Now this is a war I could enjoy. Sun & IBM in an armsrace on who is going to free the most patents. I hope other companies don't want to be left out and start participating...
We are talking about the case that there are more serious issues. Some people have _jobs_ solving "serious" issues. Wheeling a cart with a monitor around the country isn't much fun, something portable would be very nice.
In the Unix world it's possible to use a serial cable, but AFAIK that's not possible.
btw, if you manage headless servers and you don't know what a serial cable might be good for, you'd better start googling.
You want to use your parallel port
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A USB Typewriter?
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I've got an old electric typewriter that has a parallel port. It works just like a regular printer (text only). Seems like that's what you need. But if you're just doing this for fun, be my guest and hack up an USB connection yourself.
I'm very surprised by the responses to this question? It's very unlike Slashdot to promote this kind of totalitarian, dictatorial solutions. I'm even more surprised those kids aren't defended by the slashdot crowd. Maybe they are spending a lot of time on the computer, but they are communicating and socializing. If you tell a geek "get a life" he'l get online. For many people the internet is the best and cheapest way of being in contact with other people. Consider all the other possible things teenagers tend to do. Hang around on the street, be part of a gang, be involved with crime and/or drugs, being drunk. None of them compare to being at home talking to other people You should realize that a computer is a very versatile device. Spending 4 hours behind a computer doesn't mean 4 hours of the same. Watching a movie, listening to music, talking to friends, researching an interest, playing a game and paying bills are all activities that can be done using a computer. Suggesting that they are all the same thing because all of them involve a computer is not very accurate. As a computer nerd almost all of my activities involve a computer in some way or they other. For me that's the most efficient way of working. Computers are tools, and very good tools in the hands of a professional. If I need to fix my bike, I'll use my computer to learn how to. If I want to go to the movies, I'll use the internet to find out what movies are playing, where, when and wheter or not there are tickets left. If I want to contact my brother (who is travelling around the world) I'll use my computer. If I need to pay my taxes, I'll do it using my computer. If I want to play a game of chess, I'll use my computer.
PS I wear jeans during all the activities described above. Nobody ever told me I spend to much time in jeans. A computer is just like a pair of glasses or jeans; something I'm using most of the day to make my life a little more comfortable.
Now tell this to everyone who wants to hear it. Firefox had a great start, and was covered in most newspapers. Let's make sure this story (IE's marketshare rapidly declining) gets heared aswell. Humans are herd animals. If everyone seems to be doing something, they will follow.
VIM is also the Dutch name of a cleaning product in The Netherlands, where Vim author Bram Moolenaar resides. It's probably the same company as the indian stuff, so this name match might not be completly accidental.
If you really like coffee, don't drink instant. If you didn't found this out by yourself you probably don't really like coffee, but are hiding your caffeine addiction from yourself (nothing wrong with that though:). There are three ways to go: 1. get the real deal (brew it yourself) 2. get caffeinated mints 3. get coffee-flavored candy
BTW, go for quality, not quantity. The American desire to "super-size" anything does not go well with coffee.
Fudforum a feature rich forum, which does everything you expect of a forum. This includes a decent user/groups/permissions system and file-attachments. Fudforum is available under the GPL. It's possible to get commercial support from the developers. They'll give you support, or even host it for you. Check them out at http://fud.prohost.org/
That would be the TI-84SE . Allthough the 89/200 series have better hardware, the 83 has been used a lot more by college students. And we all know that those are the most fanatic gamers.
Now why are the releasing the.exe before they release it on Steam? The best reason I can think of is to protect the Steam network from overloading. As we see with pretty much any update to Half-Life or Counter-Strike. Steam was supposed to be resistent to slashdotting, but it clearly can't stand the stress. Valve should have made it a distributed network, so everybody can add their own mirrors, instead of relying on a few, frequently down dedicated servers.
Lrrd is great for graphing. You can graph anything through a simple script, and a lot of example script are allready included. Lrrd uses a single server that polls one or more clients for information. Nagios is better at monitoring the network as a whole, and responding to events. If for example a router goes down, nagios knows that the servers behind it will be unreachable as well, and won't bother you with alerts for them. As nagios can also react to events, it would be possible to change the default route to route around the broken router.
This would have been a lot more interesting if he had actually used his tool to compare Linux to eg FreeBSD. This would test his software and proof its usefullness. It would give us a much better picture of what BSD code is in Linux, and be a great help in determining if SCO has any rights to any of it.
At least half of the CS players I know play with a "borrowed" key. Many of those players will not go out and buy a access. If they need to spend money, they are going to buy the latest game. Not access to a 5 year old game. On the other hand, they could bundle it with HL2. If you get free access to HL1 if you buy HL2, that would be an incentive for many too finally shell out the cash for a legal copy of HL.
How many people will be able to play at once in a single multiplayer game?
No comment.
You have been tight lipped about multiplayer from the start... is there anything you can tell us? C'mon!
Prepare to taste the future.
Is he hinting at distributed servers or what. One of the cools things about the original HL was that level loading was done seamless, allowing people to move back and forward through the game. Extrapolating this to game servers brings us to players roaming from server to server, without them realizing so.
In my experience two things are absolutly necessary. The first is a lot of power. A 100 computers are using up more power then any domestic power network can handle. Unless you are in a place with some kind of special powersuply (if they don't know, they don't have it) you will need a generator. Even when you have a hughe power surpluss, do not allow anyone to use other electrical machines. People will dragg in freezers, beamers and amplifiers that will take down your powergrid. The second important thing is good switches. You will have to make sure that leechers will not disturb gamers. Another benefit of good switches is that you can use them to block DHCP. There will always somebody who brought his own DHCP server. Figuring out who it is can be hell.
I'd use it. I have a speady computer with a fast ATI Radeon 9700. Unfortunatly the drivers do not support UT2K3. I get 20 FPS which sucks bigtime. I guess even the software renderer will do better.
I don't do backdoors, but there are Eastereggs in all code I ever sold. More than once I have been asked to remove my name from the Splash/About screen, because it didn't look "professional" or some other bs reason. It makes me feel much safer if I have a way to prove I wrote some program.
Actually, http is faster. FTP keeps open another connection to control the file transfer. This connection also uses bandwith, just a little bit, but enough to matter.
First: I consider this rant by an experienced coder and long time unix user very childish. HOWEVER This is exactly the experience the average Windows will have. eg: He complains about the sucky mplayer GUI. I know how to control it with the keyboard. To me (typical slashdot geek) mplayer is intuitive. But it isn't to inexperienced users. They depend on a perfectly working GUI, they probably don't even realize there are other ways (CLI). What bothers me is that he does know Unix. Even without trying he can do more with it than most users ever will. If he doesn't like it, forget about your mom on Linux.
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Now this is a war I could enjoy. Sun & IBM in an armsrace on who is going to free the most patents. I hope other companies don't want to be left out and start participating...
We are talking about the case that there are more serious issues. Some people have _jobs_ solving "serious" issues. Wheeling a cart with a monitor around the country isn't much fun, something portable would be very nice.
In the Unix world it's possible to use a serial cable, but AFAIK that's not possible.
btw, if you manage headless servers and you don't know what a serial cable might be good for, you'd better start googling.
I've got an old electric typewriter that has a parallel port. It works just like a regular printer (text only). Seems like that's what you need. But if you're just doing this for fun, be my guest and hack up an USB connection yourself.
I'm very surprised by the responses to this question? It's very unlike Slashdot to promote this kind of totalitarian, dictatorial solutions. I'm even more surprised those kids aren't defended by the slashdot crowd. Maybe they are spending a lot of time on the computer, but they are communicating and socializing. If you tell a geek "get a life" he'l get online. For many people the internet is the best and cheapest way of being in contact with other people.
Consider all the other possible things teenagers tend to do. Hang around on the street, be part of a gang, be involved with crime and/or drugs, being drunk. None of them compare to being at home talking to other people
You should realize that a computer is a very versatile device. Spending 4 hours behind a computer doesn't mean 4 hours of the same.
Watching a movie, listening to music, talking to friends, researching an interest, playing a game and paying bills are all activities that can be done using a computer. Suggesting that they are all the same thing because all of them involve a computer is not very accurate. As a computer nerd almost all of my activities involve a computer in some way or they other. For me that's the most efficient way of working. Computers are tools, and very good tools in the hands of a professional.
If I need to fix my bike, I'll use my computer to learn how to.
If I want to go to the movies, I'll use the internet to find out what movies are playing, where, when and wheter or not there are tickets left.
If I want to contact my brother (who is travelling around the world) I'll use my computer.
If I need to pay my taxes, I'll do it using my computer.
If I want to play a game of chess, I'll use my computer.
PS I wear jeans during all the activities described above. Nobody ever told me I spend to much time in jeans. A computer is just like a pair of glasses or jeans; something I'm using most of the day to make my life a little more comfortable.
Now tell this to everyone who wants to hear it. Firefox had a great start, and was covered in most newspapers. Let's make sure this story (IE's marketshare rapidly declining) gets heared aswell. Humans are herd animals. If everyone seems to be doing something, they will follow.
VIM is also the Dutch name of a cleaning product in The Netherlands, where Vim author Bram Moolenaar resides. It's probably the same company as the indian stuff, so this name match might not be completly accidental.
If you really like coffee, don't drink instant. If you didn't found this out by yourself you probably don't really like coffee, but are hiding your caffeine addiction from yourself (nothing wrong with that though :).
There are three ways to go:
1. get the real deal (brew it yourself)
2. get caffeinated mints
3. get coffee-flavored candy
BTW, go for quality, not quantity. The American desire to "super-size" anything does not go well with coffee.
... so they could claim their on-site guarantee.
Fudforum a feature rich forum, which does everything you expect of a forum. This includes a decent user/groups/permissions system and file-attachments.
Fudforum is available under the GPL.
It's possible to get commercial support from the developers. They'll give you support, or even host it for you.
Check them out at http://fud.prohost.org/
That would be the TI-84SE . Allthough the 89/200 series have better hardware, the 83 has been used a lot more by college students. And we all know that those are the most fanatic gamers.
Now why are the releasing the .exe before they release it on Steam? The best reason I can think of is to protect the Steam network from overloading. As we see with pretty much any update to Half-Life or Counter-Strike. Steam was supposed to be resistent to slashdotting, but it clearly can't stand the stress. Valve should have made it a distributed network, so everybody can add their own mirrors, instead of relying on a few, frequently down dedicated servers.
DOOM3 & Half-Life 2, if I can have those two I don't care about the rest.
Lrrd is great for graphing. You can graph anything through a simple script, and a lot of example script are allready included.
Lrrd uses a single server that polls one or more clients for information.
Nagios is better at monitoring the network as a whole, and responding to events. If for example a router goes down, nagios knows that the servers behind it will be unreachable as well, and won't bother you with alerts for them. As nagios can also react to events, it would be possible to change the default route to route around the broken router.
As long as Condition Zero hasn't been released, HL2 won't be either. After HL2 has been released, no market will be left for CZ.
This would have been a lot more interesting if he had actually used his tool to compare Linux to eg FreeBSD. This would test his software and proof its usefullness. It would give us a much better picture of what BSD code is in Linux, and be a great help in determining if SCO has any rights to any of it.
At least half of the CS players I know play with a "borrowed" key. Many of those players will not go out and buy a access. If they need to spend money, they are going to buy the latest game. Not access to a 5 year old game. On the other hand, they could bundle it with HL2. If you get free access to HL1 if you buy HL2, that would be an incentive for many too finally shell out the cash for a legal copy of HL.
In my experience two things are absolutly necessary. The first is a lot of power. A 100 computers are using up more power then any domestic power network can handle. Unless you are in a place with some kind of special powersuply (if they don't know, they don't have it) you will need a generator. Even when you have a hughe power surpluss, do not allow anyone to use other electrical machines. People will dragg in freezers, beamers and amplifiers that will take down your powergrid.
The second important thing is good switches. You will have to make sure that leechers will not disturb gamers. Another benefit of good switches is that you can use them to block DHCP. There will always somebody who brought his own DHCP server. Figuring out who it is can be hell.
I'd use it. I have a speady computer with a fast ATI Radeon 9700. Unfortunatly the drivers do not support UT2K3. I get 20 FPS which sucks bigtime. I guess even the software renderer will do better.
Cool, this one's really fast for me. Fully saturated at 300K . 3DDownloads gives me 60K max.
I don't do backdoors, but there are Eastereggs in all code I ever sold. More than once I have been asked to remove my name from the Splash/About screen, because it didn't look "professional" or some other bs reason. It makes me feel much safer if I have a way to prove I wrote some program.
http://casper.zvdk.nl/~casper/audioscrobblerinstal ler.pl
Please be gentle, only 16Kb up.
This software is allready in Debian, so all you Debian heads, save the author's website, and install with:
# apt-get install wayv
(well, actually sudo aptitude install wayv for me, but that's beside the point)
Actually, http is faster. FTP keeps open another connection to control the file transfer. This connection also uses bandwith, just a little bit, but enough to matter.
First: I consider this rant by an experienced coder and long time unix user very childish.
HOWEVER
This is exactly the experience the average Windows will have.
eg: He complains about the sucky mplayer GUI. I know how to control it with the keyboard. To me (typical slashdot geek) mplayer is intuitive. But it isn't to inexperienced users. They depend on a perfectly working GUI, they probably don't even realize there are other ways (CLI).
What bothers me is that he does know Unix. Even without trying he can do more with it than most users ever will. If he doesn't like it, forget about your mom on Linux.