It's a plugin for ALSA that lets you play multiple sounds through the same channel at the same time. The format for the config file is a pain, but the following worked for me:
Put all this into a.asoundrc in your home dir:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix" }
Note that this is for a single sound card with a single audio channel, etc.
To test, try starting up two mplayers or something.
Even if it's not specifically in the job description, suspending the head librarian when people misuse library resources certainly puts the behavior-punishment chain in the correct place. The head librarian should be implementing sane policies that prevent things like this, and should be trying to provide a sliver of oversight for this stuff.
This is, of course, if the issue at hand really is people continually using library resources to view porn, and not a one-time thing, or the government calling breast cancer research "adult material", or anything dumb like that.
Savage as good history for Linux gamers? Savage was the game that was initially released for Linux, but was subsequently dropped from the patch cycle, and saw any complainers summarily ignored on its mailing lists.
It may have been a good effort at the beginning, but when I look for a Linux game, I want a commitment for patches and updates, not a one-off thing.
I could accept that, but then I see things like this, in which a reviewer (Parallax) defends a low score (5.9/10) by saying "That means it's above average!"
I think it'd be interesting to add up all the review scores ever given by a particular outlet and find their true average. I'm guessing it's higher than 50%.
"10. Video game magazines that spend months hyping a game as the second coming, lavishing it with praise and eagerly counting down to its release date, only to dismiss it when it comes out as third-rate, over-hyped crap."
It's up to the judge in your case, influenced by considerable precedent and the quality of the arguments of the two sides. If you have a decent judge, he'll take a look at the work as a whole. If you have a non-decent judge, well, that's what judicial elections are for.
Well, yeah. I consider "landing" to be different from "reentry". If the Shuttle is all automatic until the runway is lined up and in sight, and then the touchdown is finished off manually, I think most people would still consider that a manual landing.
Price matters too, of course. I watch a handful of movies a month, and for me, Blockbuster.com is a better deal. It's $15 a month (cheaper than NetFlix), and I get 2 free in-store rental coupons for those spur-of-the-moment times. I'm content enough with 3 at a time that I find I don't really care about the extra couple days it takes to get a new one. I just keep 2 in transit and watch the third.
"The "scientists" end up more worried about political maneuvering to make sure they get more funding in the next round than doing any actual science."
I've worked at NASA. The scientists are real, high-quality, and want nothing more than to be left alone to play with their vehicle models, wind tunnels, and plasma experiments.
"Popularity of this symptom does not in any way indicate that it is non-slimy in nature. Lying, sitting on truth, and massaging the truth are all equally slimy from my perspective, regardless of the quantity of fortune 500 companies that participate in those tactics."
Like the GP said, all major companies do this, and it's not necessarily an unethical thing to do. Consider a major policy meeting. Things are discussed, but nothing is decided. If no PR controls existing, 20 different newspapers could get 20 different takes on what was or was not decided, and what will be decided, based on the (mis-)interpretations of 20 different people. It's perfectly reasonable to not let an employee tell the Post that IBM is opening a new factory until it actually decides to open a new factory.
That's not to say that it can't be slimy. I'm just saying that a PR policy in and of itself doesn't have to be slimy.
Yes, but does it have the kind of wireless roaming that I'm talking about? NetworkManager on Fedora is a panel applet that detects all wireless networks in the area and lets you click on the one you want to connect to. If it's WEP, you type in the key and it remembers it for future sessions. And most importantly, it automatically selects either an available wired connection or your last-accessed available wireless network on boot.
Unfortunately, Linux users are pretty much stuck with WEP if they want to lead a pleasant existance. By far the easiest way to have wireless roaming capability on a laptop is to use NetworkManager on Fedora, and that doesn't yet support WPA. The only alternative that I can come up with is to write up a wpa_supplicant.conf file and do it that way, though you lose any semplance of user-friendliness.
I wouldn't want to come up with an actual good policy solution that will let parents and kids both keep their freedom and also reduce the harm that some of this stuff causes when it inevitably gets into their hands.
Rather, I think I'll just lobby the government to allow porn, liquor, and drugs to flow through the streets, then jail the parents of any kid who reaches out and touches it.
" How many Americans died in space in Apollo? Zero scaled by whatever is still zero."
How many Americans have died in space period? Of the space disasters, two of them have been on ground/liftoff (Apollo I, Challenger), one of them was a close call in space (Apollo 13), and the last was on reentry (Columbia). No space fatalities.
This is true of any Federal job, and most state government jobs as well. Any large commercial organization will also have this problem. It's not a NASA thing, it's an organizational thing.
I saw the case of a NASA employee sexually harass a student he was mentoring. He was told he couldn't mentor anyone else, but he wasn't fired.
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To test, try starting up two mplayers or something.
It's coming.
Here's some gameplay videos.
Even if it's not specifically in the job description, suspending the head librarian when people misuse library resources certainly puts the behavior-punishment chain in the correct place. The head librarian should be implementing sane policies that prevent things like this, and should be trying to provide a sliver of oversight for this stuff.
This is, of course, if the issue at hand really is people continually using library resources to view porn, and not a one-time thing, or the government calling breast cancer research "adult material", or anything dumb like that.
Savage as good history for Linux gamers? Savage was the game that was initially released for Linux, but was subsequently dropped from the patch cycle, and saw any complainers summarily ignored on its mailing lists.
It may have been a good effort at the beginning, but when I look for a Linux game, I want a commitment for patches and updates, not a one-off thing.
I could accept that, but then I see things like this, in which a reviewer (Parallax) defends a low score (5.9/10) by saying "That means it's above average!"
I think it'd be interesting to add up all the review scores ever given by a particular outlet and find their true average. I'm guessing it's higher than 50%.
"10. Video game magazines that spend months hyping a game as the second coming, lavishing it with praise and eagerly counting down to its release date, only to dismiss it when it comes out as third-rate, over-hyped crap."
How true.
It's up to the judge in your case, influenced by considerable precedent and the quality of the arguments of the two sides. If you have a decent judge, he'll take a look at the work as a whole. If you have a non-decent judge, well, that's what judicial elections are for.
How's its GNOME desktop? I've tried both GNOME and KDE, and I'm definitely in the market for a good GNOME distro.
Well, yeah. I consider "landing" to be different from "reentry". If the Shuttle is all automatic until the runway is lined up and in sight, and then the touchdown is finished off manually, I think most people would still consider that a manual landing.
"Blockbuster edits their movies for content, which is evil."
No it doesn't. I'm a subscriber. It doesn't.
Price matters too, of course. I watch a handful of movies a month, and for me, Blockbuster.com is a better deal. It's $15 a month (cheaper than NetFlix), and I get 2 free in-store rental coupons for those spur-of-the-moment times. I'm content enough with 3 at a time that I find I don't really care about the extra couple days it takes to get a new one. I just keep 2 in transit and watch the third.
There are a few services that do this (DVD Avenue is one).
NetFlix used to do adult titles, but stopped when they got support from Best Buy. I presume it was a term of the arrangement.
"All of the shuttle's 111 touchdowns to date have been done manually by astronauts instead of relying on the orbiters' current autopilot system."
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/or
Hard to believe this is merely a coincidence, but last month's Aerospace America cover story was on a very similar topic.
s /pdf/AA_July05_SIE.pdf
PDF of the article: http://www.aiaa.org/aerospace/images/articleimage
"The "scientists" end up more worried about political maneuvering to make sure they get more funding in the next round than doing any actual science."
I've worked at NASA. The scientists are real, high-quality, and want nothing more than to be left alone to play with their vehicle models, wind tunnels, and plasma experiments.
"Popularity of this symptom does not in any way indicate that it is non-slimy in nature. Lying, sitting on truth, and massaging the truth are all equally slimy from my perspective, regardless of the quantity of fortune 500 companies that participate in those tactics."
Like the GP said, all major companies do this, and it's not necessarily an unethical thing to do. Consider a major policy meeting. Things are discussed, but nothing is decided. If no PR controls existing, 20 different newspapers could get 20 different takes on what was or was not decided, and what will be decided, based on the (mis-)interpretations of 20 different people. It's perfectly reasonable to not let an employee tell the Post that IBM is opening a new factory until it actually decides to open a new factory.
That's not to say that it can't be slimy. I'm just saying that a PR policy in and of itself doesn't have to be slimy.
Yes, but does it have the kind of wireless roaming that I'm talking about? NetworkManager on Fedora is a panel applet that detects all wireless networks in the area and lets you click on the one you want to connect to. If it's WEP, you type in the key and it remembers it for future sessions. And most importantly, it automatically selects either an available wired connection or your last-accessed available wireless network on boot.
Well, and it's GNOME-based.
Unfortunately, Linux users are pretty much stuck with WEP if they want to lead a pleasant existance. By far the easiest way to have wireless roaming capability on a laptop is to use NetworkManager on Fedora, and that doesn't yet support WPA. The only alternative that I can come up with is to write up a wpa_supplicant.conf file and do it that way, though you lose any semplance of user-friendliness.
Good thing blaming the parents is damned easy.
I wouldn't want to come up with an actual good policy solution that will let parents and kids both keep their freedom and also reduce the harm that some of this stuff causes when it inevitably gets into their hands.
Rather, I think I'll just lobby the government to allow porn, liquor, and drugs to flow through the streets, then jail the parents of any kid who reaches out and touches it.
" How many Americans died in space in Apollo? Zero scaled by whatever is still zero."
How many Americans have died in space period? Of the space disasters, two of them have been on ground/liftoff (Apollo I, Challenger), one of them was a close call in space (Apollo 13), and the last was on reentry (Columbia). No space fatalities.
"He said it's impossible to fire anybody."
This is true of any Federal job, and most state government jobs as well. Any large commercial organization will also have this problem. It's not a NASA thing, it's an organizational thing.
I saw the case of a NASA employee sexually harass a student he was mentoring. He was told he couldn't mentor anyone else, but he wasn't fired.
I have the bandwidth limited :-)
And if you want it in Ogg, I'll have it on my website sometime soon:
http://fmp.homelinux.org/
"...the beta is available to MSDN subscribers and a pretty small set of pre-enrolled beta test participants."
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/27/44400
Hillary? You must be thinking of the esteemed Rep. Pickering, an author of both COPA and CIPA.