My favourite this year has been "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood". It's written by a women who was 10 years old in Iran in 1970 during the revolutions. It's the only comic book that I could compare to "Maus: A Survivor's Tale".
I'd love to see a post from someone who's actually used Linux for years and gone to Windows for one reason or another, but I don't believe this is one of them.
I've gone to Windows from Unix after years. The reason was that finally there was a version of XFree86 that works. I had a warezed copy of Exceed and Win2K for a while, and that impressed me, it crashed less than my Linux box did. But when it got all fubared and I didn't have any CDs to fix it with I went back to Slackware.
Someone gave me a copy of XP Pro, and I tried it. Just as nice as 2K, except the 6 floppies needed to install it (why doesn't my CD player boot? Oh why oh why?), but without Exceed, and XFree86 being a turd, it was worthless to me, and sat on a partition until I got around deleting it for disk space. Then I wanted to run Graphical Analysis which they give me free at school, but only for windows. So I reinstalled it, got cygwin running, but noticed a "Rootless X". Tried it out, and hey! I'm hooked! I got a Sparc, and someone else's Mac OS X, for most of my unix needs, and I'm running XP on the home machine! I deleted Linux for the space! The only thing I really miss is MPlayer, and on Windows, the Gimp crashes like a zombie queen. That and I'm always trying to tweak the GUI to make it more like the window managers I'm used to, which tends to destabilize the system.
I keep Knoppix around, and actually use it almost more than windows, but the main desktop is XP.
Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V is universal to Windows, Mac, and Linux. Deal with it.
No it's not. The Mac uses Apple-C, Apple-V, etc for copy/paste/etc, and that was the system that introduced it. When Windows was copying it, they didn't have an Apple key, so they used Control. But Control-C has been used forever by Unix, Mac, MS-DOS, and many many others as a break key. For when your program is misbehaving. I'm still mis-hitting my keys going from one platform to another, interrupting my processes on Mac OS X when I wanted to copy but X windowing system doesn't copy the selection into the general clipboard so I could paste it in Safari.
I think in a way they are correct. But all of these music networks are out of control. The artists are getting no credit. At least there should be a monthly fee in order to download music. I love Morpheus and Kazaa, but am I really supporting my favorite artists?
But all of these RIAA cartels are getting out of control. The artists are getting no credit. At least there should be some money going to the artist in order to buy a CD. I love my CD and record stores, but am I really supporting my favorite artists?
I'm trying to read the fine article! Where's my nearest institution that subscribes to Nature? I'm not willing to pay 18 US dollars just to read this one article!
That's what I would have said when I was 20. When I was 19, I dropped out of college, and I think it was the best thing for me. When I was 23, I got myself back into a community college, and I realized that there were a lot of people that I couldn't give the same recommendation to.
Other advice I read here is good, but I would ignore all these people who say not to do it if you are just going to fart around--I did nothing particularly productive but that time was needed to get all my immaturities worked out (and I imagine I still have some left, but not so many as to make school difficult).
And as an older college student, I'm 28 now working on my BS in physics. It's true what they say about being older makes it harder. Getting is harder, since you don't have teachers and others showing you all the things you are supposed to do. It's true that you forget how to study or things that you once knew, although I never really knew how to study in high school either. Socially it's true about everyone else is 19-20 which is kind of spooky when the cute girl in your lab is ten years younger than you, but on the other hand, I couldn't have been as mature as she at is 19-20.
Also, there is truth in that if you don't fully want to do it, you are wasting time and money. I kind of see school like a religion--put your soul into it and you will get immeasurable rewards, but if you don't sell your soul to it, the rewards, while measurable, are only measurable and no longer infinate. (My girlfriend says you should only rent your soul to school, that way you can get it back when your done.)
It's true, outside academic life sucks, but it's also true, academic life is hard work for little or no pay, and I would just say do what you want but also be aware of the consequences. I don't feel like my resume (or life) is in pain cuz I was a fuckup for five years of my life before starting school, and I think I'd rather have those five years of playing magic the gathering, partying, pot smoking, drinking, slashdot reading, and doing absolutely nothing, rather than trying to fit that all into my schedule while (avoiding) studying for exams.
I was going to say similar comments. The Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ has a wonderful section on salvaging parts which you could easily look to as inspiration or as just a great resource. Check it out.
Apologies to Moby, because I haven't heard the music in question, so I'm not fully qualified to say it's a lousy album.
However, I have seen a phenomon in the past which a band releases an album, it's awesome, but since the band isn't well known it doesn't do well in the charts. But since everybody loves it, it does well over time. The second album gets released, and it sucks. And it hits number 1.
My personal story for me with this is Nine Inch Nails. "Pretty Hate Machine" and "Broken" I would still rate as the best albums I've ever heard, and "The Downward Spiral" as one of the worst. Yet which one made the charts?
At first I thought he was trying to address this phenomena but I think he's just trying to say that the mainstream media is going to ignore who is popular or not and just play the albums that sell. Which is probably true too.
Apologies to those who thought "The Downward Spiral" is the best album ever made. I might be in the minority, you never know.
While I'm not fully aware of the history of comics, I do know there was once upon a time that they weren't conisidered fully considered "art". You can read "Understanding Comics" (Scott McCloud) or "Sequential Art" (Will Eisner) and watch them moan about how it's come a long way, but they don't still garner the same respect.
While I haven't been reading comics since Krazy Kat, it seemed to me that once upon a time comics were violent and simple, kind of like video games. In an effort to get parents not so worried about thier kids reading them, they established the "Comic Book Code Authority" or something (I'm doing this all from memory, bear with me!) and it basically was huge self imposed censorship board. And Wal-mart was not going to sell your comic without the stamp of approval they would give.
While we don't have all that, you can still understand the point: comics, at one point (and even now) were considered debase and not "art". Now, no one can deny that some comics are incredible works of art (finding examples are left as an exercise for the reader, because they no doubt will not be the same examples as mine) although there are still comics getting in trouble for being "obscene".
Personally, I think video games are going to follow a similar path. I can point at "Zork" and say "art!" or if you say that's not a video game, then I point at "Battlegirl" (awesome game for the mac) or "Escape Velocity Overdrive" and say "art!"
Remember, kiddies, send your spare bills to the Comic Book Legal Defense fund, and when the Video Game Legal Defense fund comes into existance, let me know. Some poor kid who makes a nifty-cool game in his basement is going to get sued for offending sensibilities and causing violence in the wrong town.
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I'm not planning on seeing it. Not unless I hear rave reviews from people I trust. Granted I usually never see movies, but I was excited about episode 1... until I actually saw it.
Has the economy tanked so badly that entry level doesn't exist anymore? Last spring I said "gee, I'll take some time off school" to find myself in a place I don't want to be in.
Now I feel I send out dozens of resumes a day and only get form letters saying "we recieved your resume". Every real live person I've talked to says that "they don't have a fitting position for me". If I even had interviews I'd be feeling better.
Okay, so that's a bit more exaggerated than it should be, but still, compared to last time when I was looking for a job, where recruiters from Texas wouldn't leave me alone for being stupid and putting my resume on monster.com, and now I get "Make Money Fast!" letters for being stupid and putting my resume on monster.com. I feel like I'm applying for jobs that say "we just need someone for the sysadmins to pick on when they get bored" and yet still get ignored.
My answer has been to start being pesky, because if I don't even know if my resume is just going to the ether, I'd like to have some reassurance that I'm not dead.
Am I alone here? Am I doing something wrong? It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't feel like I was being overly ignored. Is my
resume that bad?
Curses! I just kicked my Angband addiction by installing the Angband borg screensaver! I figured if the computer played it for me I wouldn't have to play it, right?
But no, now I have to enter a tournament! It's cheating if I let the computer do it!
They will pry the voodoo from my computer as soon as Linux supports the Diamond Stealth 64 that is currently just sitting on my desk collecting dust a little better.
Theoretically I'm going to get another machine so I can have only one operating system on each, but that may not be for a while.
Not meaning to be a total pain in the ass, but if I can't play tuxkart and the cool screensavers don't work, what good is a video card?
No no no. Your first part is correct, but the second part is all wrong:
Me: TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
*Neema gently places digital camera on desk, so it doesn't break*
Senator: Yeah, my daughter has one of these.
<snip>
*Grabs camera, scrolls to incriminating pictures*
Me: THERE YOU ARE! YOU, DANCING THE FORBIDDEN DANCE WITH THE FORBIDDEN MONKEY!
Senator: That looks like something my daughter did with Photoshop.
Me: Yeah, well, I'm going to stop by staples to get glossy photo paper and I'll be printing out a bunch of these!
*Senator looks dubious*
If you are contemplating the lynksys, let me you offer my experience. I've done a Linux-ipchains box, a linksys, and a BSD-ipfilter box.
The Linux-ipchains was a pain in the ass IMHO (not to start flame wars, just my experience).
The Linksys worked beautifully.... except.... we were running ssh services for friends, and if more than one person was logged in remotely (and forwarded through the linksys) at a time... it choked. Combined with no logging and limited control we ousted it.
I'm happy with the BSD-ipfilter solution. Yes the computer is obnoxious (and if I throw my coat over it, it overheats! oops). Unfortunately flashcom.com went out of business and I'm no longer running that network.
Like most of the comments I've read seemed to indicate, I also considered gopher to be an outdated protocol. However, I said what the hell, there might be something interesting out there, and clicked on some of the links.
So after wading through various gopher servers from various universities that I've never heard of, I found myself reading about multithreaded routing protocols, papers on linguistics, and other various research topics.
Then it dawned on me. Hey! This is what the internet used to be like! Some sysadmin saying "email me if you want to upload something here". Research papers that I don't understand. Wierd stuff that I would never expect to find anywhere else.
I don't know how it happened, but the wierd stuff that made the internet for me seems to have disappeared over the years. You have the over commercialized stuff, and you have the various weblogs (slashdot et al), and you have the orgs, but rarely do you find research, odd software that you aren't sure would still work on modern hardware as well as the assumption that everyone reading this has a Sparc and would need x11 for a sparc, explanations of AFS, etc, etc....
I know for some people, they simply aren't interested, they don't have time to just explore and read random things, but those of us who remember when you could go five clicks on the web and be reading more about archaeology than you ever wanted to know, well, here it is again.
I recommend these gopher pages to any kid who has curiousity about what one might find on the internet. Brings back the old days of "whoa, there is a lot to learn in this world" feelings.
Someone else compared it to the BBS scene. Yeah, kinda like, similar era, but most of what I saw on gopher is more academic than that. I'd still recommend the modern day BBS scene to those who are looking for wierd stuff, though.
Slashdot Mirror
The iranian.com has an excerpt. Check it out.
I first read that as "Matrix Revolutions to be Released on Linux"
I'm not that much of a Linux geek, am I?
I've gone to Windows from Unix after years. The reason was that finally there was a version of XFree86 that works. I had a warezed copy of Exceed and Win2K for a while, and that impressed me, it crashed less than my Linux box did. But when it got all fubared and I didn't have any CDs to fix it with I went back to Slackware.
Someone gave me a copy of XP Pro, and I tried it. Just as nice as 2K, except the 6 floppies needed to install it (why doesn't my CD player boot? Oh why oh why?), but without Exceed, and XFree86 being a turd, it was worthless to me, and sat on a partition until I got around deleting it for disk space. Then I wanted to run Graphical Analysis which they give me free at school, but only for windows. So I reinstalled it, got cygwin running, but noticed a "Rootless X". Tried it out, and hey! I'm hooked! I got a Sparc, and someone else's Mac OS X, for most of my unix needs, and I'm running XP on the home machine! I deleted Linux for the space! The only thing I really miss is MPlayer, and on Windows, the Gimp crashes like a zombie queen. That and I'm always trying to tweak the GUI to make it more like the window managers I'm used to, which tends to destabilize the system.
I keep Knoppix around, and actually use it almost more than windows, but the main desktop is XP.
No it's not. The Mac uses Apple-C, Apple-V, etc for copy/paste/etc, and that was the system that introduced it. When Windows was copying it, they didn't have an Apple key, so they used Control. But Control-C has been used forever by Unix, Mac, MS-DOS, and many many others as a break key. For when your program is misbehaving. I'm still mis-hitting my keys going from one platform to another, interrupting my processes on Mac OS X when I wanted to copy but X windowing system doesn't copy the selection into the general clipboard so I could paste it in Safari.
Why has no one mentioned Where is Raed?
I think in a way they are correct. But all of these music networks are out of control. The artists are getting no credit. At least there should be a monthly fee in order to download music. I love Morpheus and Kazaa, but am I really supporting my favorite artists? But all of these RIAA cartels are getting out of control. The artists are getting no credit. At least there should be some money going to the artist in order to buy a CD. I love my CD and record stores, but am I really supporting my favorite artists?
I'm trying to read the fine article! Where's my nearest institution that subscribes to Nature? I'm not willing to pay 18 US dollars just to read this one article!
Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to the library I go.
Did anyone else go to NASA's cool robot of the week to see if it was listed? Why isn't it?
Do it do it do it!!!!
That's what I would have said when I was 20. When I was 19, I dropped out of college, and I think it was the best thing for me. When I was 23, I got myself back into a community college, and I realized that there were a lot of people that I couldn't give the same recommendation to.
Other advice I read here is good, but I would ignore all these people who say not to do it if you are just going to fart around--I did nothing particularly productive but that time was needed to get all my immaturities worked out (and I imagine I still have some left, but not so many as to make school difficult).
And as an older college student, I'm 28 now working on my BS in physics. It's true what they say about being older makes it harder. Getting is harder, since you don't have teachers and others showing you all the things you are supposed to do. It's true that you forget how to study or things that you once knew, although I never really knew how to study in high school either. Socially it's true about everyone else is 19-20 which is kind of spooky when the cute girl in your lab is ten years younger than you, but on the other hand, I couldn't have been as mature as she at is 19-20.
Also, there is truth in that if you don't fully want to do it, you are wasting time and money. I kind of see school like a religion--put your soul into it and you will get immeasurable rewards, but if you don't sell your soul to it, the rewards, while measurable, are only measurable and no longer infinate. (My girlfriend says you should only rent your soul to school, that way you can get it back when your done.)
It's true, outside academic life sucks, but it's also true, academic life is hard work for little or no pay, and I would just say do what you want but also be aware of the consequences. I don't feel like my resume (or life) is in pain cuz I was a fuckup for five years of my life before starting school, and I think I'd rather have those five years of playing magic the gathering, partying, pot smoking, drinking, slashdot reading, and doing absolutely nothing, rather than trying to fit that all into my schedule while (avoiding) studying for exams.
I was going to say similar comments. The Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ has a wonderful section on salvaging parts which you could easily look to as inspiration or as just a great resource. Check it out.
Find it at
http://repairfaq.org/REPAIR/F_gadget.html
Apologies to Moby, because I haven't heard the music in question, so I'm not fully qualified to say it's a lousy album.
However, I have seen a phenomon in the past which a band releases an album, it's awesome, but since the band isn't well known it doesn't do well in the charts. But since everybody loves it, it does well over time. The second album gets released, and it sucks. And it hits number 1.
My personal story for me with this is Nine Inch Nails. "Pretty Hate Machine" and "Broken" I would still rate as the best albums I've ever heard, and "The Downward Spiral" as one of the worst. Yet which one made the charts?
At first I thought he was trying to address this phenomena but I think he's just trying to say that the mainstream media is going to ignore who is popular or not and just play the albums that sell. Which is probably true too.
Apologies to those who thought "The Downward Spiral" is the best album ever made. I might be in the minority, you never know.
While I haven't been reading comics since Krazy Kat, it seemed to me that once upon a time comics were violent and simple, kind of like video games. In an effort to get parents not so worried about thier kids reading them, they established the "Comic Book Code Authority" or something (I'm doing this all from memory, bear with me!) and it basically was huge self imposed censorship board. And Wal-mart was not going to sell your comic without the stamp of approval they would give.
While we don't have all that, you can still understand the point: comics, at one point (and even now) were considered debase and not "art". Now, no one can deny that some comics are incredible works of art (finding examples are left as an exercise for the reader, because they no doubt will not be the same examples as mine) although there are still comics getting in trouble for being "obscene".
Personally, I think video games are going to follow a similar path. I can point at "Zork" and say "art!" or if you say that's not a video game, then I point at "Battlegirl" (awesome game for the mac) or "Escape Velocity Overdrive" and say "art!"
Remember, kiddies, send your spare bills to the Comic Book Legal Defense fund, and when the Video Game Legal Defense fund comes into existance, let me know. Some poor kid who makes a nifty-cool game in his basement is going to get sued for offending sensibilities and causing violence in the wrong town.
I'm not planning on seeing it. Not unless I hear rave reviews from people I trust. Granted I usually never see movies, but I was excited about episode 1... until I actually saw it.
Has the economy tanked so badly that entry level doesn't exist anymore? Last spring I said "gee, I'll take some time off school" to find myself in a place I don't want to be in.
Now I feel I send out dozens of resumes a day and only get form letters saying "we recieved your resume". Every real live person I've talked to says that "they don't have a fitting position for me". If I even had interviews I'd be feeling better.
Okay, so that's a bit more exaggerated than it should be, but still, compared to last time when I was looking for a job, where recruiters from Texas wouldn't leave me alone for being stupid and putting my resume on monster.com, and now I get "Make Money Fast!" letters for being stupid and putting my resume on monster.com. I feel like I'm applying for jobs that say "we just need someone for the sysadmins to pick on when they get bored" and yet still get ignored.
My answer has been to start being pesky, because if I don't even know if my resume is just going to the ether, I'd like to have some reassurance that I'm not dead.
Am I alone here? Am I doing something wrong? It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't feel like I was being overly ignored. Is my resume that bad?
But no, now I have to enter a tournament! It's cheating if I let the computer do it!
They will pry the voodoo from my computer as soon as Linux supports the Diamond Stealth 64 that is currently just sitting on my desk collecting dust a little better.
Theoretically I'm going to get another machine so I can have only one operating system on each, but that may not be for a while.
Not meaning to be a total pain in the ass, but if I can't play tuxkart and the cool screensavers don't work, what good is a video card?
No no no. Your first part is correct, but the second part is all wrong:
Me: TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
*Neema gently places digital camera on desk, so it doesn't break*
Senator: Yeah, my daughter has one of these.
<snip>
*Grabs camera, scrolls to incriminating pictures*
Me: THERE YOU ARE! YOU, DANCING THE FORBIDDEN DANCE WITH THE FORBIDDEN MONKEY!
Senator: That looks like something my daughter did with Photoshop.
Me: Yeah, well, I'm going to stop by staples to get glossy photo paper and I'll be printing out a bunch of these!
*Senator looks dubious*
Two things I've seen about this come from the UK:
BBC Q&A about the situation
and The Guardian saying "They can't see why they are hated"
--stanza
If you are contemplating the lynksys, let me you offer my experience. I've done a Linux-ipchains box, a linksys, and a BSD-ipfilter box.
The Linux-ipchains was a pain in the ass IMHO (not to start flame wars, just my experience).
The Linksys worked beautifully.... except.... we were running ssh services for friends, and if more than one person was logged in remotely (and forwarded through the linksys) at a time... it choked. Combined with no logging and limited control we ousted it.
I'm happy with the BSD-ipfilter solution. Yes the computer is obnoxious (and if I throw my coat over it, it overheats! oops). Unfortunately flashcom.com went out of business and I'm no longer running that network.
Hope this helps you (or someone),
Stanza
Like most of the comments I've read seemed to indicate, I also considered gopher to be an outdated protocol. However, I said what the hell, there might be something interesting out there, and clicked on some of the links.
So after wading through various gopher servers from various universities that I've never heard of, I found myself reading about multithreaded routing protocols, papers on linguistics, and other various research topics.
Then it dawned on me. Hey! This is what the internet used to be like! Some sysadmin saying "email me if you want to upload something here". Research papers that I don't understand. Wierd stuff that I would never expect to find anywhere else.
I don't know how it happened, but the wierd stuff that made the internet for me seems to have disappeared over the years. You have the over commercialized stuff, and you have the various weblogs (slashdot et al), and you have the orgs, but rarely do you find research, odd software that you aren't sure would still work on modern hardware as well as the assumption that everyone reading this has a Sparc and would need x11 for a sparc, explanations of AFS, etc, etc....
I know for some people, they simply aren't interested, they don't have time to just explore and read random things, but those of us who remember when you could go five clicks on the web and be reading more about archaeology than you ever wanted to know, well, here it is again.
I recommend these gopher pages to any kid who has curiousity about what one might find on the internet. Brings back the old days of "whoa, there is a lot to learn in this world" feelings.
Someone else compared it to the BBS scene. Yeah, kinda like, similar era, but most of what I saw on gopher is more academic than that. I'd still recommend the modern day BBS scene to those who are looking for wierd stuff, though.