Yeah, SaX is really nice. It won't do Mach64, though.
I found that the hard way, then used XF86Setup, which is unfortunate because it won't generate arbitrary video modes for you.
Monitor setup is a pain in the ass and takes quite a while to get just right. Wouldn't it be nice if you could move and resize your image with the arrow keys in xvidtune?
Can someone please tell me why the "Designated-hitter rule" vastly overwhelms "the blacklist?" Oh yeah, baseball is american as apple pie and anyone who doesn't absolutely love baseball is a commie who wants to destroy the precious country. Even rabid Canadian hockey fans aren't *that* bad. I know, I live here and have absolutely no interest in hockey.
I voted for "the blacklist." If that weren't there the "laugh track" would have to be the one. Everything else seems quite frivolous (well, except the dumbass Valdez maneuver).
Also, why is the Apple Lisa there? Just because it didn't become famous doesn't mean it didn't have any positive signifigance.
Moderate this up. It's specifically about something in the article, and it's damn funny.
I miss the time when there was more moderation here.
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Yeah, I disagree with that 5x price projection as well.
The last time I bought a full PC I asked for a hardware modem and they said, "ok, extra $10."
I had no problem with that.
Winmodems are garbage even if you use windows. I've seen so many people get frustrated with them and I told them what to ask for when getting a new one. A lot of people really like their DOS terminal software because the windows equivalents generally sucked.
Remember Telemate? I first got on the net in '92 with that and a 2400 baud modem. Ftp, telnet, and archie was all I used. Winmodem wasn't exactly an option for me.
I agree. I hate booting. Someone sent me a Protel file 5 days ago to look at. I haven't done so yet because that would mean rebooting into windows.
However, if someone built a custom pc with tvout, a couple of joysticks, etc which booted quickly (using OpenBIOS of course) and defined a spec for it, that could make a pretty neat gaming console. Companies who make Linux games simply have to repackage them for it.
in saying that *all* of the money goes into education, it may not be that bad an idea.
As long as they don't increase the tariff on international orders (hah, free trade my ass). I live on the east coast of Canada, where duty is a bitch, and I still pay a 15% tax on top of that (the company sometimes registers to automatically include the tax in purchases, such as Digi-Key, else the tax is charged at the border). If the money was guaranteed to do something useful, like being spent on education (my high school upgraded from PETs to 286s a couple of years before I got there, that's unacceptable (though we still played with the PETs)) I wouldn't mind so much.
However, it seems that this money is going to our expensive "millenium song" and into one-industry towns turned no-industry towns where people refuse to leave (hmm.. money going out is high, money coming in is virtually nothing, I wonder where the magic money is coming from).
For the popup text boxes, dialog or kdialog can do a very nice job as it allows one to write the tutorial in shell, running programs when necessary, etc..
To automatically move the mouse around and click buttons, you might want to check out the source for LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) which does just that. Make a nice command-line program that can move the mouse around and click on widgets.
Actually, this seems interesting. It's something we kind of need at this point, I think. You could even write a tutorial builder in TCL/TK or something.
If you really want to use multiple soundcards you could get the mp3 player to simultaneously send output to two audio devices, say, audio0 and audio2. The source is out there.
However, I recommend using an external audio switch (if you want more than one to be on simultaneously, I'd recommend an active one). If you build it yourself (easy) you can use, say, a parallel port to switch which ones will be on or off.
If you want to try either of these, I can help you. Email me and I'll elaborate.
If you get to the end of your rope and can't find a free solution 4Front has been very responsive to these things. If you email them and their driver provides what you need, you can buy their driver.
I bought it for Montego support and their tech support is awesome. I got an email back within 10 minutes when I asked about the fast play speed (It's a beta driver) and I was given a temporary workaround. I also get new versions until 2002.
Ok, this is sorta on topic because I'd like to burn VCD's on Linux as well and would like to know how to do so (I dabble in animation).
I have a Panasonic A120 DVD player and while it plays normal audio CDs, it refuses to play burned audio CDs (I'm a musician, the burns are legit damnit!). The DVD player is supposed to play VCDs (according to the front panel).
Does anybody else have this problem? Any insight on this?
I agree with you. AOL is doing this precisely to avoid the Netscape/IE thing. AOL now owns Netscape and I bet M$ is just itching to do it to them again, albeit indirectly.
This is yet another 'embrace & extend' tactic designed to destroy AOL's market completely.
This is currently the most effective way for them to stall micorsoft. I thought at first that it would be hypocritical to support AOL, but then I realised exactly what AOL is trying to avoid.
Wow, a number of recent events have me seeing AOL in a different light. When AOL bought Netscape, JWZ was afraid that they were going to end Mozilla but he said that AOL were really cool about it. Now AOL is supporting Linux, and supporting choice in high-bandwidth home connections. Hey, if AOL or any other ISP can give me a less restrictive acceptable use policy than RoadRunner on my cable modem, then I'd actually switch.
Wow, let's install cameras on the workers all over the world. Let's monitor every little thing they do, but hide away whilst doing it, so that most people don't know they're being watched.
Oh I loved it. I just *had* to send some fan mail:
subject: Wow you rock!!!
Wow, I'd like to try that micorsoft stuff but I can't because I live in Canada where no computers wes have and i a long-hair beacuse the government and police force us to and beat us daily.
I only got to see the site by sneaking across the border into americer ands using the shiny metal coins given to me by friendly passerd-by (i a long-hair so theey thunk i wus homeless) on a "public internet terminal." I don't know much about that stuff but from what you say it's reallly realy good because billy discovered and invented i9t.
I have an S-100 board. I got it from school (they often throw out all kinds of old gear and software, I have four all tube HP scopes, a 1200 baud modem, a parallel printer switch, a shrinkwrapped copy of OS/2,...). It's digital interface board. The manual has all kinds of example Z80 code in there (I love Z80's, I specified Z180 based boards from ZWorld at a company I worked for a while back, and I love my TI-85 and TI-86 calculators), and there are tons on great parts on it. It's as old as me, actually (1977) but I look at it with awe, thinking things like, "this board was probably *hand-designed*, amazing!"
Ah, old gear... I got, from a now defunct US military base, a couple of dumb terminals, a few 286s, and a Zenith 10 port serial board (actually two ISA boards, each with a Z80).
I tried to find out how to get that serial board thing working in Linux but found no info (it was in '94). They were apparently designed specifically for the US navy, and Zenith claimed it didn't even exist when I called them (multiple times, multiple divisions) looking for specs of some kind so that I could write my own driver.
I'm quite a packrat with that kind of stuff. I have old Commodores, CoCo's, various video game consoles (ColecoVision, Atari 2600 (of course), Intellivision,...). I couldn't pass up a TurboGraphics 16 a few years back. I was at someone's house and they had a Vectrex still in use. I freaked out.
But I'm more interested in stuff older than I am. If only I had an Altair... sigh
A guy in my town (St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada) had a BBS running on C64 for a loooong time. It was still up when I stopped BBSing and got Internet access ('92).
There's a thread of much relevance to this story in the current voting discussion (I was involved of course).
However, I'd rarely use them, I only used killfiles to get rid of spam, a problem non-existant on/.
Before going nuts on someone and killfiling someone or posting against them for something like this, check out the little (User Info) link under the name. His latest post (as of this writing) says that someone used his password to post a ton of comments commonly despised here today. Look further down and read some of the previous comments.
He appears to be a Perl hacker who attempts to contribute to/. code. So I *seriously* doubt he's lying about the misused password. It's probably some jerk friend who decided to have some "fun" with his account who posted the bad ones.
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Yeah, SaX is really nice. It won't do Mach64, though.
I found that the hard way, then used XF86Setup, which is unfortunate because it won't generate arbitrary video modes for you.
Monitor setup is a pain in the ass and takes quite a while to get just right. Wouldn't it be nice if you could move and resize your image with the arrow keys in xvidtune?
Man, my sentiments exactly. Extremely amearicun.
Can someone please tell me why the "Designated-hitter rule" vastly overwhelms "the blacklist?" Oh yeah, baseball is american as apple pie and anyone who doesn't absolutely love baseball is a commie who wants to destroy the precious country. Even rabid Canadian hockey fans aren't *that* bad. I know, I live here and have absolutely no interest in hockey.
I voted for "the blacklist." If that weren't there the "laugh track" would have to be the one. Everything else seems quite frivolous (well, except the dumbass Valdez maneuver).
Also, why is the Apple Lisa there? Just because it didn't become famous doesn't mean it didn't have any positive signifigance.
Hahahaha. I love that.
Moderate this up. It's specifically about something in the article, and it's damn funny.
I miss the time when there was more moderation here.
Yeah, I disagree with that 5x price projection as well.
The last time I bought a full PC I asked for a hardware modem and they said, "ok, extra $10."
I had no problem with that.
Winmodems are garbage even if you use windows. I've seen so many people get frustrated with them and I told them what to ask for when getting a new one. A lot of people really like their DOS terminal software because the windows equivalents generally sucked.
Remember Telemate? I first got on the net in '92 with that and a 2400 baud modem. Ftp, telnet, and archie was all I used. Winmodem wasn't exactly an option for me.
There's Visual TCL as well, though that works under windows too if I'm not mistaken.
I agree. I hate booting. Someone sent me a Protel file 5 days ago to look at. I haven't done so yet because that would mean rebooting into windows.
However, if someone built a custom pc with tvout, a couple of joysticks, etc which booted quickly (using OpenBIOS of course) and defined a spec for it, that could make a pretty neat gaming console. Companies who make Linux games simply have to repackage them for it.
Umm, the tax is not for internet use, but for purchases made using the internet.
in saying that *all* of the money goes into education, it may not be that bad an idea.
As long as they don't increase the tariff on international orders (hah, free trade my ass). I live on the east coast of Canada, where duty is a bitch, and I still pay a 15% tax on top of that (the company sometimes registers to automatically include the tax in purchases, such as Digi-Key, else the tax is charged at the border). If the money was guaranteed to do something useful, like being spent on education (my high school upgraded from PETs to 286s a couple of years before I got there, that's unacceptable (though we still played with the PETs)) I wouldn't mind so much.
However, it seems that this money is going to our expensive "millenium song" and into one-industry towns turned no-industry towns where people refuse to leave (hmm.. money going out is high, money coming in is virtually nothing, I wonder where the magic money is coming from).
I wish we had such a guarantee.
For the popup text boxes, dialog or kdialog can do a very nice job as it allows one to write the tutorial in shell, running programs when necessary, etc..
To automatically move the mouse around and click buttons, you might want to check out the source for LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) which does just that. Make a nice command-line program that can move the mouse around and click on widgets.
Actually, this seems interesting. It's something we kind of need at this point, I think. You could even write a tutorial builder in TCL/TK or something.
function pngtext($textstr) {
}
};
(Wow, that would have been *much* easier if <pre> was allowed. I did that with nested <blockquote>s.)
PHP3 also has functions for generating graphics on the fly. They are described at www.php.net.
I've seen Perl scripts that generate graphics on the fly, so if you're more versed in that, try it out.
This site has details on how to add an extra (BIG!) fan in the front of your case:
http://www.dansdata.com/hx45fan.htm
This guy also added a strap to the bottom for carrying his case around. Kind of neat.
If you really want to use multiple soundcards you could get the mp3 player to simultaneously send output to two audio devices, say, audio0 and audio2. The source is out there.
However, I recommend using an external audio switch (if you want more than one to be on simultaneously, I'd recommend an active one). If you build it yourself (easy) you can use, say, a parallel port to switch which ones will be on or off.
If you want to try either of these, I can help you. Email me and I'll elaborate.
If you get to the end of your rope and can't find a free solution 4Front has been very responsive to these things. If you email them and their driver provides what you need, you can buy their driver.
I bought it for Montego support and their tech support is awesome. I got an email back within 10 minutes when I asked about the fast play speed (It's a beta driver) and I was given a temporary workaround. I also get new versions until 2002.
Procmail.
It's very popular, and has a lot of very advanced features.
There's also lots of documentation.
Ok, where are you getting this G2 for Linux???
I've been checking constantly (and checked just then) and according to www.real.com there is no G2 for Linux.
Am I the only one that cannot find it at all? This is getting fairly frustrating.
Just because YAST isn't GPLed doesn't mean it's not free (beer).
I download one disk (eide01) and dd it to a floppy, boot with it and it will connect to an ftp server and install SuSE from it.
I'd call that indiscriminate copying, especially if I grab the entire tree down to mine and set it up as NFS, which is allowed.
I think you've been misconstruing many of the bitter anti-SuSE posts around here.
Ok, this is sorta on topic because I'd like to burn VCD's on Linux as well and would like to know how to do so (I dabble in animation).
I have a Panasonic A120 DVD player and while it plays normal audio CDs, it refuses to play burned audio CDs (I'm a musician, the burns are legit damnit!). The DVD player is supposed to play VCDs (according to the front panel).
Does anybody else have this problem? Any insight on this?
I hope I'm not too off topic...
I agree with you. AOL is doing this precisely to avoid the Netscape/IE thing. AOL now owns Netscape and I bet M$ is just itching to do it to them again, albeit indirectly.
This is yet another 'embrace & extend' tactic designed to destroy AOL's market completely.
This is currently the most effective way for them to stall micorsoft. I thought at first that it would be hypocritical to support AOL, but then I realised exactly what AOL is trying to avoid.
Wow, a number of recent events have me seeing AOL in a different light. When AOL bought Netscape, JWZ was afraid that they were going to end Mozilla but he said that AOL were really cool about it. Now AOL is supporting Linux, and supporting choice in high-bandwidth home connections. Hey, if AOL or any other ISP can give me a less restrictive acceptable use policy than RoadRunner on my cable modem, then I'd actually switch.
I have a laptop and I get a little nervous about people staring at my screen all the time, watching everything I'm doing.
I know they're just curious but it's unsettling. It's like people who constantly stare at you in public. I don't like it.
This stealth laptop thing looks like a really good idea. Try putting it in a HOWTO and announcing it on Freshmeat.
A lot of people will probably thank you.
Wow, let's install cameras on the workers all over the world. Let's monitor every little thing they do, but hide away whilst doing it, so that most people don't know they're being watched.
Sounds familiar to me...
Oh I loved it. I just *had* to send some fan mail:
subject: Wow you rock!!!
Wow, I'd like to try that micorsoft stuff but I can't because I live in Canada where no computers wes have and i a long-hair beacuse the government and police force us to and beat us daily.
I only got to see the site by sneaking across the border into americer ands using the shiny metal coins given to me by friendly passerd-by (i a long-hair so theey thunk i wus homeless) on a "public internet terminal." I don't know much about that stuff but from what you say it's reallly realy good because billy discovered and invented i9t.
I enjoyed it.
Hehheh.
I have an S-100 board. I got it from school (they often throw out all kinds of old gear and software, I have four all tube HP scopes, a 1200 baud modem, a parallel printer switch, a shrinkwrapped copy of OS/2,...). It's digital interface board. The manual has all kinds of example Z80 code in there (I love Z80's, I specified Z180 based boards from ZWorld at a company I worked for a while back, and I love my TI-85 and TI-86 calculators), and there are tons on great parts on it. It's as old as me, actually (1977) but I look at it with awe, thinking things like, "this board was probably *hand-designed*, amazing!"
Ah, old gear... I got, from a now defunct US military base, a couple of dumb terminals, a few 286s, and a Zenith 10 port serial board (actually two ISA boards, each with a Z80).
I tried to find out how to get that serial board thing working in Linux but found no info (it was in '94). They were apparently designed specifically for the US navy, and Zenith claimed it didn't even exist when I called them (multiple times, multiple divisions) looking for specs of some kind so that I could write my own driver.
I'm quite a packrat with that kind of stuff. I have old Commodores, CoCo's, various video game consoles (ColecoVision, Atari 2600 (of course), Intellivision,...). I couldn't pass up a TurboGraphics 16 a few years back. I was at someone's house and they had a Vectrex still in use. I freaked out.
But I'm more interested in stuff older than I am. If only I had an Altair... sigh
A guy in my town (St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada) had a BBS running on C64 for a loooong time. It was still up when I stopped BBSing and got Internet access ('92).
/. crosspost...
There's a thread of much relevance to this story in the current voting discussion (I was involved of course).
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid =ostime&cid=70
Wow, a
Here's the link:
b itt.html
http://www.ny times.com/library/tech/99/07/circuits/articles/22
I'd like to see killfiles.
/.
/. code. So I *seriously* doubt he's lying about the misused password. It's probably some jerk friend who decided to have some "fun" with his account who posted the bad ones.
However, I'd rarely use them, I only used killfiles to get rid of spam, a problem non-existant on
Before going nuts on someone and killfiling someone or posting against them for something like this, check out the little (User Info) link under the name. His latest post (as of this writing) says that someone used his password to post a ton of comments commonly despised here today. Look further down and read some of the previous comments.
He appears to be a Perl hacker who attempts to contribute to