Another game that still has a small following, but is perhaps the oldest game played on the net over TCP-IP is Netrek. The bronco version (which is closest to the original version and the only version still played daily) is a very subtle game focused on strategy and teamwork. It's easy to learn, but hard to master.
Unfortunately, netrek has suffered a serious decline due to old graphics, and the expiration of the paradise client for windows. Newbies tend to like the paradise version of the game because it's a little more fun, a little less complex, and the clue on bronco servers can be quite abusive.
Anyone else here remember playing Netrek? I know I spent a year of college tuition back in '93-'94 playing the game...
If you're lucky, there are nights when you can play the hockey version of the game. Long Live the SC!
To this day, when I hear the word "Ogg", I don't think about the music encoding format. Ogg is a verb, not a noun.
Slashdot types want everything free as in beer, which doesn't encourage creation.
It doesn't? Why, I though this, this, and this were all free? Or do you mean they're not creative?
This is not a black/white issue, but rather a grey one. The shade of grey has yet to be determined, but both extremes are wrong. People won't stop being creative if they don't get paid, nor will people stop being creative if they do get paid. And consumers are also black/white. When Napster was at its peak, so were CD sales. Just because you get something for free doesn't mean you're not willing to pay for the same (or similar) thing. And I'd argue that a downloaded mp3 isn't the same thing as owning the CD for several reasons - one being quality.
And how many of you still *pay* for an email address when there are plenty of email addresses to be had for free?
The one thing that *still* bugs me about KDE is the inability for the panel to work like GNOME. In GNOME, you can have not only multiple workspaces, but rows and columns within a workspace. This allows you to drag stuff across the screen and have it scroll to the next row/column without having to change workspaces. Why can't KDE implement this?
With all the discussion we have here on Slashdot regarding copyrights and patents, especially concerning the amount of time one should be allowed to hold a patent or copyright, I found this line rather interesting.
BT's Hidden Text patent was filed in the U.S. in 1977 and issued in 1989. Hidden Text patents filed in Europe have already expired.
Perhaps this sort of thing should be pointed out here in the U.S. to our government. Should we allow lengthened patents, then those evil evil British Terrorists might have a patent on a technology we've based a majority of our new economy on.
There are currently 2,000 Mandrake Club members. If they can get 8,000 more, they're fine.
There are multiple subscription options, all with the same priveledges. It's 5 bucks a month for the cheapest option (which I had to choose currently because of my financial situation).
It's totally worth it to me. 8.2 is showing how mature Mandrake can make a desktop distro, and I'm impressed with not only their attention to detail, but their attention to security, as well as decreasing the learning curve. They warn you during install about what packages may be insecure and what might be seen by the world. They packaged the Bastille firewall into the distro. And their draktools now have an option to display what the GUI tools are doing to which log files.
And to top it all off, 8.2 has had 4 betas and now 1 Release Candidate (which has some critical bugs, so expect a second RC). 60 bucks? Deal of the century. I run it on every machine I own, and install a copy on any Doze Machine that I build for friends.
Surely there are 8,000 more people here on/. that use LM enough to fork over 60 bucks.
The worst part about Broadband currently is upstream is usually capped. With wireless, all of a sudden, your p2p transfers have the capability of being really fast on download and upload.
They've flagged me for suspicious use that was *way* outside my buying patterns.
What were my buying patterns? Mostly every day stuff in Mobile, Alabama. However, when I moved to Phoenix, Arizona, they flagged my card twice (easy to reverse for me) because I was purchasing gasoline and paying house bills online.
It was a minor irritation, but with the rampant CC theft and Mexican border crossings, it was worth it to me.
And, if you have a Discover card, and any other credit cards, I highly suggest you get The Register. It's like 20 bucks for 3 years, and it is one phone call to cancel all your credit cards and get new ones when you lose your wallet. Totally worth the cost.
To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [2002-02-16] Release Status Update
From: Anthony Towns
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:23:18 +1000
Mail-copies-to: nobody
Mail-followup-to: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
Organisation: Lacking
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.27i
Hi guys,
The good news, and the bad news.
The good news is that base is back in good shape. glibc, base-passwd and
rsync have all had their RC bugs fixed which is very pleasing. There are
still bugs in some important packages, including apache, bind, binutils,
bison, emacs, iproute, kdebase-libs, menu, php3, sudo, tetex, and vim,
but most of these seem fairly controllable.
The bad news is that this means we're probably releasing soon, and that of
the hundreds of less important packages with RC bugs (eg, bugzilla, craft,
crossfire-{client,server}, epic4, fvwm95, gmc, gnome-admin, intuitively,
kdepim, moon-lander, tkdesk, wine, and xosview) will be getting randomly
ripped out of testing (in the case where bugs apply to the version in
testing, anyway). What this means, is that if packages you're interested
in have accumulated RC bugs (ie serious, grave or critical) you've almost
run out of time to get them fixed if you want them released.
Other news:
* new incoming's being tested on pandora now (if you're
interested, see/org/non-us.debian.org/queue) and seems to
be working out okay, so the whole crypto-in-main transition
looks like being on track for the first time in history.
* new boot-floppies (3.0.19) are available for all architectures
but alpha, mipsel [0] and sparc. Please test these (and build
them if you're on one of the architectures that hasn't already
done so) since there'll probably only be one more b-f's release
before 3.0r0.
* over the next few days, we're going to start doing install and
upgrade testing somewhat seriously (with the aim of doing it
well for the entirety of the next release). If you haven't
already tried and upgrade from potato, or a fresh install,
try one now so that you don't get embarassed by newbies and
users pointing out obvious bugs that a Visual Basic programmer
would've been ashamed of....
There's a BugSquash party now on in #debian-bugs on irc.openprojects.net,
so wander on over there to help rescue packages that're worth keeping
in woody.
It's also okay to help fix non-release-critical bugs too.
Cheers,
aj
[0] mipsel b-f's are built, but are waiting on someone with a DecStation
5000/120,/125,/133 or/240 to test them to make sure they're not
completely broken. See debian-mips@lists.debian.org.
--
Anthony Towns
We came. We Saw. We Conferenced. http://linux.conf.au/
``Debian: giving you the power to shoot yourself in each
toe individually.'' -- with kudos to Greg Lehey
I've had a similar bad experience with Sony myself.
When I broke the screen on my palm (customer abuse), I called Palm and asked if they had a replace/exchange/repair type policy. They did. For 100 bucks, I got a refurbished palm shipped to me, then I shipped my broken one back to them. Very resonable policy for a portable electronic device.
I had broken my Clie screen (customer abuse) and called to see if they had a replace/exchange/repair type policy. They didn't. They were less than useless. Unfortunately, I had tied myself too much to their memory stick, so I had to get another Clie - but I picked up the cheapest one instead of trying to get some extra whiz-bang features.
I won't be buying other Sony PDAs in the future.
Palm - build a kick-ass next generation PDA and my money is yours.
Having seen one, and ridden in one with original specifications I can tell you that a 5.7L Chevy is much much more powerful than the 90 HP engine that the Mogs originally came with. And I can tell you that the gearing on these things is so low that 90 Horses would take the original Mog (which was used as a mobile electronic communication base) over just about anything. Basically, it's an old Humvee.
With a 5.7L Chevy, this thing is probably unstoppable right up to grades that flip it over, especially if the original tranny or gear ratios are still being used.
The innovative fans will not replace conventional fans. Instead, they will be used to enhance the cooling now provided by conventional fans and passive design features, such as heat-dissipating fins.
Oops. Looks like the editor didn't read the article....
Well, regarding tapping energy from space, perhaps the best idea I've heard might possibly be the only way to make a potential perpetual machine.
Oh god! I used those words. "Perpetual Machine". Surely someone is hovering over the keys about to remind me about the three laws of thermodynamics. 1) You can't win, 2) You can't lose and 3) You can't break even. Gimme a sec here. I understand them, I assure you.
But...
The only proposal I've ever seen that might give us a perpetual machine (or practical perpetual machine, as we'd be long dead before it ceased to work) involved two fixed points at a *very* *very* large distance apart. Between these two points, you connect them by some sort of cable of unbelievable properties and have once end attached to a large expandable spool of cable, which happens to be attached to a generator.
BFD, right? Two fixed objects in the universe can't create energy.
But... we can tap the energy of the expansion of the universe by allowing the spool to feed cable (while generating electricity) as the universe expands.
No one knows if the universal expansion will be infinite or not. Should it be infinite, this would be a perpetual motion machine.
Because time doesn't exist. It's a concept made my man only. Look up the definition. Time is what we use to measure change, so how the hell could we travel "back in time" when time itself is a measure of change?
Slashdot Mirror
Another game that still has a small following, but is perhaps the oldest game played on the net over TCP-IP is Netrek. The bronco version (which is closest to the original version and the only version still played daily) is a very subtle game focused on strategy and teamwork. It's easy to learn, but hard to master.
Unfortunately, netrek has suffered a serious decline due to old graphics, and the expiration of the paradise client for windows. Newbies tend to like the paradise version of the game because it's a little more fun, a little less complex, and the clue on bronco servers can be quite abusive.
Anyone else here remember playing Netrek? I know I spent a year of college tuition back in '93-'94 playing the game...
If you're lucky, there are nights when you can play the hockey version of the game. Long Live the SC!
To this day, when I hear the word "Ogg", I don't think about the music encoding format. Ogg is a verb, not a noun.
Slashdot types want everything free as in beer, which doesn't encourage creation.
It doesn't? Why, I though this, this, and this were all free? Or do you mean they're not creative?
This is not a black/white issue, but rather a grey one. The shade of grey has yet to be determined, but both extremes are wrong. People won't stop being creative if they don't get paid, nor will people stop being creative if they do get paid. And consumers are also black/white. When Napster was at its peak, so were CD sales. Just because you get something for free doesn't mean you're not willing to pay for the same (or similar) thing. And I'd argue that a downloaded mp3 isn't the same thing as owning the CD for several reasons - one being quality.
And how many of you still *pay* for an email address when there are plenty of email addresses to be had for free?
The second type are the ones who do devote 110% of themselves to something they love.
.
It should be noted that to become a Navy Seal, or a member of any other branch of the U.S. Armed forces, one must volunteer
The one thing that *still* bugs me about KDE is the inability for the panel to work like GNOME. In GNOME, you can have not only multiple workspaces, but rows and columns within a workspace. This allows you to drag stuff across the screen and have it scroll to the next row/column without having to change workspaces. Why can't KDE implement this?
Mind telling me how you plan to evacuate Georgia in 48 hours?
I believe they do that drill every year. It's called "The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party"
And those that don't leave will just be scattered about the state, which isn't that unusual, and we've already got a scapegoat
If you carry a Palm device, like me, I've discovered a really neat program.
Keyring.
It's a program that is password protected and allows you to keep track of your passwords on your palm...
With all the discussion we have here on Slashdot regarding copyrights and patents, especially concerning the amount of time one should be allowed to hold a patent or copyright, I found this line rather interesting.
BT's Hidden Text patent was filed in the U.S. in 1977 and issued in 1989. Hidden Text patents filed in Europe have already expired.
Perhaps this sort of thing should be pointed out here in the U.S. to our government. Should we allow lengthened patents, then those evil evil British Terrorists might have a patent on a technology we've based a majority of our new economy on.
There are currently 2,000 Mandrake Club members. If they can get 8,000 more, they're fine.
/. that use LM enough to fork over 60 bucks.
There are multiple subscription options, all with the same priveledges. It's 5 bucks a month for the cheapest option (which I had to choose currently because of my financial situation).
It's totally worth it to me. 8.2 is showing how mature Mandrake can make a desktop distro, and I'm impressed with not only their attention to detail, but their attention to security, as well as decreasing the learning curve. They warn you during install about what packages may be insecure and what might be seen by the world. They packaged the Bastille firewall into the distro. And their draktools now have an option to display what the GUI tools are doing to which log files.
And to top it all off, 8.2 has had 4 betas and now 1 Release Candidate (which has some critical bugs, so expect a second RC). 60 bucks? Deal of the century. I run it on every machine I own, and install a copy on any Doze Machine that I build for friends.
Surely there are 8,000 more people here on
The winners will be notified by Obsfucated Email guised as spam.
P2P is one of the killer apps.
The worst part about Broadband currently is upstream is usually capped. With wireless, all of a sudden, your p2p transfers have the capability of being really fast on download and upload.
I love my Discover card.
They've flagged me for suspicious use that was *way* outside my buying patterns.
What were my buying patterns? Mostly every day stuff in Mobile, Alabama. However, when I moved to Phoenix, Arizona, they flagged my card twice (easy to reverse for me) because I was purchasing gasoline and paying house bills online.
It was a minor irritation, but with the rampant CC theft and Mexican border crossings, it was worth it to me.
And, if you have a Discover card, and any other credit cards, I highly suggest you get The Register. It's like 20 bucks for 3 years, and it is one phone call to cancel all your credit cards and get new ones when you lose your wallet. Totally worth the cost.
Credit cards aside, try to go into any store and get them to give you items with a promise to pay later. It just doesn't work that way.
Lies, Lies, Lies.
I've done it many times.
30 days, same as cash.
60 days, same as cash.
6 months, same as cash.
Sound familiar?
For As an analogy, look at slashdot, at all the high-karma, low-uid users who turn into useless trolls.
Could this be foreshadowing from user # 204?
And how do they eliminate the mom and pop stores?
When you stop shopping at them
And you're still not forced to shop there, as there is a big competitor called the "Internet" out there.
[2002-02-16] Release Status Update
/org/non-us.debian.org/queue) and seems to
/125, /133 or /240 to test them to make sure they're not
To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [2002-02-16] Release Status Update
From: Anthony Towns
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:23:18 +1000
Mail-copies-to: nobody
Mail-followup-to: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
Organisation: Lacking
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.27i
Hi guys,
The good news, and the bad news.
The good news is that base is back in good shape. glibc, base-passwd and
rsync have all had their RC bugs fixed which is very pleasing. There are
still bugs in some important packages, including apache, bind, binutils,
bison, emacs, iproute, kdebase-libs, menu, php3, sudo, tetex, and vim,
but most of these seem fairly controllable.
The bad news is that this means we're probably releasing soon, and that of
the hundreds of less important packages with RC bugs (eg, bugzilla, craft,
crossfire-{client,server}, epic4, fvwm95, gmc, gnome-admin, intuitively,
kdepim, moon-lander, tkdesk, wine, and xosview) will be getting randomly
ripped out of testing (in the case where bugs apply to the version in
testing, anyway). What this means, is that if packages you're interested
in have accumulated RC bugs (ie serious, grave or critical) you've almost
run out of time to get them fixed if you want them released.
Other news:
* new incoming's being tested on pandora now (if you're
interested, see
be working out okay, so the whole crypto-in-main transition
looks like being on track for the first time in history.
* new boot-floppies (3.0.19) are available for all architectures
but alpha, mipsel [0] and sparc. Please test these (and build
them if you're on one of the architectures that hasn't already
done so) since there'll probably only be one more b-f's release
before 3.0r0.
* over the next few days, we're going to start doing install and
upgrade testing somewhat seriously (with the aim of doing it
well for the entirety of the next release). If you haven't
already tried and upgrade from potato, or a fresh install,
try one now so that you don't get embarassed by newbies and
users pointing out obvious bugs that a Visual Basic programmer
would've been ashamed of....
There's a BugSquash party now on in #debian-bugs on irc.openprojects.net,
so wander on over there to help rescue packages that're worth keeping
in woody.
It's also okay to help fix non-release-critical bugs too.
Cheers,
aj
[0] mipsel b-f's are built, but are waiting on someone with a DecStation
5000/120,
completely broken. See debian-mips@lists.debian.org.
--
Anthony Towns
We came. We Saw. We Conferenced. http://linux.conf.au/
``Debian: giving you the power to shoot yourself in each
toe individually.'' -- with kudos to Greg Lehey
Sylpheed - doesn't require gnome/kde and doesn't suck.
I've had a similar bad experience with Sony myself.
When I broke the screen on my palm (customer abuse), I called Palm and asked if they had a replace/exchange/repair type policy. They did. For 100 bucks, I got a refurbished palm shipped to me, then I shipped my broken one back to them. Very resonable policy for a portable electronic device.
I had broken my Clie screen (customer abuse) and called to see if they had a replace/exchange/repair type policy. They didn't. They were less than useless. Unfortunately, I had tied myself too much to their memory stick, so I had to get another Clie - but I picked up the cheapest one instead of trying to get some extra whiz-bang features.
I won't be buying other Sony PDAs in the future.
Palm - build a kick-ass next generation PDA and my money is yours.
In other words, they lost money on every sale but made up for it in volume.
What you meant to say was that they lost money on every sale and compounded it with volume.
Having seen one, and ridden in one with original specifications I can tell you that a 5.7L Chevy is much much more powerful than the 90 HP engine that the Mogs originally came with. And I can tell you that the gearing on these things is so low that 90 Horses would take the original Mog (which was used as a mobile electronic communication base) over just about anything. Basically, it's an old Humvee.
With a 5.7L Chevy, this thing is probably unstoppable right up to grades that flip it over, especially if the original tranny or gear ratios are still being used.
It really does take a village to raise a child.
You know what happens when you let a village raise a child?
You get the village idiot.
The innovative fans will not replace conventional fans. Instead, they will be used to enhance the cooling now provided by conventional fans and passive design features, such as heat-dissipating fins.
Oops. Looks like the editor didn't read the article....
Does this surprise anyone?
Well, regarding tapping energy from space, perhaps the best idea I've heard might possibly be the only way to make a potential perpetual machine.
Oh god! I used those words. "Perpetual Machine". Surely someone is hovering over the keys about to remind me about the three laws of thermodynamics. 1) You can't win, 2) You can't lose and 3) You can't break even. Gimme a sec here. I understand them, I assure you.
But...
The only proposal I've ever seen that might give us a perpetual machine (or practical perpetual machine, as we'd be long dead before it ceased to work) involved two fixed points at a *very* *very* large distance apart. Between these two points, you connect them by some sort of cable of unbelievable properties and have once end attached to a large expandable spool of cable, which happens to be attached to a generator.
BFD, right? Two fixed objects in the universe can't create energy.
But... we can tap the energy of the expansion of the universe by allowing the spool to feed cable (while generating electricity) as the universe expands.
No one knows if the universal expansion will be infinite or not. Should it be infinite, this would be a perpetual motion machine.
I'm going down to the Boston Harbor right now and dumping *ALL* of my British bound packets right into the water.
That'll show them!
Of course time travel episodes suck.
Why?
Because time doesn't exist. It's a concept made my man only. Look up the definition. Time is what we use to measure change, so how the hell could we travel "back in time" when time itself is a measure of change?
A hearty Thank-You to the programmers of KDE for their time and effort.