I don't suppose we have any Yu-Gi-Oh gamers in the crowd? Nightmare Troubadore for Nintendo DS is *the* best Yu-Gi-Oh video game Konami has released to date. They built the game around the hardware, and you can tell. Using the stylus to sort and create decks is easy, and fun. Using it to work the radar isn't as fun (the d-pad works great for that chore), but still very cool. Having two views of the field while you play, and selecting a card on one screen to see its stats in full view on another, is also great.
I'm a system administrator by profession, not a developer, but I was happy with myself today.
I got the 1993 source for xloadimage (From the X11R5.1 Contrib directory) to build with Xcode (gcc-3.3.3) under Mac OSX 10.3.7.
I only had to change a few #include's (varargs.h dosen't exist anymore, for one) and clean up a little outdated syntax, and after that it compiled relatively cleanly.
More importantly, it worked! But until I figure out how to get X11.app to run with an "actual" root winow, instead of the Quartz "integrated" mode, my main goal of running jwz's webcollage.pl isn't as stunning as it could be =P
It does work, though. I used i-Installer to get the netpbm and libtiff/libpng/libjpeg stuff installed.
It wouldn't be as cool as you think, modern OS's gobble as much RAM as possible to help speed things up by cacheing common requests from the disk. It would most likely confuse people: "why is my RAM almost totally full when I'm really not doing anything besides playing this huge divx file?"
Reading through the replies here, everyone seems to have already touched on the main points:
1.) depth 2.) creative control 3.) lack of censorship (see 2.)
In litigation happy America where turning a profit is almost at inverse proportion to being raw and from the heart on any topic, content definately suffers.
For me, 5 years ago at the age of 18, Anime was a window into a new world. I had some exposure previous to that.. Vampire Hunter D when I was 12, and Captain Harlock when I was 8 or 9.. but I didn't recgonize it as "anime" back then.
Running Linux and having an extensive vocabulary of Anime related concepts was just the kind of counter-culture edge that made me feel unique.
Speaking as a member of the National Center for Biotech. Information, this is how we do things as well.
It is so much easier to keep fast changing software in release-specific directories.
Things like Mozilla for instance:/usr/local/mozilla-1.4/usr/local/mozilla-1.6/usr/local/mozilla-1.7/usr/local/mozilla-test/usr/local/mozilla ->/usr/local/mozilla-1.7
the last entry there is a symlink in case you were wondering.
we have a script that gets executed during the login procedure to setup personal preferences for the version of each software package we support.
It sets $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, $PATH, $PKG_CONFIG_PATH and any other environment variables that need tweaking to get stuff loaded (or for development).
And if we need to remove a version, it's as easy as the parent poster said, just kill the directory.
For the Base OS we use packages, but we maintain dependancy info. ourselves. Most of what we consider "Base" requires only 1 or 2 dynamic libs. max (mostly just libc and ld-linux).
It's nice to see this methodology applied elsewhere as well.
Oh well, if it turns out profitable there, maybe other areas will copy the idea and we can finally catch up to Canada and Malaysia in terms of bandwidth per connected household.
Maybe this could also bring back the days of people running personal servers off thier home connections. I miss surfing the web at the edge of the network. With so many EULA's preventing servers period it has slowly started to mirror other content distribution systems.. all push all the time.
"It's also possible that perhaps Linux isn't really ready for the mainstream desktop. I personally have a hard time picturing my mom installing and maintaining Linux on her home computer."
I have a hard time visualising *any* grandmother doing an OS installation, of any kind. If linux wants to make head way on the Desktop, it needs to come preinstalled and preconfigured, on new hardware.
Of course with the way the hardware industry is right now, its tough for small-medium distributors to break away from M$.
Use in schools would help as well.. if only the mainstream educational software was there. Sadly that "educational software" seems to be Microsoft Office 9 times out of 10.
At any rate.. my point is simply that Linux won't be "installed" by the untrained masses.. but if its there, if its what you get with the computer, those without prior computer exp. will wade in, and become accustomed.
Aha! I got you, you thought I was simply ignorant of foreign exchange rates.. BUT.. in reality.. I was accounting for inflation yearsss into the future.
We really need to link ICANN more effectively to the world, maybe each state or province in each country can elect 1 ICANN rep.
Or maybe they should be elected from the owners of each CLASS A worth of network space, or each network, regardless of size, that has a large impact on the internet as a whole (AT&T owns all of 12.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 as far a i know)
Whatever the method, we need a more top-down system for ICANN.
For a rousing discussion of what applications this chip could possibly have. Its being sold as a CO-processor, but what kind of bus will it be used on? It would seem that all variants of PCI/SBUS would choke.. we really need more information.
Having been on the scene since the early 90's, heres a little "music file sharing" Prior Art:
1.) IRC (still the largest non-p2p source; #mp3jukebox, #mp3passion, etc)
2.) FTP (both anon. on public dumps and l/p within the right "group")
3.) WAIS (what you used to search all those Anon. FTP sites, ftpsearch.yahoo.com kind of replaced it for me)
4.) USENET (brazenly open sharing up until the napster case popularized it all, still heavily traded under alt.binaries.*, although encryption has certainly made being part of "the group" a pre-req. for participation)
these are certainly not the only places music was traded "illegally" prior to the glorious birth of napster.
the important point to make here is that the 4 previously mentioned methods were not music-centric. mp3's/wav's were just a fraction of the content, albeit a very desireable fraction.
napster was the first protocol/service specifically designed for just trading music.
which is where the creators crossed the line of service ambiguity. all the other methods have legitimate uses outside of music swapping as well.
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That would be a better methodology, huh? You would think they might have considered that.
That's pretty cool, actually. Would be neat if you could localize it more, I know there are days when my town just feels angry =P
I don't suppose we have any Yu-Gi-Oh gamers in the crowd? Nightmare Troubadore for Nintendo DS is *the* best Yu-Gi-Oh video game Konami has released to date. They built the game around the hardware, and you can tell. Using the stylus to sort and create decks is easy, and fun. Using it to work the radar isn't as fun (the d-pad works great for that chore), but still very cool. Having two views of the field while you play, and selecting a card on one screen to see its stats in full view on another, is also great.
You follow HTTP/1.1 and put the Vhost you want
in the "Host: " header.
Example:
telnet> o localhost 80
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
I'm a system administrator by profession, not a developer, but I was happy with myself today.
I got the 1993 source for xloadimage (From the X11R5.1 Contrib directory) to build with Xcode (gcc-3.3.3) under Mac OSX 10.3.7.
I only had to change a few #include's (varargs.h dosen't exist anymore, for one) and clean up a little outdated syntax, and after that it compiled relatively cleanly.
More importantly, it worked! But until I figure out how to get X11.app to run with an "actual" root winow, instead of the Quartz "integrated" mode, my main goal of running jwz's webcollage.pl
isn't as stunning as it could be =P
It does work, though. I used i-Installer to get the netpbm and libtiff/libpng/libjpeg stuff installed.
Didn't we already get a remake?
Wasn't it called "The Matrix" ?
It wouldn't be as cool as you think, modern OS's gobble as much RAM as possible to help speed things up by cacheing common requests from the disk. It would most likely confuse people: "why is my RAM almost totally full when I'm really not doing anything besides playing this huge divx file?"
Reading through the replies here, everyone seems
to have already touched on the main points:
1.) depth
2.) creative control
3.) lack of censorship (see 2.)
In litigation happy America where turning a profit is almost at inverse proportion to being raw and from the heart on any topic, content definately suffers.
For me, 5 years ago at the age of 18, Anime was a window into a new world. I had some exposure previous to that.. Vampire Hunter D when I was 12, and Captain Harlock when I was 8 or 9.. but I
didn't recgonize it as "anime" back then.
Running Linux and having an extensive vocabulary of Anime related concepts was just the kind of counter-culture edge that made me feel unique.
Speaking as a member of the National Center for Biotech. Information, this is how we do things as well.
/usr/local/mozilla-1.4 /usr/local/mozilla-1.6 /usr/local/mozilla-1.7 /usr/local/mozilla-test /usr/local/mozilla -> /usr/local/mozilla-1.7
It is so much easier to keep fast changing software in release-specific directories.
Things like Mozilla for instance:
the last entry there is a symlink in case you were wondering.
we have a script that gets executed during the login procedure to setup personal preferences for the version of each software package we support.
It sets $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, $PATH, $PKG_CONFIG_PATH and any other environment variables that need tweaking to get stuff loaded (or for development).
And if we need to remove a version, it's as easy as the parent poster said, just kill the directory.
For the Base OS we use packages, but we maintain dependancy info. ourselves. Most of what we consider "Base" requires only 1 or 2 dynamic libs. max (mostly just libc and ld-linux).
It's nice to see this methodology applied elsewhere as well.
MacroSolid: Large and Hard
MicroSoft: Small and Squishy
Please mod: +1 Inapropriate(sp?)
...why did it have to be Utah?
Oh well, if it turns out profitable there,
maybe other areas will copy the idea and we can finally catch up to Canada and Malaysia in terms of
bandwidth per connected household.
Maybe this could also bring back the days of people running personal servers off thier home connections. I miss surfing the web at the edge of the network. With so many EULA's preventing servers period it has slowly started to mirror other content distribution systems.. all push all the time.
Protocol geek here:
TCP/143 = IMAP
TCP/443 = HTTPS (SSL enabled HTTP)
Protocol geek, signing off!
"It's also possible that perhaps Linux isn't really ready for the mainstream desktop. I personally have a hard time picturing my mom installing and maintaining Linux on her home computer."
I have a hard time visualising *any* grandmother
doing an OS installation, of any kind. If linux wants to make head way on the Desktop, it needs to come preinstalled and preconfigured, on new hardware.
Of course with the way the hardware industry is right now, its tough for small-medium distributors to break away from M$.
Use in schools would help as well.. if only the mainstream educational software was there. Sadly that "educational software" seems to be Microsoft Office 9 times out of 10.
At any rate.. my point is simply that Linux won't be "installed" by the untrained masses.. but if its there, if its what you get with the computer, those without prior computer exp. will wade in, and become accustomed.
haha, i had forgotten about those Sun Aliases for thier SBUS cards.
One was 10mbit and the other was 100, I think they were in order of McDonalds Meal Value, but I can't honestly remember.
Psst.. it was a JOKE!
RTFR's
Oh cmon! No one caught this yet?
It *was* across the ocean.. wheres my +1 "Lame, but funny" =)
I'd like to see some /usr/sbin/traceroute output
between the two hops used in the test.
My guess: no more than 2 or 3 hops max.
Now sending a file *across the ocean* at that speed would be quite impressive.
Aha! I got you, you thought I was simply ignorant of foreign exchange rates.. BUT.. in reality.. I was accounting for inflation yearsss into the future.
*ahem*
Yeah, so it was my 2 .
...is easily seen here. Its a perfect example.
We really need to link ICANN more effectively to the
world, maybe each state or province in each country can elect 1 ICANN rep.
Or maybe they should be elected from the owners of each CLASS A worth of network space, or each network, regardless of size, that has a large impact on the internet as a whole (AT&T owns all of 12.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 as far a i know)
Whatever the method, we need a more top-down system for ICANN.
Just my 216 Yen.
For a rousing discussion of what applications
this chip could possibly have. Its being sold as
a CO-processor, but what kind of bus will it be used
on? It would seem that all variants of PCI/SBUS would choke.. we really need more information.
Having been on the scene since the early 90's,
heres a little "music file sharing" Prior Art:
1.) IRC (still the largest non-p2p source; #mp3jukebox, #mp3passion, etc)
2.) FTP (both anon. on public dumps and l/p within the right "group")
3.) WAIS (what you used to search all those Anon. FTP sites, ftpsearch.yahoo.com kind of replaced it for me)
4.) USENET (brazenly open sharing up until the napster case popularized it all, still heavily traded under alt.binaries.*, although encryption has certainly made being part of "the group" a pre-req. for participation)
these are certainly not the only places music was traded "illegally" prior to the glorious birth of napster.
the important point to make here is that the 4 previously mentioned methods were not music-centric. mp3's/wav's were just a fraction of the content, albeit a very desireable fraction.
napster was the first protocol/service specifically designed for just trading music.
which is where the creators crossed the line of service ambiguity. all the other methods have legitimate uses outside of music swapping as well.
i think they already invented that a while ago,
i'm pretty sure it was called 'tar'. =)
Well said.
My OpenSource Knowledge had a large role in my
employment as well. Although, as a Linux Systems Admin., it may be a more obvious connection. =)
Welcome our Cellular Network Enhanced Overlords.
*ahem*
On a serious note, were the results of this study
pusblished in any credible medical journal?
Cell phone *sharpens* the senses? Seems just a little crazy to me.
Thanks for the tip, i'll check with unix systems and see what version we are at.