Why the hell are you waiting for all that? Go find a better operating system. I'm sure there are billions of them much better than anything you could take time out of your busy schedule to derate for having a small and dedicated band of international volunteers. If you want the support, build it. Nobody's going to do your work for you.
Oh, not to spoil your rant, but there is an arm port coming around the time of the 1.4 release. Don't expect to be notified.
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head over to irc.openprojects.net channel #gentoo and ask away. i'm sure it's a very simple fix. and if you could supply more information, we'd all appreciate more of the error (maybe it's in/var/log/XFree86.0.log ?
Moron > Hey! Why can't I control the weather from my brain with gentoo?
Poor linux dev > You have to be able to not use something other than a mouse.
Moron > Wow, so with gentoo on the cd, i have to wait for it to compile a bunch of crap?
Poor linux dev > No.
Moron > So gentoo is made for everyone right? I don't like it! It sucks! It means i have to type stuff! I hate linux!
Poor linux dev > Good for you. Do i care?
Moron > Make my programs more stable, more portable, more secure, faster, and prettier.
Poor linux dev > Hmm, how about you make them yourself? Oh, wait, you can't, you're just a greedy moron demanding things from a guy you're not even paying.
Moron > But... why did you make it if it wasn't for me?
Poor linux dev > I made it for myself and people like me. If you don't like it, go use a Mac.
You can bet gentoo will have ATI support in the next LiveCD release, though, whether the game supports it or not. All this from a guy with no job sick in bed.;)
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it plays off of the cd right after booting it, autodetecting hardware and setting up XFree86. No need to install anything, just play.
so people ask, "Oh, what's the big deal if i can play it in windows?" well with this disk you can play it anywhere in a matter of minutes. it's there to show what Gentoo is like and how it can be used. and like most of what Gentoo does, it's optimized for the newest and best hardware, so there are many people left out in the cold. they'll be supported later as new versions come out, but that's not why it was made. it was made to show linux's potential.
This LiveCD is based off the soon-to-be-released Gentoo Linux 1.4. It's still in testing, so don't expect the cd to be perfect. There are other games released on cds like this though, such as Armagetron, bzflag, and soon to appear, pyDDR. Hopefully gentoo will make some kind of application to automate the building of these things things with other games.
Oh, and with very small modifications you can make a cluster out of these cds. Neato, eh?
in the last day or so i started a new side project: making my own Personal Video Recorder in linux using perl and my tv tuner. It will simply be something for me to do with v4l, but it will have features that are quite tivo-like: skipping commercials using some time synching methods (COMMERCIALS DRIVE ME INSANE), searching for and recording tv shows based on a topic or keyword (an experiment in getting tv listings from free sources on the web), and of course, pausing live content and resuming when one returns.
Why would i construct this? Well, because reinventing the wheel is fun. Yes, in all likelyhood my little perl project will destroy television and motion pictures as we know them and we will no longer be able to have media streamed to our homes in bite-sized portions. And i don't care. My personal opinions about media and television as a whole indicate that i might make this project to get back at the television, but it's just not true. I'm just a bored programmer that hates 95% of all commercials.
If there was a way for television to make money at the expense of my entertainment, it had better not annoy me at the same time, that's for damn sure. I think the old program Max Headroom had the best idea of the future with Network 23's Blipverts (was it 23?). Deadly, but what do the executives care?
Everyone! Everyone that goes to a lan party is a winner, because in the end everyone has fun. If you suck at the games and die repeatedly, at least you can talk to people that are just like you. Lan parties are about the only thing that keeps me sane, the only thing that lets me know that other people are actually into this kind of shit. If i had to give a piece of advice to any budding geek, it would be to find a lan party (the less "trendy" the games played/the smaller frequency of them being repeats, the better) and just go and have fun. I bet you $40 that if you and your friends start going, teenage girls will start showing up too. Just make sure and invite them. This applies of course to teenagers in school.
Mandatory plugs: http://www.slagg.org/ - LAN Party in Sarasota, Florida. People from all over the area, from north tampa to south of sarasota somewhere, come to play at this great 60+ LAN. The atmosphere is awesome, the people are great, the games are plentiful, and the administrator is a cool old-school geek with a long ass beard! http://www.flux.org/ - Florida Linux Users Xchange. Having a lan party on September 21st in south florida. If they get enough people, we could organize really big ones! Oh, and here's the catch: LINUX IS ACTUALLY RECCOMENDED! http://fl2600.cjb.net/ - Doing a sort of joint lan party with FLUX, this 2600 meeting at the Broward Mall in Broward County, Florida supports gaming as a very productive means of hacking. Imean, having fun. But what's the difference, really?:D btw, they also recognize that 2600 magazine's recent issues blow chunks.
well, i *think* we could still fix at least part of this problem without breaking apps, but microsoft would have to implement it.
the main problem i see is the timer. any window can send one to any other window arbitrarily, and that should be limited. firstly, code could be added to windows to simply not send timer messages across different users/desktops/groups/etc (ala windows xp) unless it was the administrator account doing the sending.
another means to this would be that across different users/desktops/groups/etc, the second parameter (address of timer callback function) could not be set; i suppose this would mean that the timer could not be interacted with using a secondary function (breaking any kind of error checking or whatever it's purpose actually is) but it wouldn't allow the jumping to different points in memory and would still allow the somewhat limited use of WM_TIMER across different users/groups/whatever. this would probably have very bad effects for today's standard windows programs.
yet another unrealistic yet appropriate long-term idea would be for windows to loosely keep track of what memory a window/process/thread had access to. windows doesn't have to *manage* it per-se, but if it kept up with where in memory a program was allowed to go it could limit messages by the basic range and scope of its access.
by the way, does anyone have any resources where i could learn more about this kind of in-depth windows coding? i've been focused on linux for a while now and learning more about this could be very insightful.
i never did get why a divx player wasnt ported from any other linux project. i don't know much about the Zaurus, but it should be able to handle a standard X app, shouldn't it? If not, it uses java, right? Wouldn't it be technically possible to write a divx player in java? Either way, we shouldn't be charging for this shit. Just look to DCDivX for an example of an embedded dreamcast player.
i apologise, it appears i was incorrect. originally the dreamcast was supposed to be water-cooled, but i guess i never checked it when i got it to make sure. still, i really really really hate the GD-ROM. anyone wanna mod a normal fast cdrom drive in there, or even *shudder* a dvd-rom drive?
dreamcasts are commonly $50 in retail stores. the broadband adapters, though, go for over $100, and i got mine off of lik-sang.com for about $120. and the dreamcast doesn't have fans; it's water cooled, actually. that horrid whirr from the dreamcast is actually the shitty GD-ROM trying to access the cd. it's supposed to be something like 12x or 24x, but due to the fact that it has to work harder to read the proprietary GD-ROM format (more data in same space) plus it's just a crap cdrom drive hacked to read/write/whatever at half the rotation speed, it just gets loud as fuck. but as long as you arent accessing the cd it's pretty damn quiet.
would be to take any one of the many fine open-source custom dreamcast games and tools and patch it to use this intrusion tool; when someone loads up the vcd player, or the snes emulator, or tries to play quake online (i forget if it includes network support but any other game requiring broadband will do), they'll actually be helping it do its job. Of course, this assumes they plug in the broadband adapter.
Side note: i'm thinking of porting a linux distribution to dreamcast, and Gentoo looks to be the easiest (installer can be easily modified to compile its bootstrapper for sh4 architecture). Anyone think a specific distro could go to dreamcast easily? Is anyone else working on this?
and definetly one of the funniest. The more i watch it the less funny it is, but it still holds a place near to my heart. Even today, the Swingline symbolizes the oppression and greed large entities can have upon smaller ones. Then again, it could also symbolize how simple pleasures can keep us from burning down large office buildings. And also that you'll be treated like shit wherever you are. Even in mexico with lots of money.
Ok then. DoS all the P2P networks you like. If you get to DoS p2p networks because it has a file you dislike, i want to be able to legally DoS certain government organizations on the interweb if i don't agree with their policy and/or they do me wrong in some way, like taking away my civil rights.
How do you deal with hackers? I would ask if anyone has ever hacked you, but the answer is pretty obvious. Do you sick the feds on them? Do you deal with them in your own "internet"-style revenge? Do you care at all?
if the consumer owns the packaging/media, why can't we control what kind of packaging/media we get? and uh, are you so sure that royalty goes to the songwriter? even if that happens 90% of the time, what does tha artist get? i don't know if you're aware but songs don't sell, music and shiny things sell. so when the pop icon who buys songs from 11 year olds sells a gazillion records, the 11 year old gets the royalty? fat chance. most likely they'll claim she's underage in order to keep it for themselves. the recording industry is not just an industry. it's a mafia of wealthy assholes who think they can cheat us out of not only our music but our way of life (that being our cyber life). i swear to the holy being that brings pain to the world, if any group tries to attack my liberty to use my computer, i will answer back 100 fold in a way no walking money stick could ever imagine. oops i got all doomy on ya. just forget that part about seeking revenge against evil.
Two quotes from the article: " It also follows criticism from some members of Congress and from Dutch consumer electronics maker Philips, co-creator of the compact disc, that the anti-piracy CDs are technically flawed and could impinge on consumers' rights to copy music for their own use. "
""Music creators have the right to protect their property from theft, just like owners of any other property," Sherman said. "Motion picture studios and software and video game publishers have protected their works for years, and no one has even (thought) to claim that doing so was inappropriate, let alone unlawful.""
It's no longer the musicians property if they SELL IT TO US YOU DUMB BASTARDS! Plus if we as consumers have the right to copy music for our own use, the record companies should find a different way to stop the piracy which allegedly makes their lives so tough. My advice? Stop treating your musicians like pawns or they'll turn on you and play gigs for FREE. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THAT YOU KENNY G PLAYIN MOTHER FUCKERS?
AllTheWeb has had a larger index for a long time now. They started small and just kept indexing and collectiong pages, and they don't throw away search results based on words like "the" and other common thingies. I used to use them back in the day, and keep going back every so often. Their FTP search seems to have degenerated into a few public FTPs so i kinda stopped going back. See, to me google is good for searching for certain kinds of searches like "youll-never-find-what-you-want-in-all-the-fake-re sults" , and AllTheWeb is good for things like "youll-find-more-links-that-arent-content-or-media -censored". I'm not saying Google limits your searching... But have you ever wondered what pages it doesn't let you see?
tell them it is lost/needs to be recovered, get it back, save the day. it's not the sysadmin's fault the data was lost but it is the sysadmin's responsibility to take the blame for anything that goes wrong. or so my employers tell me.
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Why the hell are you waiting for all that? Go find a better operating system. I'm sure there are billions of them much better than anything you could take time out of your busy schedule to derate for having a small and dedicated band of international volunteers. If you want the support, build it. Nobody's going to do your work for you.
Oh, not to spoil your rant, but there is an arm port coming around the time of the 1.4 release. Don't expect to be notified.
head over to irc.openprojects.net channel #gentoo and ask away. i'm sure it's a very simple fix. and if you could supply more information, we'd all appreciate more of the error (maybe it's in /var/log/XFree86.0.log ?
What's a market share? :D
For those of you who want to make money off of linux: you're not getting any help from me.
Moron > Hey! Why can't I control the weather from my brain with gentoo?
Poor linux dev > You have to be able to not use something other than a mouse.
Moron > Wow, so with gentoo on the cd, i have to wait for it to compile a bunch of crap?
Poor linux dev > No.
Moron > So gentoo is made for everyone right? I don't like it! It sucks! It means i have to type stuff! I hate linux!
Poor linux dev > Good for you. Do i care?
Moron > Make my programs more stable, more portable, more secure, faster, and prettier.
Poor linux dev > Hmm, how about you make them yourself? Oh, wait, you can't, you're just a greedy moron demanding things from a guy you're not even paying.
Moron > But... why did you make it if it wasn't for me?
Poor linux dev > I made it for myself and people like me. If you don't like it, go use a Mac.
You can bet gentoo will have ATI support in the next LiveCD release, though, whether the game supports it or not. All this from a guy with no job sick in bed. ;)
it plays off of the cd right after booting it, autodetecting hardware and setting up XFree86. No need to install anything, just play.
so people ask, "Oh, what's the big deal if i can play it in windows?" well with this disk you can play it anywhere in a matter of minutes. it's there to show what Gentoo is like and how it can be used. and like most of what Gentoo does, it's optimized for the newest and best hardware, so there are many people left out in the cold. they'll be supported later as new versions come out, but that's not why it was made. it was made to show linux's potential.
This LiveCD is based off the soon-to-be-released Gentoo Linux 1.4. It's still in testing, so don't expect the cd to be perfect. There are other games released on cds like this though, such as Armagetron, bzflag, and soon to appear, pyDDR. Hopefully gentoo will make some kind of application to automate the building of these things things with other games.
Oh, and with very small modifications you can make a cluster out of these cds. Neato, eh?
in the last day or so i started a new side project: making my own Personal Video Recorder in linux using perl and my tv tuner. It will simply be something for me to do with v4l, but it will have features that are quite tivo-like: skipping commercials using some time synching methods (COMMERCIALS DRIVE ME INSANE), searching for and recording tv shows based on a topic or keyword (an experiment in getting tv listings from free sources on the web), and of course, pausing live content and resuming when one returns.
Why would i construct this? Well, because reinventing the wheel is fun. Yes, in all likelyhood my little perl project will destroy television and motion pictures as we know them and we will no longer be able to have media streamed to our homes in bite-sized portions. And i don't care. My personal opinions about media and television as a whole indicate that i might make this project to get back at the television, but it's just not true. I'm just a bored programmer that hates 95% of all commercials.
If there was a way for television to make money at the expense of my entertainment, it had better not annoy me at the same time, that's for damn sure. I think the old program Max Headroom had the best idea of the future with Network 23's Blipverts (was it 23?). Deadly, but what do the executives care?
who's gonna be the first admin to block www.riaa.com ?
Everyone! Everyone that goes to a lan party is a winner, because in the end everyone has fun. If you suck at the games and die repeatedly, at least you can talk to people that are just like you. Lan parties are about the only thing that keeps me sane, the only thing that lets me know that other people are actually into this kind of shit. If i had to give a piece of advice to any budding geek, it would be to find a lan party (the less "trendy" the games played/the smaller frequency of them being repeats, the better) and just go and have fun. I bet you $40 that if you and your friends start going, teenage girls will start showing up too. Just make sure and invite them. This applies of course to teenagers in school.
:D btw, they also recognize that 2600 magazine's recent issues blow chunks.
Mandatory plugs:
http://www.slagg.org/ - LAN Party in Sarasota, Florida. People from all over the area, from north tampa to south of sarasota somewhere, come to play at this great 60+ LAN. The atmosphere is awesome, the people are great, the games are plentiful, and the administrator is a cool old-school geek with a long ass beard!
http://www.flux.org/ - Florida Linux Users Xchange. Having a lan party on September 21st in south florida. If they get enough people, we could organize really big ones! Oh, and here's the catch: LINUX IS ACTUALLY RECCOMENDED!
http://fl2600.cjb.net/ - Doing a sort of joint lan party with FLUX, this 2600 meeting at the Broward Mall in Broward County, Florida supports gaming as a very productive means of hacking. Imean, having fun. But what's the difference, really?
well, i *think* we could still fix at least part of this problem without breaking apps, but microsoft would have to implement it.
the main problem i see is the timer. any window can send one to any other window arbitrarily, and that should be limited. firstly, code could be added to windows to simply not send timer messages across different users/desktops/groups/etc (ala windows xp) unless it was the administrator account doing the sending.
another means to this would be that across different users/desktops/groups/etc, the second parameter (address of timer callback function) could not be set; i suppose this would mean that the timer could not be interacted with using a secondary function (breaking any kind of error checking or whatever it's purpose actually is) but it wouldn't allow the jumping to different points in memory and would still allow the somewhat limited use of WM_TIMER across different users/groups/whatever. this would probably have very bad effects for today's standard windows programs.
yet another unrealistic yet appropriate long-term idea would be for windows to loosely keep track of what memory a window/process/thread had access to. windows doesn't have to *manage* it per-se, but if it kept up with where in memory a program was allowed to go it could limit messages by the basic range and scope of its access.
by the way, does anyone have any resources where i could learn more about this kind of in-depth windows coding? i've been focused on linux for a while now and learning more about this could be very insightful.
Agh. DivX player, not dreamcast. DCDivX = divx player for dreamcast. that coupled with the dreamcast story recently got me confused. plus i'm a moron.
i never did get why a divx player wasnt ported from any other linux project. i don't know much about the Zaurus, but it should be able to handle a standard X app, shouldn't it? If not, it uses java, right? Wouldn't it be technically possible to write a divx player in java? Either way, we shouldn't be charging for this shit. Just look to DCDivX for an example of an embedded dreamcast player.
i apologise, it appears i was incorrect. originally the dreamcast was supposed to be water-cooled, but i guess i never checked it when i got it to make sure. still, i really really really hate the GD-ROM. anyone wanna mod a normal fast cdrom drive in there, or even *shudder* a dvd-rom drive?
dreamcasts are commonly $50 in retail stores. the broadband adapters, though, go for over $100, and i got mine off of lik-sang.com for about $120. and the dreamcast doesn't have fans; it's water cooled, actually. that horrid whirr from the dreamcast is actually the shitty GD-ROM trying to access the cd. it's supposed to be something like 12x or 24x, but due to the fact that it has to work harder to read the proprietary GD-ROM format (more data in same space) plus it's just a crap cdrom drive hacked to read/write/whatever at half the rotation speed, it just gets loud as fuck. but as long as you arent accessing the cd it's pretty damn quiet.
would be to take any one of the many fine open-source custom dreamcast games and tools and patch it to use this intrusion tool; when someone loads up the vcd player, or the snes emulator, or tries to play quake online (i forget if it includes network support but any other game requiring broadband will do), they'll actually be helping it do its job. Of course, this assumes they plug in the broadband adapter.
Side note: i'm thinking of porting a linux distribution to dreamcast, and Gentoo looks to be the easiest (installer can be easily modified to compile its bootstrapper for sh4 architecture). Anyone think a specific distro could go to dreamcast easily? Is anyone else working on this?
and definetly one of the funniest. The more i watch it the less funny it is, but it still holds a place near to my heart. Even today, the Swingline symbolizes the oppression and greed large entities can have upon smaller ones. Then again, it could also symbolize how simple pleasures can keep us from burning down large office buildings. And also that you'll be treated like shit wherever you are. Even in mexico with lots of money.
Ok then. DoS all the P2P networks you like. If you get to DoS p2p networks because it has a file you dislike, i want to be able to legally DoS certain government organizations on the interweb if i don't agree with their policy and/or they do me wrong in some way, like taking away my civil rights.
Now my friends will be complaining even more that i still haven't tried Tribes 2. What's so cool about it that the 30,000 other FPS' dont have?
How do you deal with hackers? I would ask if anyone has ever hacked you, but the answer is pretty obvious. Do you sick the feds on them? Do you deal with them in your own "internet"-style revenge? Do you care at all?
if the consumer owns the packaging/media, why can't we control what kind of packaging/media we get? and uh, are you so sure that royalty goes to the songwriter? even if that happens 90% of the time, what does tha artist get? i don't know if you're aware but songs don't sell, music and shiny things sell. so when the pop icon who buys songs from 11 year olds sells a gazillion records, the 11 year old gets the royalty? fat chance. most likely they'll claim she's underage in order to keep it for themselves. the recording industry is not just an industry. it's a mafia of wealthy assholes who think they can cheat us out of not only our music but our way of life (that being our cyber life). i swear to the holy being that brings pain to the world, if any group tries to attack my liberty to use my computer, i will answer back 100 fold in a way no walking money stick could ever imagine. oops i got all doomy on ya. just forget that part about seeking revenge against evil.
Two quotes from the article:
" It also follows criticism from some members of Congress and from Dutch consumer electronics maker Philips, co-creator of the compact disc, that the anti-piracy CDs are technically flawed and could impinge on consumers' rights to copy music for their own use. "
""Music creators have the right to protect their property from theft, just like owners of any other property," Sherman said. "Motion picture studios and software and video game publishers have protected their works for years, and no one has even (thought) to claim that doing so was inappropriate, let alone unlawful.""
It's no longer the musicians property if they SELL IT TO US YOU DUMB BASTARDS! Plus if we as consumers have the right to copy music for our own use, the record companies should find a different way to stop the piracy which allegedly makes their lives so tough. My advice? Stop treating your musicians like pawns or they'll turn on you and play gigs for FREE. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THAT YOU KENNY G PLAYIN MOTHER FUCKERS?
AllTheWeb has had a larger index for a long time now. They started small and just kept indexing and collectiong pages, and they don't throw away search results based on words like "the" and other common thingies. I used to use them back in the day, and keep going back every so often. Their FTP search seems to have degenerated into a few public FTPs so i kinda stopped going back. See, to me google is good for searching for certain kinds of searches like "youll-never-find-what-you-want-in-all-the-fake-re sults" , and AllTheWeb is good for things like "youll-find-more-links-that-arent-content-or-media -censored". I'm not saying Google limits your searching... But have you ever wondered what pages it doesn't let you see?
tell them it is lost/needs to be recovered, get it back, save the day. it's not the sysadmin's fault the data was lost but it is the sysadmin's responsibility to take the blame for anything that goes wrong. or so my employers tell me.
what? go blind? please elaborate before my brain explodes from caring too much about your sillyness.