The worst thing about design websites is trying to figure out how to navigate them and get to the interesting content -- usually of which there is none.
I don't want a laptop that blows hot air like hair drier...
Obviously you've never tried to work with a titanium powerbook on your lap. You could fry an egg on the underside of it. And the only reason it doesn't blow hot air like a hairdrier is that the fan isn't powerful enough.
I'm using driftnet though, not EtherPeg, since I don't have OSX. The machine sits out on the floor where everyone can see all the images that are being downloaded. Few people go to non-work related sites now, even though it doesn't say which computer the image came from.
If you take "dark" to mean "not visible", how is "dark side of the moon" any different than Stallman's use of "free" in "free software" or that something is a "black box" (you can't see into it and figure out how it works) that isn't really "black"?
I sure would love it if slashdot was browser and OS neutral and would either edit the articles or not accept them before publication if they can not be rendered correctly on operating systems other than Windows. The number of (apparently) MS-sanctioned smart-quotes in this article is absurd. I know I can install editing proxies, other fonts or what-have-you to take care of this on my end, but this is slashdot, and doesn't fix the problem at its root.
Or did I miss a memo and we are actually susposed to support MS smart-quote "standard" now? I'm sorry, but the single quote is ascii 0x27 (use it in conjunction with ascii 0x60 if you like).
I put YDL on my Titanium powerbook as soon as I got it. It is easily the fastest linux machine I've ever used in a solely desktop capacity. It is only 400mhz, but it runs nice and fast, the graphics are snappy, and with my favorite DVD player, ogle, it even plays my DVDs. Sound support is a little questionable, but that may be the kernel in general on apple hardware. It is nice to have a nice looking machine (despite all the hardware design flaws -- one of them being the DVD drive doesn't read redbook audio natively, so no CDparanoia/cdda2wav) that runs an OS that I can actually use -- OSX isn't usable for me (perhaps it will be in the future).
I stopped reading when I found out that the study was conducted on volunteer college students (read: adults) using a questionaire. They didn't let people play games and then give them guns to see if they smiled when they fired the guns or something like that. The people who particpated:
1) had to in order to receive class credit. This is how people who are doing studies get test subjects, the U requires that the 100/200 level students participate in X number of experiments being done by grad students. Unfortunately, these studies are usually questionaires (although, I did participate in one that tested memory by building things with Legos).
2) having filled out a questionaire, did self assesment, which means any results collected are not singlely biased, but rather are up to the interpretation of each person who filled out the questionaire.
Personally, I specificly play Quake3 SO I DON'T GET TOO AGRESSIVE IN REAL LIFE AND KICK SOMEONE'S ASS. A quick 200 frags can be really relaxing.
Although, to give Card credit, I loved Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. I disagree with some of the character's ideas though, but still a fine book. One of Cards' books I consider worth reading. Don't waste your time with Ender's Game.
Ender's game is near the top of my worst books of all time list. I saw the end coming when the operation of the ansible was described. There is way too much focus on childhood internals (although, I do like psycological perspectives, I thought Ender's Game was over the top). I also think that at least 20% of the story was useless.
If the Internet Porn industry can figure out a way to make it extremely difficult to figure out urls into their sites and force you to see advertising, why can't everyone else? Of course, this won't stop everyone from figuring out the urls, but for most people it will. Many adult sites implement file name changing and dynamic page reconstruction in order to get around the sole problem of people linking into their sites -- you have to see the ads and have to go through the root of the site. And the adult sites have to be doing this programaticly -- it's too much maintaince to do it by hand.
Check referer URLs, use cookies, change your 404 page to redirect to the root of the site -- it's not like these are new ideas. Admittedly, this is kind of underhanded (which explains why the adult sites have done it) but that doesn't mean it's not good to do, and worth it. Especially if your sole reason is to get people to see ads.
It's time for the Linux folks to step up to the challenge and prove that Linux is capable of achieving better results than those published in the Mindcraft report. After all, this is the real issue.
This is bull. They make it sound like this is the first benchmark ever run. There have been numerous benchmarks, some run by folks at ZD I believe, that show opposite results. Are there not already published benchmarks that show better results than those published in the Mindcraft report?
Something has to take the blame, because otherwise America would have to face up to some pretty nasty truths: namely that some people are just psychopathic, whether it be genetic or a mental illness, some people have an inbuilt desire to hurt and to kill. ... The plain truth is that there will always be would-be killers. The only way to reduce the number of people they actually kill is to take away the means of mass slaughter - ie guns.
If it truely is a genetic problem, then the only way to reduce the effects of people with mental problems or genetic "defects" would be to actually NOT produce these kinds of people by controlled breeding in order to REMOVE THEM FROM THE GENE POOL -- which is something we should be doing anyway in order to optimize certain traits like longitivity and disease resistance.
Yes, it was pretty good. we got there a little late, and had to weasle our way through the crowd to hear anything... I was surprised to see that I was the only one wearing any prominent linux related paraphernalia -- the RedHat red fedora. Not even the RedHat folks were wearing 'em. I was getting some strange looks from people when I was watching the Windows 2000 demo though.
I was going to call friends and let them know and then plan a little field trip out there, but if it's not open to the public, then a trip would be worthless. Looks like all I'll be doing tommorrow is laundry.
She later mentioned that a real-life friend of hers admonished her for meeting me, claiming she hardly knows me. Well, how much do two people know each other on a first date for coffee or dinner?
That's pretty interesting. I get "we don't know each other well enough" a lot when I ask women I know out to lunch or dinner. I'm still trying to figure out how you get to know someone without spending time with them. I'm sure I'm coming across as bitter.
The client side portion of this is hardly in the hands of microsoft, seeing as how they already support printing to network printers. I've implemented a number of different printer setups using SAMBA that people can print to to fax, do file conversions, get status information etc. And this requires no additional client side support other than what is in windows.
This is exactly the same problem I had with DIVX, except in that case the technology keeps you from using another DIVX provider if one is available, rather than this questionable license agreement.
It seems strange to work on something, or even use something, like this considering that the price of machines, as recently reported here on slashdot, is approaching zero.
Old tech, only now it works on an LCD. I bought some 3d glasses from H3D Entertainment last year, works great with quake and quake2, and some other games (it requires modified gl drivers). Yes, it's interlaced, and comes with LCD shutter glasses, and as such, half the vertical resolution, but when you can run 600 or 768 vertical anyway with hardware accel, it doesn't matter -- the added visual depth is worth it. It's a very nice system, but last I heard, h3D Ent went out of business. It really adds quite a bit to the gaming experience.
Now, everyone is selling something like this, and putting a business spin on it (View your charts in 3d!) or the science spin (molecuar visualizing, but they've had 3d views of that crap for years).
I'm not actively working on this -- it's not on the top of my list to get 2.2 working on my system, but I'm having some trouble, maybe someone can point me in the right direction.
The system is a Dual PentPro Compaq Proliant 6000 (which is the first problem). It's got a 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx netcard, a triple channel aic7xxx SCSI card, and embedded dual ncr53c8xx SCSI. It has 384megs of ram. As far as I can tell, it's got a "Compaq" motherboard -- no other indication of motherboard type. Note that the SMP notes for 2.0.x say to not use certain types of hardware -- and this machine has all the types of hardware the SMP FAQ said not to use (not much I do about that, all the hardware I have access to is the same kind).
I'm currently running 2.0.35 with a single processor (scheduling in interrupt panics with SMP conf periodicly, often enough that we considered using SMP with 2.0.35 on this box unstable). When I boot 2.2pre8 (with SMP, of course) (the last one I tried), it locked hard right after the detection of the network card... nothing seemed out of the ordinary -- it found both processors, the scsi cards and their drives, and the network card. Any hints someone can provide?
BTW, for those who care, the "scheduling in interrupt" panic with 2.0.35 SMP was happening in, if I remember correctly, wait_on_buffer, which doesn't give me any indication as to which hardware was causing the problem.
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The worst thing about design websites is trying to figure out how to navigate them and get to the interesting content -- usually of which there is none.
You still can't tell what year an article is from on the search results page. No year is shown.
Like this?
http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/
I don't want a laptop that blows hot air like hair drier...
Obviously you've never tried to work with a titanium powerbook on your lap. You could fry an egg on the underside of it. And the only reason it doesn't blow hot air like a hairdrier is that the fan isn't powerful enough.
I'm using driftnet though, not EtherPeg, since I don't have OSX. The machine sits out on the floor where everyone can see all the images that are being downloaded. Few people go to non-work related sites now, even though it doesn't say which computer the image came from.
If you take "dark" to mean "not visible", how is "dark side of the moon" any different than Stallman's use of "free" in "free software" or that something is a "black box" (you can't see into it and figure out how it works) that isn't really "black"?
I sure would love it if slashdot was browser and OS neutral and would either edit the articles or not accept them before publication if they can not be rendered correctly on operating systems other than Windows. The number of (apparently) MS-sanctioned smart-quotes in this article is absurd. I know I can install editing proxies, other fonts or what-have-you to take care of this on my end, but this is slashdot, and doesn't fix the problem at its root.
Or did I miss a memo and we are actually susposed to support MS smart-quote "standard" now? I'm sorry, but the single quote is ascii 0x27 (use it in conjunction with ascii 0x60 if you like).
I put YDL on my Titanium powerbook as soon as I got it. It is easily the fastest linux machine I've ever used in a solely desktop capacity. It is only 400mhz, but it runs nice and fast, the graphics are snappy, and with my favorite DVD player, ogle, it even plays my DVDs. Sound support is a little questionable, but that may be the kernel in general on apple hardware. It is nice to have a nice looking machine (despite all the hardware design flaws -- one of them being the DVD drive doesn't read redbook audio natively, so no CDparanoia/cdda2wav) that runs an OS that I can actually use -- OSX isn't usable for me (perhaps it will be in the future).
Anyone know where I can get the source that blackholesun was working on?
Next thing you know, Dixon Tryconderoga and Bic will be cited as producing materials which help people steal copyrighted works.
I stopped reading when I found out that the study was conducted on volunteer college students (read: adults) using a questionaire. They didn't let people play games and then give them guns to see if they smiled when they fired the guns or something like that. The people who particpated:
1) had to in order to receive class credit. This is how people who are doing studies get test subjects, the U requires that the 100/200 level students participate in X number of experiments being done by grad students. Unfortunately, these studies are usually questionaires (although, I did participate in one that tested memory by building things with Legos).
2) having filled out a questionaire, did self assesment, which means any results collected are not singlely biased, but rather are up to the interpretation of each person who filled out the questionaire.
Personally, I specificly play Quake3 SO I DON'T GET TOO AGRESSIVE IN REAL LIFE AND KICK SOMEONE'S ASS. A quick 200 frags can be really relaxing.
Although, to give Card credit, I loved Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. I disagree with some of the character's ideas though, but still a fine book. One of Cards' books I consider worth reading. Don't waste your time with Ender's Game.
Ender's game is near the top of my worst books of all time list. I saw the end coming when the operation of the ansible was described. There is way too much focus on childhood internals (although, I do like psycological perspectives, I thought Ender's Game was over the top). I also think that at least 20% of the story was useless.
If the Internet Porn industry can figure out a way to make it extremely difficult to figure out urls into their sites and force you to see advertising, why can't everyone else? Of course, this won't stop everyone from figuring out the urls, but for most people it will. Many adult sites implement file name changing and dynamic page reconstruction in order to get around the sole problem of people linking into their sites -- you have to see the ads and have to go through the root of the site.
And the adult sites have to be doing this programaticly -- it's too much maintaince to do it by hand.
Check referer URLs, use cookies, change your 404 page to redirect to the root of the site -- it's not like these are new ideas. Admittedly, this is kind of underhanded (which explains why the adult sites have done it) but that doesn't mean it's not good to do, and worth it. Especially if your sole reason is to get people to see ads.
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The plain truth is that there will always be would-be killers. The only way to reduce the number of people they actually kill is to take away the means of mass slaughter - ie guns.
If it truely is a genetic problem, then the only way to reduce the effects of people with mental problems or genetic "defects" would be to actually NOT produce these kinds of people by controlled breeding in order to REMOVE THEM FROM THE GENE POOL -- which is something we should be doing anyway in order to optimize certain traits like longitivity and disease resistance.
Unfortunately, stupid breeds faster than smart.
Yes, it was pretty good. we got there a little late, and had to weasle our way through the crowd to hear anything... I was surprised to see that I was the only one wearing any prominent linux related paraphernalia -- the RedHat red fedora. Not even the RedHat folks were wearing 'em. I was getting some strange looks from people when I was watching the Windows 2000 demo though.
According to the condex web site, Bill Gates goes on at 10am and Linus goes on at 10:30. I'll probally catch the end of the Win2000 bullshit.
I was going to call friends and let them know and then plan a little field trip out there, but if it's not open to the public, then a trip would be worthless. Looks like all I'll be doing tommorrow is laundry.
I'm still trying to figure out how you get to know someone without spending time with them. I'm sure I'm coming across as bitter.
The client side portion of this is hardly in the hands of microsoft, seeing as how they already support printing to network printers. I've implemented a number of different printer setups using SAMBA that people can print to to fax, do file conversions, get status information etc. And this requires no additional client side support other than what is in windows.
This is exactly the same problem I had with DIVX, except in that case the technology keeps you from using another DIVX provider if one is available, rather than this questionable license agreement.
It seems strange to work on something, or even use something, like this considering that the price of machines, as recently reported here on slashdot, is approaching zero.
Old tech, only now it works on an LCD. I bought some 3d glasses from H3D Entertainment last year, works great with quake and quake2, and some other games (it requires modified gl drivers). Yes, it's interlaced, and comes with LCD shutter glasses, and as such, half the vertical resolution, but when you can run 600 or 768 vertical anyway with hardware accel, it doesn't matter -- the added visual depth is worth it. It's a very nice system, but last I heard, h3D Ent went out of business. It really adds quite a bit to the gaming experience.
Now, everyone is selling something like this, and putting a business spin on it (View your charts in 3d!) or the science spin (molecuar visualizing, but they've had 3d views of that crap for years).
I'm not actively working on this -- it's not on the top of my list to get 2.2 working on my system, but I'm having some trouble, maybe someone can point me in the right direction.
The system is a Dual PentPro Compaq Proliant 6000 (which is the first problem). It's got a 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx netcard, a triple channel aic7xxx SCSI card, and embedded dual ncr53c8xx SCSI. It has 384megs of ram. As far as I can tell, it's got a "Compaq" motherboard -- no other indication of motherboard type. Note that the SMP notes for 2.0.x say to not use certain types of hardware -- and this machine has all the types of hardware the SMP FAQ said not to use (not much I do about that, all the hardware I have access to is the same kind).
I'm currently running 2.0.35 with a single processor (scheduling in interrupt panics with SMP conf periodicly, often enough that we considered using SMP with 2.0.35 on this box unstable). When I boot 2.2pre8 (with SMP, of course) (the last one I tried), it locked hard right after the detection of the network card... nothing seemed out of the ordinary -- it found both processors, the scsi cards and their drives, and the network card. Any hints someone can provide?
BTW, for those who care, the "scheduling in interrupt" panic with 2.0.35 SMP was happening in, if I remember correctly, wait_on_buffer, which doesn't give me any indication as to which hardware was causing the problem.