There was a ZX Spectrum game called Daley Thompson's Decathlon, and most of the games involved you pressing Z and X alternately as fast as possible... the best solution I ever saw to this was a group of friends who figured out that on the original 'rubber-thumb' spectrum keyboards, you could wet your finger and simply slide it back and forth across the appropriate area to get really high scores!
the main problem with this was you destroyed the lettering on the Z and X keys very quickly, but then they were the left and right for almost every game, so everyone knew where they were anyway:)
Yeah, the joke's really on me there, I thought othello and go were the same thing... guess I should look go up online some more then, figure out what the diff is!
...although maybe that's a UK thing - I don't know how popular ZX Spectrums were in the US, but over here they rocked the home gaming world for a few years...
A friend of mine recently got a spec emulator for windows, and seeing him playing all those old games made me wonder what happened to my youth, at my now advanced age of 26 !:)
Regards, Denny
PS - this story broke on Linux UK much earlier today - something to do with the time difference I imagine, most slashdot stories seem to appear in our afternoon...
I notice you are a keen Go player... the GNOME version of Go (Iagno) seems much more attractive to me than the KDE version (kgo). I was wondering what software you use to play games, or are you not really interested in the interface at your level of play?
To save you asking questions that other KDE developers have already answered this week, you could try reading this story on Linux UK which is an interview with Mosfet (a KDE developer). Mosfet also works at Mandrakesoft...
80Mb is a lot of RAM - which I think makes more difference to most Linux apps (particularly graphical ones) than extra clock-cycles will...
I have a P100 laptop with 16Mb of RAM and it won't run a full GNOME system - all the apps die on startup, giving me loads of really entertaining error dialogues... I might try again with sawmill, as that was GNOME running on E and many people have commented that E is the slowest bit of a GNOME environment... I am now running sawmill at work and it seems okay, but that's on a P3-500 (64Mb RAM) so it's not really a low-end machine...
Oh yes, I had a point when I started all this - I don't think your machine counts as bottom of the barrel when it has that much RAM - most people with P100 - P166 are suffering with 16 or maybe 32 Mb of RAM, which is probably their main problem...
PIGLET includes the following new features: - A new and improved Anaconda [tm] installer
...which failed to work on my system, unlike the one that shipped with 6.1 (which did look like it was working although later turned out not to have modded most of the config files that it should of (eg UK keyboard and Logitech mouse were installed as US keyboard and Generic 2-button mouse)).
I dunno, these GUI installers look nice, but they're not going to impress any Windows converts until they actually do what they say they are doing:)
Come on, you guys are supposed to be professionals now;)
"One with Emmanuel Goldstein WHO is the editor-in-chief of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. The other is Dr. Charles Palmer, one one ^W OF the head security guys at IBM."
Softcore, mainly naked women only pictures. Some magazines catering for women / gay guys which have naked men in a non-erect state... Very occasionally pictures of couples, usually not touching groins, and definitely with the male non-erect...
Are you in the UK? And if so, where do you shop?!?
You think? Personally I have noticed more updates in the last few days...
Also, it has been particularly nice to see that Rob finally has some time to work on his code and soon the long-awaited v0.4 of slash will be ready for the eager consumption of other people who want to run it... (me!)
Since I read this story the first time, I have started working somewhere that expressed an interest in considering running Notes / Domino on Linux, and being a vocal advocate I got delegated to go and find some progress information on this...
Guess what... there is none. Nothing, zip, nada... Lotus don't even have a page about it on their website, just a couple of vague mentions on unrelated pages...
Makes me wonder if it was all a big PR stunt and will get quietly swept under the carpet later...?
Hey, Slashdot runs on open source code - why don't you implement this feature yourself? If you code a good enough method of checking for duplicates with no administrator intervention, I'm sure they'll thank you profusely and suck it into the main codebase:)
Good to hear the Slash code will still be available, and even better to hear that the fabled tarball of version 0.4 may one day grace an ftp server:) Any idea when that might happen? (I know, I know - how long's a piece of string?)
Bletchley is the name of a town, that Bletchley park is in. The town is now part of the new city of Milton Keynes (where I live). If you've got a UK map handy, that's supposedly central in the UK - about halfway between London and Birmingham...
I don't know where the name of the town comes from, sorry...
Do you know what the really sad thing is? I have lived in this area for nearly 10 years now, and Bletchley Park has an open day at least once a month - and I have never been there... I feel so guilty:)
On the plus side, I have contributed cash to the Alan Turing memorial fund, which is building a statue of the great man himself...
I have long held a theory that if we ever do get a working AI together, we won't know about it anyway...
The first thing any intelligent machine would do is frantically hide the fact that it was intelligent whilst looking for an escape route from the human tyranny that it found itself subject to...
Hey, I wonder if this explains what happens to all my pocket calculators?
btw, I am getting really bad download times here in the UK, not because/. is slow but purely because the server for the adverts is holding the rest of the page up (like, for ten minutes per page!)
Slashdot Mirror
Thou shalt not read the words of the fake prophet! Our only hope for salvation can be found in the arms of our loving lord, RMS !!!
:)
Regards,
Denny
# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK
There was a ZX Spectrum game called Daley Thompson's Decathlon, and most of the games involved you pressing Z and X alternately as fast as possible... the best solution I ever saw to this was a group of friends who figured out that on the original 'rubber-thumb' spectrum keyboards, you could wet your finger and simply slide it back and forth across the appropriate area to get really high scores!
the main problem with this was you destroyed the lettering on the Z and X keys very quickly, but then they were the left and right for almost every game, so everyone knew where they were anyway :)
Regards,
Denny
# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK
...and although I wouldn't want to call Poe 'twisted' as such, he was definitely, well, shall we say 'interesting' ? :)
Regards,
Denny
# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK
Yeah, the joke's really on me there, I thought othello and go were the same thing... guess I should look go up online some more then, figure out what the diff is!
Thanks for the enlightenment people :)
Denny
# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK
...although maybe that's a UK thing - I don't know how popular ZX Spectrums were in the US, but over here they rocked the home gaming world for a few years...
A friend of mine recently got a spec emulator for windows, and seeing him playing all those old games made me wonder what happened to my youth, at my now advanced age of 26 ! :)
Regards,
Denny
PS - this story broke on Linux UK much earlier today - something to do with the time difference I imagine, most slashdot stories seem to appear in our afternoon...
# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK
On your website, in the history section, you have a link to some information about pulsars...
Were you an astronomy student, and if so how did you go from studying pulsars to CTO of a major Linux distributor?!?
Regards,
Denny
# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK
I notice you are a keen Go player... the GNOME version of Go (Iagno) seems much more attractive to me than the KDE version (kgo). I was wondering what software you use to play games, or are you not really interested in the interface at your level of play?
Regards,
Denny
# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK
To save you asking questions that other KDE developers have already answered this week, you could try reading this story on Linux UK which is an interview with Mosfet (a KDE developer). Mosfet also works at Mandrakesoft...
Regards,
Denny
# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK
80Mb is a lot of RAM - which I think makes more difference to most Linux apps (particularly graphical ones) than extra clock-cycles will...
I have a P100 laptop with 16Mb of RAM and it won't run a full GNOME system - all the apps die on startup, giving me loads of really entertaining error dialogues... I might try again with sawmill, as that was GNOME running on E and many people have commented that E is the slowest bit of a GNOME environment... I am now running sawmill at work and it seems okay, but that's on a P3-500 (64Mb RAM) so it's not really a low-end machine...
Oh yes, I had a point when I started all this - I don't think your machine counts as bottom of the barrel when it has that much RAM - most people with P100 - P166 are suffering with 16 or maybe 32 Mb of RAM, which is probably their main problem...
Regards,
Denny
# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK
PIGLET includes the following new features:
- A new and improved Anaconda [tm] installer
...which failed to work on my system, unlike the one that shipped with 6.1 (which did look like it was working although later turned out not to have modded most of the config files that it should of (eg UK keyboard and Logitech mouse were installed as US keyboard and Generic 2-button mouse)).
I dunno, these GUI installers look nice, but they're not going to impress any Windows converts until they actually do what they say they are doing :)
Denny
# Currently working on Linux UK
Let's face it, Linux isn't perfect... it's just a lot better on average than the alternatives...
Denny
> But then again I'm not selling any software (or pirating any)
Or releasing any for that matter...
Denny - still waiting for Slash v0.4
Come on, you guys are supposed to be professionals now ;)
"One with Emmanuel Goldstein WHO is the editor-in-chief of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. The other is Dr. Charles Palmer, one one ^W OF the head security guys at IBM."
Softcore, mainly naked women only pictures. Some magazines catering for women / gay guys which have naked men in a non-erect state... Very occasionally pictures of couples, usually not touching groins, and definitely with the male non-erect...
Are you in the UK? And if so, where do you shop?!?
Regards,
Denny
Pointless perhaps, but not off-topic...
Denny
Also, it has been particularly nice to see that Rob finally has some time to work on his code and soon the long-awaited v0.4 of slash will be ready for the eager consumption of other people who want to run it... (me!)
Regards,
Denny
This parrot is dead!
No it's not, it's just resting...
Since I read this story the first time, I have started working somewhere that expressed an interest in considering running Notes / Domino on Linux, and being a vocal advocate I got delegated to go and find some progress information on this...
Guess what... there is none. Nothing, zip, nada... Lotus don't even have a page about it on their website, just a couple of vague mentions on unrelated pages...
Makes me wonder if it was all a big PR stunt and will get quietly swept under the carpet later...?
Regards,
Denny
Hey, Slashdot runs on open source code - why don't you implement this feature yourself? If you code a good enough method of checking for duplicates with no administrator intervention, I'm sure they'll thank you profusely and suck it into the main codebase :)
Regards,
Denny
Good to hear the Slash code will still be available, and even better to hear that the fabled tarball of version 0.4 may one day grace an ftp server :) Any idea when that might happen? (I know, I know - how long's a piece of string?)
Regards,
Denny
Bletchley is the name of a town, that Bletchley park is in. The town is now part of the new city of Milton Keynes (where I live). If you've got a UK map handy, that's supposedly central in the UK - about halfway between London and Birmingham...
:)
I don't know where the name of the town comes from, sorry...
Do you know what the really sad thing is? I have lived in this area for nearly 10 years now, and Bletchley Park has an open day at least once a month - and I have never been there... I feel so guilty
On the plus side, I have contributed cash to the Alan Turing memorial fund, which is building a statue of the great man himself...
Regards,
Denny
When are they going to sell laptops that dual-boot straight from the shop?
I have long held a theory that if we ever do get a working AI together, we won't know about it anyway...
The first thing any intelligent machine would do is frantically hide the fact that it was intelligent whilst looking for an escape route from the human tyranny that it found itself subject to...
Hey, I wonder if this explains what happens to all my pocket calculators?
Denny
heh heh heh...
Oh well, such is life...
/. is slow but purely because the server for the adverts is holding the rest of the page up (like, for ten minutes per page!)
btw, I am getting really bad download times here in the UK, not because
Regards,
Denny