When/. last reported about MacOSX, linking to some screenshots, I had this strange urge to switch from One True Window Manager(TM) to Enlightenment, because (I guessed) E would have Aqua-style themes.
Now, those themes will be ny00ked. Thank you, Apple, for helping me to resist the Temptation! God Bless You!
(This comment was supposed to be humorous, even when I probably failed. I still use wmaker, with NextStep-style GTK+ theme. Well, NextStep stuff *is* Apple's property these days, so I still use Apple's look and feel... =)
[SPA/RIAA/MPAA] claim that each copy means a sale lost, but we know that many of the copies would not translate into sales/losses. How did the EU study calculate losses?
You're making a slightly wrong comparision... In case of software/music/movies, it's pretty hard to prove the "stolen" copy is really worth the zilliard dollars they're asking from the pirate.
However, in case of spam, you must keep in mind that in most cases bandwidth has its price, and actually, so does the time needed to deal with the spam...
There was some game called "Quake" for TI-85, though it had a couple of bad things: It ate all memory, and it didn't resemble Quake at all, more like a limited version of Dungeon Master with Quake weapons and Doom-like monsters... The graphics were unbelieveably crappy too =)
It appeared as a program, though I couldn't list it. Not a ZShell program or anything like that, though...
In other words, for every one of these that is manufactured, another Commodore 64 must be destroyed.
Err... correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that there are SID chips still in stock? Not sure if those are being manufactured, but I think they still exist as spare parts.
At least here in Finland, I recently heard people were able to buy MOS 6581s or 8580s from local electronics retailers.
(Then again, Commodores were astronomically popular in Finland back then... and there are still many active hobbyists who use the machine, myself included.)
::WWWWolf plays Deetsay's tune "MOS 6581, 125 mk"::
HardSID is an amazing card, even if it's a bit pricey.
The only problem I'm having with it now is that it's an ISA card, and my current PC doesn't have any ISA slots - but the HardSID folks are working on a card "rack" that would work with newer machines, too...
- W4, proud Commodore 64 user and owner of HardSID with serial number 37 =)
Here's what I found cool in 2.4, as opposed to 2.2:
New bttv driver. xawtv calls the bttv driver in 2.2 politely "prehistoric". I was actually able to record stuff with this driver and my video card...
(now, I wish 2.6 will have something like modprobe tuner macrovision=killed_dead, for my eyes hurt. =)
DRI. That'll give me GLX hardware support and it also causes random deep system freezes, but hey, accelerated 3D is a Must. =)
Who'd be rebooting their linux box often enough to require eye candy during start up time?:-)
Heck, when I switched from LILO to GRUB, I booted my machine several times to see the cool, cool menu. Like, *oooooh* COLORS! FULL SCREEN MENU! Was that cool or what?
Hmph. Some people won't, but... personally, I like commercials!!! I admire the ingenuity, humor and other things in some commercials a lot. I like clever advertising - of course, I don't like boring advertising which why I do fast-forward commercials ocassionally - but some commercials I just have to watch, I never get enough of them! =)
I wish I would have one of those digital recorder things so I could make them record all commercials when I'm not around...
I have been running 2.4.0-test12 with reiserfs for some time now. Who cares about EXT2?
Existing ext2 users, i.e., The Ignorant Masses Who Use 2.2 Kernels And Would Like To Get A Smooth Upgrade? =)
I had some ext2 corruption things (recoverable, fortunately), but they said test12 would fix 'em. I think I'll just get 2.2 and wait until they ship "stable" 2.4 - apart of the slight ext2 problems, it seemed to work more or less fine...
[OT but related] But where's Golgotha???
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Has anyone any idea where the Golgotha Forever's updated source is hiding?
The project seems to be dead now (once again) and their web pages at golgotha.opengames.org seem to have vanished. Does anyone know where I could find a recent tarball of the source and stuff?
I know that there are some mirrors of the original the-day-it-was-released data and source tarballs around, but what about the updated source and developed story stuff?
For all the talk on Slashdot about freedom of speech and censoring on the Internet, I found it interesting to read Bill's ideas on the subject. Frankly, I had no idea his views could be so, well, agreeable.
Oh, Bill is not entirely loathable, you know... Personally, I couldn't agree more with his views on spam, for example. =)
Originally Iridium was named Iridium because it was supposed to have 77 satellites (just like Iridium atom has 77 electrons).
Of course, when Iridium went bankrupt it had only 66 satellites in the sky. Element 66, then, is Dysprosium, whose name means something like "hard to access".
I wholeheartedly agree. And remember, folks:
There is no art! Never fall into trap of comdemning what you don't even try to understand. I read the article and thought this idea was interesting...
Let's take a look at the sensitive issue of "suicide."
Blocking "suicide," for instance, keeps people from learning about ways people can kill themselves. It also keeps people from learning ways NOT to kill themselves.
Right. And while reading hAX0r pages tells how to (illegally) break into other systems, it also helps to know how to protect oneself from such things.
I don't subscribe to, say, CERT list because I want to d0 sUm d00d stUff; I subscribe to it to see if something is flawed and I need to be aware of it. =)
Bah. Better to take the Eagle Book and start making a module that returns 403 Sorry, try again after the media fuss is over error if the request Referer: header matches regex slashdot\.org... =)
(-10, Redundant) It's the life.
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A few moments before 20:00 local time: Saw the Armageddon Clock ticking on the web page.
20:00: Didn't respond.
20:05 or so: WOW! It's alive!
20:10: Ugh, cookie expired, can't remember password, I guess their mail queue is a bit long when I didn't get the reply from MailPassword(tm).
Can't ssh to my mail host - so I upgraded ssh, which involved a loooooong apt-get update. Infuriating...
20:15: Hooray, ssh works. No reply from mailpasswd yet.
20:30: So now k5 stopped responding too. Quick look at/.: Yep, the DoS-bait is there. Duh.
And who says it's me using the computer or the attached hardware? Ever heard of multiple user accounts or People Using Your Machine Temporarily? =)
Besides, why bother using something as hopelessly arcane and hardware-architecture-dependent for identification when we already have prefectly good and widely supported authentication schemes that do not depend on something as bogus as those two methods mentioned? =)
"Dogma"? Since when Slashdot has been a religious authority? =)
The point: They All Suck. But Linux sucks less, at least based on my experiences. =)
It's not a secret that both have security holes; however, with open source systems, the security-related bugs tend to get fixed in finite time.
What is "dogma", then?
Dogma \Dog"ma\, n.; pl. E. Dogmas, L. Dogmata. [L. dogma,
Gr. ?, pl. ?, fr. ? to think, seem, appear; akin to L. decet
it is becoming. Cf. Decent. ]
1. That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.
2. A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a
definite, established, and authoritative tenet.
3. A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or
truth; an arbitrary dictum.
Syn: tenet; opinion; proposition; doctrine.
(Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913)
So: Dogma is an opinion handed down from above. Call me paranoid, but using "dogma" in this case smells of FUD-spreading - "The Linux Folks are Believers, and Taco is their Pope". Believe me, I have seen a lot of ugly MS trolls telling us what they think of "Linux Believers"... and I'm bored.
The fact, with or without opinions, is that Windows has
showed itself to be less secure, or that security bugs have been fixed later than in case of open source projects (need I remind of OOB?).
(Oh dear God, another
MS FUD Campaign Participator... [1])
My own theory: This happens because Microsoft products are known to resemble Swiss cheese (holes, not the taste) even when the experts are maintaining them, while most Linux dists come with at least some sort of security built in (ie, if you're not an idiot, it should be fairly secure).
Point two: Article writers, as you may have noticed, tend to be a bit biased. =)
[1] I'm referring to the interesting tendency that messages like this appear very very often in Slashdot - it may (if we're paranoid enough) sound like an astroturf-style FUD campaign. =)
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When /. last reported about MacOSX, linking to some screenshots, I had this strange urge to switch from One True Window Manager(TM) to Enlightenment, because (I guessed) E would have Aqua-style themes.
Now, those themes will be ny00ked. Thank you, Apple, for helping me to resist the Temptation! God Bless You!
(This comment was supposed to be humorous, even when I probably failed. I still use wmaker, with NextStep-style GTK+ theme. Well, NextStep stuff *is* Apple's property these days, so I still use Apple's look and feel... =)
You're making a slightly wrong comparision... In case of software/music/movies, it's pretty hard to prove the "stolen" copy is really worth the zilliard dollars they're asking from the pirate.
However, in case of spam, you must keep in mind that in most cases bandwidth has its price, and actually, so does the time needed to deal with the spam...
There was some game called "Quake" for TI-85, though it had a couple of bad things: It ate all memory, and it didn't resemble Quake at all, more like a limited version of Dungeon Master with Quake weapons and Doom-like monsters... The graphics were unbelieveably crappy too =)
It appeared as a program, though I couldn't list it. Not a ZShell program or anything like that, though...
Err... correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that there are SID chips still in stock? Not sure if those are being manufactured, but I think they still exist as spare parts.
At least here in Finland, I recently heard people were able to buy MOS 6581s or 8580s from local electronics retailers.
(Then again, Commodores were astronomically popular in Finland back then... and there are still many active hobbyists who use the machine, myself included.)
::WWWWolf plays Deetsay's tune "MOS 6581, 125 mk"::
The only problem I'm having with it now is that it's an ISA card, and my current PC doesn't have any ISA slots - but the HardSID folks are working on a card "rack" that would work with newer machines, too...
- W4, proud Commodore 64 user and owner of HardSID with serial number 37 =)
Here's what I found cool in 2.4, as opposed to 2.2:
Heck, when I switched from LILO to GRUB, I booted my machine several times to see the cool, cool menu. Like, *oooooh* COLORS! FULL SCREEN MENU! Was that cool or what?
(Well, these days I don't do that any more. =)
Hmph. Some people won't, but... personally, I like commercials!!! I admire the ingenuity, humor and other things in some commercials a lot. I like clever advertising - of course, I don't like boring advertising which why I do fast-forward commercials ocassionally - but some commercials I just have to watch, I never get enough of them! =)
I wish I would have one of those digital recorder things so I could make them record all commercials when I'm not around...
Existing ext2 users, i.e., The Ignorant Masses Who Use 2.2 Kernels And Would Like To Get A Smooth Upgrade? =)
I had some ext2 corruption things (recoverable, fortunately), but they said test12 would fix 'em. I think I'll just get 2.2 and wait until they ship "stable" 2.4 - apart of the slight ext2 problems, it seemed to work more or less fine...
Has anyone any idea where the Golgotha Forever's updated source is hiding?
The project seems to be dead now (once again) and their web pages at golgotha.opengames.org seem to have vanished. Does anyone know where I could find a recent tarball of the source and stuff?
I know that there are some mirrors of the original the-day-it-was-released data and source tarballs around, but what about the updated source and developed story stuff?
Oh, I've seen XEmacs running quite effortlessly under Windows... =)
Oh, Bill is not entirely loathable, you know... Personally, I couldn't agree more with his views on spam, for example. =)
Originally Iridium was named Iridium because it was supposed to have 77 satellites (just like Iridium atom has 77 electrons).
Of course, when Iridium went bankrupt it had only 66 satellites in the sky. Element 66, then, is Dysprosium, whose name means something like "hard to access".
Obvious, huh?
(Joke from E2...)
I wholeheartedly agree. And remember, folks: There is no art! Never fall into trap of comdemning what you don't even try to understand. I read the article and thought this idea was interesting...
-W4, a random artist and art lover =)
Oops. I forgot we were talking of PS2, not Nintendo Entertainment System (or any console that would actually be profitable for the makers).
But that was the Idea. Just that the Implementation sucks. =)
Probably the only computer store I've seen in which hard drives are more expensive than the computers themselves =)
Right. And while reading hAX0r pages tells how to (illegally) break into other systems, it also helps to know how to protect oneself from such things.
I don't subscribe to, say, CERT list because I want to d0 sUm d00d stUff; I subscribe to it to see if something is flawed and I need to be aware of it. =)
Many things are not black and white...
Simple: In order to develop for PS2, you need to get the Lisence(TM)®©. To get the Lisence, pay Sony a lot of money. If you can't pay, you can't make games for PS2. If there'd be no Lisence requirement, then anyone could make games for PS2. Consequently, if anyone could make games for PS2 freely, Sony would get no money from developers, only from sales of the machine itself.
It's that simple - it's about the greed of the companies that make those systems. Almighty Buck, as you said. And a bit of the paranoia.
Sony didn't consider the possibility that releasing free development information might also increase the sales of the machine, but hey...
AT-AT? Nay, I want a Mindstorms BattleMech! Sort of like these, but with motors and programming capability. And working lasers, of course! =)
The Lu^2 (LUnix, an Unix clone for C64) screenshots...then again, since BogoMIPS is entirely bogus just like all other benchmarks, I doubt everything.
But nevertheless, Mostech 6502 series is the only really cool series of processors. =)
Bah. Better to take the Eagle Book and start making a module that returns 403 Sorry, try again after the media fuss is over error if the request Referer: header matches regex slashdot\.org... =)
A few moments before 20:00 local time: Saw the Armageddon Clock ticking on the web page.
20:00: Didn't respond.
20:05 or so: WOW! It's alive!
20:10: Ugh, cookie expired, can't remember password, I guess their mail queue is a bit long when I didn't get the reply from MailPassword(tm).
Can't ssh to my mail host - so I upgraded ssh, which involved a loooooong apt-get update. Infuriating...
20:15: Hooray, ssh works. No reply from mailpasswd yet.
20:30: So now k5 stopped responding too. Quick look at /.: Yep, the DoS-bait is there. Duh.
Looks like it'll be a looong night. =(
And who says it's me using the computer or the attached hardware? Ever heard of multiple user accounts or People Using Your Machine Temporarily? =)
Besides, why bother using something as hopelessly arcane and hardware-architecture-dependent for identification when we already have prefectly good and widely supported authentication schemes that do not depend on something as bogus as those two methods mentioned? =)
The point: They All Suck. But Linux sucks less, at least based on my experiences. =)
It's not a secret that both have security holes; however, with open source systems, the security-related bugs tend to get fixed in finite time.
What is "dogma", then?
(Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913)
So: Dogma is an opinion handed down from above. Call me paranoid, but using "dogma" in this case smells of FUD-spreading - "The Linux Folks are Believers, and Taco is their Pope". Believe me, I have seen a lot of ugly MS trolls telling us what they think of "Linux Believers"... and I'm bored.
The fact, with or without opinions, is that Windows has showed itself to be less secure, or that security bugs have been fixed later than in case of open source projects (need I remind of OOB?).
Bah, get the hence, AC... =)
My own theory: This happens because Microsoft products are known to resemble Swiss cheese (holes, not the taste) even when the experts are maintaining them, while most Linux dists come with at least some sort of security built in (ie, if you're not an idiot, it should be fairly secure).
Point two: Article writers, as you may have noticed, tend to be a bit biased. =)
[1] I'm referring to the interesting tendency that messages like this appear very very often in Slashdot - it may (if we're paranoid enough) sound like an astroturf-style FUD campaign. =)