There was, once upon a time, a PC Speaker driver for linux - but that was in the 1.2/1.3 days. The PC Speaker and the hardware that drives it is simply too crummy for any music use. Plus, any D/A conversion must be performed in software. It's also mono. And anymore, most everybody has a soundcard.
Any OS is going to be attackable? That is simply not true. The problem is a bug in Microsoft's scripting code. This bug is not present in other email clients. Therefore, it will not affect other operating systems.
I couldn't agree more. Just having a CAD program doesn't mean its any good, regardless of what TUCOWS says. And even if it is any good - is it good enough for professional use? My first reaction is to say no. I have never used the software, but I would like, for a moment to compare a typical free 3D modeller to a typical commercial one. There is no comparison, really. Blender not withstanding, most free modellers are truly horrendous. Products such as 3D Studio, Softimage, Maya, etc. are _really_ expensive for a good reason: they're difficult to make. It will take a very well organized free software movement indeed to break into these specialize markets.
I as well noticed the ad. Not only did I notice it, but I'm extremely dissapointed. While I understand the neccessity for advertisements, I've already had it up to here with adfu. (Put's the Slo in SLashdOwt) Don't get me wrong, I love the show, but this is quite honestly a little much.
Is fill rate really that much of a consideration? I mean, you have one polygon for a window, plus whatever decorations you choose... not that much at all.
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Imagine being able to film a seen from 1000 angles at once - any angle - without any trusses! That'll be as soon as we get their gigatic cameras down to the size of a fly. But still with some (very) intelligent interpolation, you could proably build a decent 3d model on the fly. (pun unintened:)
1. Perl has a _great_ CGI module. 2. Perl is very good at proccessing text. (valuable when doing web programming) 3. C/C++ tend to crash much harder than perl does. A minor bug in perl may be catastrophic in C++. As bjarne stroustrup said, "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow away your whole leg!" 4. Perl is fun!
There's an astounding number of do-it-yourselfers that have never considered installing linux. Take high schoolers, for example. In my high school, I was the only one I knew who had ever used unix. But I had a great many acquaintances who had saved up and built their own computers. If a CD came with the motherboard, and had the corel ease use thing goin', I think there's a good probablilty for success. Remember, today's high schoolers are tomorrows programmers.
Heehee, look at the bottom of the page: This research was supported by DARPA under Contracts #N66001-96-C-852, #MDA972-95-1-0013, and #DABT63-95-C-0073. Additional support was provided by the AT&T Foundation, and the Hewlett-Packard, Tandem Computer, and Intel Corporations.
Well, I go to RPI, and what you said is pretty much right on the button. Just this year they migrated all their DHCP servers to NT. When the new freshman class came in - whammo! You didn't need that ip address anyway, did you? The rumor is that M$ is giving gigantic discounts to the school to use MSVC as the "official" compiler for all the CS courses. Of course, I've also heard that they're paying the school to use NT on the servers.
Overall, it's not a bad place if you get a static ip and stay away from the NT boxes.
I haven't heard anybody say this yet. From the article, this looks to be completely different that what I expected. It's like a lanparty... but for programming! I'm definately signing up for the next one, if it's at least a little closer. Jeez, can you think of anything cooler?
When IBM announced "support" of the 600E, I saw nothing more than a web page with some directions and links. The directions were almost exactly the same as those found elsewhere.
I have yet to see a single good use for VRML. This may be due to the fact that there aren't any good browsers for linux, but i've seldom run across anything other than a novelty site that even has VRML on it. Though I'm sure I'll be proved wrong...
Here at rpi, the DHCP servers were just switched to NT. Consequence? When I actually get assaigned an IP address, I feel fortunate. But why did they change them? Well, apparently MS cut a deal with the school -- cheap office and windows licenses if we use NT server. Good lord! I just hope they keep the web servers on AIX.
I'm still amazed by this AirPort thing -- does anybody know of anything similar that will go in an x86 pc? By similar, I mean cool like AirPort, especially the 11mbs part.
The article says that SGI will integrate IRIX with Linux and release the result. Their changes may or may not be integrated into the kernel sources, and thus may or may not be widely adopted. I can easily see SGI supporting their own version of the kernel...bad news!
Nevertheless, this certainly is exciting -- I always like to see this kind of thing happening.
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There was, once upon a time, a PC Speaker driver for linux - but that was in the 1.2/1.3 days. The PC Speaker and the hardware that drives it is simply too crummy for any music use. Plus, any D/A conversion must be performed in software. It's also mono. And anymore, most everybody has a soundcard.
Any OS is going to be attackable? That is simply not true. The problem is a bug in Microsoft's scripting code. This bug is not present in other email clients. Therefore, it will not affect other operating systems.
I couldn't agree more. Just having a CAD program doesn't mean its any good, regardless of what TUCOWS says. And even if it is any good - is it good enough for professional use? My first reaction is to say no. I have never used the software, but I would like, for a moment to compare a typical free 3D modeller to a typical commercial one. There is no comparison, really. Blender not withstanding, most free modellers are truly horrendous. Products such as 3D Studio, Softimage, Maya, etc. are _really_ expensive for a good reason: they're difficult to make. It will take a very well organized free software movement indeed to break into these specialize markets.
I as well noticed the ad. Not only did I notice it, but I'm extremely dissapointed. While I understand the neccessity for advertisements, I've already had it up to here with adfu. (Put's the Slo in SLashdOwt) Don't get me wrong, I love the show, but this is quite honestly a little much.
Does anybody know where I can buy a daytrading Larch tree?
Is fill rate really that much of a consideration? I mean, you have one polygon for a window, plus whatever decorations you choose... not that much at all.
Imagine being able to film a seen from 1000 angles at once - any angle - without any trusses! :)
That'll be as soon as we get their gigatic cameras down to the size of a fly. But still with some (very) intelligent interpolation, you could proably build a decent 3d model on the fly.
(pun unintened
1. Perl has a _great_ CGI module.
2. Perl is very good at proccessing text. (valuable when doing web programming)
3. C/C++ tend to crash much harder than perl does. A minor bug in perl may be catastrophic in C++. As bjarne stroustrup said, "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow away your whole leg!"
4. Perl is fun!
There's an astounding number of do-it-yourselfers that have never considered installing linux. Take high schoolers, for example. In my high school, I was the only one I knew who had ever used unix. But I had a great many acquaintances who had saved up and built their own computers. If a CD came with the motherboard, and had the corel ease use thing goin', I think there's a good probablilty for success. Remember, today's high schoolers are tomorrows programmers.
That's not entirely correct - my first distro was Redhat 2.2.
Heehee, look at the bottom of the page:
This research was supported by DARPA under Contracts #N66001-96-C-852,
#MDA972-95-1-0013, and #DABT63-95-C-0073. Additional support was provided
by the AT&T Foundation, and the Hewlett-Packard, Tandem Computer, and Intel
Corporations.
Overall, it's not a bad place if you get a static ip and stay away from the NT boxes.
But remember kernel 1.2.13? One of the most stable ever!
I haven't heard anybody say this yet. From the article, this looks to be completely different that what I expected. It's like a lanparty... but for programming! I'm definately signing up for the next one, if it's at least a little closer. Jeez, can you think of anything cooler?
It's like being redundant over and over again!
When IBM announced "support" of the 600E, I saw nothing more than a web page with some directions and links. The directions were almost exactly the same as those found elsewhere.
The least Hemos and Taco could do is make a cursory glance over the front page. 'course, you can't really complain about something free.
I have yet to see a single good use for VRML. This may be due to the fact that there aren't any good browsers for linux, but i've seldom run across anything other than a novelty site that even has VRML on it. Though I'm sure I'll be proved wrong...
that Caldera's new distro will be called "DR Linux"?
Here at rpi, the DHCP servers were just switched to NT. Consequence? When I actually get assaigned an IP address, I feel fortunate. But why did they change them? Well, apparently MS cut a deal with the school -- cheap office and windows licenses if we use NT server. Good lord!
I just hope they keep the web servers on AIX.
Excuse me while I go puke....
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I'm still amazed by this AirPort thing --
does anybody know of anything similar that will go in an x86 pc? By similar, I mean cool like AirPort, especially the 11mbs part.
That would be comparing something that __does__ exist(G4) to something that will probably NEVER exist! (IA64)
Nevertheless, this certainly is exciting -- I always like to see this kind of thing happening.