My Dad is 75. He just had this done within the last few months. Had cataracts in both eyes. Recovery time was a couple of days. He went from super thick tri-focals to el-cheapo reading glasses.
Way back when me and a buddy always carried a 50 foot coax cable when we traveled. We'd deathmatch at 30,000 feet even when we weren't sitting side by side. Nobody ever complained.
Way back before I made the jump to Linux I wrote a VB application that will generate a Sierpinski curve. It plots the curve on the screen in any colour you choose. Plus it outputs POV-Ray source code so you can render the curve in glorious 3D! The curve is composed of cylinders and spheres. I just tried to install it under WINE and was not successful, but I did not try very hard. I keep promising myself I'm going to write a version of this for Linux someday... http://web2.airmail.net/jfox/sierpcurv e.htm to see it. Don't be harsh about the website, I was just a kid!
Why? If it's my softdrink bottle and it's clearly labeled as my softdrink bottle then you have no business drinking the contents. If you happen to tasted urine in my softdrink then it's your problem for stealing it. Maybe label the softdrink bottle with your name and a warning that urine has been added.
There was no THX at the theater where I saw it. When I first realized this I was tempted to ask for my money back and then goto a theater that had THX. IMHO it's just wrong to see STAR WARS on anything less (at least the first time). Then I realized that the movie was so bad that THX would not have made any difference. Had it not been for my 8-year old son I probably would have walked out. My 11-year old daughter and I had to entertain ourselves during the movie by playing MST3K while we watched. It was fun for us, my son didn't notice (Yoda's Jackie Chan impression had him dazzled), and nobody else was sitting close enough to hear our running commentary.
They are at my house. And my 11 year old girl has a Linux box in her room. She knows the diff between Linux and Win98. But to be honest she really dosen't know what UNIX is...
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Very newbie friendly.
Very featureful. Does all the original poster asked for and more.
Try it for free and then buy support later if you need it.
I used to do this when I worked 12 hour night shifts. I would use 10 minutes of my 30 minute break to eat, then goto my car and hold my keys in my hand and rest my hand on my knee. I'd sleep until I dropped the keys. I usually slept for 15 or 20 mins. That was enough to keep me alive the rest of the night.
Make sure you hit http://www.dcemulation.com for some emulation fun.
I just got a DC for Christmas for my kids. I've got Colecovision and NES running. MAME and Sega Genesis will be installed soon.
BTW, the only place I could find a DC was at Game Stop. $49.99.
I've been listening to an audio book of F451 at work lately.
It's been 20 years since I've read it.
I'm amazed at how releveant the book is for today.
It's very high on my 'read it again real soon list'. IMHO F451 just is not the same unless you are reading it from paper. Listening to an MP3 or reading it online just does not carry the same power as the printed word on a paper page. This is not true for every book (maybe it's not true for any other book), but it's 100% true for this one!
It's not exactly QBASIC but it's still a lot of fun. Currently it runs on PalmOS and Linux.
I would not be too suprised if a Win32 version comes out soon.
I can't say I've done anything useful with it on my Handspring Visor, but it's fun to be able to write little graphics apps.
It does support talking to the com port so it might be useful for interfacing PalmOS supported platforms to other hardware.
I think that most of your post is right on. Linux should be as open as you hope it to be.
It should be as open as a user wants it to be.
Sorry you've been burned by Linux using jerks. We aren't all that way!
Email me with specific questions and I'll try to help or point you in the right direction.
I've had good luck in usenet and by reading howtows and stuff like that. There are many helpful web sites too.
But I've been playing with Linux since early '95 so I'm a bit warped from the newbie prespective.
Try installing Mandrake 8.0 or RedHat 7.1 and your hardware detection problems should go away. Mandrake even detects my dual video cards and monitors and USB mouse with no problems.
I'd say try a few distros and see what you like the best. PLAN on reinstalling and you won't be disappointed if you don't like a particular distro.
I'd also recommend using an empty drive. 1 or 2 GB should be plenty to play around with. Physically disconnect your Windows drive. That way there is no way for you to accidently zap Windows data. If you do this then you'll probably need to boot from a floppy, which is a little slower, but it's the safest way.
I've been using Linux since pre 1.0 kernel days and that's what I do right now with Win2K and Mandrake. Lilo and Grub are nice but don't risk your Windows drive by making a newbie mistake if you don't have too.
For desktop distros try:
Mandrake for the pretty GUI and easy install.
RedHat for the same if you have older hardware.
Slackware if you really want to learn what's going on when you install. It's not too hard if you are willing to read a bit.
I just don't grok Debian but some say it's the best, especially for servers.
My personal favorite for a VERY easy server install is e-smith (http://e-smith.org). It's a very simple install and it has a web interface for admin. You'll need to dedicate a box to it.
You won't learn as much as using something else for a server, but if you are tired of sweating over all the little details then you might want to consider it.
It's RedHat under the hood and you can easily get to a root shell and modify it if you want to. But you probably won't *need* to.
Install on a P-75 with a 4x CD-ROM and 64MB RAM takes less than 30 minutes. It runs fine on such a little box too!
I picked up a hard bound version of K&R where the cover is upside down!
That way when others see you reading it you look really stupid.
Of course us geeks don't care how we look. It's the brains that count! And looking stupid can work to our advantage because it can cause 'them' to underestimate us.
It's used but in near perfect condition. I paid $5 for it.
My only regret is not getting the other copy the guy had, it was in a little worse condition but it too had the inverted cover.
I've just spent a few minutes playing the Java emulated version. It's pretty neat.
I noticed that the center of rotation is the nose of the ship instead of a point at the center of the ship, like in Asteroids.
I can't remember seeing any other game like this where the rotation center was not the ship center.
I wonder if it was designed that way on purpose or if it's just that way because nobody had ever done it any other way.
Also I think it's more fun to try to put the ships in a stable orbit than to try to fly and shoot. Of course I'm the only one here so there's nobody else to shoot at!
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According to the article it's got the same screen as a 5500. Goto Fry's or Compusa and play with one.
I'm pretty sure it was Omnibus.
My Dad is 75. He just had this done within the last few months. Had cataracts in both eyes. Recovery time was a couple of days. He went from super thick tri-focals to el-cheapo reading glasses.
Way back when me and a buddy always carried a 50 foot coax cable when we traveled. We'd deathmatch at 30,000 feet even when we weren't sitting side by side.
Nobody ever complained.
Way back before I made the jump to Linux I wrote a VB application that will generate a Sierpinski curve. It plots the curve on the screen in any colour you choose. Plus it outputs POV-Ray source code so you can render the curve in glorious 3D! The curve is composed of cylinders and spheres.v e.htm to see it.
I just tried to install it under WINE and was not successful, but I did not try very hard.
I keep promising myself I'm going to write a version of this for Linux someday...
http://web2.airmail.net/jfox/sierpcur
Don't be harsh about the website, I was just a kid!
Why?
If it's my softdrink bottle and it's clearly labeled as my softdrink bottle then you have no business drinking the contents. If you happen to tasted urine in my softdrink then it's your problem for stealing it.
Maybe label the softdrink bottle with your name and a warning that urine has been added.
There was no THX at the theater where I saw it.
When I first realized this I was tempted to ask for my money back and then goto a theater that had THX. IMHO it's just wrong to see STAR WARS on anything less (at least the first time).
Then I realized that the movie was so bad that THX would not have made any difference.
Had it not been for my 8-year old son I probably would have walked out.
My 11-year old daughter and I had to entertain ourselves during the movie by playing MST3K while we watched. It was fun for us, my son didn't notice (Yoda's Jackie Chan impression had him dazzled), and nobody else was sitting close enough to hear our running commentary.
They are at my house.
And my 11 year old girl has a Linux box in her room. She knows the diff between Linux and Win98.
But to be honest she really dosen't know what UNIX is...
To make it really evil arrange for it to only insert 'fnord' when it prints the document, but not when it's on screen.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Very newbie friendly.
Very featureful. Does all the original poster asked for and more.
Try it for free and then buy support later if you need it.
I used to do this when I worked 12 hour night shifts. I would use 10 minutes of my 30 minute break to eat, then goto my car and hold my keys in my hand and rest my hand on my knee. I'd sleep until I dropped the keys. I usually slept for 15 or 20 mins. That was enough to keep me alive the rest of the night.
In the past I've run UltraEdit32 under WINE and it worked fine for me.
Make sure you hit http://www.dcemulation.com for some emulation fun.
I just got a DC for Christmas for my kids. I've got Colecovision and NES running. MAME and Sega Genesis will be installed soon.
BTW, the only place I could find a DC was at Game Stop. $49.99.
I've been listening to an audio book of F451 at work lately.
It's been 20 years since I've read it.
I'm amazed at how releveant the book is for today.
It's very high on my 'read it again real soon list'. IMHO F451 just is not the same unless you are reading it from paper. Listening to an MP3 or reading it online just does not carry the same power as the printed word on a paper page. This is not true for every book (maybe it's not true for any other book), but it's 100% true for this one!
MCSE=Must Call Someone Else
MCSE=Might Cause Serious Errors
http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/
If WCIII runs under Mac OSX then it's practically running on BSD, right? If that's the case then how hard would a Linux port be?
Tape a CD-R containing Metallica MP3s to each mine.
Create a detailed map indicating the location of each mine as it is deployed.
When it's time to clear the mines notify the RIAA and give them the map.
Boom! go the mines and the lawyers.
marsupial (sp?) droppings...
You'd think that for Klingons this would be a perfect first contact. Remember, they *like* to fight.
Of course a *real* Klingon would have shot (or knifed) the farmer before he said, 'Freeze'!
How about a URL for this?
It's not exactly QBASIC but it's still a lot of fun. Currently it runs on PalmOS and Linux.
I would not be too suprised if a Win32 version comes out soon.
I can't say I've done anything useful with it on my Handspring Visor, but it's fun to be able to write little graphics apps.
It does support talking to the com port so it might be useful for interfacing PalmOS supported platforms to other hardware.
http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net
I think that most of your post is right on. Linux should be as open as you hope it to be. It should be as open as a user wants it to be.
Sorry you've been burned by Linux using jerks. We aren't all that way!
Email me with specific questions and I'll try to help or point you in the right direction.
I've had good luck in usenet and by reading howtows and stuff like that. There are many helpful web sites too. But I've been playing with Linux since early '95 so I'm a bit warped from the newbie prespective.
Try installing Mandrake 8.0 or RedHat 7.1 and your hardware detection problems should go away. Mandrake even detects my dual video cards and monitors and USB mouse with no problems.
I'd say try a few distros and see what you like the best. PLAN on reinstalling and you won't be disappointed if you don't like a particular distro.
I'd also recommend using an empty drive. 1 or 2 GB should be plenty to play around with. Physically disconnect your Windows drive. That way there is no way for you to accidently zap Windows data. If you do this then you'll probably need to boot from a floppy, which is a little slower, but it's the safest way.
I've been using Linux since pre 1.0 kernel days and that's what I do right now with Win2K and Mandrake. Lilo and Grub are nice but don't risk your Windows drive by making a newbie mistake if you don't have too.
For desktop distros try:
Mandrake for the pretty GUI and easy install.
RedHat for the same if you have older hardware.
Slackware if you really want to learn what's going on when you install. It's not too hard if you are willing to read a bit.
I just don't grok Debian but some say it's the best, especially for servers.
My personal favorite for a VERY easy server install is e-smith (http://e-smith.org). It's a very simple install and it has a web interface for admin. You'll need to dedicate a box to it.
You won't learn as much as using something else for a server, but if you are tired of sweating over all the little details then you might want to consider it.
It's RedHat under the hood and you can easily get to a root shell and modify it if you want to. But you probably won't *need* to.
Install on a P-75 with a 4x CD-ROM and 64MB RAM takes less than 30 minutes. It runs fine on such a little box too!
I picked up a hard bound version of K&R where the cover is upside down!
That way when others see you reading it you look really stupid.
Of course us geeks don't care how we look. It's the brains that count! And looking stupid can work to our advantage because it can cause 'them' to underestimate us.
It's used but in near perfect condition. I paid $5 for it.
My only regret is not getting the other copy the guy had, it was in a little worse condition but it too had the inverted cover.
I've just spent a few minutes playing the Java emulated version. It's pretty neat.
I noticed that the center of rotation is the nose of the ship instead of a point at the center of the ship, like in Asteroids.
I can't remember seeing any other game like this where the rotation center was not the ship center.
I wonder if it was designed that way on purpose or if it's just that way because nobody had ever done it any other way.
Also I think it's more fun to try to put the ships in a stable orbit than to try to fly and shoot. Of course I'm the only one here so there's nobody else to shoot at!