Well, personally, yes, I could get rid of windoze. I do all of my work in Linux.
There's only two uses for the copy of Win98SE I have on my machine: One is Pinnacle Studio, a video recording and editing program (I'll try to get Linux video capture with Broadcast2000 to work soon - xawtv already works =)
The other, of course, is games - something that Windows is actually good for. I don't play much games, though, and Nethack is available for Linux too... And today I had even less reasons to use Linux when I got new version of xconq - and I'm desperately waiting for the Linux port of Alpha Centauri =)
It seems when there are articles talking about music everyone here on slashdot is of the opinion it
should be free and that things like napster are ok. Yet when we are talking about work that some
people on slashdot create actually being distributed everyone screams bloody murder?
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Well, personally, what I wonder is that why the heck everyone asks just this or something similiar every time Slashdot has a news story like this...
Does Microsoft have a FUD team whose purpose is to try make Slashdot look like a highly hypocritical site?
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(This was a feeble, feeble attempt at humor. I just kind of expected to see just that kind of message posted... =)
Granted, Blender's UI isn't too "easy to learn", but I think it works wonderfully once you have the hang of it! Yes, it should be more obvious and there would be a good need for online help...
And hey, now that Blender doesn't have the C-key anymore, they'll need the income from the manual sales, anyway =)
Well, Carp already is Open Source... and to some extent, we can say that Open Source is Carp, at least it utilizes it:
Carp(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Carp(3pm)
NAME
carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
cluck - warn of errors with stack backtrace not exported by default)
croak - die of errors (from perspective of caller)
confess - die of errors with stack backtrace
SYNOPSIS
use Carp; croak "We're outta here!";
use Carp qw(cluck); cluck "This is how we got here!";
DESCRIPTION
The Carp routines are useful in your own modules because they act like die() or warn(), but report where the error was in the code they were called from. Thus if you have a routine Foo() that has a carp() in it, then the carp() will report the error as occurring where Foo() was called, not where carp() was called. [...]
For the anti-adventure fans, there could be games like Professional Painter - travel around town in your overalls, painting people's houses in 47 different shades of ecru.
There was a game (in Finland) for Commodore 64 called PainterBoy - game based on characters of Tikkurila paint factory TV advertisement characters... Not a bad game, though, but it quickly got boring.
BTW it should be Linux/GNU since the kernel is before the programs
Nope. It should be GRUB/Linux/GNU (or LILO or whatever you use to boot your machine). After all, boot loader is definitely an important part of the OS! =) (For further madness, see the GRUB documentation.)
GRUB rocks totally and without any doubt - more flexible than LILO too. LILO looks so boring, too... GRUB has a colored full-screen boot menu (though colors are optional, of course =)
This was just one reason why I switched from LILO to GRUB - Dammit, I've never booted my home machine just to see that utterly coooooool boot menu! =)
Kids, you've seen in this short snippet, live recording from a hapless victim, where the Pokemon addiction can lead to. Stand fast. Play the game, but don't let the Addiction take over your mind, or some bad things will happen. That has happened before, sort of. =)
OK, now to the topic...
I don't think that this will revive Jaguar, except that this may result some "scene" type stuff. There may be more people who do "ars gratia artis", that is, "art for the sake of art".
"Pokemon effect" that revived GameBoy will not work here - they don't produce the Jaguars anymore, and they don't have a big corporation behind them funding them and marketing the game...
Re:Telnet is the only solution.
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Nay... You obviously meant netcat. telnet can only do tcp. =)
(Seriously, though: I use ssh for work, TinyFugue for play and netcat for scripts. =)
It's just trying to be a Subtle Hint that it might be kind of slow on today's machines.
Well, I'll try seeing if it can be used to fsck around with my Blender-produced animations...::sigh:: I wish I had a faster machine with some free card slots so I could get a video board.
Yesterday Microsoft Finland's open jobs page reported some jobs beginning at 1900. It was fixed faster than whetever, but I heard from local Holy War newsgroup it was yesterday in evening TV news... =)
They had let an "ASP Guru" loose at some point and, well, the results looked like it...
As far as personal problems: Well, it's 20:01 here and everything is fine... so far. I doubt anything special happens.
Very very interesting site. However, I emailed them about one thing:
I tried to see the page with Mozilla M12, and it said I need either NS 3.x/4.x or Redmondian equivalent of thereof.
So... in order to view the site, I need a historical browser, instead of a browser of the future!
It's probably just a PR stunt. You know, they probably thought that people come in and just think "damn, another boring museum site!"... and in order to make you to feel the thrills of history and probably nostalgia - to see in what kind of hell the people of yesterday needed to browse the web in, they want you to downgrade!
Remember when some H@X0r HaX0rD himself into iD systems and 0wned (IIRC) Quake and Golgotha source code?
It's interesting to see that these days, you don't need to =)
Likewise: I read an article from an old computer mag about two school kids who HaX0r3d their way into ARPANET. Much noise. I don't think that much noise would result now if someone would get an illegitimate net access.
Likewise: Now no one will make noise if someone hAx into a machine that has Quake and Golgotha source. Is "openness equals less noise from hax0r front" something?
(Mindless Rambling of the Day brought to you by wolf on the run - sorry if this has any typos, I'm typing this from Nokia 9110 while in train =)
It had some things I had not even read about yet. A bit better than I could guess from the amount of flamage here. Yes, a lot of old jokes, but it has its sides.
Classics too - I have sent the virus warning to everyone who tells me about Good Times or related things. =)
Well, it only takes three words to describe what I think of this kind of things, and I guess you already guessed: This Is Stupid.
There's one thing that generally just annoys the hell out of me (okay, I'm rambling and this isn't really on-topic, but is kind of related, bear with me - I know ABA suggested alternative methods): Credit card as an age validation method. Well, I'm adult, and I don't have a credit card, and neither will I get one in near future. I don't have had any problems with this in Finland, I have a passport, I have a driving lisence, and if I wouldn't have those I could always get an ID card that has a photograph. All of those are generally accepted. And as for mail order/net shopping payments, I ask the sender to send the bill with the package.
No problems, until I decided that I really don't have any use for my GeoCities site and I might as well nuke it. I had not updated it for ages (last time way back in the Pre-Yahoo era when they didn't even forced to put the ads there, just a link to GeoCities main page). It thought I was born in 1998 (how it deduced that, I have no idea). To prove that Yes, I'm Adult And I Have A Right To Nuke My Site I should have given some information, and, of course, my credit card number which I don't have, because I don't have a credit card. I mailed them about this, but the solution still involved credit cards.
Also, the local credit card company don't like the idea of sending credit card info over the 'net, no matter how badly you try to tell what kind of cool encryption schemes you used.
Lesson learned? If you design these systems, don't depend on the credit cards as a form of age verification. Plus, even if I would have a credit card, I would still be suspicious about this kind of verification - Abuse of the number would not be too hard...
All I got as a comment was that some people had problems with the graphics. (This happened during the time the 4.0 browsers had just come out.) I told them that a) the graphics really don't matter that much, and b) the new browsers (and quite a number of old browsers) do support PNG.
I haven't needed alpha channel support or stuff like that at all. Heck, I hate animated gifs (unless they're really funny or otherwise clever, that is - but as for others, I just hate them).
Lesson learned? You Can Live Without The GIFs these days. The support already is there, and it is coming up nicely.
... but there are some other reasons why I think Photogenics for Linux is a Bad Thing (tm), for instance the bad integration with desktops: Gnome and KDE seem to have agreed on some protocols, and now another program comes with another toolkit.
I don't care if it has yet another toolkit or set of protocols. I just want that the program works.
Okay, it's a bit confusing to use Yet Another New Toolkit. But it's just a matter of getting used to it, anyway. Take Blender's user interface - granted, it might have been cool and the executable smaller if it had used GTK+, but since it works, I don't care that it uses toolkit that's not used elsewhere.
I would, however, have flinched if they had said the program uses Athena widgets. But even then, I would have used the program. =)
Discriminating programs based on the widget set is just silly.
And what comes to Drag'n'drop, I'm sure they haven't come up with something silly like things that are completely incompatible with the status quo.
Also, did you notice the guy who took the screenshot was doing everything as root ?
**bong** argumentum ad hominem. And our next contestant...
Screenshots look interesting... as does the feature list - at least GIMP will not have most of the KeWlest features of Photogenics, such as the "natural media" tools, in the 1.2 release (but then again, we already have a pretty decent basis for xinput tools in 1.1...)
BTW, when DeluxePaint will be ported to Linux? The local former Amiga users seem to really want that ported. =) I, too, have hard time 'cuz DeluxePaint 5 doesn't always run properly in UAE...
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Well, personally, yes, I could get rid of windoze. I do all of my work in Linux.
There's only two uses for the copy of Win98SE I have on my machine: One is Pinnacle Studio, a video recording and editing program (I'll try to get Linux video capture with Broadcast2000 to work soon - xawtv already works =)
The other, of course, is games - something that Windows is actually good for. I don't play much games, though, and Nethack is available for Linux too... And today I had even less reasons to use Linux when I got new version of xconq - and I'm desperately waiting for the Linux port of Alpha Centauri =)
I hope these will enlighten:
<PARANOIA>
Well, personally, what I wonder is that why the heck everyone asks just this or something similiar every time Slashdot has a news story like this...
Does Microsoft have a FUD team whose purpose is to try make Slashdot look like a highly hypocritical site?
</PARANOIA>
(This was a feeble, feeble attempt at humor. I just kind of expected to see just that kind of message posted... =)
Actually, "herring" is pronounced like "silly" with long "l" in Finnish (and written "silli").
And hey, now that Blender doesn't have the C-key anymore, they'll need the income from the manual sales, anyway =)
Very happy day. I've never been sure if The List Of Very Dangerous Individuals exists....
...not only The List exists, but I'm on it. WAY cool.
I also saw a lot of familiar addresses there... =)
Well, Carp already is Open Source... and to some extent, we can say that Open Source is Carp, at least it utilizes it:
There was a game (in Finland) for Commodore 64 called PainterBoy - game based on characters of Tikkurila paint factory TV advertisement characters... Not a bad game, though, but it quickly got boring.
Nope. It should be GRUB/Linux/GNU (or LILO or whatever you use to boot your machine). After all, boot loader is definitely an important part of the OS! =) (For further madness, see the GRUB documentation.)
GRUB rocks totally and without any doubt - more flexible than LILO too. LILO looks so boring, too... GRUB has a colored full-screen boot menu (though colors are optional, of course =)
This was just one reason why I switched from LILO to GRUB - Dammit, I've never booted my home machine just to see that utterly coooooool boot menu! =)
Bhah! =) Threads must be burned (through the computeresque threads do have their uses...)
Of course, every Perl hacker likes Klah. It's a drink for true hackers!
Kids, you've seen in this short snippet, live recording from a hapless victim, where the Pokemon addiction can lead to. Stand fast. Play the game, but don't let the Addiction take over your mind, or some bad things will happen. That has happened before, sort of. =)
OK, now to the topic...
I don't think that this will revive Jaguar, except that this may result some "scene" type stuff. There may be more people who do "ars gratia artis", that is, "art for the sake of art".
"Pokemon effect" that revived GameBoy will not work here - they don't produce the Jaguars anymore, and they don't have a big corporation behind them funding them and marketing the game...
(Seriously, though: I use ssh for work, TinyFugue for play and netcat for scripts. =)
Reading Jakob Nielsen's "Why Advertising Doesn't Work on the Web" might be fruitful.
Well, I'll try seeing if it can be used to fsck around with my Blender-produced animations... ::sigh:: I wish I had a faster machine with some free card slots so I could get a video board.
Yesterday Microsoft Finland's open jobs page reported some jobs beginning at 1900. It was fixed faster than whetever, but I heard from local Holy War newsgroup it was yesterday in evening TV news... =)
They had let an "ASP Guru" loose at some point and, well, the results looked like it...
As far as personal problems: Well, it's 20:01 here and everything is fine... so far. I doubt anything special happens.
I tried to see the page with Mozilla M12, and it said I need either NS 3.x/4.x or Redmondian equivalent of thereof.
So... in order to view the site, I need a historical browser, instead of a browser of the future!
It's probably just a PR stunt. You know, they probably thought that people come in and just think "damn, another boring museum site!"... and in order to make you to feel the thrills of history and probably nostalgia - to see in what kind of hell the people of yesterday needed to browse the web in, they want you to downgrade!
Good marketing! =)
It's interesting to see that these days, you don't need to =)
Likewise: I read an article from an old computer mag about two school kids who HaX0r3d their way into ARPANET. Much noise. I don't think that much noise would result now if someone would get an illegitimate net access.
Likewise: Now no one will make noise if someone hAx into a machine that has Quake and Golgotha source. Is "openness equals less noise from hax0r front" something?
(Mindless Rambling of the Day brought to you by wolf on the run - sorry if this has any typos, I'm typing this from Nokia 9110 while in train =)
Classics too - I have sent the virus warning to everyone who tells me about Good Times or related things. =)
There's one thing that generally just annoys the hell out of me (okay, I'm rambling and this isn't really on-topic, but is kind of related, bear with me - I know ABA suggested alternative methods): Credit card as an age validation method. Well, I'm adult, and I don't have a credit card, and neither will I get one in near future. I don't have had any problems with this in Finland, I have a passport, I have a driving lisence, and if I wouldn't have those I could always get an ID card that has a photograph. All of those are generally accepted. And as for mail order/net shopping payments, I ask the sender to send the bill with the package.
No problems, until I decided that I really don't have any use for my GeoCities site and I might as well nuke it. I had not updated it for ages (last time way back in the Pre-Yahoo era when they didn't even forced to put the ads there, just a link to GeoCities main page). It thought I was born in 1998 (how it deduced that, I have no idea). To prove that Yes, I'm Adult And I Have A Right To Nuke My Site I should have given some information, and, of course, my credit card number which I don't have, because I don't have a credit card. I mailed them about this, but the solution still involved credit cards.
Also, the local credit card company don't like the idea of sending credit card info over the 'net, no matter how badly you try to tell what kind of cool encryption schemes you used.
Lesson learned? If you design these systems, don't depend on the credit cards as a form of age verification. Plus, even if I would have a credit card, I would still be suspicious about this kind of verification - Abuse of the number would not be too hard...
All I got as a comment was that some people had problems with the graphics. (This happened during the time the 4.0 browsers had just come out.) I told them that a) the graphics really don't matter that much, and b) the new browsers (and quite a number of old browsers) do support PNG.
I haven't needed alpha channel support or stuff like that at all. Heck, I hate animated gifs (unless they're really funny or otherwise clever, that is - but as for others, I just hate them).
Lesson learned? You Can Live Without The GIFs these days. The support already is there, and it is coming up nicely.
I don't care if it has yet another toolkit or set of protocols. I just want that the program works.
Okay, it's a bit confusing to use Yet Another New Toolkit. But it's just a matter of getting used to it, anyway. Take Blender's user interface - granted, it might have been cool and the executable smaller if it had used GTK+, but since it works, I don't care that it uses toolkit that's not used elsewhere.
I would, however, have flinched if they had said the program uses Athena widgets. But even then, I would have used the program. =)
Discriminating programs based on the widget set is just silly.
And what comes to Drag'n'drop, I'm sure they haven't come up with something silly like things that are completely incompatible with the status quo.
**bong** argumentum ad hominem. And our next contestant...
BTW, when DeluxePaint will be ported to Linux? The local former Amiga users seem to really want that ported. =) I, too, have hard time 'cuz DeluxePaint 5 doesn't always run properly in UAE...
"3D File System Navigator for IRIX 4.0.1+ - As seen in 'Jurassic Park'!"