If you have a video display section, check out this youtube video titled "Die Maus erklärt das Internet". Sponsoring a translation into English might be a good idea, the vid is highly entertaining and funny at the same time (even for my age group). "Die Maus" ("The Mouse") is a character from German children's TV and has developed a cult following in the decades since its inception.
I've been using vdr for years now and am very happy with it (small, stable, tons of plugins available). Check out the c't vdr project which has vdr at the centre (obviously) and comes with many of the more popular plugins already pre-installed.
Hearing that adblock extension is now available for the chrome beta, I decided to give this new release another go. However chrome claimed that "extensions are disabled" whenever I tried to install adblock from chromeextensions.org, no matter what combination of startup parameters I added to the shortcut (supposedly, --enable-extensions should do the trick).
I upgraded from 9.04 to karmic beta in early October and have been running it without major problems since. The screen flickers a bit when changing from the boot logo (actually it was xubuntu 9.04 I was upgrading from) to the desktop resolution and I have had to manually add some packageswhich I thought were there by default in karmic (empathy, ubuntu one), but I've had no issues or problems otherwise.
If he tried streaming "never met a girl like you before", I guess the Geneva convention was considered applicable for the abysmal guitar solo... good riddance and hats off to the guys in The Hague!;-)
Not the cheesy fps it was turned into a few years ago, but turn based with state-of-the art isometric map views could be fun.
A friend of mine, whose english wasn't and still isn't very good at the time, knows every possible form of and variant of "to hack at someone", thanks to the Bard's Tale series. Anyone remember the 400 Beserkers killed 100 times for exp? "Herb casts a spell and a herb appears!"? "The girls in the bar are not impressed"?;-) Oh joy!
Programming has always been about "scratching your own itch", at least that's how I got started in the early 80s when computing classes were introduced at our school in the mid 80s. I wrote a simple basic program on a genie16+ to help us with our maths assignment (some linear algebra stuff) and we both promptly got an "A" for solving the problem in an intelligent manner and not just crunching the numbers, er equations by hand.
I agree that in today's IT world, software is available out there in abundance that probably solves 99% of the problems you might have tackled yourself 20 or even 30 years ago, but there's always something left that may seem interesting. Maybe it's not even outright programming, but "scripting together" some available tools to do a job not previously thought of by the original designers.
The last pet project I worked on was a "remote control" for vdr because I got fed up with vdradmin-am's javascript based remote control that disappeared whenever I had to restart Minefield (so daily as I'm running 3.6a;-). I needed a stand alone program for that, so I dabbled with Mono and its gui tools a bit, but ultimately ended up with coding something rather ugly in glade / Python.
Of course any python guy worth his salt would ban me into the lower chambers of VB development if they saw the code, but even after 25 years of dealing with computers it's still a bit of a buzz to use your own stuff, something you wrote and that can be adapted quickly to scratch any new itch that might come up.
In closing, you'll find something to work on without ever resorting to sourceforge if you think long and hard enough.
Oldest machine I have in working condition is a 64kb Dragon 64. Was a great little machine in its day, featuring multiuser / multitasking on a 6809E running OS/9 (yep, you could log in over a serial terminal;-). Also featured a parallel floppy drive which put the C64's 1541 to shame.
Great times, niche machine, died along with the rest. Manual claims it's from 1983, so a bit more than 25 years, I'd say.
I think I'll have to jump in with a correction here. Finnish is considered to be one of the hardest languages to learn, while english is considered one of the easiest.
If you look for a language similar to finnish, try hungarian (for some weird reason, both nations have a common offspring, no idea why one ended up in the north of Europe and the other in the southeast, maybe they don't like each other much;-) Mika Hakinnen used to have a large fan crowd at the Hungarian Grand Prix for exactly this reason.
Thanks for pointing out NitrOS-9, looks interesting. It might trigger me to dust off that ancient Dragon64, I wonder if the floppies still work though;-)
I cannot believe nobody has mentioned the OS9 operating system on the Dragon64 yet. Multi-User, multi-tasking OS humming along in a mere 64kb of RAM off two 180kb 5.25" floppies (parallel, not serial like the shitty 1541 c64 stuff, featuring lightning fast loading times), serial port console capability, word processor, Pascal compiler, RMS software (not *the* RMS, but the record management system;-)... simply a great machine for its time, powered by the Motorola 6809E which featured 16bit ops even back in the late 80's.
I have the original machine, disks and manuals sitting on the shelf next to me, and it's still a good feeling to have owned such a great machine when the rest of the world was still running MVS on 300 baud modems.
Question is who'd like to work permanently for a company which bases its employment decisions on personal opinions or wether they manage to find anything even remotely offending about the prospective employee.
It's a professional relationship, not a love affair, so chances are high you'll run into other problems when working at such a place in the medium to long-term, so why bother signing with them in the first place?
No wonder if you're a Scot. We travelled Edinburgh a few years ago in early May and as soon as the sun came out, the locals were donning shorts, T-shirts, Kilts and the lassies in short skirts... all at around 5 degs Celsius, brrr;-)
I just finished Bill Bryson's new book "Shakespeare", and somewhere he mentions that Shakespeare introduced over 500 neologisms to the English language alone. While I don't think Neal's creations will become part of the mainstream language anytime soon, I think the book shouldn't be discounted simply on the fact that he invents new words.
(Disclaimer: haven't read the book yet, but I've read most of the books Wolfe wrote and I find the comparison to the "long sun" cycle interesting, I might just have to pick up Anathem as I quite liked the Baroque Cycle, too).
Thanks a ton for posting the textual content of the article. Before even reading / searching through it, I somehow knew in my heart that not a single racing simulation related mod would be mentioned.
No GPLEA (the folks who continue to breathe new life into "Grand Prix Legends" on an annual basis, a sim that is over a decade old), no mention of rfactor (a racing sim essentially designed to allow easy modding by the community which right now has over 500 mods and tracks, on separate counts available), heck not even a single flight sim on this list.
Well, I guess I'm just not mainstream enough anymore;-)
Is this from the Rick Romero newsdesk of the "bleeding obvious"?
Putting crap on Blu-Ray doesn't turn it into a masterpiece, it's still crap. How much is a blu-ray movie disc these days?
It never fails to amaze me how exec's still seem to believe they can push crap into the marketplace and people will buy it like sheep simply because it has a new name and a cool logo attached to it.
Wake me up when the hd tv format wars have ended and some stations actually broadcast full hd 24x7 outside of some indefinite beta trial phase, then I might think again about ditching good old PAL and my dvd player.
When I was that age (a looong time ago;-), I scoured the local library for anything written by Niven & Pournelle. Great stuff, interesting concepts to think about (well, maybe not "hammerfall" or the one featuring the space elephants), and usually funny enough to keep the interest up (the one with the "flying wizards" had me ROTFL quite a few times).
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If you have a video display section, check out this youtube video titled "Die Maus erklärt das Internet". Sponsoring a translation into English might be a good idea, the vid is highly entertaining and funny at the same time (even for my age group). "Die Maus" ("The Mouse") is a character from German children's TV and has developed a cult following in the decades since its inception.
I've been using vdr for years now and am very happy with it (small, stable, tons of plugins available). Check out the c't vdr project which has vdr at the centre (obviously) and comes with many of the more popular plugins already pre-installed.
Sorry to see my mod points just expired a couple of days ago... good post.
Hearing that adblock extension is now available for the chrome beta, I decided to give this new release another go. However chrome claimed that "extensions are disabled" whenever I tried to install adblock from chromeextensions.org, no matter what combination of startup parameters I added to the shortcut (supposedly, --enable-extensions should do the trick).
Can anybody shed some light on this?
I upgraded from 9.04 to karmic beta in early October and have been running it without major problems since. The screen flickers a bit when changing from the boot logo (actually it was xubuntu 9.04 I was upgrading from) to the desktop resolution and I have had to manually add some packageswhich I thought were there by default in karmic (empathy, ubuntu one), but I've had no issues or problems otherwise.
Oh happy days! The whole thing went downhill once they started adding pictures, anyway.
If he tried streaming "never met a girl like you before", I guess the Geneva convention was considered applicable for the abysmal guitar solo... good riddance and hats off to the guys in The Hague! ;-)
FTFY ;-)
Not the cheesy fps it was turned into a few years ago, but turn based with state-of-the art isometric map views could be fun.
A friend of mine, whose english wasn't and still isn't very good at the time, knows every possible form of and variant of "to hack at someone", thanks to the Bard's Tale series. Anyone remember the 400 Beserkers killed 100 times for exp? "Herb casts a spell and a herb appears!"? "The girls in the bar are not impressed"? ;-) Oh joy!
Programming has always been about "scratching your own itch", at least that's how I got started in the early 80s when computing classes were introduced at our school in the mid 80s. I wrote a simple basic program on a genie16+ to help us with our maths assignment (some linear algebra stuff) and we both promptly got an "A" for solving the problem in an intelligent manner and not just crunching the numbers, er equations by hand.
I agree that in today's IT world, software is available out there in abundance that probably solves 99% of the problems you might have tackled yourself 20 or even 30 years ago, but there's always something left that may seem interesting. Maybe it's not even outright programming, but "scripting together" some available tools to do a job not previously thought of by the original designers.
The last pet project I worked on was a "remote control" for vdr because I got fed up with vdradmin-am's javascript based remote control that disappeared whenever I had to restart Minefield (so daily as I'm running 3.6a ;-). I needed a stand alone program for that, so I dabbled with Mono and its gui tools a bit, but ultimately ended up with coding something rather ugly in glade / Python.
Of course any python guy worth his salt would ban me into the lower chambers of VB development if they saw the code, but even after 25 years of dealing with computers it's still a bit of a buzz to use your own stuff, something you wrote and that can be adapted quickly to scratch any new itch that might come up.
In closing, you'll find something to work on without ever resorting to sourceforge if you think long and hard enough.
Oldest machine I have in working condition is a 64kb Dragon 64. Was a great little machine in its day, featuring multiuser / multitasking on a 6809E running OS/9 (yep, you could log in over a serial terminal ;-). Also featured a parallel floppy drive which put the C64's 1541 to shame.
Great times, niche machine, died along with the rest. Manual claims it's from 1983, so a bit more than 25 years, I'd say.
OTOH, you fail at "its" and "it's". ;-)
May I suggest a trip to the city where they teach the proper usage of "its" and "it's"? ;-)
I think I'll have to jump in with a correction here. Finnish is considered to be one of the hardest languages to learn, while english is considered one of the easiest.
If you look for a language similar to finnish, try hungarian (for some weird reason, both nations have a common offspring, no idea why one ended up in the north of Europe and the other in the southeast, maybe they don't like each other much ;-) Mika Hakinnen used to have a large fan crowd at the Hungarian Grand Prix for exactly this reason.
Thanks for pointing out NitrOS-9, looks interesting. It might trigger me to dust off that ancient Dragon64, I wonder if the floppies still work though ;-)
I cannot believe nobody has mentioned the OS9 operating system on the Dragon64 yet. Multi-User, multi-tasking OS humming along in a mere 64kb of RAM off two 180kb 5.25" floppies (parallel, not serial like the shitty 1541 c64 stuff, featuring lightning fast loading times), serial port console capability, word processor, Pascal compiler, RMS software (not *the* RMS, but the record management system ;-)... simply a great machine for its time, powered by the Motorola 6809E which featured 16bit ops even back in the late 80's.
I have the original machine, disks and manuals sitting on the shelf next to me, and it's still a good feeling to have owned such a great machine when the rest of the world was still running MVS on 300 baud modems.
Question is who'd like to work permanently for a company which bases its employment decisions on personal opinions or wether they manage to find anything even remotely offending about the prospective employee.
It's a professional relationship, not a love affair, so chances are high you'll run into other problems when working at such a place in the medium to long-term, so why bother signing with them in the first place?
No wonder if you're a Scot. We travelled Edinburgh a few years ago in early May and as soon as the sun came out, the locals were donning shorts, T-shirts, Kilts and the lassies in short skirts... all at around 5 degs Celsius, brrr ;-)
I just finished Bill Bryson's new book "Shakespeare", and somewhere he mentions that Shakespeare introduced over 500 neologisms to the English language alone. While I don't think Neal's creations will become part of the mainstream language anytime soon, I think the book shouldn't be discounted simply on the fact that he invents new words.
(Disclaimer: haven't read the book yet, but I've read most of the books Wolfe wrote and I find the comparison to the "long sun" cycle interesting, I might just have to pick up Anathem as I quite liked the Baroque Cycle, too).
Sure, but to down enough of a batch gone bad without vomiting after the first sip would require you to get rid of your taste buds first.
When a beer's gone bad, you'll know it, it'll taste very much like the stuff you'll be dumping into the toilet if you have too much of it.
To quote from "Papazian": "There are no known pathogens that are able to survive in beer."
My glass, in your general direction, I raise it ;-)
Thanks a ton for posting the textual content of the article. Before even reading / searching through it, I somehow knew in my heart that not a single racing simulation related mod would be mentioned.
No GPLEA (the folks who continue to breathe new life into "Grand Prix Legends" on an annual basis, a sim that is over a decade old), no mention of rfactor (a racing sim essentially designed to allow easy modding by the community which right now has over 500 mods and tracks, on separate counts available), heck not even a single flight sim on this list.
Well, I guess I'm just not mainstream enough anymore ;-)
Is this from the Rick Romero newsdesk of the "bleeding obvious"?
Putting crap on Blu-Ray doesn't turn it into a masterpiece, it's still crap. How much is a blu-ray movie disc these days?
It never fails to amaze me how exec's still seem to believe they can push crap into the marketplace and people will buy it like sheep simply because it has a new name and a cool logo attached to it.
Wake me up when the hd tv format wars have ended and some stations actually broadcast full hd 24x7 outside of some indefinite beta trial phase, then I might think again about ditching good old PAL and my dvd player.
I agree 100%. Choosing Tux as the mascot was the single best "design decision" Linus ever made ;-)
When I was that age (a looong time ago ;-), I scoured the local library for anything written by Niven & Pournelle. Great stuff, interesting concepts to think about (well, maybe not "hammerfall" or the one featuring the space elephants), and usually funny enough to keep the interest up (the one with the "flying wizards" had me ROTFL quite a few times).