If i recall correctly, Concorde did her maiden flight in 1968 so it must've been designed in the early 60's. Those fancy LCD's just didn't exist back then. And no, you just can't, or atleast you shouldn't, redesign the cockpit of old supersonic yet just because some cool new gear is available nowadays. The old stuff just works.
Have you ever had change to work with high-end IBM servers? We've about a dozen and a half of them at my work and I can assure you Linux couldn't handle the load these servers have to handle on any hardware Linux supports. We're talking about 365+ days uptimes with load average ~20, peaks at ~80. 4-12 processors, 1-4GB of RAM per server. Though you really can't compare load number of RS/6000 to your Linux desktop box which starts to crawl after reaching 5 but you get the idea.
I mean I really love Linux. I have a web/router/gateway server at home running Linux. I have a desktop at home running Linux. I have a desktop at work running Linux. But still I admit Linux isn't as strong as AIX when it comes to high-end enterprise-level computing. And this is something IBM wants to change. And it's very cool, we should be happy about it. But let's acnowledge the current facts.
Oh yes, you must be one of those Americans, the great nation that inhabits planet Unkasam all alone. And that planet is ruled by a government, better known as The Government.
Seriously, what's your puny government going to do if, say, Chinese, "came out tommorow with the solution for *all* of these"?
Yet again someone has to say this, but you never can't emphasize this message enough: Your're not alone, Yanks.
Basically, it displays the current time, user@host and the current working directory in a cool way. No colors or anything, but short and functional.
And the best thing about it is that you can remember a short prompt like that so you'll always have it available when using bash shell, try doing that with all that aNSi crap:)
Actually, I'm proud of my little prompt, I've designed it all by myself;)
When all the games are released on DVD discs like they now comes on CD's, we'll need lots of new bandwidth to pirate games. If nothing else, that'll keep The Internet growing.
Has The Internet Peaked? Hell no! I sure hope those mushrooms were tasty.
And because of your personal opinions (which are just fine, of course) Dell should've chosen KDE instead? Doubt it.
Besides, whaddya mean with And it (KDE) has better development tools for generating applications? Have you tried to program a KDE app with Perl for instance? Well, I've with Perl and Gtk. It's damn easy and quick to create good-looking GUI-apps with Perl/Gtk with just a few lines. And besides the usual C, C++ and Perl you could also choose Python, Scheme, Lisp, Objective-C, Ocaml, ADA95, Pike or Pascal (did I miss something?). Impressive list, eh? With KDE you're pretty much bound to C++.
Which development tools are you talking about? KDevelop maybe? It's cool if you like IDEs but who needs'em when you have vim or emacs or + a couple of xterms? It's the same compiler behind the binaries anyway.
Well I admit that last one was quite a troll but so was the whole post I tried to reply.
Last few presidents of the States have shown that at some point, they all have to fight a little war to insure their bright future after the precidency and at the same time, gain some more political and economical profit to their country.
So let's play a little guessing game. What will be the first target Mr. Bush or Mr. Gore attacks and when will this happen?
If (and when, unfortunately it looks like that at the moment:( ) Bush is elected, I'd say it'll be sooner rather than later but it's hard to speculate about the target. Though I'd guess Middle East since if we're talking about Middle East, we're always talking about oil either directly or not so directly, but oil is always related to Middle East issues somehow and Bush sure knows something about oil.
If Gore is going to be the new president, he might wait a couple of years but someday he'll fight too. Clinton has shown that also Democrats can arrange nice little attacks. The place? Just a lucky guess... Some small Central American country where extreme left guerrillas have captured some important Americans (say, the senator of California and his family) but the commando operation to bring'em back fails and this is discovered by the media. So the president have to do something in order not to loose faces entirely and that something could be finish off those commies. Not entirely directly, though. Of course the operation would be led by corrupted local officials. But at least the Government of the USA would cry it loud they're involved with the instability in the area, unlike a few decades ago.
What's your bet?
And we have to figure out the prize, too... Slashdot ID below 1000?
> 2. If you're planning on using a 3d accelerated graphics card i.e. (Rage 128, 3dfx, etc), you must have DRI support compiled into your kernel with the appropriate kernel module for your card. There is a new Mesa for XFree86 4.0.1 that has builtin support for DRI; however, there is a problem with this package. It does not include the libGLU(a subset of the Mesa library) static library or header files. This means that you must manually extract libGLU from the existing Woody Mesa package and copy it into/usr/local/lib/whatever if you plan on running 3d apps that depend on libGLU(almost all!). _Plase_ check your facts before posting.
See that? Thanks to the patch made by Craig Dunwoody, the latest phase2 package and the first package upload to woody contains the GLU library. Before that patch you had to do that ugly stuff you mentioned, though. But not anymore.
> 4. Try to avoid emailing Branden at all costs. He's been less than friendly to me, and I know other people who have had similar experiences. This is pretty natural reaction if you ask me. What would you feel if you'd receive a couple of dozens of mails daily all asking the same thing: when on earth are you going to do those XFree86 4.0 debs you lazy dog? But, for (sometimes) more intellectual conversation, there's an excellent mailing list available, debian-x@lists.debian.org . Folks over there, that includes Branden, are glad to help you with all the problems you may encounter regarding the XFree86 4.0 debs. Though be sure to crawl through the debian-x list archive before asking simple questions. It's pretty likely it has already been asked and answered. Especially if it has something to do with the 3rd-party 3D drivers.
> 2) You need to find ttmkfdir if you want to use Truetype fonts, mkfontdir doesn't do it. I don't know if there is a Debian package either.
There is a Debian package containing tool that'll do fonts.dir file for your, namely mkttfdir(1) which is part of the package fttools.
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(This is completely off-topic but had to post anyway)
Actually you don't have to boot Windows to play Counter-Strike. Half-Life works with WINE under Linux with modern 3Dfx, nVidia or Matrox card for sure. I'm not 100% sure about FreeBSD, though. Check out Emulated Half-Life for downloadable scripts but you don't have to be a guru type to figure out how to run it yourself.
Yes there are lots of animations in the Internet but these animations you linked to aren't made using Quake2 engine like this one but they are some QuickTime and Flash animations. That isn't exactly the same thing.
> Eazel's Nautilaus suffers from GNOME's achille heel. Have you seen the requirements to install this *file manager*? Did you forgot that Nautilus is a file manager FOR The GNOME Desktop? Therefore I think it's perfectly reasonable that it depends on GNOME libraries...
> Helix GNOME. Plain GNOME is not good enough. No sirree. And you can forget about GNOME 1.0. Fat chance of that working. Helix GNOME is plain GNOME. It's just bunch of pre-compiled packages for several distributions. There's absolutely no magick in it. It's just a way to distribute GNOME.A bit like Debian, RedHat and SuSe are ways to distribute Linux. And what's wrong with GNOME version 1.2.4 that Helix GNOME is based on? It's the latest stable version, you know. AFAIK binaries compiled against GNOME 1.0 libraries will work perfectly fine with GNOME 1.2 libs.
> Mozilla. Oh dear god... Enough said here. I'll be penalized for saying this, but Mozilla on Linux is really looking sad these days. It does not even work on glibc 2.0 even if you hand compile it. Trust me. Very sad. You don't like it, you don't use it. It's that simple. Besides why on earth are you bitching Mozilla here? I thought this was about Nautilus and GNOME. Though you are (or will be) able to mix GNOME and Mozilla... And why is it so terrible if Mozilla doesn't work with glibc 2.0? Now that Debian 2.2 is released, how many new glibc 2.0 based distros are there anyway?
Hi Peter, I'd be glad to mail you about Helsinki/Espoo if I'd know your e-mail address. I guess you forgot to log in since you've posted as an AC. You can contact me via e-mail.
Hi Peter, I'd be glad to mail you about Helsinki/Espoo if I'd know your e-mail address. I guess you forgot to log in since you've posted as an AC. You can contact me via e-mail.
Bah, in case you didn't already d/l the zip with programs that required for this hack, here's the most interesting part: At the time of this writing (5/5/00), only a handful of cities (San Francisco, Seattle, and various Universities) have Metricom coverage. What is Metricom you ask? Metricom is the company that provides wireless internet access service to people with Ricochet modems. Plus they sell the modems. As far as I can tell, Metricom makes the modems, so Ricochet & Metricom are pretty much synonymous. So this is not for you, if A) you live outside the States B) you aren't among those 1% of Americans why live in a city with Metricom coverage (yes, one percent.) C) you want to use this with your box running Linux/BSD/Mac/Place_your_favourite_non-Windows_OS_ here. There's only driver for Windows 9x.
The site doesn't respond. I wonder why. Does someone with fast access have that page in cache or something so he/she could setup a mirror of this page?
I don't think even a candidate, who actually has some chances to be elected, could be such stupid and express radical opinions on something that would piss off hundreds of thousands of potential voters. Even if he/she is American. Better say nothing and gain votes from all the camps than get all the votes of camp A and get zero votes from camp B. That's pretty nave but ir's how the story goes.
Does anyone still remember the time when "virus" (or "virii or whatever) meant skillfully coded peace of assembly code, not terribly written script that practically anyone can write after one hour of studying?
But on the other hand, these thingies seem to spread a bit faster than the good ol' viriis. Big thanks to Microsoft for that.
Slashdot Mirror
I noticed the site is getting slow so I decided to mirror the Technology Demo. It's 3.9MB and available here:
http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/u1_tech.zip
worldtrade_plane2.wmv - Too bad it's in Windows media format :(
If someone managed to get the videos mentioned in the story before they were slashdotted, I'd be happy to host'em on my box with 100Mbit/s connection.
If i recall correctly, Concorde did her maiden flight in 1968 so it must've been designed in the early 60's. Those fancy LCD's just didn't exist back then. And no, you just can't, or atleast you shouldn't, redesign the cockpit of old supersonic yet just because some cool new gear is available nowadays. The old stuff just works.
Why the hell is this modetated Troll?
Have you ever had change to work with high-end IBM servers? We've about a dozen and a half of them at my work and I can assure you Linux couldn't handle the load these servers have to handle on any hardware Linux supports. We're talking about 365+ days uptimes with load average ~20, peaks at ~80. 4-12 processors, 1-4GB of RAM per server. Though you really can't compare load number of RS/6000 to your Linux desktop box which starts to crawl after reaching 5 but you get the idea.
I mean I really love Linux. I have a web/router/gateway server at home running Linux. I have a desktop at home running Linux. I have a desktop at work running Linux. But still I admit Linux isn't as strong as AIX when it comes to high-end enterprise-level computing. And this is something IBM wants to change. And it's very cool, we should be happy about it. But let's acnowledge the current facts.
What "the government"?
Oh yes, you must be one of those Americans, the great nation that inhabits planet Unkasam all alone. And that planet is ruled by a government, better known as The Government.
Seriously, what's your puny government going to do if, say, Chinese, "came out tommorow with the solution for *all* of these"?
Yet again someone has to say this, but you never can't emphasize this message enough: Your're not alone, Yanks.
export PS1="(\t)(\u@\h)(\w)\$ "
Basically, it displays the current time, user@host and the current working directory in a cool way. No colors or anything, but short and functional.
And the best thing about it is that you can remember a short prompt like that so you'll always have it available when using bash shell, try doing that with all that aNSi crap :)
Actually, I'm proud of my little prompt, I've designed it all by myself ;)
When all the games are released on DVD discs like they now comes on CD's, we'll need lots of new bandwidth to pirate games. If nothing else, that'll keep The Internet growing.
Has The Internet Peaked? Hell no! I sure hope those mushrooms were tasty.
Hmm RedHat you say, eh... Corel used Debian as base for their distro :)
And because of your personal opinions (which are just fine, of course) Dell should've chosen KDE instead? Doubt it.
Besides, whaddya mean with And it (KDE) has better development tools for generating applications? Have you tried to program a KDE app with Perl for instance? Well, I've with Perl and Gtk. It's damn easy and quick to create good-looking GUI-apps with Perl/Gtk with just a few lines. And besides the usual C, C++ and Perl you could also choose Python, Scheme, Lisp, Objective-C, Ocaml, ADA95, Pike or Pascal (did I miss something?). Impressive list, eh? With KDE you're pretty much bound to C++.
Which development tools are you talking about? KDevelop maybe? It's cool if you like IDEs but who needs'em when you have vim or emacs or + a couple of xterms? It's the same compiler behind the binaries anyway.
Well I admit that last one was quite a troll but so was the whole post I tried to reply.
So let's play a little guessing game.
What will be the first target Mr. Bush or Mr. Gore attacks and when will this happen?
If (and when, unfortunately it looks like that at the moment :( ) Bush is elected, I'd say it'll be sooner rather than later but it's hard to speculate about the target. Though I'd guess Middle East since if we're talking about Middle East, we're always talking about oil either directly or not so directly, but oil is always related to Middle East issues somehow and Bush sure knows something about oil.
If Gore is going to be the new president, he might wait a couple of years but someday he'll fight too. Clinton has shown that also Democrats can arrange nice little attacks. The place? Just a lucky guess... Some small Central American country where extreme left guerrillas have captured some important Americans (say, the senator of California and his family) but the commando operation to bring'em back fails and this is discovered by the media. So the president have to do something in order not to loose faces entirely and that something could be finish off those commies. Not entirely directly, though. Of course the operation would be led by corrupted local officials. But at least the Government of the USA would cry it loud they're involved with the instability in the area, unlike a few decades ago.
What's your bet?
And we have to figure out the prize, too... Slashdot ID below 1000?
> 2. If you're planning on using a 3d accelerated graphics card i.e. (Rage 128, 3dfx, etc), you must have DRI support compiled into your kernel with the appropriate kernel module for your card. There is a new Mesa for XFree86 4.0.1 that has builtin support for DRI; however, there is a problem with this package. It does not include the libGLU(a subset of the Mesa library) static library or header files. This means that you must manually extract libGLU from the existing Woody Mesa package and copy it into /usr/local/lib/whatever if you plan on running 3d apps that depend on libGLU(almost all!).
/usr/lib/libGLU.so.1.3
_Plase_ check your facts before posting.
~ $ dpkg -S libGLU.so.1
xlibmesa3:
See that? Thanks to the patch made by Craig Dunwoody, the latest phase2 package and the first package upload to woody contains the GLU library. Before that patch you had to do that ugly stuff you mentioned, though. But not anymore.
> 4. Try to avoid emailing Branden at all costs. He's been less than friendly to me, and I know other people who have had similar experiences.
This is pretty natural reaction if you ask me. What would you feel if you'd receive a couple of dozens of mails daily all asking the same thing: when on earth are you going to do those XFree86 4.0 debs you lazy dog? But, for (sometimes) more intellectual conversation, there's an excellent mailing list available, debian-x@lists.debian.org . Folks over there, that includes Branden, are glad to help you with all the problems you may encounter regarding the XFree86 4.0 debs. Though be sure to crawl through the debian-x list archive before asking simple questions. It's pretty likely it has already been asked and answered. Especially if it has something to do with the 3rd-party 3D drivers.
Hope that helped.
> 2) You need to find ttmkfdir if you want to use Truetype fonts, mkfontdir doesn't do it. I don't know if there is a Debian package either.
There is a Debian package containing tool that'll do fonts.dir file for your, namely mkttfdir(1) which is part of the package fttools.
(This is completely off-topic but had to post anyway)
Actually you don't have to boot Windows to play Counter-Strike. Half-Life works with WINE under Linux with modern 3Dfx, nVidia or Matrox card for sure. I'm not 100% sure about FreeBSD, though. Check out Emulated Half-Life for downloadable scripts but you don't have to be a guru type to figure out how to run it yourself.
In case the transfer speed is slow for you, you can try downloading the source from my box which is at the end of a 100mbit/s pipe. Here:
g z (80MB)
http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/oo_605_src.tar.
Yes there are lots of animations in the Internet but these animations you linked to aren't made using Quake2 engine like this one but they are some QuickTime and Flash animations. That isn't exactly the same thing.
HardlyWorkin-UE- DM2-Install.exe
Got it from that horrible FTP site running Serv-U.
Here
:)
Now everyone go show me that Slashdot effect! I don't believe in it until my very own box is down
> Eazel's Nautilaus suffers from GNOME's achille heel. Have you seen the requirements to install this *file manager*?
Did you forgot that Nautilus is a file manager FOR The GNOME Desktop? Therefore I think it's perfectly reasonable that it depends on GNOME libraries...
> Helix GNOME. Plain GNOME is not good enough. No sirree. And you can forget about GNOME 1.0. Fat chance of that working.
Helix GNOME is plain GNOME. It's just bunch of pre-compiled packages for several distributions. There's absolutely no magick in it. It's just a way to distribute GNOME.A bit like Debian, RedHat and SuSe are ways to distribute Linux.
And what's wrong with GNOME version 1.2.4 that Helix GNOME is based on? It's the latest stable version, you know. AFAIK binaries compiled against GNOME 1.0 libraries will work perfectly fine with GNOME 1.2 libs.
> Mozilla. Oh dear god... Enough said here. I'll be penalized for saying this, but Mozilla on Linux is really looking sad these days. It does not even work on glibc 2.0 even if you hand compile it. Trust me. Very sad.
You don't like it, you don't use it. It's that simple.
Besides why on earth are you bitching Mozilla here? I thought this was about Nautilus and GNOME. Though you are (or will be) able to mix GNOME and Mozilla...
And why is it so terrible if Mozilla doesn't work with glibc 2.0? Now that Debian 2.2 is released, how many new glibc 2.0 based distros are there anyway?
Hi Peter,
I'd be glad to mail you about Helsinki/Espoo if I'd know your e-mail address. I guess you forgot to log in since you've posted as an AC. You can contact me via e-mail.
Hi Peter,
I'd be glad to mail you about Helsinki/Espoo if I'd know your e-mail address. I guess you forgot to log in since you've posted as an AC. You can contact me via e-mail.
Five days ago there was an Ask Slashdot article regarding this topic. You might want to check it out.
Bah, in case you didn't already d/l the zip with programs that required for this hack, here's the most interesting part: At the time of this writing (5/5/00), only a handful of cities (San Francisco, Seattle, and various Universities) have Metricom coverage. What is Metricom you ask? Metricom is the company that provides wireless internet access service to people with Ricochet modems. Plus they sell the modems. As far as I can tell, Metricom makes the modems, so Ricochet & Metricom are pretty much synonymous. So this is not for you, if A) you live outside the States B) you aren't among those 1% of Americans why live in a city with Metricom coverage (yes, one percent.) C) you want to use this with your box running Linux/BSD/Mac/Place_your_favourite_non-Windows_OS_ here. There's only driver for Windows 9x.
Hi,
The site doesn't respond. I wonder why. Does someone with fast access have that page in cache or something so he/she could setup a mirror of this page?
Thanks.
I don't think even a candidate, who actually has some chances to be elected, could be such stupid and express radical opinions on something that would piss off hundreds of thousands of potential voters. Even if he/she is American.
Better say nothing and gain votes from all the camps than get all the votes of camp A and get zero votes from camp B. That's pretty nave but ir's how the story goes.
Does anyone still remember the time when "virus" (or "virii or whatever) meant skillfully coded peace of assembly code, not terribly written script that practically anyone can write after one hour of studying?
But on the other hand, these thingies seem to spread a bit faster than the good ol' viriis. Big thanks to Microsoft for that.