I've just finished reading David Allen's "Getting Things Done" http://www.davidco.com/ and it's remarkably tech-agnostic. You can achieve all of your requirements with paper and pen. I'd recommend getting a good solid view of WHAT you want to record, and how to arrange it before deciding on any kind of tech solution.
I always thought Inform would be a cool learning language. It introduces the concepts of objects in a very easy-to-grasp way. It's really easy to throw together a working game.
Also what about something like DarkBASIC? I haven't used it at all, so I have no idea if the syntax is intelligible (or if it teaches good programming practice). Think about how students would respond to something like this, though...
You need Popups must die. The first one merely puts a little warning in the status bar. I can enable popups manually for any site I need to.
Apparently there are some about:config settings you can tweak that basically do the same thing, but I have no idea what they are.
As for the second one, of course it's not a popup, it's a stupid DHTML trick. A div overlapping the other text. I wonder if there's a way to tweak user stylesheets to make these unobtrusive... Sounds like a great idea for a Greasemonkey script!
"even the latest, greatest Windows GUI is still just a fancied-up version of the original Chicago shell, which was a retarded rip-off of WPS."
Considerably retarded. The extended attributes were amazing in the WPS. You could make some pretty awesome templates out of stuff. I cobbled together a (very) simple PIM using just WPS objects!...and shadows that would track the original file...!
And here we are, stuck with.pif err I mean.lnk files.
Well if they run too long, you need a different strategy. I practiced a bit and on any metal world I can beat the AI in about 5 minutes or less.
The point is that the AI isn't that great. When you have that huge palette of units to pick from, when you're actually playing against another human, the strategy variations are great! You can try a few of the Quell- or BA2k AI replacements, they're much more aggressive.
I think when people say it's the best RTS, they really mean the most significant. About 9 years of replayability so far, it was rather genre-defining.
I like FreeMind for taking phone notes. It lets me put things down immediately even though I don't yet know the full context, then drag and drop later. It's Java, so it's portable, and the.jar is pretty small, if that's an issue.
Another good option is EverNote a more linear product. Quite snappy at what it does.
OneNote is worth a try, I have it but never use it, when weighed against the above two.
Mod parent up, an actual poster with practical experience.
Actually, I had a similar experience, with the exception that it wasn't being a sysadmin, but designing and implementing network applications. I was supposed to be a programmer "50%" of the time. It ended up that the programming tasks passed me by, when I finally did get back into it, I was redundant to the team.
I did enjoy the network part, though. I should have just quit whining. You may want to work out a new contract as a sysadmin. Go read BOFH on the Register, and see how it can be fun, too!
DVD Decrypter was loaded with cool features, and I think I only used the decrypting *once*. I love erasing DVD-RWs with it, it does a really good job... I could never actually use them more than once using any other tool.
I love the right-click context menu it adds to.isos too.
I'm sure there are dozens of other features that I haven't even noticed yet. But, it's gone now... hope it supported DL and at least one of the new HD formats...
Funny, I see it completely the other way around. I just couldn't DO anything with the PPC. I really miss Pocket Informant though, the best PIM on both platforms...
Ooops. Moderate down the parent. The bozo didn't install the game and check the readme.
Yes, it does contain TA *modded* files.
Though I have never really seen these so-called abandonware sites that claim to have TA... The last one I found was $5.95 (CDN) for the Commander Pack. Wish I could find another one at that price!
TA is definitely multiplayer, and does a great job at it. If you like Starcraft you're going to flip over TA.
The big thing that makes TA stand out: VOLUME. Don't build small. "Just squeaking by" is not a good TA strategy, this is all about unreasonable displays of force!
Tinkering? Oh everything. I was thinking more on a system/kernel level. For example, I was playing around with slight overclocking, getting an old junker ftape QIC drive working... I spent a lot of time in the kernel config.
KDE 1 was pretty usable, KDE 2 you started to need to ask yourself if you preferred the raw speed or the nice timesavers. Back then XFCE wasn't thought of (AFAIK).
I don't know what to think about this. On one hand, I used to brag about how Linux never ever crashed on me (not ONCE), despite my heavily tinkering with it. This was, I think, way back in the 2.0 days. Ever since, with a few generations of kernels, I had to eat those words far too often.
I really miss the days when I could run on a P166 with 32 MB of RAM, and KDE ran not too badly (as long as you don't try to open Netscape or StarOffice). I don't think this kind of performance is attainable at all anymore.
But on the other hand, I'd be loth to run a kernel that didn't at least support USB! I love having ALSA instead of the old mishmash of sound drivers. Ext3 was a relief. I must say that for me at least ip[tables|filter|chains] was confusing, but I trust that the best choices were made... Going back to a kernel that didn't have those features would be simply unnaceptable.
Has the kernel reached a level of complexity where the ol'time stability isn't likely to happen anymore? We just need to react with patches, just like the other OSs out there?
I had a long ordeal getting my Myth box working swimmingly, and I am quite comfortable with Linux. DVDs still don't play back "just right" though.
I was tempted quite a few times to throw in the towel and spend some money on a Windows version. (Knoppmyth only helped so much) I'm glad I didn't, though, the flexibility of the Linux version is the real advantage. MythWeb is amazing in itself (especially when you install MythBurn).
Unfillable? Unthinkable! Crank up that bitrate and look for the equivalent of TVWish. You'll fill it up.
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I've just finished reading David Allen's "Getting Things Done" http://www.davidco.com/ and it's remarkably tech-agnostic. You can achieve all of your requirements with paper and pen. I'd recommend getting a good solid view of WHAT you want to record, and how to arrange it before deciding on any kind of tech solution.
(Then jump straight to ShadowPlan... heh heh..)
Doh... forgot to close the quotes for the link http://lestblood.imagodirt.net/archives/83-Asteris k-on-OpenWRT.html
Sigh...
Slow Down Cowboy!
Slashdot requires all readers of your previous comment to use Google instead of the helpful link you are about to provide!
It's been 1 minute since you realized your stupid mistake
Don't forget the coolest... Running an Asterisk server
Yeah these are kind of crazy, but...
I always thought Inform would be a cool learning language. It introduces the concepts of objects in a very easy-to-grasp way. It's really easy to throw together a working game.
Also what about something like DarkBASIC? I haven't used it at all, so I have no idea if the syntax is intelligible (or if it teaches good programming practice). Think about how students would respond to something like this, though...
GAMES!
You need Popups must die. The first one merely puts a little warning in the status bar. I can enable popups manually for any site I need to.
Apparently there are some about:config settings you can tweak that basically do the same thing, but I have no idea what they are.
As for the second one, of course it's not a popup, it's a stupid DHTML trick. A div overlapping the other text. I wonder if there's a way to tweak user stylesheets to make these unobtrusive... Sounds like a great idea for a Greasemonkey script!
"even the latest, greatest Windows GUI is still just a fancied-up version of the original Chicago shell, which was a retarded rip-off of WPS."
...and shadows that would track the original file...!
.pif err I mean .lnk files.
Considerably retarded. The extended attributes were amazing in the WPS. You could make some pretty awesome templates out of stuff. I cobbled together a (very) simple PIM using just WPS objects!
And here we are, stuck with
Well if they run too long, you need a different strategy. I practiced a bit and on any metal world I can beat the AI in about 5 minutes or less.
The point is that the AI isn't that great. When you have that huge palette of units to pick from, when you're actually playing against another human, the strategy variations are great! You can try a few of the Quell- or BA2k AI replacements, they're much more aggressive.
I think when people say it's the best RTS, they really mean the most significant. About 9 years of replayability so far, it was rather genre-defining.
I like FreeMind for taking phone notes. It lets me put things down immediately even though I don't yet know the full context, then drag and drop later. It's Java, so it's portable, and the .jar is pretty small, if that's an issue.
Another good option is EverNote a more linear product. Quite snappy at what it does.
OneNote is worth a try, I have it but never use it, when weighed against the above two.
Hope it helps!
Yeah, first comment I saw that considered this.
.dot files?
Since it's so slow on opening and closing, maybe it's doing a full scan of changed
Need I remind you of... uh... remind?
Mod parent up, an actual poster with practical experience.
Actually, I had a similar experience, with the exception that it wasn't being a sysadmin, but designing and implementing network applications. I was supposed to be a programmer "50%" of the time. It ended up that the programming tasks passed me by, when I finally did get back into it, I was redundant to the team.
I did enjoy the network part, though. I should have just quit whining. You may want to work out a new contract as a sysadmin. Go read BOFH on the Register, and see how it can be fun, too!
DVD Decrypter was loaded with cool features, and I think I only used the decrypting *once*. I love erasing DVD-RWs with it, it does a really good job... I could never actually use them more than once using any other tool.
.isos too.
I love the right-click context menu it adds to
I'm sure there are dozens of other features that I haven't even noticed yet. But, it's gone now... hope it supported DL and at least one of the new HD formats...
Uh... that includes $1000 for a HD-TV and $250 for surround sound?
Plus, you'll want to gold plate your thumbs to get better reaction time and higher scores! That just drives the price up more!
Funny, I see it completely the other way around. I just couldn't DO anything with the PPC. I really miss Pocket Informant though, the best PIM on both platforms...
...Fezzik, tear his arms off.
(sorry, just had to test it out)
Ooops. Moderate down the parent. The bozo didn't install the game and check the readme.
Yes, it does contain TA *modded* files.
Though I have never really seen these so-called abandonware sites that claim to have TA... The last one I found was $5.95 (CDN) for the Commander Pack. Wish I could find another one at that price!
I don't think that's true. I think the XTA stuff is a drop-in replacement for the commercial units/maps.
If I'm wrong, please respond.
TA is definitely multiplayer, and does a great job at it. If you like Starcraft you're going to flip over TA.
The big thing that makes TA stand out: VOLUME. Don't build small. "Just squeaking by" is not a good TA strategy, this is all about unreasonable displays of force!
Does netcat piped through sed count?
Tinkering? Oh everything. I was thinking more on a system/kernel level. For example, I was playing around with slight overclocking, getting an old junker ftape QIC drive working... I spent a lot of time in the kernel config.
KDE 1 was pretty usable, KDE 2 you started to need to ask yourself if you preferred the raw speed or the nice timesavers. Back then XFCE wasn't thought of (AFAIK).
Same problem, features. ndiswrapper works much better with 2.6 than it did with 2.4, for me (though, frankly, I think it was a custom patched kernel).
And to be honest, 2.6 has never crashed on me yet, either... yet.
I don't know what to think about this. On one hand, I used to brag about how Linux never ever crashed on me (not ONCE), despite my heavily tinkering with it. This was, I think, way back in the 2.0 days. Ever since, with a few generations of kernels, I had to eat those words far too often.
I really miss the days when I could run on a P166 with 32 MB of RAM, and KDE ran not too badly (as long as you don't try to open Netscape or StarOffice). I don't think this kind of performance is attainable at all anymore.
But on the other hand, I'd be loth to run a kernel that didn't at least support USB! I love having ALSA instead of the old mishmash of sound drivers. Ext3 was a relief. I must say that for me at least ip[tables|filter|chains] was confusing, but I trust that the best choices were made... Going back to a kernel that didn't have those features would be simply unnaceptable.
Has the kernel reached a level of complexity where the ol'time stability isn't likely to happen anymore? We just need to react with patches, just like the other OSs out there?
-1 Flamebait?
More like honest criticism, and constructive at that.
And the GIMP Printer Drivers really don't have much to do with GIMP... it's kind of a new printer driver format.
I had a long ordeal getting my Myth box working swimmingly, and I am quite comfortable with Linux. DVDs still don't play back "just right" though.
I was tempted quite a few times to throw in the towel and spend some money on a Windows version. (Knoppmyth only helped so much) I'm glad I didn't, though, the flexibility of the Linux version is the real advantage. MythWeb is amazing in itself (especially when you install MythBurn).
Unfillable? Unthinkable! Crank up that bitrate and look for the equivalent of TVWish. You'll fill it up.
How could he POSSIBLY compare with Topol? That guy was utterly amazing.
All I can picture Nimoy doing is breaking out in a rousing chorus of "Bitter Dregs..."