Heh. Some time ago I ran Betrayal at Krondor, which was the second PC game I ever got. After minimal AUTOEXEC/CONFIG changes, it actually started up right from Windows98, and my USB keyboard and mouse worked right away.
The only problem was the soundcard. SoundBlaster setting just didn't work with SBLive!... then I tried the General MIDI support. And my God, that sounded awesome. Samples didn't work, but the music was far more epic than what I got on the ol' SBPro =)
Just a little bit worried what will happen to all this more-or-less-workingness once I finally get a NT-series Windows. The games run in Bochs but somewhat slowly and sometimes they're a bit unstable...
BitTorrent/p2p is an *excellent* way (and legitimate way) to get game demos out.
Oh yeah, I just saw this when the Urban Terror Beta 3.0 was out. The closest FTP mirror was slooooowwww. Noted Slashdot had a bittorrent link. Scchhhlurp! Over 300 megs and it was here in no time at all!
I'm still waiting to buy additional half a gig of RAM to actually play that game, though... =)
Categories? I open playlist, and there's my categories, in neatly arranged.m3us.
Album cover display? I don't know why people have such an obsession with the looks of the music. I tend to listen to the music with my ears, not my eyes. Cover displays are useless. Visualizations are useless.
I used to have a huge playlist, but these days, I just split the thing in several files.
There are some other things I don't like about XMMS: GTK+ 1.x, the plugin API isn't as cool as it could be (the plugins can't get song metadata from player), and there's no built-in crossfade (there's a plugin that does this nicely, but it makes the wave display or the FFT display go way out of sync - not that I much care about any kind of visualizations anyway).
Yeah. I've always found that the Window Maker way - getting the program menu by right-clicking desktop wherever you like - is the best. In fact, I installed LiteStep on Win98 just for that. (I don't care if alternative shells in Windows are only 99.9% convenient - I want my start menu placed where God intended...)
Another thing which I found pretty neat was the Indigo Magic Desktop's "Icon Catalog" application - small groups of icons arranged in a small window, with a tab row on the bottom for categories. Hopefully 5dwm will get along to reimplement it eventually =)
Hmm, never heard of 1.3M floppies. Most floppies I've seen these days are 1.40625 mebibytes (1440 kibibytes), which rounds to 1.4M...
Reading the amount of available storage space is a black art. I personally just use the terms "too little space", "plenty of space" and "ridiculous amount of space". =)
Finnish keyboard is mostly fairly ordinary, but it has one odd key - the one left from 1, on the top left corner of the main letter section.
It produces (U+00A7, Section sign), or with shift, 1/2 (U+00BD, Vulgar fraction one half).
I don't know why it's that. It probably comes from the dark Middle Ages, when only lawyers could afford typewriters. (Nobody else uses such dark and evil symbols.)
I'm half hoping that someone comes up with keycaps that relabel this mysterious section sign key with word "CONSOLE", that's what it's used for in majority of games anyway... =)
Yeah, but I guess the French keyboards have specific keys for these letters as well?
At least Finnish keyboard has A and O with umlaut and A with ring as well for some weird reason. (The capital versions of the characters are U+00C4, U+00D6 and U+00C5, respectively. And yes, I don't like the way that it's 2003 already and Slashdot has problems with Weird Foreign Characters...) So, while typing in Finnish or Swedish, there's no need to use the umlaut accent key - which is thus infrequently used on Finnish keyboard. Since I'm guessing the acute/grave accent keys are on French keyboard, I suppose it's also infrequently used there.
The accent keys are handy in limited situations but I'm also sort of glad that programming languages abuse them so marvellously. =)
Your average film is 125,000 to 175,000 frames. Get busy.
Which is exactly this strategy counts on.
I guess it's possible to devise algorithms that will detect possible locations of these spots - "Chomp to scenes, find large light areas from each scene, and look for anomalities like crap that appears out of nothing for 2 frames and disappears just as easily". Difficult algorithms, I'm sure, but surely interesting...
I had been having headaches to get to Freenet lately. So it was just a technological/ideological problem? For a moment, I thought it was a Coordinated Attack from MPAA, RIAA and Valve Software to stop the distribution of movies, mp3's and HL2 source code.
I was already genuinely worried that I was about to lose my access to my precious very slow bits and Java proggies that hog CPU and memory when they start up! But if it's a technology problem or an ideological one, it can be fixed...
Typically, I'm too tired to do anything until this "proven" software hits APT...
I'm very fond of Staedtler's Mars Lumograph pencils. Never tried the H pencils, but I commonly use the HB and 2B pencils, and I've found them to be just about perfect for me for writing, sketching and drawing.
Every few months I walk in the paper shop and walk out with a bunch of Them Good Old Blue Ones I Can Count On[tm].
The erasers are pretty good too, but I'm not particularly picky about the brands, usually one lasts until end of the days or until they mysteriously disappear...
Faber-Castell pencils, too, but more rarely. Germany has the best pencils and Sweden has best ball-points =)
Maybe biased based on geographical location... anyway, Ballograf ball-points and Staedtler pencils - 2B for drawing, HB for writing and sketching.
Yeah, I have a keyboard and a graphics tablet, but this stuff is still as convenient as ever. Never runs out of batteries.
There is even some kind of superstition. For example, I always carry the blue Staedtler pencils with me. They're always pretty sharp. There's a bunch of green Mitsubishi pencils on my desk. They're never sharp. (Hope their cars are better.) Maybe this has something to do with the general availability of pencil sharpeners though...
Mason is indeed best run with mod_perl and it's definitely the least painful way of using it, not to even mention most aesthetically pleasing.
Mason can be used through a CGI script, too - basically, you make a CGI script to be an apache Action, and then just set-handler your files to it. Setup might be tricky, but it works.
If you get reasonably bored with ordinary every-day templating modules, you can even run Mason stand-alone (you can simply make an instance of HTML::Mason::Interp and there you go...).
I had a nice morse code response here, but the slashdot lameness filter won't let me post it.
You're using wrong character encoding so the lameness filter deduces that it will show up as a bunch of garbage to most people. You could try recoding it to ASCII first...
Yeah, the address databases could be cleaned. Sure. Spammers are slimeballs, but the address harvesters are slimeballs too!
The problem is, the people who harvest these addresses don't bother because they are concerned of quantity, not quality. The less brain they need to use to get stuff to sale, the better. They whip out Visual Basic and make a harvester bot that collects zillions of addresses, and you have 5 squillion addresses in no time. Never mind that many might not work - the spammers who buy the addresses spam to those addresses, bill by millions of spamules sent, and they probably don't give any guarantees on delivery to the clients! Or, if selling addresses isn't the thing, sell the shoddily constructed address harvester for an outrageous price.
Want GPLed Empire? Right here! And there are probably a lot of more or less direct descendants of the idea - someone already mentioned Freeciv. And, of course, if you prefer real time, there's Stratagus (nee Freecraft).
I don't recall my cd player(s) having a Clipper chip folks! Hardly even much of a CPU. More like a PIC controller, I think.
Yeah, these new PCs suck. Back in the day, my computer had a 1MHz 6510 and my floppy drive had a 1MHz 6502. Those were the days! But we went up hill both ways in snow and we liked it!
Any way, I now have erraneously purchased two copy-protected CDs, neither could withstand the old mighty outta-headphone-jack-and-in-the-line-in routine. Though the other CD made my drive skip around a bit, so I went to lmule and downloaded the thing. =)
(And the only reason I bought these was that I thought both consisted 95% of stuff that was worth the money...)
Little early for the past tense 'consumed' don't you think?
By the time this ungodly slashdotting ends and I will finally be able to see NASA's pages on the topic, Galileo will already be consumed by Jupiter... so in a way, it's probably correct.
Helpfully SpamAssassin considered almost all of this garbage spam, and after a week or so I was finally so annoyed that I wrote the procmail rule to/dev/null sobig. Yet, I'm always extremely wary of making anything go to/dev/null from procmail.
The university staff just added global procmail rules to automatically filter all viral-looking mail to separate folder. I'm hoping this will work on all viruses then...
The worm's file is a Windows PE executable 106496 bytes long. It is not compressed by any file compressor. (From F-Secure)
...Excusemeee? HellLOOO? Virus author guys? Remember the golden glory days of Jerusalem and Eddie/Dark Avenger? Back when the motto was "The smaller the better"? Back when anti-virus makers unceremoniously categorized everything above 8 kilobytes "huge and technically uninteresting"?
Me, here just went over severe headaches of Sobig with its interesting effects on my 50M quota on the mail server... It wasn't nice to delete 20 megabytes of virus spam twice a day. Sheesh.
*sigh* There it goes again. Let's see how many terabytes of this crap I find from my box this time and how many zillions of bogus bounces and "thoughtful" anti-virus failure notes this will generate.
Well, I just checked and it appeared to say that acompletelybogusdomain.com was nonexistent. Either a) Netcraft has changed their system, or b) Sitefinder is completely slashdotted, which it seems to be.
It's like saying every time the police catch a violent criminal, they should kick the ass of some random citizen. Hey, it may be annoying, but it's still less violence than you'd have if the criminal got to their target and acted violently.
Except that in case of Sobig, sender name is spoofed so e-mail is always sent to a wrong address.
So, the annoying police analogy would be that the police would be kicking random bystanders constantly - somewhat annoying, but at least they catch real criminals too if they're not busy kicking the bystanders.
One thing I'd like to know about Nautilus...
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Nautilus is great, but will 2.4 stuff change one a little bit annoying thing about it...?
Specifically, the fact that there doesn't seem to be any way to mount/unmount/eject devices when I'm not using Nautilus to draw destop. I needed to either make Nautilus scripts, or (like I do now) use WMMount or some other thing.
GMC had this annoyance, Nautilus seemed to inherit it (though, I can't remember, it seemed that this could be knifed together in Nautilus 1 somehow, can't remember why...)
So, can I get the Disks context submenu to the application menu?
By the way, I'm happy there's WebDAV support, that really rules...
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Heh. Some time ago I ran Betrayal at Krondor, which was the second PC game I ever got. After minimal AUTOEXEC/CONFIG changes, it actually started up right from Windows98, and my USB keyboard and mouse worked right away.
The only problem was the soundcard. SoundBlaster setting just didn't work with SBLive!... then I tried the General MIDI support. And my God, that sounded awesome. Samples didn't work, but the music was far more epic than what I got on the ol' SBPro =)
Just a little bit worried what will happen to all this more-or-less-workingness once I finally get a NT-series Windows. The games run in Bochs but somewhat slowly and sometimes they're a bit unstable...
Oh yeah, I just saw this when the Urban Terror Beta 3.0 was out. The closest FTP mirror was slooooowwww. Noted Slashdot had a bittorrent link. Scchhhlurp! Over 300 megs and it was here in no time at all!
I'm still waiting to buy additional half a gig of RAM to actually play that game, though... =)
Categories? I open playlist, and there's my categories, in neatly arranged .m3us.
Album cover display? I don't know why people have such an obsession with the looks of the music. I tend to listen to the music with my ears, not my eyes. Cover displays are useless. Visualizations are useless.
Skins? Skins suck. I far more prefer global, uniform UI look - yes, this is why Rhythmbox rules and why I'll be using it once gstreamer gets 1.0 out or something like that. I mean, come on. people actually use these? They're stronger than I am and have a freaking huge screen, I tell ya. I use the NeXTAMP skin on XMMS, goes well with the WindowMaker!
I used to have a huge playlist, but these days, I just split the thing in several files.
There are some other things I don't like about XMMS: GTK+ 1.x, the plugin API isn't as cool as it could be (the plugins can't get song metadata from player), and there's no built-in crossfade (there's a plugin that does this nicely, but it makes the wave display or the FFT display go way out of sync - not that I much care about any kind of visualizations anyway).
I have no idea what ISO (or Unicode consortium, don't know who to blame) was smoking when they came up with that character name.
I suppose the name implies that using "1/2" is "vulgar" and "0.5" is "civilized".
Yeah. I've always found that the Window Maker way - getting the program menu by right-clicking desktop wherever you like - is the best. In fact, I installed LiteStep on Win98 just for that. (I don't care if alternative shells in Windows are only 99.9% convenient - I want my start menu placed where God intended...)
Another thing which I found pretty neat was the Indigo Magic Desktop's "Icon Catalog" application - small groups of icons arranged in a small window, with a tab row on the bottom for categories. Hopefully 5dwm will get along to reimplement it eventually =)
Hmm, never heard of 1.3M floppies. Most floppies I've seen these days are 1.40625 mebibytes (1440 kibibytes), which rounds to 1.4M...
Reading the amount of available storage space is a black art. I personally just use the terms "too little space", "plenty of space" and "ridiculous amount of space". =)
Finnish keyboard is mostly fairly ordinary, but it has one odd key - the one left from 1, on the top left corner of the main letter section.
It produces (U+00A7, Section sign), or with shift, 1/2 (U+00BD, Vulgar fraction one half).
I don't know why it's that. It probably comes from the dark Middle Ages, when only lawyers could afford typewriters. (Nobody else uses such dark and evil symbols.)
I'm half hoping that someone comes up with keycaps that relabel this mysterious section sign key with word "CONSOLE", that's what it's used for in majority of games anyway... =)
Yeah, but I guess the French keyboards have specific keys for these letters as well?
At least Finnish keyboard has A and O with umlaut and A with ring as well for some weird reason. (The capital versions of the characters are U+00C4, U+00D6 and U+00C5, respectively. And yes, I don't like the way that it's 2003 already and Slashdot has problems with Weird Foreign Characters...) So, while typing in Finnish or Swedish, there's no need to use the umlaut accent key - which is thus infrequently used on Finnish keyboard. Since I'm guessing the acute/grave accent keys are on French keyboard, I suppose it's also infrequently used there.
The accent keys are handy in limited situations but I'm also sort of glad that programming languages abuse them so marvellously. =)
Which is exactly this strategy counts on.
I guess it's possible to devise algorithms that will detect possible locations of these spots - "Chomp to scenes, find large light areas from each scene, and look for anomalities like crap that appears out of nothing for 2 frames and disappears just as easily". Difficult algorithms, I'm sure, but surely interesting...
I had been having headaches to get to Freenet lately. So it was just a technological/ideological problem? For a moment, I thought it was a Coordinated Attack from MPAA, RIAA and Valve Software to stop the distribution of movies, mp3's and HL2 source code.
I was already genuinely worried that I was about to lose my access to my precious very slow bits and Java proggies that hog CPU and memory when they start up! But if it's a technology problem or an ideological one, it can be fixed...
Typically, I'm too tired to do anything until this "proven" software hits APT...
I'm very fond of Staedtler's Mars Lumograph pencils. Never tried the H pencils, but I commonly use the HB and 2B pencils, and I've found them to be just about perfect for me for writing, sketching and drawing.
Every few months I walk in the paper shop and walk out with a bunch of Them Good Old Blue Ones I Can Count On[tm].
The erasers are pretty good too, but I'm not particularly picky about the brands, usually one lasts until end of the days or until they mysteriously disappear...
Faber-Castell pencils, too, but more rarely. Germany has the best pencils and Sweden has best ball-points =)
Maybe biased based on geographical location... anyway, Ballograf ball-points and Staedtler pencils - 2B for drawing, HB for writing and sketching.
Yeah, I have a keyboard and a graphics tablet, but this stuff is still as convenient as ever. Never runs out of batteries.
There is even some kind of superstition. For example, I always carry the blue Staedtler pencils with me. They're always pretty sharp. There's a bunch of green Mitsubishi pencils on my desk. They're never sharp. (Hope their cars are better.) Maybe this has something to do with the general availability of pencil sharpeners though...
Mason is indeed best run with mod_perl and it's definitely the least painful way of using it, not to even mention most aesthetically pleasing.
Mason can be used through a CGI script, too - basically, you make a CGI script to be an apache Action, and then just set-handler your files to it. Setup might be tricky, but it works.
If you get reasonably bored with ordinary every-day templating modules, you can even run Mason stand-alone (you can simply make an instance of HTML::Mason::Interp and there you go...).
I can't wait to show this one to my little sister.
Like I always thought - Matrix kicks Crow's butt =)
You're using wrong character encoding so the lameness filter deduces that it will show up as a bunch of garbage to most people. You could try recoding it to ASCII first...
Yeah, the address databases could be cleaned. Sure. Spammers are slimeballs, but the address harvesters are slimeballs too!
The problem is, the people who harvest these addresses don't bother because they are concerned of quantity, not quality. The less brain they need to use to get stuff to sale, the better. They whip out Visual Basic and make a harvester bot that collects zillions of addresses, and you have 5 squillion addresses in no time. Never mind that many might not work - the spammers who buy the addresses spam to those addresses, bill by millions of spamules sent, and they probably don't give any guarantees on delivery to the clients! Or, if selling addresses isn't the thing, sell the shoddily constructed address harvester for an outrageous price.
Want GPLed Empire? Right here! And there are probably a lot of more or less direct descendants of the idea - someone already mentioned Freeciv. And, of course, if you prefer real time, there's Stratagus (nee Freecraft).
Yeah, these new PCs suck. Back in the day, my computer had a 1MHz 6510 and my floppy drive had a 1MHz 6502. Those were the days! But we went up hill both ways in snow and we liked it!
Any way, I now have erraneously purchased two copy-protected CDs, neither could withstand the old mighty outta-headphone-jack-and-in-the-line-in routine. Though the other CD made my drive skip around a bit, so I went to lmule and downloaded the thing. =)
(And the only reason I bought these was that I thought both consisted 95% of stuff that was worth the money...)
By the time this ungodly slashdotting ends and I will finally be able to see NASA's pages on the topic, Galileo will already be consumed by Jupiter... so in a way, it's probably correct.
Helpfully SpamAssassin considered almost all of this garbage spam, and after a week or so I was finally so annoyed that I wrote the procmail rule to /dev/null sobig. Yet, I'm always extremely wary of making anything go to /dev/null from procmail.
The university staff just added global procmail rules to automatically filter all viral-looking mail to separate folder. I'm hoping this will work on all viruses then...
...Excusemeee? HellLOOO? Virus author guys? Remember the golden glory days of Jerusalem and Eddie/Dark Avenger? Back when the motto was "The smaller the better"? Back when anti-virus makers unceremoniously categorized everything above 8 kilobytes "huge and technically uninteresting"?
Me, here just went over severe headaches of Sobig with its interesting effects on my 50M quota on the mail server... It wasn't nice to delete 20 megabytes of virus spam twice a day. Sheesh.
*sigh* There it goes again. Let's see how many terabytes of this crap I find from my box this time and how many zillions of bogus bounces and "thoughtful" anti-virus failure notes this will generate.
Well, I just checked and it appeared to say that acompletelybogusdomain.com was nonexistent. Either a) Netcraft has changed their system, or b) Sitefinder is completely slashdotted, which it seems to be.
Even crazier: I actually used the program once, a few years ago... =) It's here. (And there's also a reasonable clone of it for non-IRIX users.)
Except that in case of Sobig, sender name is spoofed so e-mail is always sent to a wrong address.
So, the annoying police analogy would be that the police would be kicking random bystanders constantly - somewhat annoying, but at least they catch real criminals too if they're not busy kicking the bystanders.
Specifically, the fact that there doesn't seem to be any way to mount/unmount/eject devices when I'm not using Nautilus to draw destop. I needed to either make Nautilus scripts, or (like I do now) use WMMount or some other thing.
GMC had this annoyance, Nautilus seemed to inherit it (though, I can't remember, it seemed that this could be knifed together in Nautilus 1 somehow, can't remember why...)
So, can I get the Disks context submenu to the application menu?
By the way, I'm happy there's WebDAV support, that really rules...