way before it was labelled "e-sports" I regularly went for a jog to help keep my concentration up during our hour-long online simracing events (mostly Grand Prix Legends back then, now rFactor2).
No idea if you're on about German, but in German "the stallion" == "der Hengst", which is as male as it gets (unless you're talking about a different meaning of "stallion" that evades me).
Greek is also quite interesting in this regard, both "the boy" ("to agori") and "the girl" ("to koritsi") are neutral gender ("to") in this language.
I mostly use WINE for Falcon BMS (I hope to migrate it to Linux fully once win7 support ends) and for running some GOG.com stuff, and most of the stuff works out of the box. Maybe your screen is fscked upon exit but that's no biggie really as you can reset it just fine using the display settings (wine staging in Mint 18.2).
The biggest failure was trying to get some software provided by our daughter's school to run... wouda thunk given it was "just" some VB atrocity?
I've been here since 1998, checking the site more or less regularly and more recently again daily when I'm at work for the last year or so.
While I sort of miss the early FOSS and Linux centered days of just a few thousand users and mostly sane discussion threads, things change and we have to accept that I guess.
Thanks for keeping/. alive, I'm looking forward to what the next 20 years (hopefully early retirement for me;-) will bring.
After finishing "Goldilocks and the Water Bears", a book on current developments in astrobioligy, I read a couple of pages of the "Feynman lectures on Physics" (vol 2) because my daughter was due for a physics exam at school this week (electromagnetism & induction), and I (re-)discovered what a fascinating read those lectures (50 years old by now) really still are. A genius being able to explain stuff as simple as possible (but not simpler)... how much better can it get?
My current book is "We have no idea" on the big blank areas in today's science. I've only read the first couple of chapters so far, but it's already good fun.
Not just "Ishmael", but especially "The Story of B" and "My Ishmael" fundamentally changed the way I view our culture. It's been one of the few books in my life that has answered more questions than it raises; fascinating stuff.
The ratings may have gone nothing but upl for the BBT, but the quality has been constantly declining since at least the end of season two. It's just not as funny as it just to be, not enough geek / nerd content and too many love stories.;-)
I sync neither my gmail account nor my company email on my employer-provided phone. It also helps that the phone is usually downstairs charging overnight and not on my bedside table (within easy reach, so to speak).
If you can still find them... they're built like a tank. My eee 901 still runs wonderfully using a lightweight distro like CrunchBang++, I had to exchange the battery once (for a larger one which results in about 7 hours of everyday use), but apart from that it's been a very reliable machine.
We own a ca. 2008 Ford Focus hatchback and I've managed to crash the (Sony-based?) music system in it so hard simply by trying to play stuff off of a USB stick that the entire thing (just the radio / cd player, thank $DEITY, not the car itself) refused to turn on for a couple of days.
The introductory quotation in my physics thesis was the song's first verse... quite different from your "run of the mill" Goethe or Schiller quote that most folks used back in the day.;-)
I've been trying to find some good schematics for an ipod dock to analog audio in connector for those compact hifi boxes, has anyone been successful in buying or building one him- or herself? All I'd need is to feed analog audio into the system, no fancy play controls and the like. Thanks!
What about the Dragon64? While it didn't have much software available, C64 owner's jaws dropped to the floor when the saw the floppy loading speed... parallel for the win!;-)
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way before it was labelled "e-sports" I regularly went for a jog to help keep my concentration up during our hour-long online simracing events (mostly Grand Prix Legends back then, now rFactor2).
No idea if you're on about German, but in German "the stallion" == "der Hengst", which is as male as it gets (unless you're talking about a different meaning of "stallion" that evades me).
Greek is also quite interesting in this regard, both "the boy" ("to agori") and "the girl" ("to koritsi") are neutral gender ("to") in this language.
All the best, Uwe
I run cbpp on a few notebooks with similar specs (less RAM though) and it works quite nicely.
I mostly use WINE for Falcon BMS (I hope to migrate it to Linux fully once win7 support ends) and for running some GOG.com stuff, and most of the stuff works out of the box. Maybe your screen is fscked upon exit but that's no biggie really as you can reset it just fine using the display settings (wine staging in Mint 18.2).
The biggest failure was trying to get some software provided by our daughter's school to run... wouda thunk given it was "just" some VB atrocity?
Shift-F5 maybe? (chrome on Linux here, seems to work)
I've been here since 1998, checking the site more or less regularly and more recently again daily when I'm at work for the last year or so.
While I sort of miss the early FOSS and Linux centered days of just a few thousand users and mostly sane discussion threads, things change and we have to accept that I guess.
Thanks for keeping /. alive, I'm looking forward to what the next 20 years (hopefully early retirement for me ;-) will bring.
One of my favourite Feynman quotes fits nicely: "Physics is like sex: it sometimes produces practical results, but that's not why we do it."
Thanks for the heads-up. I re-read Brian Bagnall's "On the Edge" about once a year which is also a fascinating read.
I pre-ordered with regular shipping to Germany (about 7 quid)
After finishing "Goldilocks and the Water Bears", a book on current developments in astrobioligy, I read a couple of pages of the "Feynman lectures on Physics" (vol 2) because my daughter was due for a physics exam at school this week (electromagnetism & induction), and I (re-)discovered what a fascinating read those lectures (50 years old by now) really still are. A genius being able to explain stuff as simple as possible (but not simpler)... how much better can it get?
My current book is "We have no idea" on the big blank areas in today's science. I've only read the first couple of chapters so far, but it's already good fun.
Not just "Ishmael", but especially "The Story of B" and "My Ishmael" fundamentally changed the way I view our culture. It's been one of the few books in my life that has answered more questions than it raises; fascinating stuff.
Check out the author's website at
http://www.ishmael.org/
noob...
now get off my lawn ;-D
Came here for this, leaving satisfied ;-)
Let Darwin do his work... ;-)
The ratings may have gone nothing but upl for the BBT, but the quality has been constantly declining since at least the end of season two. It's just not as funny as it just to be, not enough geek / nerd content and too many love stories. ;-)
I sync neither my gmail account nor my company email on my employer-provided phone. It also helps that the phone is usually downstairs charging overnight and not on my bedside table (within easy reach, so to speak).
Check your ancestry for anyone Irish... instant Irish citizenship ;D
If you can still find them... they're built like a tank. My eee 901 still runs wonderfully using a lightweight distro like CrunchBang++, I had to exchange the battery once (for a larger one which results in about 7 hours of everyday use), but apart from that it's been a very reliable machine.
We own a ca. 2008 Ford Focus hatchback and I've managed to crash the (Sony-based?) music system in it so hard simply by trying to play stuff off of a USB stick that the entire thing (just the radio / cd player, thank $DEITY, not the car itself) refused to turn on for a couple of days.
The introductory quotation in my physics thesis was the song's first verse... quite different from your "run of the mill" Goethe or Schiller quote that most folks used back in the day. ;-)
I needed a good laugh just now, thanks for providing it ;-)
Did anyone else read the headline as "Shit work..."? I think it's high time for a coffee and / or new glasses ;)
I guess both titles will need some decent HW vendor support first (FFB for my logitech G25 wheel and drivers for the HOTAS Cougar Stick).
I've been trying to find some good schematics for an ipod dock to analog audio in connector for those compact hifi boxes, has anyone been successful in buying or building one him- or herself? All I'd need is to feed analog audio into the system, no fancy play controls and the like. Thanks!
Another thumbs up for bacula if you need more than a single backup of your data (like copying it to drives only once)
What about the Dragon64? While it didn't have much software available, C64 owner's jaws dropped to the floor when the saw the floppy loading speed... parallel for the win! ;-)