More serious point: WHY WHY WHY are fonts so fscking hard on Linux? I've installed RH 5.2, 6.0 and just recently 7.1, and setting up fonts was different on each one, and always a black art.
Huh?
For me, it's always just "type1inst" for type1 fonts, and there's some tool to create fonts.dir out of TrueType fonts too (ttmkfontdir? mkfontdir-ttf? Can't remember the name right now, been a while since I did this)...
BOA looks nice, but I still think I'll rather take Website Meta Language - it lets me define the tags AND use Perl and other languages to build static pages.
I guess slashcode still doesn't include a spellchecker.
Yep. I guess the next release should just support some automatical rules for story posting. Like, if($topic =~/browser/ and $author{$uid} eq "CmdrTaco") { $blurb.= "Konqueror rules."; }
He succeeded with OpenGL in a single weekend. With DirectX, however, the API at the time (DirectX 1.0? 2.0?) was crap, or it was poorly documented. So he gave up on it.
3.0, as far as I know... the original story can be found from many places (here, for instance - look at the appendix in the end).
You don't notice this until you actually try: after a few years of Perl programming, it's hard to put those dollar signs at the end, and even harder to leave off the semi-colons.:-(
...and it's even harder to use two-letter variable names.
I assume you meat U$ and PW$ (or DIM PW$,7 - see getpwnam(3) man page!)... not lame long names like LOGIN$ and PASSWORD$, those weren't there until DOS and QBasic.
Well, I suppose I will use cc64 and raw 6502 assembler for my microcomputing needs. Commodore basic was one of the most hideous programming environments Microsoft has ever produced =)
Ew! You play your music off a 16 bit Sound Blaster? Those things have the WORST transient signals I have ever heard come out of a DAC!
I used to think like that, but then I ran into the sound card that's on my current machine's motherboard... Ewww. I will never listen to anything through that using headphones, that thing sucked.
Oh yeah, I used to use SB16 too. Then I added a Vortex2 to the machine and I started noticing why people say MP3s aren't "CD Quality". =)
These days I have a SBLive! and it sounds just as good...
I can just see the kids in school talking about the rad new books they got last night from the internet. "Last night I downloaded the Moby Dick!" "Cool! Send it to me!"
Yeah, sounds somewhat absurd. But I'm sure hARrY PoTtEr 0-DaY WaR3z would "sell"... =)
(I guess the works of classical music aren't exactly in the top-10 n8pst8red either...)
I count 5 TM's on their homepage and several mentions of patents on their legal page.
Yeah, for example, I usually use much less Trademark Symbols when I try to use them "humorously®".
(The only exception is when a Really Bad Crash happens, or something of equal magnitude.)
(Speaking of which, Mozilla hasn't showed the symbol correctly since 0.9.1... It used to work but now it renders it as ^(TM). Should check Bugzilla some day... =( )
Bag for all other junk I carry with me (2 cameras, CD player & burned copies of some very sucky CDs, broken pens, notebooks that I never remember to use, toolz (Leattttherman clone made in China and flashlight), empty CD-Rs (being not yet blessed with broadband in home)... (Note for pickpockets: all worth maybe US$0.10 combined. Honestly. Most of that sum comes from the bag.)
The only problem here is that the bag doesn't have enough compartments... but that's okay, when I need something I just put my hand in and pull the thing out. =)
The paper's authors list an email address as "{davek,rubin}@research.att.com". This address is invalid (501 Bad address syntax). Anyone know how to contact these people?
They're using pseudo-smart, UNIX-shell-like way of telling their addresses... probably confusing to many people. Read the above as davek@research.att.com and rubin@research.att.com.
Except for if every damn net admin would WAKE UP and SMELL THE COFFEE and IMPLEMENT EGRESS FILTERING or SOURCE ROUTE VERIFICATION or whatever your router calls it.
If you have a router built within the last 5 years, I can pretty much guarantee you it supports it. So turn it on already!
Right! And now all we need is a campaign to get the collective net admin attention.
How about making a humorous, yet very pointful campaign (like "if you don't check your packet sources, you may be ROUTING COMMUNISM") and advertise/discuss about it in high-profile geek sites (I hope I don't need to list examples) and on magazines read by the net admins.
Further, to clarify: while we will not initially release the source code to version 1.0 under the GPL (this is simply not an option for us in the commercial game market), we do intend to do so some time after the initial release.
This is what happened with games like Doom, Quake and Abuse, and I don't think that has hurt the popularity or sales of any of the games in question...
I think this is one of the sanest Linux game sales models, and it would work in Windows side just as well. The game companies could release the source to the games some time (year? two?) later, and say "the source is open, just don't distribute the data (oh, by the way, buy the game now, it's in the budget release shelf, really cheap now)".
Someone else that noticed that the category "sex" only occured in the 1997 list? On the other hand there are more categorys now. Does this mean that the internet isn't about sex anymore?
Well, to put it simply: No, the Web is no longer about pr0n.
Pr0n has become estabilished part of the Web, one of the fundamental services of the Web. There's nothing novel about pr0n anymore; pr0n sites just are.
These days, if you want innovation recognition and fame, you need to start a file-sharing service or offer something new from "community" side. Or something. Either way, pr0n isn't trendy. It just is.
I use Mozilla all the time, and it doesn't come with JVM either - and I haven't needed Java applet support for ages, so I have just not bothered to even install it! I think the last place I used Java was in E2 Java Chatterbox, and another chat application was in use in one of the courses ehre... and, um, that's about that for me "using" Java for anything.
These days, people seem to use much more of Flash for the "irritating blinky content" that Java was formerly so largely used for, though - that's good, because Flash is not slow to download and get running, like Java applets.
I see no problem in "download Java separately if you need it" approach.
You know, XMMS, my preferred music player, has this really advanced "plug-in" thing that allows it to register multiple file loading mechanisms at once so that you can listen to both MP3s and Ogg/Vorbis files with no problems... I have even heard WinAmp is capable of this!
=)
Seriousity moment: Personally, I made a simple choice. When I went from MP3 to Vorbis, I chose to Ogg only the new tracks that I rip, and those tracks that really sound crappy in MP3 format. The old MP3s were still there.
(Well, most of my MP3 collection were nuked due to disk space requirements anyway... and I have the original CDs that I'll rather listen to.)
When changing to different format, you don't need to re-encode the old tracks. (Unless, of course, the player for this format is Evil and will not allow coexistence of other players, but that's another issue.)
Has the general computer using population been brainwashed into thinking they have to buy a new PC to run a new operating system?
What? You mean that's not true? You mean I don't need to buy a Commodore 128 when I finally have time and energy to buy GEOS 2.x? My current machine (C64G) will be enough?
Hooray!
=)
But seriously, I think this is the sad state of the world. =( Then again, usually there's no harm of getting a newest OS when you buy a new machine, but it's definitely not necessary.
In order to register as a ".org", an organization must meet certain criteria.
Is that still true? I know that such restrictions on TLDs have eroded over time as they proved unenforcable.
AFAIK there has never been such restriction. See RFC 1591:
"ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here."
The lawyers required that the University sign the cease and desist letter, destroy the kIllustrator-package, name every KIllustrator user, and disclose the profit they made from it.
I think the commercial software world has hard time understanding this "free software" thing.
From one parody of a fascistic security adminstrator, during the war between workers and The Management: "Despite of all of our regulations regarding the corporate network, we found one of these strictly forbidden 'Linux' CD-ROMs from behind the painting in the conference room. We will contact the operating system vendor and try to find out who owns the license to this copy."
I can see it now: A massive operation to find every possible killustrator user, requiring much cooperation from ISPs to find out who downloaded a copy...
I haven't because I don't want to bother upgrading my whole installation.... or worry about any potential conflicts
The change from 2.2.x to 2.4.x is surprisingly painless (much less painful than any "user-level" major change, like back when the day when going from libc5 to glibc2 practically needed reinstallation of the whole dist). No recompilation or reinstallation of stuff was necessary.
Personally, the only thing that needed special attention was the firewall thing, and even that wasn't top priority (because the kernel has an ipchains comparibility mode). Ultimately, the conversion of my firewall script from ipchains to iptables was rather easy.
Just out of curiousity... how many other Slashdot readers beside myself don't use some flavour Linux on one of their principal computers?
I consider my Commodore 64s some of my principal computers. I haven't yet seen Linux running on those, just some "lightweight" UNIXes...
I also use Win98SE for games, sound and digital video editing and such for which Linux is not yet the best solution. Aside of that, it's all Linux.
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...but don't email it to me and don't tap it into my forehead and don't shout it via megaphone at 3:00 AM outside my house.
Er, that's not the correct analogy. This would be better: Spammers force us to pay for the priviledge that we can tap the message with morse code on our own foreheads, or they want us to buy studio time from local recording studio to use sound-proof room so that no one else gets annoyed when they shout the message at us with a megaphone at 3 in the morning.
The nasty thing IMHO is all the email collecting bots that wander trough ALL groups pr0n or no pr0n. A newbie has no chance to know about this and fake an email or SPAM-prove it. Many an email accounts are rendered useless by this.
Personally, I've been using Usenet since 1996 (mostly sfnet.* groups, some alt.*, comp.* and rec.* groups...) and I have never used a spam-blocked E-mail address. I get a surprisingly low volume of E-mail spam.
Apparently it pays to report the spam to the originating ISPs. =)
Spam-blocked E-mail addresses, in Usenet and web, are more of an inconvinience for the users than to spammers...
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Huh?
For me, it's always just "type1inst" for type1 fonts, and there's some tool to create fonts.dir out of TrueType fonts too (ttmkfontdir? mkfontdir-ttf? Can't remember the name right now, been a while since I did this)...
BOA looks nice, but I still think I'll rather take Website Meta Language - it lets me define the tags AND use Perl and other languages to build static pages.
=)
3.0, as far as I know... the original story can be found from many places (here, for instance - look at the appendix in the end).
...and it's even harder to use two-letter variable names.
I assume you meat U$ and PW$ (or DIM PW$,7 - see getpwnam(3) man page!)... not lame long names like LOGIN$ and PASSWORD$, those weren't there until DOS and QBasic.
Well, I suppose I will use cc64 and raw 6502 assembler for my microcomputing needs. Commodore basic was one of the most hideous programming environments Microsoft has ever produced =)
Well, the problem is that the OCR technlogies still aren't fast and accurate enough... and the page turn rate is too small.
=)
I used to think like that, but then I ran into the sound card that's on my current machine's motherboard... Ewww. I will never listen to anything through that using headphones, that thing sucked.
Oh yeah, I used to use SB16 too. Then I added a Vortex2 to the machine and I started noticing why people say MP3s aren't "CD Quality". =)
These days I have a SBLive! and it sounds just as good...
Yeah, sounds somewhat absurd. But I'm sure hARrY PoTtEr 0-DaY WaR3z would "sell"... =)
(I guess the works of classical music aren't exactly in the top-10 n8pst8red either...)
Yeah, for example, I usually use much less Trademark Symbols when I try to use them "humorously®". (The only exception is when a Really Bad Crash happens, or something of equal magnitude.)
(Speaking of which, Mozilla hasn't showed the symbol correctly since 0.9.1... It used to work but now it renders it as ^(TM). Should check Bugzilla some day... =( )
The only problem here is that the bag doesn't have enough compartments... but that's okay, when I need something I just put my hand in and pull the thing out. =)
They're using pseudo-smart, UNIX-shell-like way of telling their addresses... probably confusing to many people. Read the above as davek@research.att.com and rubin@research.att.com.
Right! And now all we need is a campaign to get the collective net admin attention.
How about making a humorous, yet very pointful campaign (like "if you don't check your packet sources, you may be ROUTING COMMUNISM") and advertise/discuss about it in high-profile geek sites (I hope I don't need to list examples) and on magazines read by the net admins.
=)
(From tuxracer.com site)
This is what happened with games like Doom, Quake and Abuse, and I don't think that has hurt the popularity or sales of any of the games in question...
I think this is one of the sanest Linux game sales models, and it would work in Windows side just as well. The game companies could release the source to the games some time (year? two?) later, and say "the source is open, just don't distribute the data (oh, by the way, buy the game now, it's in the budget release shelf, really cheap now)".
...and this just had to happen when the USA banned human cloning. =( Well, I guess the OpenLinus project just needs to move somewhere else.
=)
Anyway, "MS-endorsed" version of Perl can be found from ActiveState. MS has been known to distribute that version with IIS. I've heard.
Well, to put it simply: No, the Web is no longer about pr0n.
Pr0n has become estabilished part of the Web, one of the fundamental services of the Web. There's nothing novel about pr0n anymore; pr0n sites just are.
These days, if you want innovation recognition and fame, you need to start a file-sharing service or offer something new from "community" side. Or something. Either way, pr0n isn't trendy. It just is.
=)
I use Mozilla all the time, and it doesn't come with JVM either - and I haven't needed Java applet support for ages, so I have just not bothered to even install it! I think the last place I used Java was in E2 Java Chatterbox, and another chat application was in use in one of the courses ehre... and, um, that's about that for me "using" Java for anything.
These days, people seem to use much more of Flash for the "irritating blinky content" that Java was formerly so largely used for, though - that's good, because Flash is not slow to download and get running, like Java applets.
I see no problem in "download Java separately if you need it" approach.
You know, XMMS, my preferred music player, has this really advanced "plug-in" thing that allows it to register multiple file loading mechanisms at once so that you can listen to both MP3s and Ogg/Vorbis files with no problems... I have even heard WinAmp is capable of this!
=)
Seriousity moment: Personally, I made a simple choice. When I went from MP3 to Vorbis, I chose to Ogg only the new tracks that I rip, and those tracks that really sound crappy in MP3 format. The old MP3s were still there.
(Well, most of my MP3 collection were nuked due to disk space requirements anyway... and I have the original CDs that I'll rather listen to.)
When changing to different format, you don't need to re-encode the old tracks. (Unless, of course, the player for this format is Evil and will not allow coexistence of other players, but that's another issue.)
Hooray!
=)
But seriously, I think this is the sad state of the world. =( Then again, usually there's no harm of getting a newest OS when you buy a new machine, but it's definitely not necessary.
AFAIK there has never been such restriction. See RFC 1591:
"ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here."
In other words, "the TLD for the rest of us".
I think the commercial software world has hard time understanding this "free software" thing.
From one parody of a fascistic security adminstrator, during the war between workers and The Management: "Despite of all of our regulations regarding the corporate network, we found one of these strictly forbidden 'Linux' CD-ROMs from behind the painting in the conference room. We will contact the operating system vendor and try to find out who owns the license to this copy."
I can see it now: A massive operation to find every possible killustrator user, requiring much cooperation from ISPs to find out who downloaded a copy...
The change from 2.2.x to 2.4.x is surprisingly painless (much less painful than any "user-level" major change, like back when the day when going from libc5 to glibc2 practically needed reinstallation of the whole dist). No recompilation or reinstallation of stuff was necessary.
Personally, the only thing that needed special attention was the firewall thing, and even that wasn't top priority (because the kernel has an ipchains comparibility mode). Ultimately, the conversion of my firewall script from ipchains to iptables was rather easy.
I consider my Commodore 64s some of my principal computers. I haven't yet seen Linux running on those, just some "lightweight" UNIXes...
I also use Win98SE for games, sound and digital video editing and such for which Linux is not yet the best solution. Aside of that, it's all Linux.
That'd look more accurate.
=)
Personally, I've been using Usenet since 1996 (mostly sfnet.* groups, some alt.*, comp.* and rec.* groups...) and I have never used a spam-blocked E-mail address. I get a surprisingly low volume of E-mail spam.
Apparently it pays to report the spam to the originating ISPs. =)
Spam-blocked E-mail addresses, in Usenet and web, are more of an inconvinience for the users than to spammers...