first, dhcp does not try "for minutes" to get a lease, it tries for about a minute, and you can change the timeout to whatever you want it to be.
second, you could get rid of the problem altogether by changing the line in your rc script that says:
dhcpcd
to
dhcpcd &
and then other stuff will continue to run while dhcpcd is trying to connect (which isnt necessarilly a good thing, but its the only way you could do it in python either. there are only two ways a program (and python and bash are both programs) can run another program. either exec it and wait for it to finish, or fork then exec it and keep on executing)
there are a lot of questions in this post, here are my thoughts, after just finishing my first year at college.
for notes laptops are nice for things where you wont be writing a ton of equations (history, english, CS, etc), but are a pain in the ass if you are trying to take math notes (calc, physics, etc). also, i dont like using a laptop as my main machine, and if you are on the campus network, its nice to be able to leave your desktop machine running and access it remotely (especially with all the wireless that schools are using these days). of course, having a laptop and a desktop is pretty expensive, unless you already have one.
as far as a pda, i find i take mine to class for the first week, because i have room numbers stored in it, but after that, i stopped, mostly because professors were posting assignments and test dates etc on the web, which made keeping track of all that myself a waste of time, and more error prone. that is, of course, dependant upon the school and professors. my university has a lot of stuff set up to make it easy for non technicaly inclinded professors to publish the information, but others may not.
ok, not actually a ploy. the epson c80 is advertised as having a resolution of 2880x720 (or do i have it backwards? regardless...) and this is the resolution you get with the printer's included drivers. however, the printer's hardware is actually capable of printing at 2880x1440 which is the top resolution you get if you use the gimp-print drivers in linux (or whatever other OS's they work in).
perhaps a tad off topic, but interesting none the less (also, i would like to say that i havent had any problems using epson printers in linux, in conjunction with the aforementioned gimp-print drivers, and the cups print server, as well as using cups to share the printer with windows machines via samba. ive used an epson C80 and an epson stylus photo 750 (ok, ill admit its not much of a sample, but its something...))
my mother has RP (Retinitis Pigmentosa). which is a desease in which the cells in her retina are dying (essentially), and for her, bigger is not always better. the problem is, her field of vision is considerably smaller than normal, so after a certain size screen, she cant see it all at once, and the size doesnt matter anymore. its also harder for her to see in low light situations, so a higher contrast color scheme works better. also, sans-serif fonts are easier to read than serif fonts, and a large, high-contrast cursor is better. she has also found that bold fonts are easier to read.
>and the ability to develop those scripts wasn't available in versions of the application above 2.04. (They were adding them back to 2.25, but that was only available to license holders).
not at all true. all versions had python export/plugin capabilities, they were changed after 2.04 to a different api, but they then changed back around 2.20, but left both api's available, so you could run scripts written on either one. the api was usefull for a lot more than just import/export plugins. you could write a plugin to manipulate verticies/models as well. one company wrote a cloth plugin for it. the api even supported adding buttons and creating an interface for your plugin.
that being said, the api lacked many things that should have been in there from the begining. there was no way to access either the original "IKA's" or the new bones. animation support pretty much sucked or was non existant (in the plugin api, not in blender itself).
unfortunately, NaN wasnt very supportive of the OSS community. they were really ticked off that the render daemon didnt get done the way they wanted it done. basically, they saw it as a way to get somebody to write code for them for free, and then they could do whatever they wanted with the code, which isnt the way OSS works. i really doubt they will open source it, regardless of the money issue (having to sell the code to pay off debts).
i certainly think that their emphasis on games and web plugins was a mistake. most of the people using blender to create games were script kiddies who dont pay for software, and the people that were more willing to pay, the people who used it for 3d modelling/animation, didnt have any reason to pay other than to support the company (the only features paying for it gave you were related to the web plugin and game engine)(these are of course, generalities, there were plenty of good people who used it to make games, just the majority of the people seemed like script kiddies to me)
i have 2.23, and it works great using the accelerated nvidia drivers. has since i first got an nvidia based card (a few years ago). as far as i know 2.0 on up work. make sure you get the dynamicly compiled version though...
i was reading that page that was linked to in the nytimes article, and realised something, everytime we take a test on a "scantron" we are using a very primitive form of a punchcard (primitive in how it holds data, not how the data is read, which is probably less primitive). a lot of those pre-scored punch cards he showed from the iowa democratic national conventions look almost exactly the same as scantrons, except the size and shape of the paper is different. also, that basic "teaching card" really was a scantron
hmm, it seems a lot of people are talking about the sharp running some java/amiga thing or something. what it actually appears to be running is qtopia (formerly qpe).
i have an asus "deluxe" card (v7700), and i havent been able to find any linux support for the video capture. it doesnt look all that good when i use it in windows, so im not that disapointed (i didnt even know it had video capture when i bought it, so...)
if anybody has found some video4linux drivers for the video capture, please post them!
i think the problem is, asus wont even say what chips they used to make the capture part of the board (not that i can find, anyway)
hmm, i saw the trailer for that, and i also thought it looked pretty good. what looked pretty bad to me (and was also CG) was johny nuetron (or some such) from nickelodeon. the animation was bad (the lipsynch was almost painfull to watch) the voice acting wasnt very good (all the characters are children, so if they also use child actors, which they usually dont, then that might explain it), and the plot looked pretty inane as well (aliens kidnap all the childrens parents, so the boy genius has to invent a bunch of stuff to get them back).
what was interesting was that there were 2 trailers for fully CG movies before a CG movie. as somebody who dabbles in 3d animation, its nice to see that it is being embraced as a valid artform, instead of just a technical curiosity. of course, this isnt exactly new, with two toy story movies, antz, a bugs life, shrek, final fantasy, and now monsters inc (not counting the at least two more that are coming out very soon) the film industry seems to be embracing the form rather quickly. perhaps becuase they are already used to dealing with it, since it has become so common in live action special effects (and even special effects in traditional animation).
one thing i liked, was when sully started trying to give the child a bunch of toys (for some reason, i cant remember where in the movie this was...), some were related to other pixar films/shorts. there was a doll from toy story 2, the ball from luxo junior, etc. of course, im a sucker for little references that dont really add anything to the movie.
of course, the hair was absolutley amazing. not just the realism, but the sheer quantity of it. i thought the movie was pretty good, although it felt a bit like a very long short, i still enjoyed it, especially the scene where they are running in and out of the various doors.
wait, does this qualify as a quicky?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
please say quickies are back. please, please, please!
"Now a mud or online massively multiplayer RPG where everyone starts at the same time, at the same level would be pretty cool. Totally ruthless."
in my experience with the mud scene, this would be really stupid. everybody would attack each other immediately, without trying to level up or advance. the few people that would try to play the game inteligently would be killed immediately, and the winner would be the person who got the luckiest with the server's random number generator...
the way i see it, there are two options people have, either a fast "window manager" that doesnt have many features, but also doesnt take up gobs of memory, and slow "desktop managers" which take up more memory, but have a lot more features. (or the console, but that isnt what this is about).
if more features are added to the window managers at this point, they become desktop mangers, which would defeat the pupose of using them (ie, to save memory and cpu cycles for more important things). a lot of the newer, feature ridden window managers seem to me to be practically desktop managers (but not quite).
so basically, if you want to work on a window manager (and have it still be a window manager), you are going to have to write a new one (and with all the options available, i guess nobody thinks they should spend their time doing that...).
actually, you are wrong. this is why covers of songs violate copyright law (if you cover them without permision). if i record myself playing a previously writen song, and sell the recording, i am violating copyright law. copyright law was created before recordings were easy to copy, so saying that you are only violating the law if you are distributing copies of the actuall recording is foolish.
recordings of songs arent copyrighted, its the sequence of notes that is being copyrighted. just like they copyrighted a sequence of notes (phone numbers)
i always thought they were more fun than legos, definately more educational (especially the normal legos that didnt do much). they were lego technics before they even existed. plus, they had cool stuff like propellers, and floats and stuff. it was neat that what you bult would actually run on its own...
the problem w/ that is that people who do ascii art would just put the art between html tags, also, that would force people who want to post code to know html, so that they a) know to use and b) know how to do other things, like line breaks, etc...
what about some odd percentage spaces, or some sort of combination of spaces and punctuation?
since ascii art tends to be mostly spaces, that might work. although, there is also the filled in kind...
another thing to consider is how much punctuation is writen in a row. even perl usually has some sort of alpha numeric number every 2-3 characters : )
of course, all this would just get people to make the ascii art with just letters, and no punctuation...
you could also just count the whitespace in the begining of each line. that would limit the ability to do ascii art, but would also make it hard to post readable code (all those tabs).
i dont think that there is a very good way to delinieate between text and cleverly done ascii art...
gee, i was under the impresion that the web was supposed to be a reduntant network of military and academic computers...
and really, the military only let academia in on it, cause they were the only people who had the technology to build it. oh well, so much for history...
The Tiqit computer is a little slower, but its cheaper, and it comes w/ linux pre-installed. no display is included, but you can get vga headmounted displays...
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first, dhcp does not try "for minutes" to get a lease, it tries for about a minute, and you can change the timeout to whatever you want it to be.
second, you could get rid of the problem altogether by changing the line in your rc script that says:
toand then other stuff will continue to run while dhcpcd is trying to connect (which isnt necessarilly a good thing, but its the only way you could do it in python either. there are only two ways a program (and python and bash are both programs) can run another program. either exec it and wait for it to finish, or fork then exec it and keep on executing)
for notes laptops are nice for things where you wont be writing a ton of equations (history, english, CS, etc), but are a pain in the ass if you are trying to take math notes (calc, physics, etc). also, i dont like using a laptop as my main machine, and if you are on the campus network, its nice to be able to leave your desktop machine running and access it remotely (especially with all the wireless that schools are using these days). of course, having a laptop and a desktop is pretty expensive, unless you already have one.
as far as a pda, i find i take mine to class for the first week, because i have room numbers stored in it, but after that, i stopped, mostly because professors were posting assignments and test dates etc on the web, which made keeping track of all that myself a waste of time, and more error prone. that is, of course, dependant upon the school and professors. my university has a lot of stuff set up to make it easy for non technicaly inclinded professors to publish the information, but others may not.
perhaps a tad off topic, but interesting none the less (also, i would like to say that i havent had any problems using epson printers in linux, in conjunction with the aforementioned gimp-print drivers, and the cups print server, as well as using cups to share the printer with windows machines via samba. ive used an epson C80 and an epson stylus photo 750 (ok, ill admit its not much of a sample, but its something...))
just my 2c
not at all true. all versions had python export/plugin capabilities, they were changed after 2.04 to a different api, but they then changed back around 2.20, but left both api's available, so you could run scripts written on either one. the api was usefull for a lot more than just import/export plugins. you could write a plugin to manipulate verticies/models as well. one company wrote a cloth plugin for it. the api even supported adding buttons and creating an interface for your plugin.
that being said, the api lacked many things that should have been in there from the begining. there was no way to access either the original "IKA's" or the new bones. animation support pretty much sucked or was non existant (in the plugin api, not in blender itself).
unfortunately, NaN wasnt very supportive of the OSS community. they were really ticked off that the render daemon didnt get done the way they wanted it done. basically, they saw it as a way to get somebody to write code for them for free, and then they could do whatever they wanted with the code, which isnt the way OSS works. i really doubt they will open source it, regardless of the money issue (having to sell the code to pay off debts).
i certainly think that their emphasis on games and web plugins was a mistake. most of the people using blender to create games were script kiddies who dont pay for software, and the people that were more willing to pay, the people who used it for 3d modelling/animation, didnt have any reason to pay other than to support the company (the only features paying for it gave you were related to the web plugin and game engine)(these are of course, generalities, there were plenty of good people who used it to make games, just the majority of the people seemed like script kiddies to me)
also, the game engine was slow as crap
ok, enough of me stating the obvious
you can find more screenshots here
and more info here here
this runs on top of the familiar linux distribution. and works on a compaq ipaq as well (although, not the 3800 series).
if anybody has found some video4linux drivers for the video capture, please post them!
i think the problem is, asus wont even say what chips they used to make the capture part of the board (not that i can find, anyway)
what was interesting was that there were 2 trailers for fully CG movies before a CG movie. as somebody who dabbles in 3d animation, its nice to see that it is being embraced as a valid artform, instead of just a technical curiosity. of course, this isnt exactly new, with two toy story movies, antz, a bugs life, shrek, final fantasy, and now monsters inc (not counting the at least two more that are coming out very soon) the film industry seems to be embracing the form rather quickly. perhaps becuase they are already used to dealing with it, since it has become so common in live action special effects (and even special effects in traditional animation).
one thing i liked, was when sully started trying to give the child a bunch of toys (for some reason, i cant remember where in the movie this was...), some were related to other pixar films/shorts. there was a doll from toy story 2, the ball from luxo junior, etc. of course, im a sucker for little references that dont really add anything to the movie.
of course, the hair was absolutley amazing. not just the realism, but the sheer quantity of it. i thought the movie was pretty good, although it felt a bit like a very long short, i still enjoyed it, especially the scene where they are running in and out of the various doors.
in my experience with the mud scene, this would be really stupid. everybody would attack each other immediately, without trying to level up or advance. the few people that would try to play the game inteligently would be killed immediately, and the winner would be the person who got the luckiest with the server's random number generator...
no thanks
the way i see it, there are two options people have, either a fast "window manager" that doesnt have many features, but also doesnt take up gobs of memory, and slow "desktop managers" which take up more memory, but have a lot more features. (or the console, but that isnt what this is about).
if more features are added to the window managers at this point, they become desktop mangers, which would defeat the pupose of using them (ie, to save memory and cpu cycles for more important things). a lot of the newer, feature ridden window managers seem to me to be practically desktop managers (but not quite).
so basically, if you want to work on a window manager (and have it still be a window manager), you are going to have to write a new one (and with all the options available, i guess nobody thinks they should spend their time doing that...).
anyway, just my 2 cents
recordings of songs arent copyrighted, its the sequence of notes that is being copyrighted. just like they copyrighted a sequence of notes (phone numbers)
the problem w/ that is that people who do ascii art would just put the art between html tags, also, that would force people who want to post code to know html, so that they a) know to use and b) know how to do other things, like line breaks, etc...
what about some odd percentage spaces, or some sort of combination of spaces and punctuation?
since ascii art tends to be mostly spaces, that might work. although, there is also the filled in kind...
another thing to consider is how much punctuation is writen in a row. even perl usually has some sort of alpha numeric number every 2-3 characters : )
of course, all this would just get people to make the ascii art with just letters, and no punctuation...
you could also just count the whitespace in the begining of each line. that would limit the ability to do ascii art, but would also make it hard to post readable code (all those tabs).
i dont think that there is a very good way to delinieate between text and cleverly done ascii art...
gee, i was under the impresion that the web was supposed to be a reduntant network of military and academic computers...
and really, the military only let academia in on it, cause they were the only people who had the technology to build it. oh well, so much for history...
so, wait, by buying the cd, i am now able do rip the tracks into mp3 format, and distribute them on napster...
does this make anybody who sells cds guilty of "viral copyright infringement"? what about people who sell/distribute cd rippers?
frankly, any competant lawer should point this out, and i doubt the case will actually be won by the recording artists...
perhaps you shouldnt be so narrow minded and inflamatory. obviously they all run under different oses...
oh, the humanity!
or, something... hey, look, i wasted server space!