I don't think that this type of thing is needed anymore for free software projects (or maybe even LUGs) now that SourceForge is available. It's free, supports PHP3 and CGI, provides free forums, mailing lists, FTP, CVS, and other stuff. This is more than enough for most projects.
Who takes hits from the bong between classes? The kid who watches his older brother doing it with his friends. The kid who has a Dad who burns more alcohol than a funny car. Combine the biology and environmental factors, and you have kids walking around looking for their next hit before they take the first one. Drugs bring violence and the addicts feed the drug trade.
This is a completely different issue. I take bong hits before class. I smoke a joint on the way to school. And this is not detrimental to me or others around me. I am still a contributing member of society. I work, I pay taxes, I go to school, I release free software. How does my drug use affect you or anybody else?
The war on drugs in another example of treating the symptoms of a problem. In some European countries, where marijuana is legal, where heroin is legal, there is MUCH less of a drug problem than there is in America. You can walk into a pharmacy and get yourself a dose of high-grade heroin, over the counter. While here in the U.S., our government is telling is what we can and cannot do to our own bodies!. No, I don't condone the use of drugs (nor do I count pot as a drug, BTW, anymore than I count tobacco or coffee as a drug - technically, they all are, but should not be in the same category as heroin or cocaine.) But I believe that our government has way too much say in what we can and cannot do. The war on drugs is destroying this country from the inside out. Did you know that 75% of all arrests in this country are for the possession of fucking marijuana?? 75 percent of people arrested are arrested because they want to be able to relax and have a good time, without bothering anybody. Talk about fucking ridiculous.
Dammit, now I've gone and rambled again and gotten completely off the topic. Oh well. I need a place to vent.
before they're willing to fix the obvious problem of too easy access to guns
No, no, HELL no. The problem is NOT too easy access to guns. The PROBLEM is gun laws. Many guns are illegal, and therefore have an appeal to them. If guns were legal, and people were taught early a healthy respect for guns, I believe that there would be far less violence in our country.
Note: I'm not from the South, I'm not a Republican, and I've never held a gun in my life.
That's because the US gun lobby is so strong that politicans try anything and everything else before they're willing to fix the obvious problem of too easy access to guns - because no matter how they handle it, it will lose them their next election. Hopefully the shakeup currently in progress (child safety locks, "smart" guns - wireless keys) will make simply discussing gun control less of an instant election loser...
Yup. I wish that politics weren't so much about getting elected and more about doing something important once in office. There are so many things that need reform in this country (gun control, drug laws, etc...) and it's not going to happen for a long while.
Thank God they didn't get a stupid judge in this case - that would have been bad news.
Lawsuits like this make me wish I wasn't an American. This country has way too many problems with trying to treat the symptoms of a problem rather than the causes of the problem. Example: all the shit that followed Columbine. People are cracking down on people dressing in black and being different than other people, rather than trying to figure out why these people have a tendancy to go nuts and start shooting. If they just looked at the problem in a larger scope, they would see that they are not the causes of the problem - the cause of this problem is people harassing these people because they are different, and the people who are trying to fix the problem are just making it worse.
Napster is big news these days. Anyone mentioning napster is guaranteed to plenty of free publicity.
True, but read on...
As far as I am concerned, this is nothing more than a publicity stunt to get his name in the papers, and to sell more albums.
I doubt it - Chuck D is very vocal against the RIAA and released a few songs free on the internet awhile back (1998?) They weren't mp3's, but this was before mp3's became so popular. They were some self-playing Windows programs or something like that. The RIAA quickly made him take them down, and he posted something on his web site encouraging people who had downloaded the songs to spread them as much as possible.
To be honest, I never tried napster until two days ago, and that was only to see what all the huballoo was really all about. I must say that I was extremely disappointed. There were many artists who were not even listed in the database. When I found artists that were listed, there were usually many copies of just a very small set of unique tracks.
This is because of the sheep-like behavior of most people in this country - they all listen to the same goddam songs. What's listed in Napster is what is available on people's computers who are currently logged on to Napster.
And then when I went to download those that I was actually interested in, I discovered that most of the sites were down or otherwise unavailable.
Wierd - I've always had pretty good luck with songs being online when it says they are.
I found the whole excercise basically a waste of time. Time that would have been better spent earning a living and then just buying the CDs that I want to hear.
Hahaha what did you expect? Napster is just a big waste of time, if you're spending a significant amount of time on it. But if you're just looking for a particular song or small group of songs, it definately pays off to check Napster first before going out onto web sites to find them, because if they're there it's much easier to find them than searching online (and don't even try to tell me that scour.net [which I haven't used in months, but last I checked only 1 out of maybe 5 songs listed was actually there] is better, because it's not)
I think it is about time they got around to writing a Mac version.
There already is one - there's one on this computer I'm using right now. I think it's called Macster, but I'm not sure where to get it (I'm pretty sure about the name, but I can't check now because I'm booted into LinuxPPC at the moment)
People have been predicting for a long time that AI is not far off, but it doesn't seem to be getting much closer. What are the biggest obstacles in the mission of creating a convincing AI algorithm (i.e. one that is indistinguishable from a real human being)? Is the barrier language, knowledge base, or something else entirely?
Gnome rules. Of all the desktop environments/toolkits I've programmed under (Win32/MacOS/Qt/Motif/GTK/Gnome/OpenLook), Gnome is definately the most pleasing to work with. It provides a lot of very useful widgets on top of what GTK provides and makes normally difficult GUI programming tasks much easier. Of course, there are definately some areas which I would have done differently, but on the whole, it's pretty damn good.
I want to thank Miguel and all the other Gnome developers for a job well done, and I hope to see even more cool stuff in the future (Evolution sounds really cool, I'm gonna go hunt for more information on it, or maybe an early version.)
BTW Damn Slashdot cut off my signature, it's supposed to read: PowerShell: The Terminal of the Future.
Cutting-edge graphics and music (on 286's, no less), an extremely compelling storyline, interesting characters, a large, rich universe, strategy, problem-solving, action....
Hahahahahaha hell yes! That game is phat. I still have a ~100mb DOS partition just for that game:-) I love getting stoned and playing battle mode.
Can someone please confirm whether Tom is indeed dead?
No, I'm sure he's not dead, otherwise it would have made Slashdot headlines. He probably got fed up with these goddamn trolls and the rest of the bullshit that Slashdot's comments section has deteriorated to and moved on to better places. I'm starting to get fed up with it as well.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free" -Linus Torvalds
Yep, it's done installing now, I'm typing this from my new FreeBSD box:-)
/usr/ports RULES!!! All I did was:
cd/usr/ports/x11/gnome make install
Wow... it downloaded gnome, realized it needed gtk, gnome-libs, and a bunch of other stuff, downloaded that, compiled, installed, and worked PERFECTLY. Wow. Another FreeBSD convert here (and I've only been running for 15 minutes!:-)
"Software is like sex- the best is for free" -Linus Torvalds
As a longtime (6+ years) Linux user, I'm installing FreeBSD 4.0 right now. I've never used it before, so we'll see how it works./usr/ports sounds verrrrry interesting...
As a side note, though, the damn FTP server keeps kicking me off and I have to keep reconnecting, and none of the other servers have 4.0. Well, it's a good thing this FTP install is well-written and I don't have to start over every time:-)
Anyway, I'm getting 70 KB/sec when it's working, so I guess it's not slashdotted too horribly:-) (although I've been kicked off probably 10 times in the last 5 minutes.... I want to go smoke a cigarette but want the install to keep going....)
"Software is like sex- the best is for free" -Linus Torvalds
The GIMP is just amazing... I remember 0.99 when I first downloaded it and though "hmmm.... this is kinda neat." Now (i.e. 1.1.18) this program is fucking PHAT! I can't believe how quickly GIMP has gone from a decent paint program to the best photo editor and straight up computer graphics program around. Once they fix a few small issues with the path tool, this program will be perfect.
Gimp was actually the reason my friend converted from MacOS to Linux yesterday. He's big-time into computer graphics and used Illustrator and Photoshop all the time - now he's a Gimp fiend. He had been using Gimp on my computer and finally broke down and wiped MacOS off his PowerBook (which I'm now using while lying in bed reading/. - he doesn't want to bring it to his dorm because he's afraid it'll get stolen so he leaves it at my house:-) Anyway, back to the Gimp. Gimp has some crazy features that even Photoshop and Illustrator don't (badass plugins, better gradient tool, better-than-photoshop-and-almost-as-good-as-illust rator path tool, great patterns, etc...) - and even better, it's free. I love it:-)
And now with this book online (which is downloading way too slowly right now - damn you people), it's a good time to be a Linux user:-) (yeah, yeah, FreeBSD, et al, too:-) As that British guy in "The Man Who Knew Too Little" says, "Happy days, Hawkins... happy days." (that's a phat movie, by the way. If you're not quite obsessed enough to boycott the MPAA, rent it)
Ergh... enough of this ramble. You can go back to reading about hot grits and listening to 11 year-olds ramble off all the swears they can spell.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free" -Linus Torvalds
I guess that's why they release these things in Japan first... they use Japan as a guinea (sp?) pig so that when they get to the US it actually works:-)
"Software is like sex- the best is for free" -Linus Torvalds
It appears to me that the tech/cyber culter's connection to drugs is mostly confined to the experience altering drugs vs. the stronger more addictive drugs. I see more programers on weed and/or LSD then crack and/or heroin. I think its because programmers are more often looking for new/altered experiences. Drugs like LSD and weed allow us to explore ourselves and our world in new ways. Whereas harder drugs (like heroin) are mostly associated with trying to 'escape' the real world, not learn about.
Does this ring true with anyone else?
Completely, dude... that's why I don't like drinking very much, and even when my roommates are all drinking 40's I take bong hits and watch "The Wall" on DVD (I know DVDs are bad, but the picture quality is so much nicer, and since I happened to buy a dxr2 I can watch it under Linux)
There's nothing I like better than smoking really good weed, eating barbecued hamburgers (marinated in Olde English 800:-), and doing something that makes me think (which is just about everything when I'm stoned:-)
"Software is like sex- the best is for free" -Linus Torvalds
My current pet program (PowerShell) came to be after a couple of bong hits. It's gotten more than 15,000 downloads since I released it (Jan 3rd, I think?) and I'm constantly getting email from people who love it. I took some bong hits, got really baked, got an idea, and started coding:-) So anybody that claims that drugs make you stupid is dead wrong.
I can also code some damn good Perl stoned, too:-)
"Software is like sex- the best is for free" -Linus Torvalds
I've always wanted to see Bolo ported to *anything* but a mac. There was a PC port a while back, but that was put off b/c of (sort of) licensing issues.
WinBolo is finished, and licensing issues have been cleared up (Stuart Cheshire, or whatever the original developer's name is, finally let go of his super-ego-trip)... unfortunately, I don't have the URL anymore, but I have a copy of it... email me (spong@glue.umd.edu) if you want it. Also, i talked to the developer about a possible Linux port, and he said he's considering it.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free" -Linus Torvalds
Installed M13, saw that it kind of sucked, and was about to delete it. Then, on a whim, I decided to copy the libraries from the Mozilla distro (lib* from the package directory) to/usr/lib. I discovered that old Mozilla libraries were floating around in there, and that it had apparently been linking to those! Once it overwrote those, I restarted Mozilla, and it's suddenly much quicker and much more stable. So if you're having stability problems, try this (also, don't forget to remove ~/.mozilla)
Just my little contribution to this conversation.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free" -Linus Torvalds
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think that this type of thing is needed anymore for free software projects (or maybe even LUGs) now that SourceForge is available. It's free, supports PHP3 and CGI, provides free forums, mailing lists, FTP, CVS, and other stuff. This is more than enough for most projects.
Who takes hits from the bong between classes? The kid who watches his older brother doing it with his friends. The kid who has a Dad who burns more alcohol than a funny car. Combine the biology and environmental factors, and you have kids walking around looking for their next hit before they take the first one. Drugs bring violence and the addicts feed the drug trade.
This is a completely different issue. I take bong hits before class. I smoke a joint on the way to school. And this is not detrimental to me or others around me. I am still a contributing member of society. I work, I pay taxes, I go to school, I release free software. How does my drug use affect you or anybody else?
The war on drugs in another example of treating the symptoms of a problem. In some European countries, where marijuana is legal, where heroin is legal, there is MUCH less of a drug problem than there is in America. You can walk into a pharmacy and get yourself a dose of high-grade heroin, over the counter. While here in the U.S., our government is telling is what we can and cannot do to our own bodies!. No, I don't condone the use of drugs (nor do I count pot as a drug, BTW, anymore than I count tobacco or coffee as a drug - technically, they all are, but should not be in the same category as heroin or cocaine.) But I believe that our government has way too much say in what we can and cannot do. The war on drugs is destroying this country from the inside out. Did you know that 75% of all arrests in this country are for the possession of fucking marijuana?? 75 percent of people arrested are arrested because they want to be able to relax and have a good time, without bothering anybody. Talk about fucking ridiculous.
Dammit, now I've gone and rambled again and gotten completely off the topic. Oh well. I need a place to vent.
before they're willing to fix the obvious problem of too easy access to guns
No, no, HELL no. The problem is NOT too easy access to guns. The PROBLEM is gun laws. Many guns are illegal, and therefore have an appeal to them. If guns were legal, and people were taught early a healthy respect for guns, I believe that there would be far less violence in our country.
Note: I'm not from the South, I'm not a Republican, and I've never held a gun in my life.
That's because the US gun lobby is so strong that politicans try anything and everything else before they're willing to fix the obvious problem of too easy access to guns - because no matter how they handle it, it will lose them their next election. Hopefully the shakeup currently in progress (child safety locks, "smart" guns - wireless keys) will make simply discussing gun control less of an instant election loser...
Yup. I wish that politics weren't so much about getting elected and more about doing something important once in office. There are so many things that need reform in this country (gun control, drug laws, etc...) and it's not going to happen for a long while.
Thank God they didn't get a stupid judge in this case - that would have been bad news.
Lawsuits like this make me wish I wasn't an American. This country has way too many problems with trying to treat the symptoms of a problem rather than the causes of the problem. Example: all the shit that followed Columbine. People are cracking down on people dressing in black and being different than other people, rather than trying to figure out why these people have a tendancy to go nuts and start shooting. If they just looked at the problem in a larger scope, they would see that they are not the causes of the problem - the cause of this problem is people harassing these people because they are different, and the people who are trying to fix the problem are just making it worse.
Napster is big news these days. Anyone mentioning napster is guaranteed to plenty of free publicity.
True, but read on...
As far as I am concerned, this is nothing more than a publicity stunt to get his name in the papers, and to sell more albums.
I doubt it - Chuck D is very vocal against the RIAA and released a few songs free on the internet awhile back (1998?) They weren't mp3's, but this was before mp3's became so popular. They were some self-playing Windows programs or something like that. The RIAA quickly made him take them down, and he posted something on his web site encouraging people who had downloaded the songs to spread them as much as possible.
To be honest, I never tried napster until two days ago, and that was only to see what all the huballoo was really all about. I must say that I was extremely disappointed. There were many artists who were not even listed in the database. When I found artists that were listed, there were usually many copies of just a very small set of unique tracks.
This is because of the sheep-like behavior of most people in this country - they all listen to the same goddam songs. What's listed in Napster is what is available on people's computers who are currently logged on to Napster.
And then when I went to download those that I was actually interested in, I discovered that most of the sites were down or otherwise unavailable.
Wierd - I've always had pretty good luck with songs being online when it says they are.
I found the whole excercise basically a waste of time. Time that would have been better spent earning a living and then just buying the CDs that I want to hear.
Hahaha what did you expect? Napster is just a big waste of time, if you're spending a significant amount of time on it. But if you're just looking for a particular song or small group of songs, it definately pays off to check Napster first before going out onto web sites to find them, because if they're there it's much easier to find them than searching online (and don't even try to tell me that scour.net [which I haven't used in months, but last I checked only 1 out of maybe 5 songs listed was actually there] is better, because it's not)
I think it is about time they got around to writing a Mac version.
There already is one - there's one on this computer I'm using right now. I think it's called Macster, but I'm not sure where to get it (I'm pretty sure about the name, but I can't check now because I'm booted into LinuxPPC at the moment)
People have been predicting for a long time that AI is not far off, but it doesn't seem to be getting much closer. What are the biggest obstacles in the mission of creating a convincing AI algorithm (i.e. one that is indistinguishable from a real human being)? Is the barrier language, knowledge base, or something else entirely?
I wonder how long it's gonna be before the Slashdot Effect takes down the DSL line he worked so hard to wire up? :-)
I use powershell every day here at work. One bash tab is running ssh, the other is running local programs, etc. I love powershell.
:-) I'm glad to see people like it.
:-)</plug>
Hehehe thanks
<plug>Everybody download PowerShell! You won't be disappointed
Gnome rules. Of all the desktop environments/toolkits I've programmed under (Win32/MacOS/Qt/Motif/GTK/Gnome/OpenLook), Gnome is definately the most pleasing to work with. It provides a lot of very useful widgets on top of what GTK provides and makes normally difficult GUI programming tasks much easier. Of course, there are definately some areas which I would have done differently, but on the whole, it's pretty damn good.
I want to thank Miguel and all the other Gnome developers for a job well done, and I hope to see even more cool stuff in the future (Evolution sounds really cool, I'm gonna go hunt for more information on it, or maybe an early version.)
BTW Damn Slashdot cut off my signature, it's supposed to read: PowerShell: The Terminal of the Future.
Can you say, "best game of all time"?
:-) I love getting stoned and playing battle mode.
Cutting-edge graphics and music (on 286's, no less), an extremely compelling storyline, interesting characters, a large, rich universe, strategy, problem-solving, action....
Hahahahahaha hell yes! That game is phat. I still have a ~100mb DOS partition just for that game
Can someone please confirm whether Tom is indeed dead?
No, I'm sure he's not dead, otherwise it would have made Slashdot headlines. He probably got fed up with these goddamn trolls and the rest of the bullshit that Slashdot's comments section has deteriorated to and moved on to better places. I'm starting to get fed up with it as well.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
oh, and matt, we have an officers' meeting tomorrow (I guess its today now) ;-)
:-) Next time, send me an email, 'kay? :-)
Heh.... you're lucky I was up late playing Zelda64
hahahaha offtopic, perhaps?
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
Grab the image, rawrite/dd it onto a floppy. FTP installations are supported, in fact... its the only way I install it! An ISO won't help you there...
/dev/fd0
I don't understand why people always say to use dd to make boot floppies. Why not just do this:
cp kern.img
?
Works fine for me here (under Linux, anyway)
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
Yep, it's done installing now, I'm typing this from my new FreeBSD box :-)
/usr/ports RULES!!! All I did was:
/usr/ports/x11/gnome
:-)
cd
make install
Wow... it downloaded gnome, realized it needed gtk, gnome-libs, and a bunch of other stuff, downloaded that, compiled, installed, and worked PERFECTLY. Wow. Another FreeBSD convert here (and I've only been running for 15 minutes!
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
As a longtime (6+ years) Linux user, I'm installing FreeBSD 4.0 right now. I've never used it before, so we'll see how it works. /usr/ports sounds verrrrry interesting...
:-)
:-) (although I've been kicked off probably 10 times in the last 5 minutes.... I want to go smoke a cigarette but want the install to keep going....)
As a side note, though, the damn FTP server keeps kicking me off and I have to keep reconnecting, and none of the other servers have 4.0. Well, it's a good thing this FTP install is well-written and I don't have to start over every time
Anyway, I'm getting 70 KB/sec when it's working, so I guess it's not slashdotted too horribly
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
The GIMP is just amazing... I remember 0.99 when I first downloaded it and though "hmmm.... this is kinda neat." Now (i.e. 1.1.18) this program is fucking PHAT! I can't believe how quickly GIMP has gone from a decent paint program to the best photo editor and straight up computer graphics program around. Once they fix a few small issues with the path tool, this program will be perfect.
/. - he doesn't want to bring it to his dorm because he's afraid it'll get stolen so he leaves it at my house :-) Anyway, back to the Gimp. Gimp has some crazy features that even Photoshop and Illustrator don't (badass plugins, better gradient tool, better-than-photoshop-and-almost-as-good-as-illust rator path tool, great patterns, etc...) - and even better, it's free. I love it :-)
:-) (yeah, yeah, FreeBSD, et al, too :-) As that British guy in "The Man Who Knew Too Little" says, "Happy days, Hawkins... happy days." (that's a phat movie, by the way. If you're not quite obsessed enough to boycott the MPAA, rent it)
Gimp was actually the reason my friend converted from MacOS to Linux yesterday. He's big-time into computer graphics and used Illustrator and Photoshop all the time - now he's a Gimp fiend. He had been using Gimp on my computer and finally broke down and wiped MacOS off his PowerBook (which I'm now using while lying in bed reading
And now with this book online (which is downloading way too slowly right now - damn you people), it's a good time to be a Linux user
Ergh... enough of this ramble. You can go back to reading about hot grits and listening to 11 year-olds ramble off all the swears they can spell.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
I guess that's why they release these things in Japan first... they use Japan as a guinea (sp?) pig so that when they get to the US it actually works :-)
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
.signature file :-)
Hahahahahahaha that's one of the funnier things I've read in awhile. It's going straight into my
Matt
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
What department is this from again?
heh.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
It appears to me that the tech/cyber culter's connection to drugs is mostly confined to the experience altering drugs vs. the stronger more addictive drugs. I see more programers on weed and/or LSD then crack and/or heroin. I think its because programmers are more often looking for new/altered experiences. Drugs like LSD and weed allow us to explore ourselves and our world in new ways. Whereas harder drugs (like heroin) are mostly associated with trying to 'escape' the real world, not learn about.
:-), and doing something that makes me think (which is just about everything when I'm stoned :-)
Does this ring true with anyone else?
Completely, dude... that's why I don't like drinking very much, and even when my roommates are all drinking 40's I take bong hits and watch "The Wall" on DVD (I know DVDs are bad, but the picture quality is so much nicer, and since I happened to buy a dxr2 I can watch it under Linux)
There's nothing I like better than smoking really good weed, eating barbecued hamburgers (marinated in Olde English 800
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
My current pet program (PowerShell) came to be after a couple of bong hits. It's gotten more than 15,000 downloads since I released it (Jan 3rd, I think?) and I'm constantly getting email from people who love it. I took some bong hits, got really baked, got an idea, and started coding :-) So anybody that claims that drugs make you stupid is dead wrong.
:-)
I can also code some damn good Perl stoned, too
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
I've always wanted to see Bolo ported to *anything* but a mac. There was a PC port a while back, but that was put off b/c of (sort of) licensing issues.
WinBolo is finished, and licensing issues have been cleared up (Stuart Cheshire, or whatever the original developer's name is, finally let go of his super-ego-trip)... unfortunately, I don't have the URL anymore, but I have a copy of it... email me (spong@glue.umd.edu) if you want it. Also, i talked to the developer about a possible Linux port, and he said he's considering it.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds
I just discovered something.
/usr/lib. I discovered that old Mozilla libraries were floating around in there, and that it had apparently been linking to those! Once it overwrote those, I restarted Mozilla, and it's suddenly much quicker and much more stable. So if you're having stability problems, try this (also, don't forget to remove ~/.mozilla)
Installed M13, saw that it kind of sucked, and was about to delete it. Then, on a whim, I decided to copy the libraries from the Mozilla distro (lib* from the package directory) to
Just my little contribution to this conversation.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
-Linus Torvalds