I know it's early here (~7:30AM) but am I the only one who read it as:
Real Quietly Releases Morse Code
And I'm thinking, how in the hell is Morse code quiet?!?!
I'm glad we don't have a bias one way or another here at/.. I mean, "In a nutshell: while Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld were announcing to the American public that these tubes were slam-dunk evidence of Iraq's nuclear ambitions, they already knew that there was completely overwhelming evidence that the tubes were just for artillery rockets (as Iraq said) and that the tubes were totally unsuitable for use in centrifuges" screams "I'm a Democrat, I hate Republicans!" to me.
I tried EQ back in December, but didn't like it. I promptly returned to UO. I (At this point) would never leave UO. If they charged me even more, I would still play. The community is hte greatest!
I'd hate to see players leave. If it empties out, I don't know where'd I go... Maybe back to Raganrok, I hear the latest beta is quite nice.
I'm a senior at my school, and started the club this year. Though it really fell through, I have one thing to say. People are not interested in Opensource, and Linux. No one was even remotely interested in it. I offered to give presentations on it, show it off, show what it could do. All anybody wanted to do was play Quake. Don't get me wrong, but there's more to computers than Quake.
I kept the chrooted Apache availible, I just don't ever start it or use it. Instead, I installed Apache 2. But considering I'm not doing any mission critical stuff -- I'm really not too worried. Perhaps all I have to worry about now is getting the speed of my CGI scripts up... But maybe that's just because they're running on a Pentium 100. =)
Um... Actually the act says that it only applies if you something with a value of $1,000 or more. So just don't build up $1,000 of Mp3's, Porn, Movies, Warez, etc. I think that's quite simple... Except that since a hammer costs $500... Who's to say that your 2 minute and 30 second mp3 isn't valued at 50 hajillion dollars!?
Because I'm there! No really, this sounds like a great idea for information sharing, just release everything that you have, so noone can complain your holding back.
I get the feeling the suits might not be that happy, but the geeks will. =)
For attack BNetD, I think this should happen. I personally feel that the DMCA will just kill all companies eventually. Because lets face it:
If you played Pong, that means you played a game, perhaps you looked at pong when you wrote your current game. You had fun in Pong, and you have fun in your game... So who's to say you didn't reverse engineer "fun"?
From visiting your SourceForge project page, it says your license is the GPL. While I have nothing against the GPL, I'm confused on how you plan to relicense all the code from FreeBSD. Please so explain. =)
Perhaps I'm missunderstanding, but M$ is giving Xp away for free?
Or are they giving software that runs on XP away for free?
Which one?
Heh, I wished they'd mail me a new Debian CD... I don't free like burning one... =)
Oh well, I can suffer 10 Minutes of torturous burning for a lifetime of joy. =)
Well, this seems true to me!
Over the past 2 weeks or so, I've barely been able to use RR because of DHCP server problems.
While I wouldn't consider dropping RR, I am considering paying for a full time dialup isp, or finding a replacement for RR.
Anybody know of a broadband servive in Houston, Texas for $40 a month?
Since I'm on a SoundBlaster16 ISA (Yes, the really old, NonPNP one) sound seems bad to begin with. I have a pair of $20 ($19.99) speakers plugged into the sound card, so sound sounds somewhat like noise.
I have used ogg for about a year now, and I must say , it's been progressing very nicely. RC2 sounds much better than RC1. I like oggs, just because it's open source technology in action. So that's what I use. However, it does have some problems.
I've been using MP3 since back in the days of FTPing them was just about the only other option besides dcc'n them. =) And I do like Mp3s also, but since it's got that closed source going for it, I do tend to stay away from them if at all possible. However, don't get me wrong, they are still good if there isn't another way around them.
Now onto conversion. *Don't attempt to convert from MP3 to ogg, you'll get a bad first impression of ogg.* When you convert you lose so much quality that it just isn't worth it.
The last thing I'd like to point out is your sound drivers. For those dual booters out there, play a song on Windows. Reboot to Linux or BSD, and play the same song. Sounds better? OSS has a richer sound quality. 'Nuff said. And for the brave Linux people, try using ALSA. Play the same song as before. Decide which one you like, and stick with it. I personally use OSS/Lite because I like it better than ALSA, but I've heard people say ALSA is better for certain cards. (Mainly the SB Live)
To summerize all that, I use ogg because I like the way it sounds, and because it's open source. Besides, since it's open source, there is room for improvement.
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I know it's early here (~7:30AM) but am I the only one who read it as:
Real Quietly Releases Morse Code
And I'm thinking, how in the hell is Morse code quiet?!?!
If your's is chop liver, then I hope by the time I graduate there's a piece left for me. I've still got 2 years left.
Doesn't the Woz play Segway polo?
I'm glad we don't have a bias one way or another here at /.. I mean, "In a nutshell: while Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld were announcing to the American public that these tubes were slam-dunk evidence of Iraq's nuclear ambitions, they already knew that there was completely overwhelming evidence that the tubes were just for artillery rockets (as Iraq said) and that the tubes were totally unsuitable for use in centrifuges" screams "I'm a Democrat, I hate Republicans!" to me.
Because his parents named him "Orrin".
If you were named Orrin, wouldn't you be a little crazy too?
Thought so!
I tried EQ back in December, but didn't like it. I promptly returned to UO. I (At this point) would never leave UO. If they charged me even more, I would still play. The community is hte greatest!
I'd hate to see players leave. If it empties out, I don't know where'd I go... Maybe back to Raganrok, I hear the latest beta is quite nice.
Any suggestions?
I'm a senior at my school, and started the club this year. Though it really fell through, I have one thing to say. People are not interested in Opensource, and Linux. No one was even remotely interested in it. I offered to give presentations on it, show it off, show what it could do. All anybody wanted to do was play Quake. Don't get me wrong, but there's more to computers than Quake.
Hope it works out for you.
I've spent the past few hours skimming/reading through the book, and have laughed nonstop!
What a great book... And much of it applies today still.
I learned all sorts of neat things, such as: "start with the Microsoft Windows metaphor, which
was designed and hand coded in assembler."
Windows was written in pure assembler? Pfft... That's some crappy assembly then... I've never seen assembley run so slow! =)
Or what about this one from page 197:
"If You Can't Fix It, Restart It!"
Hmm... Now I know where Microsoft got there, "you need to restart for the changes to take effect" thing. =)
Great book, just wish I could find a dead-tree copy for less than $350!!!
Do you think Microsoft wonders why there's been a sudden surge of people registering too many times per liscence with the same key? =)
I didn't want to register more than once... The software made me do it!
Dupe!
Hmm...
Spam tacos...
or Spam burgers?
Duplicate spam burgers! Twins!
Hahaha!
I kept the chrooted Apache availible, I just don't ever start it or use it.
Instead, I installed Apache 2.
But considering I'm not doing any mission critical stuff -- I'm really not too worried.
Perhaps all I have to worry about now is getting the speed of my CGI scripts up... But maybe that's just because they're running on a Pentium 100. =)
Rock on OpenBSD!
One leg at a time?
Man! I usually just hop in, much like Batman changes as he slides down the pole into the Bat-cave!
Na-na-na-na-Batman!
Hehe.
The ATM in the WalMart by us runs Windows.
And it crashes, gives blue screens, and popup error messages all the time.
Who needs security when the system can't even run stabily?
Um... Actually the act says that it only applies if you something with a value of $1,000 or more. So just don't build up $1,000 of Mp3's, Porn, Movies, Warez, etc. I think that's quite simple... Except that since a hammer costs $500... Who's to say that your 2 minute and 30 second mp3 isn't valued at 50 hajillion dollars!?
Morning CT, this is a duplicate story. =)
I have 4.6 running in our office, never had any problems, but with all the talk of the improvements, I'm tempted to upgrade.
Is this stuff ready for "prime time?"
Because I'm there!
No really, this sounds like a great idea for information sharing, just release everything that you have, so noone can complain your holding back.
I get the feeling the suits might not be that happy, but the geeks will. =)
For attack BNetD, I think this should happen. I personally feel that the DMCA will just kill all companies eventually. Because lets face it:
If you played Pong, that means you played a game, perhaps you looked at pong when you wrote your current game. You had fun in Pong, and you have fun in your game... So who's to say you didn't reverse engineer "fun"?
From visiting your SourceForge project page, it says your license is the GPL. While I have nothing against the GPL, I'm confused on how you plan to relicense all the code from FreeBSD.
Please so explain. =)
Perhaps I'm missunderstanding, but M$ is giving Xp away for free?
Or are they giving software that runs on XP away for free?
Which one?
Heh, I wished they'd mail me a new Debian CD... I don't free like burning one... =)
Oh well, I can suffer 10 Minutes of torturous burning for a lifetime of joy. =)
True, and even more technically I left out stdio.h and string.h... But who's going to try to do this anyway? =)
#include "myisp.h"
char *ssh = "Secure SHell";
char *vpn = "Virtual Private Network";
if (!strcmp(MY_ISP, "crazy") && !strcmp(ssh, vpn)) {
printf("Time to get a new ISP!");
}
else {
printf("Woo Hoo!");
}
If only they'd be free.
Then I'd REALLY want one more than I do now! =)
Well, this seems true to me!
Over the past 2 weeks or so, I've barely been able to use RR because of DHCP server problems.
While I wouldn't consider dropping RR, I am considering paying for a full time dialup isp, or finding a replacement for RR.
Anybody know of a broadband servive in Houston, Texas for $40 a month?
Since I'm on a SoundBlaster16 ISA (Yes, the really old, NonPNP one) sound seems bad to begin with. I have a pair of $20 ($19.99) speakers plugged into the sound card, so sound sounds somewhat like noise.
I have used ogg for about a year now, and I must say , it's been progressing very nicely. RC2 sounds much better than RC1. I like oggs, just because it's open source technology in action. So that's what I use. However, it does have some problems.
I've been using MP3 since back in the days of FTPing them was just about the only other option besides dcc'n them. =) And I do like Mp3s also, but since it's got that closed source going for it, I do tend to stay away from them if at all possible. However, don't get me wrong, they are still good if there isn't another way around them.
Now onto conversion. *Don't attempt to convert from MP3 to ogg, you'll get a bad first impression of ogg.* When you convert you lose so much quality that it just isn't worth it.
The last thing I'd like to point out is your sound drivers. For those dual booters out there, play a song on Windows. Reboot to Linux or BSD, and play the same song. Sounds better? OSS has a richer sound quality. 'Nuff said. And for the brave Linux people, try using ALSA. Play the same song as before. Decide which one you like, and stick with it. I personally use OSS/Lite because I like it better than ALSA, but I've heard people say ALSA is better for certain cards. (Mainly the SB Live)
To summerize all that, I use ogg because I like the way it sounds, and because it's open source. Besides, since it's open source, there is room for improvement.