Every month, I pull up with about 100-150 euros (exchange yourself) and I've done this for a while and yes, my dvd collection is getting respectable. I buy almost all movies that I think is worth something, but you know what, I hardly EVER buy anything that I haven't seen, because the last thing I want is crappy movies in my collection that I will never see again (they will not be worth their price, simply put).
I download movies on the internet for "previews" (in lack of a better word) and tho you might say "buy hey, why don't you go to the video store?". Well, I'd like to see new material as everybody else, and the video store doesn't have the movies until they are released on dvd/vhs, and by then they are enough popular to rent out every copy the store has, but most immportant of all, it's my lazyness that counts in, I rather sit at home and download some version off the internet.
And you see, I cannot afford to buy more dvd's than I do, so I have to be selective, and you know what, I rather buy good dvd's when I'm at it, and be sure of it.
On the internet, I never even bother with crappy versions of a movie, I always wait for the real deal. If movie studios would make it easy for us to stream a movie (like the quicktime trailers on apple.com) and make it safe for us to use (as in buffering etc) I would happily pay ~3-5 USD to see it. However, that is an utopia. As soon as that will happen the same day of the release some people rip the movie and put it up on torrent sites and the greater masses (teenagers or students who live on a tight budget I suppose) will just download it.
The last part was a bit of a side step to my message, but you know, I don't feel bad for copying files off the internet, I don't even think it should be illegal, I know I buy my share of the movie biz imperium each month or so.
Back in the days I was playing tribes a lot (online game, similar to cs etc), perhaps 5 years ago or so, and by then there was really no exploits to the game known. There was no cheats or wallhacks, it was a good game.
So one day, a guy invents this autoaim patch which is quite hard to install (near impossibly) and the whole community freaks out in pain, since 99.9% of the players didn't want this kind of mods. Note that this was a very respected modder, he called himself or his mods "sixpack" and was really good stuff otherwise, but nothing that really was cheating.
People on the online servers go nuts, "you use aimbots!", "these people are too good" etc. The comments if you shoot somebody in the head on first sight was almost always "cheater!" etc.
Then of course, after a week or so, the modder said that the whole thing was a hoax and it didn't work at all. Everybody realized people where just that good:-)
Personally, in some aspects I find the books about Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency and Lond dark tea time of the soul) even better than hitchhikers guide. At least the latter one (tea time) is for me one of the funniest books I ever read. Sure, it probably helps if you're a scandinavian, but just the first 5 pages in tea time makes you laugh on your floor.
The hitchhikers guide to the galazy is a masterpiece, but don't forget his other work:-)
I really think the article missed out a link to their homepage? Anyway, here it is: www.mepis.org and a.torrent download (since their ftp mirrors all doesn't seem that fast):.Torrent
Damnit, I just missed that yes, it will direct me with instructions for installing php and sql, but still, how have you managed to go from asp to php with the help of this book?
I'm a good asp programmer with a lot of access and sql server experience, how will this book help me from that standpoint, will it help me to set up php and mysql with at least some pointers on a linux system?
Anyone who has done the above step and can recommend this book for me? Other suggestions?
Back in the days, when the search engine war begun, I had no problem typing in http://www.altavista.digital.com or whatever, it was simply my choice of search engine.
Today, google is my primary choice, but if they will ever bloat it with more than it is today (neat, simple and honest!) I will search for a better one, the one which suits my needs the most, or a page which simply parsers googles results and presents them nicely, in short terms, something nicer.
Google's powers is not in the name, but its simplicity and non-bloat.
Let me start by saying I've been using linux exclusivly for over a year now (yeah, I'm kinda late into it, but I'm there at last), and before that, I always bought my computers in parts, and never no OS. DOS and Windows were borrowed from a friends dad or something or warezed on the internet/bbs.
Last year, I started to feel worse about using an operating system without paying for it (which you SHOULD do if you run windows or other os's which are not free). But for me, paying up front or switching to linux.. linux started to sound like a very good idea.
I started out with red hat, tried suse and debian but got stuck with mandrake, and to tell you the truth, I know I used to just download windows (and I download linux, but it's not so bad;), but I'd be glad to support the community with a $xx addon for linux on my purchased computer system, especially on a laptop which can be nice if they are pre-installed.
(of course I could do some charity to the community too, or choose which projects I'd like to support)
I rather support a movement that doesn't put profit in the front row.. but maybe that's just me.
My sister was over last weekend and I only have windows nowadays, she's used to windows at school. She had _no_ problems surfing the web and writing a school paper on my linux machines using opera and open office. I even had to explain to her the multiple desktop thingy etc and she handled both red hat 9 and mandrake 10 without any significant problems.
I think linux is getting into the end user market, just watch:-)
If microsoft will change all its products to be perfect-anti-piracy ones, by sending information from the computer or interacting with some hardware chip as talked about with longhorn etc, we can not be happier, people will start using linux instead, and we should all be happy.
The day then the commercial software will be cleared of piracy is the day free software will rule the world.
Water dirty, build destilation plants. Wouldn't it be better to stop polluting the air and rivers? How about an alternative to petrol to use in our cars? How about factories?
I'm not a enviromental überlord but it would be common sense to understand that the real problem is not dirty water, its that we make it dirty in the first place.
Sure, no cheating.. that's a big bonus in online gaming, but I hope noone can hack the box then:)
Of course, I can find it amusing to play against other players, but you have to put in mind that I'm a sucky player and get my boot kicked easily, so I don't really like being asskicked all the time either;-)
A game becomes boring then you use the most optimal setting, know every map/level/quest to its limit and all your gaming depends on luck, framerate or lag.
(happend to me in Tribes, Quake II, Unreal Tournament and Magic the gathering (yeah, the real-world cardgame)
Thus, playing with yourself (or just playing with yourself;-) against computer can really be more fun for me. Yeah, for me.
Ever since I heard XBox was coming with a broadband adaptor and ps2 likewise, I've been wondering what makes it so big buzz.
I'm a programming dork myself mostly, I hardly play games at all, and I must confess I like singleplayer the best. When I'm finding myself playing, it's mostly because of relaxation. I don't want to communicate with other users. I don't want to play stressful FPS's against other computer/tv-games player. It just gets my nerves going in a spin I can't controll and that's actually exhausting, I can't play for more than an hour or I'll get all fuzzy in my head.
I just want to sit down, drink some coffee and run a few laps around the course in GT3 or bash some cars in GTA3. If I want to play multiplayer, I'd much more prefer to do it together, like playing the "Pro Evolution Soccer" game at my friends house or batteling eachother in "dance dance revolution" or such similar game.
I certanly see why people enjoy multiplayer, but I don't like the idea that I need to cough up with $50 more for the network adapter and god-know-how many hours of development which goes into the console for developing this.
Maybe I'm just "old fashioned", after all, I'm closing 30;-) But what's bad with a choice?
About 3 years back I changed profession from being a professional programmer to become a tile layer. Basicly, it was the it bubble which obviously made me loose my job, but I had other jobs on the line, but I decided to move away from Stockholm, which holds most programming jobs, to the countryside of south sweden.
This move have definitly improved my happy status, I can easily say I'm one of those 6 out of 7 that did not concider myself more than "good".
Working outdoors, with customers which are mostly happy with the work you do, and you don't have to deal with updating the work you do all the time, rules. I have one project per week in general, so every week, new places, new people, new objects.
I would recommend to do the change if it's possible, I had the luck to be able to join a school to learn my current profession. But if you really want to become something, nothing should stop you from trying.
Give away some free ftp accounts, web accounts and cvs accounts and you'll be a hero for so many, so many... until the provider calls you and THEN, only then, you say you're a q3 player going wild.
.. on different machines and different sets. I started out back in the days when you had to use assembly to gain speed, and slowly changed it for c/c++ as time went by. I've been programming for years back, making mostly graphical application.
Uh.. a bunch of dorks and a bunch of computers. What's the point? Besides, it's not like you're going to meet them all and see everything. After a certain point, a 50 person gathering is the same as a 500,000 person gathering.
You obviously haven't been at one of these big parties.
It's not 500,000 either, it's more like 2000-5000 visitors, and even if you're there for the ballgame, isn't a crowd of 50 people at the local arena or 5000 at the olympics quite a difference?
You compete with your demos to you know, and the more people, the better is the competition, and the respect if you pull it through.
Slashdot Mirror
Every month, I pull up with about 100-150 euros (exchange yourself) and I've done this for a while and yes, my dvd collection is getting respectable. I buy almost all movies that I think is worth something, but you know what, I hardly EVER buy anything that I haven't seen, because the last thing I want is crappy movies in my collection that I will never see again (they will not be worth their price, simply put).
I download movies on the internet for "previews" (in lack of a better word) and tho you might say "buy hey, why don't you go to the video store?". Well, I'd like to see new material as everybody else, and the video store doesn't have the movies until they are released on dvd/vhs, and by then they are enough popular to rent out every copy the store has, but most immportant of all, it's my lazyness that counts in, I rather sit at home and download some version off the internet.
And you see, I cannot afford to buy more dvd's than I do, so I have to be selective, and you know what, I rather buy good dvd's when I'm at it, and be sure of it.
On the internet, I never even bother with crappy versions of a movie, I always wait for the real deal. If movie studios would make it easy for us to stream a movie (like the quicktime trailers on apple.com) and make it safe for us to use (as in buffering etc) I would happily pay ~3-5 USD to see it. However, that is an utopia. As soon as that will happen the same day of the release some people rip the movie and put it up on torrent sites and the greater masses (teenagers or students who live on a tight budget I suppose) will just download it.
The last part was a bit of a side step to my message, but you know, I don't feel bad for copying files off the internet, I don't even think it should be illegal, I know I buy my share of the movie biz imperium each month or so.
Albert
Back in the days I was playing tribes a lot (online game, similar to cs etc), perhaps 5 years ago or so, and by then there was really no exploits to the game known. There was no cheats or wallhacks, it was a good game.
:-)
So one day, a guy invents this autoaim patch which is quite hard to install (near impossibly) and the whole community freaks out in pain, since 99.9% of the players didn't want this kind of mods. Note that this was a very respected modder, he called himself or his mods "sixpack" and was really good stuff otherwise, but nothing that really was cheating.
People on the online servers go nuts, "you use aimbots!", "these people are too good" etc. The comments if you shoot somebody in the head on first sight was almost always "cheater!" etc.
Then of course, after a week or so, the modder said that the whole thing was a hoax and it didn't work at all. Everybody realized people where just that good
Oh the good times.
Albert
Personally, in some aspects I find the books about Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency and Lond dark tea time of the soul) even better than hitchhikers guide. At least the latter one (tea time) is for me one of the funniest books I ever read. Sure, it probably helps if you're a scandinavian, but just the first 5 pages in tea time makes you laugh on your floor.
:-)
The hitchhikers guide to the galazy is a masterpiece, but don't forget his other work
Albert
Will this unhackable smartcard be featured on the unhackable xbox?
Famous last words! ;)
I really think the article missed out a link to their homepage? Anyway, here it is: www.mepis.org and a .torrent download (since their ftp mirrors all doesn't seem that fast): .Torrent
Cheers.
Albert
Damnit, I just missed that yes, it will direct me with instructions for installing php and sql, but still, how have you managed to go from asp to php with the help of this book?
I'm a good asp programmer with a lot of access and sql server experience, how will this book help me from that standpoint, will it help me to set up php and mysql with at least some pointers on a linux system?
Anyone who has done the above step and can recommend this book for me? Other suggestions?
Thanks
Albert "thec" Sandberg
Not entirely true.
Back in the days, when the search engine war begun, I had no problem typing in http://www.altavista.digital.com or whatever, it was simply my choice of search engine.
Today, google is my primary choice, but if they will ever bloat it with more than it is today (neat, simple and honest!) I will search for a better one, the one which suits my needs the most, or a page which simply parsers googles results and presents them nicely, in short terms, something nicer.
Google's powers is not in the name, but its simplicity and non-bloat.
Albert
Let me start by saying I've been using linux exclusivly for over a year now (yeah, I'm kinda late into it, but I'm there at last), and before that, I always bought my computers in parts, and never no OS. DOS and Windows were borrowed from a friends dad or something or warezed on the internet/bbs.
;), but I'd be glad to support the community with a $xx addon for linux on my purchased computer system, especially on a laptop which can be nice if they are pre-installed.
Last year, I started to feel worse about using an operating system without paying for it (which you SHOULD do if you run windows or other os's which are not free). But for me, paying up front or switching to linux.. linux started to sound like a very good idea.
I started out with red hat, tried suse and debian but got stuck with mandrake, and to tell you the truth, I know I used to just download windows (and I download linux, but it's not so bad
(of course I could do some charity to the community too, or choose which projects I'd like to support)
I rather support a movement that doesn't put profit in the front row.. but maybe that's just me.
Albert
No, but I haven't used that feature either, just pointing out that one could, illegal or not.
;-)
I'm not even a windows user so I see no further point in reading the EULA of IE.
Thanks for your point though.
Albert
Have you tried using IE in linux through crossover office? Might work and you'll get rid of windows all together, how about that?
This is a v. .. very.... Zzzzzzz
http://www.thec.org/files/my_capslock.jpg
:-)
I did this years ago (as you can see from the dust in the keyboard) and I still haven't missed it.
And I played games too, but I don't use that key there either. Also, the windows key(s) are gone away.
It's amazing how much progress you can do with a screwdriver and some force
Which is a interesting comment in its own sense.
:-)
My sister was over last weekend and I only have windows nowadays, she's used to windows at school.
She had _no_ problems surfing the web and writing a school paper on my linux machines using opera and open office. I even had to explain to her the multiple desktop thingy etc and she handled both red hat 9 and mandrake 10 without any significant problems.
I think linux is getting into the end user market, just watch
If microsoft will change all its products to be perfect-anti-piracy ones, by sending information from the computer or interacting with some hardware chip as talked about with longhorn etc, we can not be happier, people will start using linux instead, and we should all be happy.
The day then the commercial software will be cleared of piracy is the day free software will rule the world.
Water dirty, build destilation plants. Wouldn't it be better to stop polluting the air and rivers? How about an alternative to petrol to use in our cars? How about factories?
I'm not a enviromental überlord but it would be common sense to understand that the real problem is not dirty water, its that we make it dirty in the first place.
Albert
torrents.google.com ... it doesn't have to be illegal contents.
Sure, no cheating.. that's a big bonus in online gaming, but I hope noone can hack the box then :)
;-)
;-) against computer can really be more fun for me. Yeah, for me.
Of course, I can find it amusing to play against other players, but you have to put in mind that I'm a sucky player and get my boot kicked easily, so I don't really like being asskicked all the time either
A game becomes boring then you use the most optimal setting, know every map/level/quest to its limit and all your gaming depends on luck, framerate or lag.
(happend to me in Tribes, Quake II, Unreal Tournament and Magic the gathering (yeah, the real-world cardgame)
Thus, playing with yourself (or just playing with yourself
Albert
Ever since I heard XBox was coming with a broadband adaptor and ps2 likewise, I've been wondering what makes it so big buzz.
;-) But what's bad with a choice?
I'm a programming dork myself mostly, I hardly play games at all, and I must confess I like singleplayer the best. When I'm finding myself playing, it's mostly because of relaxation. I don't want to communicate with other users. I don't want to play stressful FPS's against other computer/tv-games player. It just gets my nerves going in a spin I can't controll and that's actually exhausting, I can't play for more than an hour or I'll get all fuzzy in my head.
I just want to sit down, drink some coffee and run a few laps around the course in GT3 or bash some cars in GTA3. If I want to play multiplayer, I'd much more prefer to do it together, like playing the "Pro Evolution Soccer" game at my friends house or batteling eachother in "dance dance revolution" or such similar game.
I certanly see why people enjoy multiplayer, but I don't like the idea that I need to cough up with $50 more for the network adapter and god-know-how many hours of development which goes into the console for developing this.
Maybe I'm just "old fashioned", after all, I'm closing 30
Albert
Spellchecked by my cat Zelda.
Those were the days! ;-)
About 3 years back I changed profession from being a professional programmer to become a tile layer. Basicly, it was the it bubble which obviously made me loose my job, but I had other jobs on the line, but I decided to move away from Stockholm, which holds most programming jobs, to the countryside of south sweden.
This move have definitly improved my happy status, I can easily say I'm one of those 6 out of 7 that did not concider myself more than "good".
Working outdoors, with customers which are mostly happy with the work you do, and you don't have to deal with updating the work you do all the time, rules. I have one project per week in general, so every week, new places, new people, new objects.
I would recommend to do the change if it's possible, I had the luck to be able to join a school to learn my current profession. But if you really want to become something, nothing should stop you from trying.
Albert
Give away some free ftp accounts, web accounts and cvs accounts and you'll be a hero for so many, so many... until the provider calls you and THEN, only then, you say you're a q3 player going wild.
.. on different machines and different sets. I started out back in the days when you had to use assembly to gain speed, and slowly changed it for c/c++ as time went by. I've been programming for years back, making mostly graphical application.
Guess what? I'm a bricklayer.
Albert
Uh.. a bunch of dorks and a bunch of computers. What's the point? Besides, it's not like you're going to meet them all and see everything. After a certain point, a 50 person gathering is the same as a 500,000 person gathering.
You obviously haven't been at one of these big parties.
It's not 500,000 either, it's more like 2000-5000 visitors, and even if you're there for the ballgame, isn't a crowd of 50 people at the local arena or 5000 at the olympics quite a difference?
You compete with your demos to you know, and the more people, the better is the competition, and the respect if you pull it through.