Actually, my father was always the one who into cars. He used to do the drag racing thing and car hotrodding when he was young.
Then recently, I was reading Popular Science and saw a car I really want. I showed my dad, and he was impressed.
It's a very geek car. It's extremely configurable so should appeal to those, like me, who use Linux for that reason. It's not terribly expensive. It's aesthetically pleasing. It's actually an unlikely hybrid of many cars. A 20's roadster with a future "space" look. It's small and big at the same time. It's smaller than a minivan, shorter than a station wagon, larger than a compact. It's quite funky looking.
Most importantly, I can fit stuff in it, because I happen to be a musician. Great for lugging computers around, too.
What makes this interesting is how the other day I noticed that "bigleaves.jpg" was removed from KDE's backagrounds. Corel had a good reason for doing that, so that big companies who install CL can't go through the backgrounds and say, "What? These Linux people and Corel are nothing but drug pushers!" Aside: Corel's own backgrounds they put in there are very cool looking.
So basically they are removing potentially offensive content (yes, some people find that offensive, sigh) but are still requiring over-18 to download it.
I guess I'll have to wait for a statement from Corel themselves, if one does come.
As it is, I can spend an afternoon, say, with a book on my lap, boning up on a subject which is only borderline relevant to my job.
I've done both. The difference, to me, was more hours worked hourly. That's it. Sometimes 17 hours a day. It was tiring, but I got *paid* for it.
I wrote stuff like that down as "research."
Reading Slashdot was "research" that I did when there was nothing else to do, like when I was waiting for a piece of hardware to arrive.
I could go over to the nearby magazine place and pick up Dr. Dobb's or those European electronics magazines. Again, "research."
My employers always knew what I was doing, and didn't bug me about it. I used specific techniques learned from those magazines in my projects. I simply showed them what interesting information I gained and they knew that it was actually making me more productive.
Around here (Newfoundland, Canada), the problem is not with teachers but with school boards.
Teachers are not permitted to teach anything other than what the school board dictates. What makes this really bad is the fact that the school boards are not made up of teachers but with scumbag politician wannabes and (in the Catholic schools) Christian fundamentalists. Science is extremely low on their priority lists. They don't even know what's happening in the classrooms.
I had a computer teacher who had to literally fight the school board to change the curriculum of the computer courses from CBM Pets to (then current) 286s.
I was lucky to have good teachers. My chemistry teacher spent his off-class hours in the lab trying to recreate student's science fair experiments. He went out of his way to learn from the students. Once he was looking at someone's fiber-optic demonstration project and videotaped me explaining the simple 555 circuit and how light traveled through the medium for future reference.
Most of my teachers constantly cursed the foul school board. Our labs were understocked, the books were only updated every 6 or 7 years, etc. When I hit college it was a culture shock. New books every year or two (Some people didn't like that because they couldn't sell them, but I kept all of my books anyway), proper equipment in the labs, and best of all, small classes. I graduated in a class of 12 people.
Remeber Wally, the blue safety dog? Those shorts are hilarious.
There's also Getting Started, which was always one of my favourites. It's about procrastination, the guy reminds me of myself. I'm sure many other Slashdotters have exhibited the behaviour displayed in the short as well.
Plus, The Big Snit never ceases to make me laugh out loud, no matter how many times I see it.
Any geek would also be proud to have a collection of Norman McLaren's stuff, such as Neighbors. McLaren was obsessed with animation technology and was a true hacker in the art form. For example, he used to actually draw the soundtracks directly on the film, experimenting with what shapes make what sound. There was also the one where the chair avoided being sat on, and the one with the guy and the garbage can (has to be seen).
There's also a lot of great stuff that wasn't commonly shown on television except on shows like CBC's Open Wide (I miss that show), and TeleToon's Splat! If you live in Canada, you can go to the local NFB (It's like a library) or some of the larger libraries and check out all of the cool stuff you haven't seen. A warning though, expect to waste a lot of time in there.
If you live in Montreal, or are planning to visit, Check out the NFB'sCineRoboteque. It's truly a geek experience.
The Linux version requires a supported hardware 3D acceleration card. The following have been tested: o 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics based cards o Maxtrox G200/G400 Other cards of similar make and model may work, but are not supported.
I can think of two good computer magazines off the top of my head that does a good job:
Dr. Dobb's Journal. I think everyone here is familiar with this one.
Microcomputer Journal (formerly ComputerCraft). This is a great magazine. I haven't seen it in a while and I don't even know if it still even exists. It's basically for hardware hackers. Common articles include communication protocols and how to use them in your own projects, buses, lots of PIC microcontroller stuff, designing and building PC hardware, etc... They also complemented the hardware info with source code and stuff. I really liked that magazine.
Hmmm, what sets these magzines apart from the PC foo variety? Usefulness. The information found in these magazines will actually teach you lots of really neat stuff that you can use professionally and/or as a hobbyist.
Actually, this brings to mind another issue: electronics mags. It seems that the North American ones (Popular Electronics and Electronics Now) tend to go towards, "here, build this, but you haven't really learned anything applicable outside of this project." On the other hand, all the European ones I've seen (Elektor, Everyday Practical Electronics, etc) have been truly informative. They have a good balance of theory and construction articles. Too bad I live in North America...
Ask yourself: is Matrix Orbital passing along this savings to you?
1 - PC suppliers enjoy a price break putting Windows on all PCs. They pass the savings on to me. However, I don't use Windows and I immediately delete it to install Linux. How much money have I saved now? I think that many people agree with me that this is harmful to the consumer and only benefits Microsoft or UPS.
2 - I'm willing to pay more to get something shipped overnight rather than a fscking week. I end up sitting around waiting for it to arrive while my employer loses money due to lost productivity and missed deadlines. For a lousy 20 extra bucks they're saving many hundreds if I get equipment immediately.
I have tried very hard to get such companies to "make an exception." It simply doesn't work. I'm the one paying for the shipping so I should have a choice.
It has always been that the greatest innovators thought this way. However, all too often they are not successful. It's the business people who capitalise on great ideas and screw the little guy in the process who get the "kudos."
I have always admired those who went out of their way to help people in need.
In other words, I prefer humanism over hedonism.
My beliefs are quite strong in issues such as these. I refuse to work for oil companies even though they are one of the only industries where I live. My last job was designing improved automotive safety systems (occupant sensing). I was glad to be part of it. It gave me kind of a warm fuzzy feeling inside. The fact that the technology, Kinotex, is also being used on the space station is just a cool side-effect and a distant second in my mind.
I'm not joking. Every experience with UPS I have ever had was extremely bad.
One, they don't really operate in Atlantic Canada where I live, even though their main call centre is in Moncton, NB. They handle it through garbage local companies (here, it's sameday (someday) express). Surprisingly enough, they won't even let me insure something I send from here.
It took me over a month to receive a laptop I bought. It came broken so I called up the company for a replacement and decided to get another one instead. I asked them to send it via Purolator or FedEx and that I would pay the full shipping costs. Nope. UPS had them in a contract that they were not allowed to use other services even though the customer is paying for it. Sound familiar?
Matrix Orbital (It's sad to say this), who makes cool LCD displays for Linux boxes, has signed one of these contracts. I worked for a company that needed one overnight. FedEx or Purolator would have done it, but UPS wouldn't. It was UPS or nothing and it took a week to get.
That not only sucks, it should be illegal. I'm paying for it, shouldn't I get a choice?
When I sent my laptop back, not only would they not insure it, but they didn't give me any kind of receipt. Egghead couldn't reimburse me the the CAN$200 without the UPS receipt I didn't get. UPS refused to give me a receipt no matter how many times I called them ("there's nothing we can do", BS, they lost their records???).
That's why this story doesn't surprise me. UPS are dickheads, and they always were in my experience.
No sillier than worshipping Wheatstone bridges (I remember doing an search on them during a workterm and wondering why all the $cientology links came up).
Zappa was very vocal about $cientology and it was pretty much what Joe's Garage was all about. Music was banned and people like Elron (hehheh) got confused young people to join the "Church of Applientology."
Plus the music rocks: "We would jam in Joe's Garage.. woooeeee..."
Kind of like the whole microsoft vs. Linux debate, don't you think? anyone who doesn't like windows is degraded as a "Microsoft Basher" no matter what they say. At/., anyone defending NT is ignored as a "Linux basher".
Entirely not true. I've seen both types of posts moderated up and responded to in a civil fashion.
Duckman still comes on every night on Teletoon here in Canada. For a while David Misch, one of the producers, was hanging around on alt.tv.duckman talking about making the show. It was very cool.
He would not, absolutely would not, tell about what was supposed to happen at the beginning of season 5. The last show of season 4 was quite a cliffhanger (apparently designed to get people to pressure USA to keep the show). The newsgroup went alight when that episode first aired in Canada. He wouldn't tell though, and he has a good reason for it.
He maintains (as well as many other sources) that they are actively trying to get Duckman back on the air with new episodes. Comedy Central just picked up the first four seasons for air in the US in 2000, there is hope that this may trigger a resurgence. I'm hoping, at least.
On a sadder note, in 1997, the voice of Charles, Dana Hill died. The voice was taken over by Pat Musick. That was too bad...
Every submitter formats the text differently, and the inline ("botton of page") footnotes are a real annoyance.
Definitely. I'd like to see a more "interactive" way of doing footnotes. Check out how they're done in LyX. That's really nice. Maybe LyX versions of the books should be done...
BTW: I read "Sun Tsu" as well. Way cool...
A suggestion: Read Machiavelli. There are two books, often put together, called "The Prince" and "The Discourses." I started reading the PG version and ended up buying the dead-tree version because I wanted to read it on the bus and didn't want to waste my laptop's battery life.
Basically, If you enjoyed playing Civilization, you'll find a fair bit of familiar stuff in there. Now I have CTP and my playing style has changed dramatically.
Now, if I could only fit the texts on my TI-86....
If control-C copies text in KWrite, try using control-C to copy text in KWrite and using Alt+V to paste it in Netscape.
Nope. Doesn't work in KDE. Only the last thing I copied in Netscape gets pasted. I haven't tried it in KDE 2 yet, though. Maybe they fixed it.
Just tried something: ran xclipboard to see what was there. It was the last thing I copied in Netscape. I copied something in KWrite and when I ran xclipboard again, it was empty... Interesting.
As for alt-vs-ctrl in Netscape: Why??? I can't think of any reason why alt would be used rather than ctrl.
Maybe it's a Motif quirk? As time progresses, I hate Motif more and more...
I opened up KWrite, typed `funk` and did what you said. It actually worked.
I've never been able to paste text into Netscape. You cannot use the menu options or shortcut keys to paste text from KWrite to Netscape. For large pieces of text, I would open up the file in Netscape and copy it using the shortcut keys.
Now, why didn't I *know* this other way? I've been using Linux since 1993. Maybe we need an X tutorial?
Ok, I can't really say a lot that wasn't already here. However, I have an old 16" Sun (Sony) monitor that I wanted to use. I did much research and came to a final decision. I'll start at the beginning.
Google was great for giving me the information I needed. One big problem is that there is no one page that tells you everything or has links to everything.
So here's some stuff:
Special video cards (good ones, recent acceleration technology) are available. They're more expensive than regular cards, but you're pretty much guaranteed that they'll work. They are specially designed to display text modes on those monitors, which is a huge plus.
There are more companies. A search will find them quickly. I remember seeing one that used S3 chipsets. A good thing because they're very supported. Many of these companies explicitly state Linux support. That's another good thing.
If you want to use a regular video card, be mindful of the specs on your monitor. I found an exellent source of monitor data here. There are DEC fixed frequency monitors in there, among many, many more.
If you have sync-on-green, you probably have 3 BNC connectors on the back of your monitor. Any Matrox card will drive this. There's a "sync-on-green" option in the XF86Config file for that. VGA-to-BNC cables can be bought fairly cheaply.
If you have composite sync, you probably have either four BNC connectors or a 13W3 connector (3 large coax pins and 10 regular pins). Don't bother looking for a bare connector to make a cable with. It's a very special kind of cable due to the mixture of coax and regular multiconductor cable. If you want to hack an existing cable (or just buy one to go straight) IBM sells them for US$27.00 compared to everyone else (including Sun) that sells them for ~US$80.00.
ATI cards support composite sync. It's an option in the XF86Config file.
To do composite sync on any other card, you can build a little logic circuit, but I *really* don't recommend that because 13W3 cables are relatively hard to hack, plus you'll get a lot of signal loss. For the price of a card you don't have to screw with, it's worth it.
Having looked at these options, I looked at what came with the monitor: a very old pizzabox Sun 3/80. I only wanted an Xterminal anyway and there is some software called XKernel that turns an old Sun into one. Get it here.
This is the option I'm going with. No major screwing around, plus I get what I want. I bought a cheap ethernet transceiver from D-Link (I had to slice off some of the plastic on the back of my Sun to get it to fit), and I am now waiting for my 13W3 cable to come in from IBM Canada (It *is* a special order, after all).
These old Sun's are easy to find, and tend to have very nice monitors on them. I saw a couple of old Sparcs here for sale for ~CAN$50 each. You can't beat that. They had monitor cables too.:-)*
So that's my little experience. It's not exactly tuned to the question, but I'm sure there are many others (I *KNOW* there are) that are watching this question with interest.
I saw it on the news earlier today and decided that maybe it was time to do a Y2K check around my house:
1. Typed 'pitneybowes' in Netscape location bar 2. Found the Y2K page (clearly linked from the main page). 3. Clicked on facsimile machines 4. All their fax machines are compliant. 5. Cool. Well, I'm done.
There's an incredibly nice package called apsfilter. It's really nice and SuSE will configure it through YaST. Imagine 'lpr foo.pdf' or 'lpr bar.jpg' and it starts to look quite nice.
I have an Epson Stylus Color 600. I have it set to 720x720 dpi (you can go up to 1440). Print quality is fantastic. I've printed transparencies for positive PCB making on LaserJets at work which completely sucked. Dark areas faded in the middle, it was really spotty. It was unacceptable for what I was doing. I sent the files home and printed them on my el-cheapo Epson. The images were perfect. The boards actually looked professional. Not even any breaks on the very thin lines. I've found the quality better than the DeskJets I've tried, as well.
Despite what many people have told me, It's incredibly reliable. I've never had a paper jam, it's never pulled two pages through as one, and it takes very little space on top of my print server, a mini-tower. Tech support is very good, too.
Basically, Epson gives you quite the bang for your buck. I've had no problems with it in Linux.
Whoops. Jerry hasn't been doing his research.
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Hmm, IBM didn't produce a competitor to MS Office? Ummm, yeah....
I mean, how does one miss it. It has been in (and continues to be in) computer stores everywhere. I bought a computer and has a nice little CD with the Windows version on it.
It's called Lotus Smartsuite. I have two versions of it on a shelf on my left. I preferred it to Office, though I now tend to use KLyX (sweet) and StarOffice alternately.
Note to Jerry: Recalling from dim memory is not research. There were lots of other errors, but they've been covered here.
Remember when they asked O'Reilly to handle SourceExchange for them? Their reasoning was that they didn't want their competitors to feel wary of participating and benefitting from it.
Their intentions appear to be quite noble. It's as if they're pulling for the industry as a whole.
Methinks it's time for Slashdot to do an interview with the person(s) at HP responsible for these great actions. I really want to know how they got around the bullshit you'll get at a more typical company when suggesting these things.
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Actually, my father was always the one who into cars. He used to do the drag racing thing and car hotrodding when he was young.
Then recently, I was reading Popular Science and saw a car I really want. I showed my dad, and he was impressed.
It's a very geek car. It's extremely configurable so should appeal to those, like me, who use Linux for that reason. It's not terribly expensive. It's aesthetically pleasing. It's actually an unlikely hybrid of many cars. A 20's roadster with a future "space" look. It's small and big at the same time. It's smaller than a minivan, shorter than a station wagon, larger than a compact. It's quite funky looking.
Most importantly, I can fit stuff in it, because I happen to be a musician. Great for lugging computers around, too.
Check it out at www.chryslercars.com.
What makes this interesting is how the other day I noticed that "bigleaves.jpg" was removed from KDE's backagrounds. Corel had a good reason for doing that, so that big companies who install CL can't go through the backgrounds and say, "What? These Linux people and Corel are nothing but drug pushers!" Aside: Corel's own backgrounds they put in there are very cool looking.
So basically they are removing potentially offensive content (yes, some people find that offensive, sigh) but are still requiring over-18 to download it.
I guess I'll have to wait for a statement from Corel themselves, if one does come.
As it is, I can spend an afternoon, say, with a book on my lap, boning up on a subject which is only borderline relevant to my job.
I've done both. The difference, to me, was more hours worked hourly. That's it. Sometimes 17 hours a day. It was tiring, but I got *paid* for it.
I wrote stuff like that down as "research."
Reading Slashdot was "research" that I did when there was nothing else to do, like when I was waiting for a piece of hardware to arrive.
I could go over to the nearby magazine place and pick up Dr. Dobb's or those European electronics magazines. Again, "research."
My employers always knew what I was doing, and didn't bug me about it. I used specific techniques learned from those magazines in my projects. I simply showed them what interesting information I gained and they knew that it was actually making me more productive.
I guess it depends on who you work for.
Around here (Newfoundland, Canada), the problem is not with teachers but with school boards.
Teachers are not permitted to teach anything other than what the school board dictates. What makes this really bad is the fact that the school boards are not made up of teachers but with scumbag politician wannabes and (in the Catholic schools) Christian fundamentalists. Science is extremely low on their priority lists. They don't even know what's happening in the classrooms.
I had a computer teacher who had to literally fight the school board to change the curriculum of the computer courses from CBM Pets to (then current) 286s.
I was lucky to have good teachers. My chemistry teacher spent his off-class hours in the lab trying to recreate student's science fair experiments. He went out of his way to learn from the students. Once he was looking at someone's fiber-optic demonstration project and videotaped me explaining the simple 555 circuit and how light traveled through the medium for future reference.
Most of my teachers constantly cursed the foul school board. Our labs were understocked, the books were only updated every 6 or 7 years, etc. When I hit college it was a culture shock. New books every year or two (Some people didn't like that because they couldn't sell them, but I kept all of my books anyway), proper equipment in the labs, and best of all, small classes. I graduated in a class of 12 people.
Remeber Wally, the blue safety dog? Those shorts are hilarious.
There's also Getting Started, which was always one of my favourites. It's about procrastination, the guy reminds me of myself. I'm sure many other Slashdotters have exhibited the behaviour displayed in the short as well.
Plus, The Big Snit never ceases to make me laugh out loud, no matter how many times I see it.
Any geek would also be proud to have a collection of Norman McLaren's stuff, such as Neighbors. McLaren was obsessed with animation technology and was a true hacker in the art form. For example, he used to actually draw the soundtracks directly on the film, experimenting with what shapes make what sound. There was also the one where the chair avoided being sat on, and the one with the guy and the garbage can (has to be seen).
There's also a lot of great stuff that wasn't commonly shown on television except on shows like CBC's Open Wide (I miss that show), and TeleToon's Splat! If you live in Canada, you can go to the local NFB (It's like a library) or some of the larger libraries and check out all of the cool stuff you haven't seen. A warning though, expect to waste a lot of time in there.
If you live in Montreal, or are planning to visit, Check out the NFB'sCineRoboteque. It's truly a geek experience.
From the readme:
The Linux version requires a supported hardware 3D acceleration card. The
following have been tested:
o 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics based cards
o Maxtrox G200/G400
Other cards of similar make and model may work, but are not supported.
Hmmm, what sets these magzines apart from the PC foo variety? Usefulness. The information found in these magazines will actually teach you lots of really neat stuff that you can use professionally and/or as a hobbyist.
Actually, this brings to mind another issue: electronics mags. It seems that the North American ones (Popular Electronics and Electronics Now) tend to go towards, "here, build this, but you haven't really learned anything applicable outside of this project." On the other hand, all the European ones I've seen (Elektor, Everyday Practical Electronics, etc) have been truly informative. They have a good balance of theory and construction articles. Too bad I live in North America...
Ask yourself: is Matrix Orbital passing along this savings to you?
1 - PC suppliers enjoy a price break putting Windows on all PCs. They pass the savings on to me. However, I don't use Windows and I immediately delete it to install Linux. How much money have I saved now? I think that many people agree with me that this is harmful to the consumer and only benefits Microsoft or UPS.
2 - I'm willing to pay more to get something shipped overnight rather than a fscking week. I end up sitting around waiting for it to arrive while my employer loses money due to lost productivity and missed deadlines. For a lousy 20 extra bucks they're saving many hundreds if I get equipment immediately.
I have tried very hard to get such companies to "make an exception." It simply doesn't work. I'm the one paying for the shipping so I should have a choice.
Get a clue, hoser.
That certainly helps your credibility...
Wow, someone who thinks like me.
It has always been that the greatest innovators thought this way. However, all too often they are not successful. It's the business people who capitalise on great ideas and screw the little guy in the process who get the "kudos."
I have always admired those who went out of their way to help people in need.
In other words, I prefer humanism over hedonism.
My beliefs are quite strong in issues such as these. I refuse to work for oil companies even though they are one of the only industries where I live. My last job was designing improved automotive safety systems (occupant sensing). I was glad to be part of it. It gave me kind of a warm fuzzy feeling inside. The fact that the technology, Kinotex, is also being used on the space station is just a cool side-effect and a distant second in my mind.
I'm not joking. Every experience with UPS I have ever had was extremely bad.
One, they don't really operate in Atlantic Canada where I live, even though their main call centre is in Moncton, NB. They handle it through garbage local companies (here, it's sameday (someday) express). Surprisingly enough, they won't even let me insure something I send from here.
It took me over a month to receive a laptop I bought. It came broken so I called up the company for a replacement and decided to get another one instead. I asked them to send it via Purolator or FedEx and that I would pay the full shipping costs. Nope. UPS had them in a contract that they were not allowed to use other services even though the customer is paying for it. Sound familiar?
Matrix Orbital (It's sad to say this), who makes cool LCD displays for Linux boxes, has signed one of these contracts. I worked for a company that needed one overnight. FedEx or Purolator would have done it, but UPS wouldn't. It was UPS or nothing and it took a week to get.
That not only sucks, it should be illegal. I'm paying for it, shouldn't I get a choice?
When I sent my laptop back, not only would they not insure it, but they didn't give me any kind of receipt. Egghead couldn't reimburse me the the CAN$200 without the UPS receipt I didn't get. UPS refused to give me a receipt no matter how many times I called them ("there's nothing we can do", BS, they lost their records???).
That's why this story doesn't surprise me. UPS are dickheads, and they always were in my experience.
Anybody remember Zappa'a Joe's Garage?
Go listen to it again. Worshipping appliances?
No sillier than worshipping Wheatstone bridges (I remember doing an search on them during a workterm and wondering why all the $cientology links came up).
Zappa was very vocal about $cientology and it was pretty much what Joe's Garage was all about. Music was banned and people like Elron (hehheh) got confused young people to join the "Church of Applientology."
Plus the music rocks: "We would jam in Joe's Garage.. woooeeee..."
Kind of like the whole microsoft vs. Linux debate, don't you think? anyone who doesn't like windows is degraded as a "Microsoft Basher" no matter what they say. At /., anyone defending NT is ignored as a "Linux basher".
Entirely not true. I've seen both types of posts moderated up and responded to in a civil fashion.
Duckman still comes on every night on Teletoon here in Canada. For a while David Misch, one of the producers, was hanging around on alt.tv.duckman talking about making the show. It was very cool.
He would not, absolutely would not, tell about what was supposed to happen at the beginning of season 5. The last show of season 4 was quite a cliffhanger (apparently designed to get people to pressure USA to keep the show). The newsgroup went alight when that episode first aired in Canada. He wouldn't tell though, and he has a good reason for it.
He maintains (as well as many other sources) that they are actively trying to get Duckman back on the air with new episodes. Comedy Central just picked up the first four seasons for air in the US in 2000, there is hope that this may trigger a resurgence. I'm hoping, at least.
On a sadder note, in 1997, the voice of Charles, Dana Hill died. The voice was taken over by Pat Musick. That was too bad...
One problem might be that Micro$oft has claimed in the Calera suit that it lost the source code to DOS.
Hmm, seven major versions, countless minor versions, over the span of many years...
Ooops, all lost. Even Win95/98... Joe Bob brought them home for an elementary school project and his dog ate them all...
The court didn't actually *believe* that did it? For a lie, that's pretty damn boldfaced!
Every submitter formats the text differently, and the inline ("botton of page") footnotes are a real annoyance.
Definitely. I'd like to see a more "interactive" way of doing footnotes. Check out how they're done in LyX. That's really nice. Maybe LyX versions of the books should be done...
BTW: I read "Sun Tsu" as well. Way cool...
A suggestion: Read Machiavelli. There are two books, often put together, called "The Prince" and "The Discourses." I started reading the PG version and ended up buying the dead-tree version because I wanted to read it on the bus and didn't want to waste my laptop's battery life.
Basically, If you enjoyed playing Civilization, you'll find a fair bit of familiar stuff in there. Now I have CTP and my playing style has changed dramatically.
Now, if I could only fit the texts on my TI-86....
If control-C copies text in KWrite, try using control-C to copy text in KWrite and using Alt+V to paste it in Netscape.
Nope. Doesn't work in KDE. Only the last thing I copied in Netscape gets pasted. I haven't tried it in KDE 2 yet, though. Maybe they fixed it.
Just tried something: ran xclipboard to see what was there. It was the last thing I copied in Netscape. I copied something in KWrite and when I ran xclipboard again, it was empty... Interesting.
As for alt-vs-ctrl in Netscape: Why??? I can't think of any reason why alt would be used rather than ctrl.
Maybe it's a Motif quirk? As time progresses, I hate Motif more and more...
I can't believe it, it worked!
I opened up KWrite, typed `funk` and did what you said. It actually worked.
I've never been able to paste text into Netscape. You cannot use the menu options or shortcut keys to paste text from KWrite to Netscape. For large pieces of text, I would open up the file in Netscape and copy it using the shortcut keys.
Now, why didn't I *know* this other way? I've been using Linux since 1993. Maybe we need an X tutorial?
Hmmm?
Ok, I can't really say a lot that wasn't already here. However, I have an old 16" Sun (Sony) monitor that I wanted to use. I did much research and came to a final decision. I'll start at the beginning.
:-)*
Google was great for giving me the information I needed. One big problem is that there is no one page that tells you everything or has links to everything.
So here's some stuff:
Special video cards (good ones, recent acceleration technology) are available. They're more expensive than regular cards, but you're pretty much guaranteed that they'll work. They are specially designed to display text modes on those monitors, which is a huge plus.
Here's a link:
http://www.si87.com/
There are more companies. A search will find them quickly. I remember seeing one that used S3 chipsets. A good thing because they're very supported. Many of these companies explicitly state Linux support. That's another good thing.
If you want to use a regular video card, be mindful of the specs on your monitor. I found an exellent source of monitor data here. There are DEC fixed frequency monitors in there, among many, many more.
If you have sync-on-green, you probably have 3 BNC connectors on the back of your monitor. Any Matrox card will drive this. There's a "sync-on-green" option in the XF86Config file for that. VGA-to-BNC cables can be bought fairly cheaply.
If you have composite sync, you probably have either four BNC connectors or a 13W3 connector (3 large coax pins and 10 regular pins). Don't bother looking for a bare connector to make a cable with. It's a very special kind of cable due to the mixture of coax and regular multiconductor cable. If you want to hack an existing cable (or just buy one to go straight) IBM sells them for US$27.00 compared to everyone else (including Sun) that sells them for ~US$80.00.
ATI cards support composite sync. It's an option in the XF86Config file.
To do composite sync on any other card, you can build a little logic circuit, but I *really* don't recommend that because 13W3 cables are relatively hard to hack, plus you'll get a lot of signal loss. For the price of a card you don't have to screw with, it's worth it.
Having looked at these options, I looked at what came with the monitor: a very old pizzabox Sun 3/80. I only wanted an Xterminal anyway and there is some software called XKernel that turns an old Sun into one. Get it here.
This is the option I'm going with. No major screwing around, plus I get what I want. I bought a cheap ethernet transceiver from D-Link (I had to slice off some of the plastic on the back of my Sun to get it to fit), and I am now waiting for my 13W3 cable to come in from IBM Canada (It *is* a special order, after all).
These old Sun's are easy to find, and tend to have very nice monitors on them. I saw a couple of old Sparcs here for sale for ~CAN$50 each. You can't beat that. They had monitor cables too.
So that's my little experience. It's not exactly tuned to the question, but I'm sure there are many others (I *KNOW* there are) that are watching this question with interest.
Solar cells are horrendously inefficient. They are also extremely expensive.
You'll notice that only the smallest of calculators have solar cells. I haven't seen a solar powered graphing calculator.
I saw it on the news earlier today and decided that maybe it was time to do a Y2K check around my house:
1. Typed 'pitneybowes' in Netscape location bar
2. Found the Y2K page (clearly linked from the main page).
3. Clicked on facsimile machines
4. All their fax machines are compliant.
5. Cool. Well, I'm done.
I have an hp48g calculator and it can produce entire symphonies (Bach I believe) from the sound in the speaker.
:-)* That's require quite the overclock, plus a biiig memory expander.
I was impressed by the people who got the serial port on TI-85's to play waves. Some games had sound support.
Now to port XMMS over to the z80
There's an incredibly nice package called apsfilter. It's really nice and SuSE will configure it through YaST. Imagine 'lpr foo.pdf' or 'lpr bar.jpg' and it starts to look quite nice.
I have an Epson Stylus Color 600. I have it set to 720x720 dpi (you can go up to 1440). Print quality is fantastic. I've printed transparencies for positive PCB making on LaserJets at work which completely sucked. Dark areas faded in the middle, it was really spotty. It was unacceptable for what I was doing. I sent the files home and printed them on my el-cheapo Epson. The images were perfect. The boards actually looked professional. Not even any breaks on the very thin lines. I've found the quality better than the DeskJets I've tried, as well.
Despite what many people have told me, It's incredibly reliable. I've never had a paper jam, it's never pulled two pages through as one, and it takes very little space on top of my print server, a mini-tower. Tech support is very good, too.
Basically, Epson gives you quite the bang for your buck. I've had no problems with it in Linux.
Hmm, IBM didn't produce a competitor to MS Office? Ummm, yeah....
I mean, how does one miss it. It has been in (and continues to be in) computer stores everywhere. I bought a computer and has a nice little CD with the Windows version on it.
It's called Lotus Smartsuite. I have two versions of it on a shelf on my left. I preferred it to Office, though I now tend to use KLyX (sweet) and StarOffice alternately.
Note to Jerry: Recalling from dim memory is not research. There were lots of other errors, but they've been covered here.
This looks like more good vibes from HP.
Remember when they asked O'Reilly to handle SourceExchange for them? Their reasoning was that they didn't want their competitors to feel wary of participating and benefitting from it.
Their intentions appear to be quite noble. It's as if they're pulling for the industry as a whole.
Methinks it's time for Slashdot to do an interview with the person(s) at HP responsible for these great actions. I really want to know how they got around the bullshit you'll get at a more typical company when suggesting these things.
(Pine Is Not Elm!)
IIRC, it's "Pine Is No longer Elm."
At least that was what the Slackware installation said.