on vinyl into replacing them with CDs.
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Fast forward fifteen years and MP3 comes along - except that we can do the format shift ourselves . This is the record companies' worst nightmare - they're not worried about the piracy per se.
People taping songs from the radio and assorted other cheapskate stuff have been around for a long time - only people with no disposable income are willing to go through the hassle. Guess what, they weren't buying records anyway.
My multi gigabyte MP3 collection is similar to what I expect most people's is, all my favourite CDs converted to the new format plus a few (say 10% of the total) songs that I don't own, but have been listening to on the radio for the past thirty years. If I wasn't moved to buy an LP / CD / Cassette of Guess Who just to get "American Woman", guess what, I'm never going to...
I bought one last weekend. It was at a big-box electronics store. Obviously they knew the retail channel was drying up and the demo unit was selling for a couple hundred below list. Always wanted to try OS X so I snapped it up.
I have a Thinkpad for my actual work, but this little iMac is the cat's ass as my home desktop...
Yeah he's talking out of his ass, my Samsung ML1210 certainly didn't "just work" when I plugged it into my iMac. In fact, it didn't work even after I installed the drivers:( but that's another story...
Xandros File Manager seamlessly browses NFS and SMB networks, it's an excellent tool
Pity you have to pay $99.00 for Woody + graphical installer + file manager, nevertheless I would have a hard time going back to a vanilla Debian install.
Indeed. My notebook runs Linux but I often have a need for a Win32 environment. I found VMWare was a bit of a resource-hog on my slightly older laptop. My solution was to stick a spare workstation in the server room, trick it out with Windows 2000 server and all the apps I needed so that I could talk to it with rdesktop.
Introduce some noise into the system. I tend to rely on "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it", which I first saw in Another Fine Myth by Asprin, back fifteen years or so.
It serves as a good shit-detector actually, because the people who laugh are the people who actually listen to what is being said to them.
At our shop we make these little 1u dedicated boxes - mostly they do Postgres database work with a PHP front end. We initially used Sun Netras, until we found price-competitive intel kit. Anwyay.
Interesting this is that we benchmarked our application on the Netras using both Linux and Solaris, and found that Linux would run at double or triple the capacity of Solaris.
That's BS.. At our current state of the art, any sufficiently functional system is going to require training, certifications and support. That includes NT, Mac OS, or whatever else you want to throw into the mix.
You might be able to get a Windows machine up and running without any particular technical background, hell, if you plug a bunch of Windows XP machines into a hub and turn them all on they will automagically configure a half-assed network.. however if you actually want to do anything stable, reliable or secure, you had better get some trained professionals to plan and execute the job.
Actually, assigning server IP addresses through DHCP reservations is quite a nice way to do things, in my experience. You have one central place to manage the IP addresses for all of your machines (on the DHCP server).
We had a client's ~50-inch plasma display at work for a few months, (we were developing a custom advertising banner type application), and we brought in the Dreamcast and gave it a whirl.
To make a long story short, gaming on this particular model (a japanese make, possibly Mitsubishi, but I could be mistaken) was awesome, with one rather glaring exception.
We fired up The House of The Dead 2 and found that the light gun wouldn't work with the plasma unit. Not sure why, maybe somebody who understands the technology of these things better can comment on that...
humm, reminds me of an old Dr. Who ep
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"The two doctors", with Colin Baker and Patrick Troughton had a liquid-based computer in it, I always thought that was a cool idea.. but isn't it massively slow?? Water's speed as determined by gravity is going to be a hell of a lot slower than light...
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The "Finding Nemo" promotion ended last week, my poor kid didn't get Dory or Gill - but Daddy just got a Sega handheld today ;)
Lots of the Good Stuff (Monk, Coletrane, Ella, Brubeck) has already been mentioned.. But you should check out Django Reinhart, the original guitar god ;)
They kind of have to.. SFU would not be much of an interop solution without GCC and Perl ;) They are separate from the rest of the install though, "Interix GNU Components" and "Unix Perl"
err, Enron had a Major League Baseball stadium in Houston named after them. Not exactly low profile, bud...
Looks like you can still play multiplayer DF1 and DF2 on Novaworld...
Novalogic's original 2 Delta Force games were awesome over dialup. We used to play DF2 a lot back when I had 56k because it was the only game that three people could play sharing a 56k connection.
That's right, sharing a single 56k connection. I was amazed that it was playable.
DF2 forced you to use Novalogic's servers .. no idea if they are still running them or not, but I've seen DF2 in bargain bins for $9.99 CDN...
Not really. My ad-hoc gaming LAN includes my wife's ancient Thinkpad (300 Mhz P2, 2 megabyte NeoMagic 256 card) and an old P2 / 266 with a Voodoo 2 daughtercard. UT is playable on both systems.
Granted, you have to dial the graphics down to 320x200 to play on the thinkpad but it's still more than playable at that resolution, she gets 30+ fps at that level.
We generally play Quake (I or II) more because they are more playable on the crappy hardware. We play the Airquake mod for Classic Quake a lot...
In my home town (Windsor, Ontario) you can rent PC games at a couple of retail stores. I dunno if it's different in the USA, but here in Canada it seems to be Kosher.
err.. I don't know what you're smoking but pass some this way ;)
I use Linux on my work computer, and OS X on my home computer. The difference between the two, once you get beyond the consistent interface of OS X (no small thing!), is the integration.
Now, I use Xandros on my Thinkpad and I consider it to be the best desktop Linux by far (Corel's file manager + apt-get = w00t), but the fact that the applications come from the open source community at large means that Apple-style integration is nearly impossible.
The Xandros people do a great job but they can't possibly integrate hundreds of third-party open source apps into a coherent whole. In consequence I get one app in which Search is Ctrl-F , and another app in which Search is Ctrl-S. The great thing about OS X is that the application interfaces are so consistent as to make using them an almost mindless activity. And yes, I think that's a good thing! I need to use my mind for my work, not remembering which key combination activates the search function.
I've built worldwide remote site networks that have to have transparent file access back to civilization via a satellite telephone, (the worst latency environment within three planetary diameters)
err, wouldn't a message in a bottle have worse latency?
Maybe you should try interacting with some users and you will discover that the statement is true.
Of course, I think that what the original poster meant to say was "we've got a lot of users who don't care enough about their computers to learn about them". That's not a crime although it certainly is understandable why technical people would get frustrated by that attitude.
I don't know about you but I know that my attitude towards my car is VERY similar to the typical office drone's attitude towards their desktop PC. I know how to fuel it up, there is a little light that comes on when it is time to take it in for service, and I am deeply suspicious that the technical people responsible for maintaining and fixing it are not always truthful with me.
I think the real issue here is that the record labels are trying to stop us from format-shifting.
A lot of slashdotters might be too young to remember the mystical 80s when digital audio was new and we had re-issues of old stuff onto the new format with much fanfare and rejoicing ("The Beatles come to CD! Huzzah, hurray!"). The record companies were able to jerk all of us whose music collections existed on vinyl into replacing them with CDs.
?Fast forward fifteen years and MP3 comes along - except that we can do the format shift ourselves . This is the record companies' worst nightmare - they're not worried about the piracy per se.
People taping songs from the radio and assorted other cheapskate stuff have been around for a long time - only people with no disposable income are willing to go through the hassle. Guess what, they weren't buying records anyway.
My multi gigabyte MP3 collection is similar to what I expect most people's is, all my favourite CDs converted to the new format plus a few (say 10% of the total) songs that I don't own, but have been listening to on the radio for the past thirty years. If I wasn't moved to buy an LP / CD / Cassette of Guess Who just to get "American Woman", guess what, I'm never going to...
I bought one last weekend. It was at a big-box electronics store. Obviously they knew the retail channel was drying up and the demo unit was selling for a couple hundred below list. Always wanted to try OS X so I snapped it up.
I have a Thinkpad for my actual work, but this little iMac is the cat's ass as my home desktop...
50% of the Linux developers at my firm use Windows as the desktop. The other half (me) use Linux :)
Is that statistic meaningful?
Yeah he's talking out of his ass, my Samsung ML1210 certainly didn't "just work" when I plugged it into my iMac. In fact, it didn't work even after I installed the drivers :( but that's another story...
Xandros File Manager seamlessly browses NFS and SMB networks, it's an excellent tool
Pity you have to pay $99.00 for Woody + graphical installer + file manager, nevertheless I would have a hard time going back to a vanilla Debian install.
Indeed. My notebook runs Linux but I often have a need for a Win32 environment. I found VMWare was a bit of a resource-hog on my slightly older laptop. My solution was to stick a spare workstation in the server room, trick it out with Windows 2000 server and all the apps I needed so that I could talk to it with rdesktop.
Works great.
[---snip---] /usr/src/linux | wc -l
tanzarian:/$ grep -r ' goto '
1543
[----snip---]
that's from 2.4.19
Introduce some noise into the system. I tend to rely on "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it", which I first saw in Another Fine Myth by Asprin, back fifteen years or so.
It serves as a good shit-detector actually, because the people who laugh are the people who actually listen to what is being said to them.
Bet you're running Slowaris on that $35k ultra.
At our shop we make these little 1u dedicated boxes - mostly they do Postgres database work with a PHP front end. We initially used Sun Netras, until we found price-competitive intel kit. Anwyay.
Interesting this is that we benchmarked our application on the Netras using both Linux and Solaris, and found that Linux would run at double or triple the capacity of Solaris.
That's BS.. At our current state of the art, any sufficiently functional system is going to require training, certifications and support. That includes NT, Mac OS, or whatever else you want to throw into the mix.
You might be able to get a Windows machine up and running without any particular technical background, hell, if you plug a bunch of Windows XP machines into a hub and turn them all on they will automagically configure a half-assed network.. however if you actually want to do anything stable, reliable or secure, you had better get some trained professionals to plan and execute the job.
Since most educational institutions have a ready supply of free development labour in their CS departments :)
Actually, assigning server IP addresses through DHCP reservations is quite a nice way to do things, in my experience. You have one central place to manage the IP addresses for all of your machines (on the DHCP server).
We had a client's ~50-inch plasma display at work for a few months, (we were developing a custom advertising banner type application), and we brought in the Dreamcast and gave it a whirl.
To make a long story short, gaming on this particular model (a japanese make, possibly Mitsubishi, but I could be mistaken) was awesome, with one rather glaring exception.
We fired up The House of The Dead 2 and found that the light gun wouldn't work with the plasma unit. Not sure why, maybe somebody who understands the technology of these things better can comment on that...
"The two doctors", with Colin Baker and Patrick Troughton had a liquid-based computer in it, I always thought that was a cool idea.. but isn't it massively slow?? Water's speed as determined by gravity is going to be a hell of a lot slower than light...