The trance song "Kernkaft 400" by Zombie Nation was a major hit in Europe in the late 90s, and quite obviously sampled from a Commodore 64 song. They were eventually forced to share writing credit with the original musician, David Whittaker, and pay a share of their royalties accordingly. I hope this ends up the same way.
YAST has gone, just YAST2 is left (as text and as X version). BTW: The text version is awfull to use
Is it possible in SuSE's 8.0 YAST2 to install new packages through FTP? In 7.3, you couldn't do this - YAST2 would only accept CD, NFS or a hard drive directory.
I went into a record store yesterday, and saw a record I actually wanted to buy. The conversation with the clerk went something like this:
"Is this CD copy protected?"
"I don't know. They don't label all that are."
"The only CD player I have is in my computer. If this is copy protected, I will not be able to play it. I will have bought what is for all intents and purpouses a shiny piece of metal. Can I at least try this to see if I can play this?"
"Sorry, but if the case has been opened, there are no refunds."
If I recall correctly, Mel Blanc, who was the voice actor for many of Chuck Jones' characters including Porky Pig has "That's All, Folks" on his tombstone.
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I know Linus doesn't like it, but is there really anything wrong with using CVS?
This is why Linus has said he doesn't like CVS:
Note that things like CVS do not help the fundamental problem at all. They allow automatic acceptance of patches, and positively _encourage_ people to "dump" their patches on other people, and not act as real maintainers.
We've seen this several times in Linux - David (Miller), for example, used to maintain his CVS tree, and he ended up being rather frustrated about having to then maintain it all and clean up the bad parts because I didn't want to apply them (and he didn't really want me to) and he couldn't make people clean up themselves because "once it was in, it was in".
I know that source control advocates say that using source control makes it easy to revert bad stuff, but that's simply not TRUE. It's not easy to revert bad stuff. The only way to handle bad stuff is to make people responsible for their own sh*t, and have them maintain it themselves.
I run the audiogalaxy satellite inside a chroot jail.
I haven't used the Audiogalaxy satellite, but this seems a bit too much like a false sense of security to me. If your TCPdump is setUID root (or worse, Audiogalaxy needs to be run as root) there is nothing to keep the program from using TCPdump data to phone home about what you do.
If it comes as an RPM or has a needs-to-be-run-as-root installer, there is nothing that will keep the installer from patching your Mozilla to phone home, or even trojan TCPdump not to report what it's doing.
It is well known that the Pentium 4 has a seriously underforming FPU when dealing with standard floating point operations instead of the P4 specific SSE2 operaions.
It is quite possible that a similar improvement could be achieved by GCC in floating-point intenisve code simply by supporting SSE2.
Could Autism and Asperger's Syndrome be a learned behavior, or lack of a learned behavior? These types of parents are more likely to have been "loaners" and people who kept to themselves.
No. Autism and Asperper's Syndrome are caused by differences in the function of the brain. They are somatical, not psychological. This has been demonstrated several times with MRI pictures of autistic vs "normal" brains interpreting similar stimuli. It's most definitely genetic. Having bad parents will not give you autism any more than they will cause your eyes to change colour.
There was a computer game version of Lord of the Rings actually published. It was made as a computer game on other platforms, the Commodore 64 among others. It was an Infocom-style adventure (except with some static pictures) which quickly became infamous. This was not just because the games were not exactly faithful to the books, but because they came on floppy disks and the game appeared to grind through the entire disk whenever a command was entered. Never before did the 1541 strike more fear into the hearts of men. You can find more information about the game here.
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You can find a positive review (of the Windows version) at gamesdomain.
One thing that has reallt kept me from using this type of devices is that battery life tends to suck. One of the primary uses of portable music players for me is to have something to listen to while travelling. In that case, it doesn't matter if you have 150 hours of music on it - If you only have four hours of battery life, that's just four hours of music. Plus, if you're travelling to somewhere with different electrical standards from yours (doesn't even have to be across the Atlantic - plug shapes are different all across Europe) you're pretty much screwed unless you put in a new set of non-rechargable batteries every four hours.
Until I can get reasonable battery life, I'm using my trusty Walkman. The sound quality sucks, yes, but if you're on a plane / on a train / in a car the noise from that tends to drown out the tape hiss.
How long will it be before handpring and these morons start dukeing it out over the 'so cool' term Treo? They are booth personal electronic devices, looks like trademark overlap to me
but IANAL.
Plus, the name of this product has funny connotations in Sweden where Treo (no accent) is the name of a popular headache remedy.
Ah, the joys of analog. I regularly look though my log files for interesing stuff.
Stuff people have been looking for and finding my web site (not as perverted as indicated) include:
"Long fingernail and long toenail fetish"
"mime nude photos"
"16 year old boys whith arm pit hair"
"easy and fast directions to make crack cocaine in the microwave"
"but she was my student why did i have impure thoughs"
I don't know - perhaps they've finally weeded out the error message "Unable to delete file X. There is not enough space on the drive to perform the operation." that was in earlier versions.
You are pretty close. This is a meme in Sweden approaching Zero Wing in its overexposure. Basically, someone takes a Turkish folk song and "translating" it into rendering the Turkish syllables into what most closely resembles Swedish, and uses that as the subtitles. The results are, of course, nonsensical: "Glue a bit of ham, way cool!" Some people find the fake translations funny, though. This is the third of these I've seen.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I felt I needed to elaborate on why Dreamcast would be a competing system even if no more were produced.
Remember, Sega makes a loss on every Dreamcast console they sell. Where they plan to get that money back is from game licenses. For every Dreamcast game sold, some of the money goes into Sega's pockets. Microsoft being who they are, it's very likely that you'd need to pay a similar fee to get your game to boot on the X-box, despite it being the same game that can run on a PC.
If the X-box could play Dreamcast games, then the continuing sale of those games would take money from Microsoft and put it into Sega's pockets. I don't think Micosoft will do that.
This seems unlikely. The Dreamcast uses its own proprietary gigabyte CD standard for games, which AFAIK requires dedicated hardware. X-Box uses DVDs, and a specially made DVD-ROM which could read GB-CD would raise the price of the X-box, as well as promiting the sale of games for a competing system.
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The trance song "Kernkaft 400" by Zombie Nation was a major hit in Europe in the late 90s, and quite obviously sampled from a Commodore 64 song. They were eventually forced to share writing credit with the original musician, David Whittaker, and pay a share of their royalties accordingly. I hope this ends up the same way.
On an even-number sized board, it's very hard to do something against an opponent that simply mirrors your moves.
The manual of Europa Universalis is great for teaching history, however it's considerably worse at telling you how to play the smegging game.
A mathematician is someone who thinks that numbers aren't real if you can count them.
Actually, the tablespoons I have seen have been 15 mililiters. Cups are imperial, though.
- Put a link such as: mailto:dedicatedaddress@wherever.com?Subject= [Question] About your site (or whatever)
- Trash any email sent to dedicatedaddress that doesn't have the [Question] tag in the subject.
Congratulations. You just ensured you can't be emailed by anyone not running Internet Explorer."Is this CD copy protected?"
"I don't know. They don't label all that are."
"The only CD player I have is in my computer. If this is copy protected, I will not be able to play it. I will have bought what is for all intents and purpouses a shiny piece of metal. Can I at least try this to see if I can play this?"
"Sorry, but if the case has been opened, there are no refunds."
Yes, that will encourage more record sales.
If I recall correctly, Mel Blanc, who was the voice actor for many of Chuck Jones' characters including Porky Pig has "That's All, Folks" on his tombstone.
Note that things like CVS do not help the fundamental problem at all. They allow automatic acceptance of patches, and positively _encourage_ people to "dump" their patches on other people, and not act as real maintainers.
We've seen this several times in Linux - David (Miller), for example, used to maintain his CVS tree, and he ended up being rather frustrated about having to then maintain it all and clean up the bad parts because I didn't want to apply them (and he didn't really want me to) and he couldn't make people clean up themselves because "once it was in, it was in".
I know that source control advocates say that using source control makes it easy to revert bad stuff, but that's simply not TRUE. It's not easy to revert bad stuff. The only way to handle bad stuff is to make people responsible for their own sh*t, and have them maintain it themselves.
If it comes as an RPM or has a needs-to-be-run-as-root installer, there is nothing that will keep the installer from patching your Mozilla to phone home, or even trojan TCPdump not to report what it's doing.
It is quite possible that a similar improvement could be achieved by GCC in floating-point intenisve code simply by supporting SSE2.
No. Autism and Asperper's Syndrome are caused by differences in the function of the brain. They are somatical, not psychological. This has been demonstrated several times with MRI pictures of autistic vs "normal" brains interpreting similar stimuli. It's most definitely genetic. Having bad parents will not give you autism any more than they will cause your eyes to change colour.
There was a computer game version of Lord of the Rings actually published. It was made as a computer game on other platforms, the Commodore 64 among others. It was an Infocom-style adventure (except with some static pictures) which quickly became infamous. This was not just because the games were not exactly faithful to the books, but because they came on floppy disks and the game appeared to grind through the entire disk whenever a command was entered. Never before did the 1541 strike more fear into the hearts of men. You can find more information about the game here.
You can find a positive review (of the Windows version) at gamesdomain.
Until I can get reasonable battery life, I'm using my trusty Walkman. The sound quality sucks, yes, but if you're on a plane / on a train / in a car the noise from that tends to drown out the tape hiss.
I don't know - perhaps they've finally weeded out the error message "Unable to delete file X. There is not enough space on the drive to perform the operation." that was in earlier versions.
You are pretty close. This is a meme in Sweden approaching Zero Wing in its overexposure. Basically, someone takes a Turkish folk song and "translating" it into rendering the Turkish syllables into what most closely resembles Swedish, and uses that as the subtitles. The results are, of course, nonsensical: "Glue a bit of ham, way cool!" Some people find the fake translations funny, though. This is the third of these I've seen.
From Zero Wing, to be precise. See http://zanyvg.overclocked.org/zerowing/index.html.
Remember, Sega makes a loss on every Dreamcast console they sell. Where they plan to get that money back is from game licenses. For every Dreamcast game sold, some of the money goes into Sega's pockets. Microsoft being who they are, it's very likely that you'd need to pay a similar fee to get your game to boot on the X-box, despite it being the same game that can run on a PC.
If the X-box could play Dreamcast games, then the continuing sale of those games would take money from Microsoft and put it into Sega's pockets. I don't think Micosoft will do that.
This seems unlikely. The Dreamcast uses its own proprietary gigabyte CD standard for games, which AFAIK requires dedicated hardware. X-Box uses DVDs, and a specially made DVD-ROM which could read GB-CD would raise the price of the X-box, as well as promiting the sale of games for a competing system.