Just thought I'd point out that the M68k's didn't stop at 040.. They're up to at least 060, but I don't know how that stacks up to a Pentium or anything else..
However, I'm not sure that the M68k market is big enough investing games on (Alpha is probably popular enough, PPC might be, etc.. ARM probably won't happen since it doesn't have a math coprocessor..)
Hmm.. That Cantina song sounds like it was done by Weird Al (but maybe it just sounds that way.. I can't seem to find any reference to the song on CDNow..)
I have a small script I use to try and circumvent the esd problem.. Basically a 'wrapper' for the real player..
#!/bin/sh esdctl off realplay $* (ps ax|grep "realplay"|grep -v "grep" >/dev/null) || esdctl on
The first line turns off esd, and the last will see if the realplayer is still running when the script ends (meaning the script was called in order to change the stream that the player is playing... err.. that sounded mucky..) If it is still running, nothing happens. But if realplayer is no longer running, esd gets turned back on..
I get the most crashes (well, hangs actually) when I have Java enabled. I have decided that having little scrolling news items and whatnot aren't worth it, so I disale that..
Also, make sure you are running the correct version for your distribution of Linux! The libc5 version probably won't work very well on a glibc2 system, and vice-versa. You have to go get the 'unsupported' Linux 2.0 version..
I'm expecting to see the development kernel numbers climb pretty rapidly.. Probably a new one every day, with the occasional twice-a-day ones and the occasional skipped day.
Perhaps Rob/Hemos/someone can make a special 'Kernel' or 'Kernel-Development' news type that people can filter out. I'd actually recommend both types. That way, normal people can hear about the fixes to the stable end of things, and the people that love the bleeding edge can go out and grab the devel kernel..
Of course, I'm sure someone could just write a nifty script that fingers linux.kernel.org to update that stuff automatically (or maybe a slashbox.. hmm..)
Is DGA something similar? I know I've seen that around, but I can't really remember what it is..
Anyway, regarding X in general, I know that the XFree guys were asking for more people to help with their project in general -- I understand that 4.0 is pretty far behind where they'd like to be..
If I knew more about graphics, I'd probably try and help, but it's not my strong suit..
Wasn't it about two years ago when a man walked into an elementary school and killed several teachers?
Besides, when people don't have access to guns, they come up with different ways of killing. There have been plenty of bombs set off by the IRA in the UK..
Why the heck is everyone mentioning "DOOM"? The least they could do is go up the notch to Quake or Duke Nukem 3D.
Anyway, my opinion is that these guys were basically bored. They had some "spare cycles" in their heads, and ended up filling them with ideas about guns, bombs, and death. It's really not all that uncommon -- I know a lot of people that like guns, fire and explosions (dunno about death, tho). Guns are exciting. So is fire. So is destruction. That is why Quake sells.
The thing is that these guys crossed the line from mere idea to pure reality. It would be very difficult to know exactly what caused them to do that. Maybe drugs, maybe something else..
I went on college because I wanted to learn more about programming and computers. My high school didn't have much in the way of computer courses -- 'Computer Applications' was the only one. That was the class where the first week was spent telling you how to select text in a word processor. By going to college, I was hoping to understand more about what was going on 'under the hood'.
It doesn't seem to be happening.
Probably my greatest shock in college has been how bad the professors are. Many of them can't speak english very well at all (I wouldn't complain if the accents were slight enough so I could actually understand them, but I can't), and the Teaching Assistants are even worse! Even American Profs and TAs really teach very well -- I'd rather be back in high school!
I didn't come to college to drink, either. It's the most common form of social activity around here -- I'm sorry, I never got into that, and I probably never will. Yet, the social (drinking) part of college is one thing that people hold up on a pedestal.
College should be a place where people go to learn how to change the world, not become accustomed to the awful parts of it (drugs, bureaucracy, violence, rampant stupidity, etc.).
College has a great potential to do good, but it's not doing that (at least not where I am). Students and their families put forth good money so that the students can learn, but we're not learning.
I am still in college, but I'm definitely feeling stuck. I want to change how things are going on this campus, but I don't know how (and I'm only one person). I'm not sure how things will go for me in the near future -- maybe I'll actually manage to change something..
Absolutely. I learned a hell of a lot more (at least I felt that way) in high school, with teachers that were getting paid far less than they were worth. I had to start paying for school to see how bad things could really get..
That must be why I like PBS.. I don't particularly care for a lot of the classes at my University (the professors are getting worse -- pathetic..)
I personally went to college to learn more about computer stuff and I'm getting tired of the other stuff (IMO, I have to do way too much math.. I'd probably prefer being forced to take more history and whatnot..)
I guess I probably just should have gone to a tech college (but they way those ads go, they sound like they teach people that don't know anything about computers how to use them.. Besides, I'd rather be learning about UNIX at a University than NT at a tech school..)
One of these days, Rob will make an algorithm for moderating that is so complex it requires a supercomputer. Until that day, I'm sure he's having a lot of fun chewing up extra cycles on the main server;-)
Mozilla has several (a dozen or more) newsgroups.. They're on DejaNews somewhere (although I must admit that I've never been able to find them there on my own..)
You can still participate in discussion by pointing your favorite news reader to news.mozilla.org
I'd have to wonder exactly _when_ the Divx player would call.. When you start a movie? In the middle of the night?
Imagine the scenario of sitting around one evening. The phone rings, just as the family is heading to the den to watch a movie on their Divx player. A lot of people would say "Go ahead, start the movie, I'll be there in a minute," but the family probably wouldn't be able to start the movie because the phone line was in use!
The First Amendment is there for a reason. Lawyers have worked hard for a long time to chip away at what it actually means. If this is Microsoft, it's probably even more stupid -- they are entirely over-protective of whatever they think even might be theirs. The right to parody exists in the United States and on the Internet. Nobody should take that away (barring of course those cases where it puts lives at risk -- yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater or joking about bombs at the airport.. *sigh*)
I think that the problems would be more due to the limitations of the hardware, rather than the limitations of Linux..
If you had a Fibre-channel Linux box with 8-way SMP, plus multiple Ethernet cards and all the other goodies, I'm sure Linux would do just fine. I understand that there are problems when you go even higher, like 16+ processors -- but it's being worked on, of course.
I suppose it could mean that the $99 price is however much it costs for NT, plus $20.
But that doesn't make sense either, does it? The cost should either be the same as a Win98 install, or less. The price shouldn't be anywhere near the cost for NT (unless the extra charge for NT is zero..)
Wow, I guess it's good that I actually have a 3D accelerator. I checked out that Fire and Darkness demo -- pretty sweet (although it's limited to Mesa3D's 640x480, IIRC)./me wonders if he'll have any money after more games are running on Linux. Eek -- I need a bigger HD, too;-)
What's the second Linux game? I couldn't quite figure that out.
Well, I'm sure there are plenty of people that will jump at the chance to have Office on their Linux boxes. I'm not personally a fan of the program, but a lot of people like it. Offices (oops, sorry 'bout the pun) certainly need this if they want to move over to Linux and still be able to read all documents made by those programs..
Of course, my greatest fear with all of this is the possibility that Microsoft will hamper the performance of the software (I hear they did that with Office for Mac), and try to blame the OS for the problems..
Hopefully, that won't happen -- but you never know with Billy G. 'n' the Gang.
Slashdot Mirror
Good God Almighty! That server sure seems to have Slashdotted quick! ;-) (okay, I guess it's just a tad slow, the server hasn't died...yet)
Just thought I'd point out that the M68k's didn't stop at 040.. They're up to at least 060, but I don't know how that stacks up to a Pentium or anything else..
However, I'm not sure that the M68k market is big enough investing games on (Alpha is probably popular enough, PPC might be, etc.. ARM probably won't happen since it doesn't have a math coprocessor..)
Hmm.. That Cantina song sounds like it was done by Weird Al (but maybe it just sounds that way.. I can't seem to find any reference to the song on CDNow..)
Hmm.. marc.merlins.org seems to be pretty slow right now (that's the site that the scanned parody image was on..) Anyone have a mirror?
The first line turns off esd, and the last will see if the realplayer is still running when the script ends (meaning the script was called in order to change the stream that the player is playing... err.. that sounded mucky..) If it is still running, nothing happens. But if realplayer is no longer running, esd gets turned back on..
Hope that helps..
Two things for y'all..
I get the most crashes (well, hangs actually) when I have Java enabled. I have decided that having little scrolling news items and whatnot aren't worth it, so I disale that..
Also, make sure you are running the correct version for your distribution of Linux! The libc5 version probably won't work very well on a glibc2 system, and vice-versa. You have to go get the 'unsupported' Linux 2.0 version..
I'm expecting to see the development kernel numbers climb pretty rapidly.. Probably a new one every day, with the occasional twice-a-day ones and the occasional skipped day.
Perhaps Rob/Hemos/someone can make a special 'Kernel' or 'Kernel-Development' news type that people can filter out. I'd actually recommend both types. That way, normal people can hear about the fixes to the stable end of things, and the people that love the bleeding edge can go out and grab the devel kernel..
Of course, I'm sure someone could just write a nifty script that fingers linux.kernel.org to update that stuff automatically (or maybe a slashbox.. hmm..)
Bah.. That's no good.. If a broken ad server can prevent me from seeing /., someone has a wacky set of priorities ;-)
You sure seem to be right. By blocking adfu.blockstackers.com, the page turns black.. I suppose that could have been intentional..
Is DGA something similar? I know I've seen that around, but I can't really remember what it is..
Anyway, regarding X in general, I know that the XFree guys were asking for more people to help with their project in general -- I understand that 4.0 is pretty far behind where they'd like to be..
If I knew more about graphics, I'd probably try and help, but it's not my strong suit..
5000 users? They've been running with that many connections for a _long_ time..
Yikes! 'tis barely creeping along now.. Oh well, I can leave it run overnight ;-)
/mnt/isoimage -o loop
BTW, anyone know if you can you mount an iso image as a loopback device (just for peeking around?)
mount -t iso9660 image.iso
??
Wasn't it about two years ago when a man walked into an elementary school and killed several teachers?
Besides, when people don't have access to guns, they come up with different ways of killing. There have been plenty of bombs set off by the IRA in the UK..
Why the heck is everyone mentioning "DOOM"? The least they could do is go up the notch to Quake or Duke Nukem 3D.
Anyway, my opinion is that these guys were basically bored. They had some "spare cycles" in their heads, and ended up filling them with ideas about guns, bombs, and death. It's really not all that uncommon -- I know a lot of people that like guns, fire and explosions (dunno about death, tho). Guns are exciting. So is fire. So is destruction. That is why Quake sells.
The thing is that these guys crossed the line from mere idea to pure reality. It would be very difficult to know exactly what caused them to do that. Maybe drugs, maybe something else..
I went on college because I wanted to learn more about programming and computers. My high school didn't have much in the way of computer courses -- 'Computer Applications' was the only one. That was the class where the first week was spent telling you how to select text in a word processor. By going to college, I was hoping to understand more about what was going on 'under the hood'.
It doesn't seem to be happening.
Probably my greatest shock in college has been how bad the professors are. Many of them can't speak english very well at all (I wouldn't complain if the accents were slight enough so I could actually understand them, but I can't), and the Teaching Assistants are even worse! Even American Profs and TAs really teach very well -- I'd rather be back in high school!
I didn't come to college to drink, either. It's the most common form of social activity around here -- I'm sorry, I never got into that, and I probably never will. Yet, the social (drinking) part of college is one thing that people hold up on a pedestal.
College should be a place where people go to learn how to change the world, not become accustomed to the awful parts of it (drugs, bureaucracy, violence, rampant stupidity, etc.).
College has a great potential to do good, but it's not doing that (at least not where I am). Students and their families put forth good money so that the students can learn, but we're not learning.
I am still in college, but I'm definitely feeling stuck. I want to change how things are going on this campus, but I don't know how (and I'm only one person). I'm not sure how things will go for me in the near future -- maybe I'll actually manage to change something..
Absolutely. I learned a hell of a lot more (at least I felt that way) in high school, with teachers that were getting paid far less than they were worth. I had to start paying for school to see how bad things could really get..
That must be why I like PBS.. I don't particularly care for a lot of the classes at my University (the professors are getting worse -- pathetic..)
I personally went to college to learn more about computer stuff and I'm getting tired of the other stuff (IMO, I have to do way too much math.. I'd probably prefer being forced to take more history and whatnot..)
I guess I probably just should have gone to a tech college (but they way those ads go, they sound like they teach people that don't know anything about computers how to use them.. Besides, I'd rather be learning about UNIX at a University than NT at a tech school..)
One of these days, Rob will make an algorithm for moderating that is so complex it requires a supercomputer. Until that day, I'm sure he's having a lot of fun chewing up extra cycles on the main server ;-)
Mozilla has several (a dozen or more) newsgroups.. They're on DejaNews somewhere (although I must admit that I've never been able to find them there on my own..)
You can still participate in discussion by pointing your favorite news reader to news.mozilla.org
I'd have to wonder exactly _when_ the Divx player would call.. When you start a movie? In the middle of the night?
Imagine the scenario of sitting around one evening. The phone rings, just as the family is heading to the den to watch a movie on their Divx player. A lot of people would say "Go ahead, start the movie, I'll be there in a minute," but the family probably wouldn't be able to start the movie because the phone line was in use!
Silly people..
Bah.
The First Amendment is there for a reason. Lawyers have worked hard for a long time to chip away at what it actually means. If this is Microsoft, it's probably even more stupid -- they are entirely over-protective of whatever they think even might be theirs. The right to parody exists in the United States and on the Internet. Nobody should take that away (barring of course those cases where it puts lives at risk -- yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater or joking about bombs at the airport.. *sigh*)
I think that the problems would be more due to the limitations of the hardware, rather than the limitations of Linux..
If you had a Fibre-channel Linux box with 8-way SMP, plus multiple Ethernet cards and all the other goodies, I'm sure Linux would do just fine. I understand that there are problems when you go even higher, like 16+ processors -- but it's being worked on, of course.
I suppose it could mean that the $99 price is however much it costs for NT, plus $20.
But that doesn't make sense either, does it? The cost should either be the same as a Win98 install, or less. The price shouldn't be anywhere near the cost for NT (unless the extra charge for NT is zero..)
Wow, I guess it's good that I actually have a 3D accelerator. I checked out that Fire and Darkness demo -- pretty sweet (although it's limited to Mesa3D's 640x480, IIRC). /me wonders if he'll have any money after more games are running on Linux. Eek -- I need a bigger HD, too ;-)
What's the second Linux game? I couldn't quite figure that out.
Just think of it, you could put together a car that had more processing power than, well.. I guess I can't think of anything right now.
;-)
OO!
Hook it up to side-mounted display panels of some sort -- do all sorts of fun things with graphics
Well, I'm sure there are plenty of people that will jump at the chance to have Office on their Linux boxes. I'm not personally a fan of the program, but a lot of people like it. Offices (oops, sorry 'bout the pun) certainly need this if they want to move over to Linux and still be able to read all documents made by those programs..
Of course, my greatest fear with all of this is the possibility that Microsoft will hamper the performance of the software (I hear they did that with Office for Mac), and try to blame the OS for the problems..
Hopefully, that won't happen -- but you never know with Billy G. 'n' the Gang.