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the free software alternatives are good enough to, if not kill, then certainly maim demand for commercial alternatives (witness the death of Corel's Wordperfect for Linux).
The worst enemy of WP2000/Linux was Corel. Throw a buggy suite on the market then never support it. WP/Win had I believe *4* service packs and the Linux one had zilch. I had the thing crash some kind of group of threads so badly, that I could LOOK at my document, but not print, save, or even copy it to the clipboard. Since it was the notes for some public speaking I was going to be doing that evening, I was NOT impressed. That was the last time I used it.
I'm not sure if WP 2000 or Windows ME is more coaster-worthy.
Um, the article doesn't seem to say *anything* about imitating a game.
It DOES compare what you see in games to his animation, as well as his chosen "pathway" through life. He idolized violent antiheros. He saw that course of action as the way to "prove" himself. He was a deeply disturbed kid, and the doctor is basically saying someone should have noticed.
He was living a predictable pattern (like a "script") that finally culminated in killing other kids.
I don't see any suggestion of cause and effect related to video games in this article (though many other articles DO say that). I'm going to go read it again, maybe I missed something...
Actually, you *can* read Access files, it's just really confusing... First launch one of the other apps, then press F4 to bring up the data sources navigator (I think that's the name) Right-click on the left part and click "Administrate data sources"...
Choose ADO as the database type, and enter something like this (all on one line):
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=c:\somepath\myDb.mdb; User Id=admin;Password=
Click on the "Tables" tab and you should know right away if it worked.
That's as good as it gets in the 1.1 tree. 2.0 beta has a bunch of really nice improvements over that, including the [Windows] systemwide data source configuration. I'm still confused about how (or if) the engine detects Access memo fields though...
NeoOffice is sweet. I'm hoping the OASIS format gets ported from the promised OOo 1.1.5. Then I'll feel more comfortable about switching on my Win boxen.
There was a thread about something called MythRecommend quite a while back in the mailing list. I haven't tried it, and the site looks like it's running off some personal home page, so I won't link it. Do a search and you'll find it very easily.
It looks like it has lots of room for improvement, but a neat start.
Good ideas, all. I am curious how something like ClusterKnoppix in all of the desktops would work in an environment like this. Use the main server(s) more for file storage and administration, but the whole classroom can contribute to the shared processing.
I need someone to donate several fairly powerful machines to me so I can find out for myself. Maybe if I hide behind a tree and make a sound like a Mexican school?
Has anyone else done something like this? Does it work?
I realize it's asking a lot, but if people would either READ the ARTICLE or scroll way way to the bottom, they'd see this:
About this story, Cory says, "Last spring, in the wake of Ray Bradbury pitching a tantrum over Michael Moore appropriating the title of 'Fahrenheit 451' to make Fahrenheit 9/11, I conceived of a plan to write a series of stories with the same titles as famous sf shorts, which would pick apart the toalitarian [sic] assumptions underpinning some of sf's classic narratives."
Yes, the title is on purpose. Of course if people did that, there would be no discussions here, would there?
Nah, tried it. The tools are too far away from the image. However, you CAN put everything else you have open on the second monitor and not worry about burying GIMP in window layers...
Everyone that says this forgets that you might want TWO (or more) images open. Why should you duplicate all of the tools in the image window? The image window is for the image, leave it at that.
As many others have said, the problem is with focus. Focusing the image window should focus (or at least raise) the tools too.
It's not as bad as all that. What the GIMP desperately needs is documentation and tutorials that actually track the current version so some of this makes sense to a casual user. I remember the good ole days when GIMP was stuck at 0.9x for years.
Well, that could be argued. Except that the junkiest hardware in the box is the stuff that worked perfectly. I have a TView99 bt8x8 capture card and an old ATI 2MB PCI video card...
The network card issue had nothing to do with the hardware, really, it was a kernel/driver issue. The onboard stuff worked fine, but I needed wireless.
The sound is onboard, also true, but it gave me GREAT sound with OSS on an old kernel. Unless it crashed. It even has potential for 6.1 surround!
So these "complaints" really aren't with MythTV, but with Linux itself in this role. Another gripe is that I have a perfectly good Radeon 64MB VIVO that I can't use, because of ATI's driver stupidity.
Again, if I had a MCE box doing this stuff I'm sure I would have had NONE of these problems. (no idea how I would have done the IR dongle stuff though)
That being said, just try to pry my MythTV box out of my cold, dead hands. I also look forward to getting a PVR250 someday... and many many more gibibytes of drive space.
I did it, and I have lots of experience with Linux (my first distribution was XDenu!). I've tried almost everything in Linux.
MythTV was hard. I loaded up KnoppMyth, and immediately needed to tweak it so I could use LVM on my video partition. OK, no big deal, there are good HOWTOs.
Soon, I absolutely needed to update the kernel to 2.6 because ndiswrapper on my wireless NIC panicked the kernel.
Sound has always been a struggle. One kernel worked clearly with OSS but crashed the sound driver on recording way too often. The next kernel didn't work at all with OSS so I needed ALSA (which I preferred anyway) but now the sound is not great. Very distorty.
And the absolute toughest was getting a serial IR dongle to change channels on the satellite box. I needed to custom-build a second instance of lirc and mess around with the IR pulse parameters (like randomly changing the numbers this way or that). No documentation apart from "change these numbers"
I got it working, and I absolutely LOVE my mythbox, but more than once I contemplated Windows MCE, so I could just get the dumb thing working without so much fuss. I just wanna watch some TV...!
Everyone says they want creative and original games, then line up in droves to buy the next FPS and MMORPG.
How will things like Katamari Damancy really sell? Personally , I really enjoy something that's really really different, I had great fun with "Construction Destruction", Airfix Dogfighter and of course, the amazing Liquid War, but I think I'm the exception, and games of that style will never be really big.
2.0 - MS branded spyglass. "We're.8 better than Netscape!" animated GIFs were all the rage. 3.0 - Coolbar, better bookmark handling, actually quite a stable browser, despite also pushing in VBScript and ActiveX. 4.0 - Introduced DOM as well as n+1 security holes. 5.x - Lots of fixes, some CSS improvements... 6.x - More CSS improvements, though still not great.
It should be 5.x, or even 4.x because of the version 1.0 thing.
You also, are right, but let's be hypercritical here
Sites like Slashdot. A site which really abuses the whole point of web *information presentation*. It could be argued that it could be satisfied with old BBS's, FIDONet or otherwise.
Email could also have been handled through that means. I used to mail through some BBSs that had Internet email gateways. "Widely accessible" is another matter I suppose, but really, the popularization of the net had nothing to do with improving email.
I'll skip the chat comment, you covered it yourself...
Linux distros, no problem. I downloaded Slackware back in the day just fine.
So what's left? All that I'd REALLY miss is shopping online.
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the free software alternatives are good enough to, if not kill, then certainly maim demand for commercial alternatives (witness the death of Corel's Wordperfect for Linux).
The worst enemy of WP2000/Linux was Corel. Throw a buggy suite on the market then never support it. WP/Win had I believe *4* service packs and the Linux one had zilch. I had the thing crash some kind of group of threads so badly, that I could LOOK at my document, but not print, save, or even copy it to the clipboard. Since it was the notes for some public speaking I was going to be doing that evening, I was NOT impressed. That was the last time I used it.
I'm not sure if WP 2000 or Windows ME is more coaster-worthy.
The Lazarus project.
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/
This reminds me, I haven't looked at this for a loooong time.
Hmm. Maybe the Aibo hack site one worked, seems to me the VCRs one failed, Bleem rings a bell, now this...
Are Sony's lawyers really all that good? They seem to be on some kind of a losing streak.
Um, the article doesn't seem to say *anything* about imitating a game.
It DOES compare what you see in games to his animation, as well as his chosen "pathway" through life. He idolized violent antiheros. He saw that course of action as the way to "prove" himself. He was a deeply disturbed kid, and the doctor is basically saying someone should have noticed.
He was living a predictable pattern (like a "script") that finally culminated in killing other kids.
I don't see any suggestion of cause and effect related to video games in this article (though many other articles DO say that). I'm going to go read it again, maybe I missed something...
Actually, you *can* read Access files, it's just really confusing... First launch one of the other apps, then press F4 to bring up the data sources navigator (I think that's the name) Right-click on the left part and click "Administrate data sources"...
Choose ADO as the database type, and enter something like this (all on one line):
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;
Data Source=c:\somepath\myDb.mdb;
User Id=admin;Password=
Click on the "Tables" tab and you should know right away if it worked.
That's as good as it gets in the 1.1 tree. 2.0 beta has a bunch of really nice improvements over that, including the [Windows] systemwide data source configuration. I'm still confused about how (or if) the engine detects Access memo fields though...
NeoOffice is sweet. I'm hoping the OASIS format gets ported from the promised OOo 1.1.5. Then I'll feel more comfortable about switching on my Win boxen.
There was a thread about something called MythRecommend quite a while back in the mailing list. I haven't tried it, and the site looks like it's running off some personal home page, so I won't link it. Do a search and you'll find it very easily.
It looks like it has lots of room for improvement, but a neat start.
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html
I've only used it on Mac, but it works very well. You can select media from a web interface.
Good ideas, all. I am curious how something like ClusterKnoppix in all of the desktops would work in an environment like this. Use the main server(s) more for file storage and administration, but the whole classroom can contribute to the shared processing.
I need someone to donate several fairly powerful machines to me so I can find out for myself. Maybe if I hide behind a tree and make a sound like a Mexican school?
Has anyone else done something like this? Does it work?
oops, I saw another comment that was saying "Qemu", then I saw this one and thought I would avoid being redundant. My mistake.
Your turn.
Nope, I run it on my Mac OS X machine. Check out QemuX for a simple front-end.
You might be thinking of Plex86.
I realize it's asking a lot, but if people would either READ the ARTICLE or scroll way way to the bottom, they'd see this:
About this story, Cory says, "Last spring, in the wake of Ray Bradbury pitching a tantrum over Michael Moore appropriating the title of 'Fahrenheit 451' to make Fahrenheit 9/11, I conceived of a plan to write a series of stories with the same titles as famous sf shorts, which would pick apart the toalitarian [sic] assumptions underpinning some of sf's classic narratives."
Yes, the title is on purpose. Of course if people did that, there would be no discussions here, would there?
Here, save yourself the trouble. Put this link in your sig.
http://isnoop.net/gmail/
over 220,000 invitations available.
I'd say you'd tick the items on the list that you've checked.
It's nice when you can type out "Check that cheque" without feeling like an idiot.
But I'm from Canada, and we might more often need the word "tick" for the insect, so on our insect observation lists, we would "check off 'tick'"
Nah, tried it. The tools are too far away from the image. However, you CAN put everything else you have open on the second monitor and not worry about burying GIMP in window layers...
Everyone that says this forgets that you might want TWO (or more) images open. Why should you duplicate all of the tools in the image window? The image window is for the image, leave it at that.
As many others have said, the problem is with focus. Focusing the image window should focus (or at least raise) the tools too.
Got somewhere.
http://slashdot.org/~MadChicken/journal/97933
It's not as bad as all that. What the GIMP desperately needs is documentation and tutorials that actually track the current version so some of this makes sense to a casual user. I remember the good ole days when GIMP was stuck at 0.9x for years.
Well, that could be argued. Except that the junkiest hardware in the box is the stuff that worked perfectly. I have a TView99 bt8x8 capture card and an old ATI 2MB PCI video card...
The network card issue had nothing to do with the hardware, really, it was a kernel/driver issue. The onboard stuff worked fine, but I needed wireless.
The sound is onboard, also true, but it gave me GREAT sound with OSS on an old kernel. Unless it crashed. It even has potential for 6.1 surround!
So these "complaints" really aren't with MythTV, but with Linux itself in this role. Another gripe is that I have a perfectly good Radeon 64MB VIVO that I can't use, because of ATI's driver stupidity.
Again, if I had a MCE box doing this stuff I'm sure I would have had NONE of these problems. (no idea how I would have done the IR dongle stuff though)
That being said, just try to pry my MythTV box out of my cold, dead hands. I also look forward to getting a PVR250 someday... and many many more gibibytes of drive space.
I did it, and I have lots of experience with Linux (my first distribution was XDenu!). I've tried almost everything in Linux.
MythTV was hard. I loaded up KnoppMyth, and immediately needed to tweak it so I could use LVM on my video partition. OK, no big deal, there are good HOWTOs.
Soon, I absolutely needed to update the kernel to 2.6 because ndiswrapper on my wireless NIC panicked the kernel.
Sound has always been a struggle. One kernel worked clearly with OSS but crashed the sound driver on recording way too often. The next kernel didn't work at all with OSS so I needed ALSA (which I preferred anyway) but now the sound is not great. Very distorty.
And the absolute toughest was getting a serial IR dongle to change channels on the satellite box. I needed to custom-build a second instance of lirc and mess around with the IR pulse parameters (like randomly changing the numbers this way or that). No documentation apart from "change these numbers"
I got it working, and I absolutely LOVE my mythbox, but more than once I contemplated Windows MCE, so I could just get the dumb thing working without so much fuss. I just wanna watch some TV...!
...but would you buy it?
Everyone says they want creative and original games, then line up in droves to buy the next FPS and MMORPG.
How will things like Katamari Damancy really sell?
Personally , I really enjoy something that's really really different, I had great fun with "Construction Destruction", Airfix Dogfighter and of course, the amazing Liquid War, but I think I'm the exception, and games of that style will never be really big.
I'd be happy to know I'm wrong, actually...
I beg to differ. They attracted a great amount of interest (at least from me) just no principal ($).
Puretracks, if you want to buy music online in Canada (OK iTunes Music Store is open now).
OK I've never BOUGHT anything from Puretracks, I keep getting free $10 certificates.
Yeah, IIRC, there was no version 1...
.8 better than Netscape!" animated GIFs were all the rage.
2.0 - MS branded spyglass. "We're
3.0 - Coolbar, better bookmark handling, actually quite a stable browser, despite also pushing in VBScript and ActiveX.
4.0 - Introduced DOM as well as n+1 security holes.
5.x - Lots of fixes, some CSS improvements...
6.x - More CSS improvements, though still not great.
It should be 5.x, or even 4.x because of the version 1.0 thing.
Don't think of your 28.8, think of a T1, or that Dual ISDN connection. Now think that all geeks can get one. What would be missing?
It's more like having that HDTV but no game being on, just documentaries and news.
You also, are right, but let's be hypercritical here
Sites like Slashdot. A site which really abuses the whole point of web *information presentation*. It could be argued that it could be satisfied with old BBS's, FIDONet or otherwise.
Email could also have been handled through that means. I used to mail through some BBSs that had Internet email gateways. "Widely accessible" is another matter I suppose, but really, the popularization of the net had nothing to do with improving email.
I'll skip the chat comment, you covered it yourself...
Linux distros, no problem. I downloaded Slackware back in the day just fine.
So what's left? All that I'd REALLY miss is shopping online.