But CD quality sucks! If you need to store your DNA, you definitely need to use vinyl, because of the better fidelity and the need to store all inaudible sequences and "junk DNA" too. It sounds warmer. You won't believe the difference until you see it yourself...
(And now probably some biologist will note that digital DNA mastering process has improved a great deal since early 1980s. Hmphf.)
Any thoughts about which is better for pedagogical purposes?
No idea about pedagogicalness, but...
Personally, I started from LISP, and it has proven to be pretty useful. I use XEmacs, so writing stuff in elisp is kewl, and also many programs use Scheme as their scripting language, which of course made LISP skill valuable (Scheme is basically simplified LISP).
I don't know which really is better, OCaml or Haskell; I've personally only tried a little bit of Haskell - and I tried it because it was advertised as a purely functional language, something that made it a little bit more interesting.
But my day-to-day functional stuff is still all in LISP and Scheme =)
The other possibility is that you're trying to do warez with free software, which is completely ridiculous and unnecessary.
Well, I haven't seen this one myself (no way), but I take someone else's word for it: Some warez people did / do distribute Linux. Probably because people really don't believe such great things are distributed freely...
I can imagine earlier versions of this thing: "SlackWare 3.0 ISOz! Cracked by IsIlDur of <<R3tr1bUt0rz FrOm RaInF0r3St!!!!1!>> Another 0-day release from RFR! Call DaRK FoREST SBBS +358-86-31337 24h v.23, mOr0nNet node 2:23/102!" Then they moved to slooooooow dialup FTP sites identified only by IPs, reached via ad-ridden sloooow crappy and badly designed web pages that have Javascript "voting" stuff to get ahead...
Anyone out there providing ssh'd remote X access to an IRIX box so one could have a look?
Um... frankly, the IRIX X clients are pretty nifty, but if you are not also seeing the Unbelieveable Sweetness That Is IRIX X Server, you're missing a lot. =)
[X] Standard software install system - LSB, Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse
Or Debian (optionally with Alien)...
...or the de facto standard, GNU Autotools, known among the newbies as "./configure", a potent option combined with the "it works for me" package manager, GNU Stow, the Unquestioned Rulah of/usr/local. =)
[ ] Easy support for video files and DVD - No answer
In my opinion a consumer will never notice the kernel version number. They'll see the distribution version numbers, but won't bother to check which kernel the system is using
Or even the "expert". I was upgrading one machine from Debian 2.2 to 3.0, and wondered why the heck modutils didn't want to be upgraded. Kernel? 2.0.36... looks like it was something I regrettably forgot to upgrade the last time =)
I found it to be a great way to get IE "running" on linux.
Heh. Know what I did?
I have Win98SE on one partition, and Linux on other. Once I had to change preferences on a Hotmail account while I was in Linux, and Hotmail worked perfectly in Mozilla except for the preferences. So, due to some odd inspiration, I typed wine 'c:\Ohjelmatiedostot\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe'. The program started up pretty quickly, complained that it couldn't find privacy settings and asked me to check them if I had time, and then just ran with no problems, apart of a few toolbar buttons that were black. Considering the amount of "it's integrated in the OS" stuff that MS spewed out about Win98, I found this whole experience quite jaw-dropping. =)
Actually the only thing I want in Linux is the GNOME and KDE *libraries* and WindowMaker as a desktop. WindowMaker because I like it, the libraries because so many programns need them. But is there a distrib that gives you that? nooo....
Debian? I use WindowMaker + GNOME apps/libs all the time... and if you really need them, you can compile them yourself on any dist =)
And the hardware is sweet, even if a G3 only performs about like a P-II.
What the hell? Wasn't Apple apologising for "toasting" Pentium II because G3 is twice as fast? =) =)
If they're smart,.avi. Make it a codec that plugs in alongside XviD, Huffyuv, etc., and you'll have a sizable amount of capture/editing/playback software that'll be able to use it right off the bat.
Well, the Ogg DirectShow filters already make it easy: Just install the DS filters, and all players support Ogg stream format (.ogg/.ogm) and Vorbis audio near-automagically!
You can create an.ogm from any.avi video file and Vorbis audio file with OggMux (can be found from the usual place).
Besides, the Ogg format is better than RIFF (aka.avi) - for example, using subtitles with.avi DivXes is often pretty challenging (separate file, in zillions of different formats); Ogg files can have subtitles multiplexed in them.
I personally use OggMux from VP3.1 and Vorbis source; works just fine in Windows with any player, but xine segfaults, even when it supposedly reads Ogg, plays Vorbis and any VFW data. =( Must try again later...
Vorbis is from Terry Pratchett's Small Gods; Ogg is a Netrek game slang term (Not Nanny Ogg from Pratchett's works), Xiphophorus is a genus of aquarium fish, and Tarkin is from Star Wars. That's about that. Check xiph.org, they had a detailed list somewhere =)
This is a really important point, and this is the behavior of the oft-maligned OS X Dock. You see application icons in the Dock. You click them to use the application. If the application isn't running, it starts. [...] I would love to have this on Linux.
Now, where did OS X dock got this feature from? NeXT, of course! And what is the best way to relive the NEXTSTEP experience on Linux?
What an opportunity for entrapment -- just email the victim some kiddie porn (or whatever) that's rigged so DRM won't let him delete it, then call the cops.
Or a more every-day nuisance scenario: Spammers getting used to this undeletability. Their throw-away accounts may get nuked, but their spam will live forever in the user's inbox. Forever. I guess they need to think of this undeletability thing a few more times. And the feasibility of the whole infrastructure while they're at it...
Yeah, this sounds extremely far-fetched. But then again, so does Palladium.
Forget RDBMSs, you can fake them using plain ASCII text files.
Yeah, with Perl's DBD::CSV or whatever that was called... =)
Well, since I couldn't afford the database support on my web host (and didn't want to pay for pathetic excuses of RDBMSes like MySQL anyway, and that was the only thing they offered), I decided to code one little CGI application by "simulating" the database with a few GDBM files. It's surprising how <c64-user>back in the day, we did it all with flat SEQ files, and we were lucky to get even SEQ files! Not all of us kids even had disk drives, you know!</c64-user> but now... having got used to making complex - or even simple - databases in postgresql, it was surprisingly hard and convoluted. But it worked. No one has yet said the CGI was broken. Strange.
Guess how many of us download and install software, open a network sniffer, and watch the traffic that goes by...
Nah, network sniffers are lame, because they're detectable in one way or other, especially if it's on the same machine. The spyware just notes "Holy heck, ppp0 is in promiscuous mode, I guess someone is logging this so I won't exchange the secret documents for now". =)
Besides, how many of you log, store and analyze every packet that passes through - especially in case of decentralised P2P apps that connect wherever whenever god knows how many times? Besides, not all of these protocols are even documented...
The real question should be, of course, do we geeks decompile every P2P app and find out exactly what they do? "Yeah, this dll has only no-op functions that return success" vs. "Eek, this supposedly clean dll has live code afterall, looks like it's connecting somewhere!"
I think it'd better to download a blowjob MPEG, cut 2 seconds of blowjob from it, and paste that small clip over and over for 20 minutes, save and encode that as MPEG. Preferrably also mess with filters for some of the clips, add a fake title sequence and copyright warnings so that they don't cancel the download immediately...
...and the result would probably be far more thrilling than your average pr0n movie. =)
I hardly see people bitch and moan when a new game like UT 2k3 is released. Never mind that it's all closed source and you can't change it at all, linux users rejoice when a game is ported to their machines.
I think this is because of the different natures of the programs.
I prefer my work applications as OSS because I want to be able to do whatever I want, now. (Gross generalization =)
But games, on the other hand, are entertainment rather than "serious" programs - and in games closed source does make sense, to certain extent. I wish more companies would do what iD is doing - it makes sense to release a game as closed, sell it and get profit, and then release the program code as OSS when the engine is no longer commercially viable and the program is turning into a support problem.
Take, for example, Abuse: the released binary no longer works (DOS is fading, and libc5 shareware version ain't the way); Nobody wants to buy Abuse because some clever people released Aliens vs. Predator as a 3D game. But, the game itself works just fine because the source is available and people have fixed it a bit. (SDL support. Way cool. No need to use X at 8bpp to play it =)
I'm not using it yet, but at some point I'd like to get a Palm or Handspring Visor just so I can use Keyring for PalmOS
...and I'm already using it, and I can say that while it's not as "convinient" as Passport or something, it's convinient enough. Highly recommended for all Palm users!
Formerly, I used gpasman, but since I used multiple computers and OSes, it was not fun. Then, I found keyring, and this is a perfect example of why I like my Palm =)
2.) The IP address of the offending URL is globally null-routed across the provider's backbone using two redundant null-route servers.
Maybe I'm just stupid, I was never the TCP/IP guy...
You block by IP at router level, so even when you store the URLs for reference, you're actually blocking the whole server? What about other content on the server? What about virtual hosts?
In other words, can you say if you're doing overbroad blocking? Any innocent bystanders getting -j REJECTed?
I suppose this is a good thing because people keep complaining that the essential idea of most MMORPGs on lower XP levels is hunting every damn rat in the world... and paying for that. Not exactly my idea of fun, though =)
Personally, I'm currently playing smaller-scale CRPGs. My favorite has much better and free character adjustment in case the adventure in question needs a high-level character: DebugMode 1, GiveLevel 10 (or whatever), DebugMode 0 =)
Linux and open source needs to just drop X as the GUI, and come up with something new.
The problem is that X is here (and stable - X is at version 11, XFree86 dist at 4.2, for God's sake), and the supposedly better GUIs are not easily implemented.
Usually, it's something like this: "Hey, X doesn't support transparent windows [or whatever high-tech you want] and sucks anyway, let's make a better GUI." (6 months later) "Aww fwek it, let's just make an X extension." =)
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But CD quality sucks! If you need to store your DNA, you definitely need to use vinyl, because of the better fidelity and the need to store all inaudible sequences and "junk DNA" too. It sounds warmer. You won't believe the difference until you see it yourself...
(And now probably some biologist will note that digital DNA mastering process has improved a great deal since early 1980s. Hmphf.)
No idea about pedagogicalness, but...
Personally, I started from LISP, and it has proven to be pretty useful. I use XEmacs, so writing stuff in elisp is kewl, and also many programs use Scheme as their scripting language, which of course made LISP skill valuable (Scheme is basically simplified LISP).
I don't know which really is better, OCaml or Haskell; I've personally only tried a little bit of Haskell - and I tried it because it was advertised as a purely functional language, something that made it a little bit more interesting.
But my day-to-day functional stuff is still all in LISP and Scheme =)
Well, I haven't seen this one myself (no way), but I take someone else's word for it: Some warez people did / do distribute Linux. Probably because people really don't believe such great things are distributed freely...
I can imagine earlier versions of this thing: "SlackWare 3.0 ISOz! Cracked by IsIlDur of <<R3tr1bUt0rz FrOm RaInF0r3St!!!!1!>> Another 0-day release from RFR! Call DaRK FoREST SBBS +358-86-31337 24h v.23, mOr0nNet node 2:23/102!" Then they moved to slooooooow dialup FTP sites identified only by IPs, reached via ad-ridden sloooow crappy and badly designed web pages that have Javascript "voting" stuff to get ahead...
But you also have to remember that The GIMP developers lose whole 0 of any unit of currency if someone warezes some other program.
There's some subtle flaw in your argument, I just can't quite place it...
assuming 0 units of the chosen currency means no payment received or given.
Yeah, except that I heard fsn no longer runs in new SGI stuff. Pity. =/ Well, there's always fsv, and I think it's a better program anyway...
Um... frankly, the IRIX X clients are pretty nifty, but if you are not also seeing the Unbelieveable Sweetness That Is IRIX X Server, you're missing a lot. =)
Or Debian (optionally with Alien)...
...or the de facto standard, GNU Autotools, known among the newbies as "./configure", a potent option combined with the "it works for me" package manager, GNU Stow, the Unquestioned Rulah of /usr/local. =)
Xine? MPlayer? Stuff that'll be in gstreamer?
Or even the "expert". I was upgrading one machine from Debian 2.2 to 3.0, and wondered why the heck modutils didn't want to be upgraded. Kernel? 2.0.36... looks like it was something I regrettably forgot to upgrade the last time =)
Heh. Know what I did?
I have Win98SE on one partition, and Linux on other. Once I had to change preferences on a Hotmail account while I was in Linux, and Hotmail worked perfectly in Mozilla except for the preferences. So, due to some odd inspiration, I typed wine 'c:\Ohjelmatiedostot\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe'. The program started up pretty quickly, complained that it couldn't find privacy settings and asked me to check them if I had time, and then just ran with no problems, apart of a few toolbar buttons that were black. Considering the amount of "it's integrated in the OS" stuff that MS spewed out about Win98, I found this whole experience quite jaw-dropping. =)
Sorry, it's getting late here...
I remember that a few years back, TIME magazine cover had a picture of a new Chinese dragon (with caption "one country, two systems"); A two-headed dragon, with one head breathing fire, the other breathing money. So, in computer terms, this chip could either fry (the fire), or become (with Linux drivers) Sampo - the machine from Finnish national epic KalevalaWait until Apple makes a compatible processor AND discovers the Google archive of alt.fan.dragons. Then we have Dragon Chip clones that emit fire, ice, lightning, peppermint, and sparklies. All in different matching colors.
Debian? I use WindowMaker + GNOME apps/libs all the time... and if you really need them, you can compile them yourself on any dist =)
What the hell? Wasn't Apple apologising for "toasting" Pentium II because G3 is twice as fast? =) =)
Well, the Ogg DirectShow filters already make it easy: Just install the DS filters, and all players support Ogg stream format (.ogg/.ogm) and Vorbis audio near-automagically!
You can create an .ogm from any .avi video file and Vorbis audio file with OggMux (can be found from the usual place).
Besides, the Ogg format is better than RIFF (aka .avi) - for example, using subtitles with .avi DivXes is often pretty challenging (separate file, in zillions of different formats); Ogg files can have subtitles multiplexed in them.
I personally use OggMux from VP3.1 and Vorbis source; works just fine in Windows with any player, but xine segfaults, even when it supposedly reads Ogg, plays Vorbis and any VFW data. =( Must try again later...
.ogm - Ogg Media.
That's at least what oggmux on Windows uses, and what the OggDS filters recognize...
Vorbis is from Terry Pratchett's Small Gods; Ogg is a Netrek game slang term (Not Nanny Ogg from Pratchett's works), Xiphophorus is a genus of aquarium fish, and Tarkin is from Star Wars. That's about that. Check xiph.org, they had a detailed list somewhere =)
Well, there is an Ogg Vorbis DirectShow Filter already, don't know if that qualifies =)
Now, where did OS X dock got this feature from? NeXT, of course! And what is the best way to relive the NEXTSTEP experience on Linux?
WINDOW MAKER! WOOHOO!
The dock works just as you describe: If the app is running, a double-click brings it forth; if not, it's launched.
Or a more every-day nuisance scenario: Spammers getting used to this undeletability. Their throw-away accounts may get nuked, but their spam will live forever in the user's inbox. Forever. I guess they need to think of this undeletability thing a few more times. And the feasibility of the whole infrastructure while they're at it...
Yeah, this sounds extremely far-fetched. But then again, so does Palladium.
Yeah, with Perl's DBD::CSV or whatever that was called... =)
Well, since I couldn't afford the database support on my web host (and didn't want to pay for pathetic excuses of RDBMSes like MySQL anyway, and that was the only thing they offered), I decided to code one little CGI application by "simulating" the database with a few GDBM files. It's surprising how <c64-user>back in the day, we did it all with flat SEQ files, and we were lucky to get even SEQ files! Not all of us kids even had disk drives, you know!</c64-user> but now... having got used to making complex - or even simple - databases in postgresql, it was surprisingly hard and convoluted. But it worked. No one has yet said the CGI was broken. Strange.
Nah, network sniffers are lame, because they're detectable in one way or other, especially if it's on the same machine. The spyware just notes "Holy heck, ppp0 is in promiscuous mode, I guess someone is logging this so I won't exchange the secret documents for now". =)
Besides, how many of you log, store and analyze every packet that passes through - especially in case of decentralised P2P apps that connect wherever whenever god knows how many times? Besides, not all of these protocols are even documented...
The real question should be, of course, do we geeks decompile every P2P app and find out exactly what they do? "Yeah, this dll has only no-op functions that return success" vs. "Eek, this supposedly clean dll has live code afterall, looks like it's connecting somewhere!"
I think it'd better to download a blowjob MPEG, cut 2 seconds of blowjob from it, and paste that small clip over and over for 20 minutes, save and encode that as MPEG. Preferrably also mess with filters for some of the clips, add a fake title sequence and copyright warnings so that they don't cancel the download immediately...
...and the result would probably be far more thrilling than your average pr0n movie. =)
I think this is because of the different natures of the programs.
I prefer my work applications as OSS because I want to be able to do whatever I want, now. (Gross generalization =)
But games, on the other hand, are entertainment rather than "serious" programs - and in games closed source does make sense, to certain extent. I wish more companies would do what iD is doing - it makes sense to release a game as closed, sell it and get profit, and then release the program code as OSS when the engine is no longer commercially viable and the program is turning into a support problem.
Take, for example, Abuse: the released binary no longer works (DOS is fading, and libc5 shareware version ain't the way); Nobody wants to buy Abuse because some clever people released Aliens vs. Predator as a 3D game. But, the game itself works just fine because the source is available and people have fixed it a bit. (SDL support. Way cool. No need to use X at 8bpp to play it =)
Formerly, I used gpasman, but since I used multiple computers and OSes, it was not fun. Then, I found keyring, and this is a perfect example of why I like my Palm =)
Maybe I'm just stupid, I was never the TCP/IP guy...
You block by IP at router level, so even when you store the URLs for reference, you're actually blocking the whole server? What about other content on the server? What about virtual hosts?
In other words, can you say if you're doing overbroad blocking? Any innocent bystanders getting -j REJECTed?
I suppose this is a good thing because people keep complaining that the essential idea of most MMORPGs on lower XP levels is hunting every damn rat in the world... and paying for that. Not exactly my idea of fun, though =)
Personally, I'm currently playing smaller-scale CRPGs. My favorite has much better and free character adjustment in case the adventure in question needs a high-level character: DebugMode 1, GiveLevel 10 (or whatever), DebugMode 0 =)
The problem is that X is here (and stable - X is at version 11, XFree86 dist at 4.2, for God's sake), and the supposedly better GUIs are not easily implemented.
Usually, it's something like this: "Hey, X doesn't support transparent windows [or whatever high-tech you want] and sucks anyway, let's make a better GUI." (6 months later) "Aww fwek it, let's just make an X extension." =)