Mark my words, 2005 will be the year of HURD on the desktop. I am going to start a project to rename every friggin FOSS project there is to gain popularity. I happen to know a little about publicity and advertising, and I can tell you right off the bat that products like the gimp, hurd, lame, gnu, etc etc will never gain widespread acceptance until they have a more marketable name. Case in point: Mozilla --> Firefox.
Hurd will now be known as (dropping all of the stupid recursive abbreviation crap that RMS is so fond of) FUTURINO OPERATING SYSTEM.
It's really fun to see Live CDs really catching on.
On a sad note, I helped one of our desktop support guys yesterday with regular ole Knoppix. He was trying to get at someones data on a non booting xp system. Booted up, started samba server, went to said support guys PC and showed him how to connect. His first question was "what is a Live CD?". He was happy to have one more bullet in his clip though.
Im excited to try Cube, couldn't get it running on my G4 even after installing all of the SDL crap.
Instead of me having to fork over money for a game that you see as the nail in lucas arts adventure game coffin, why not just tell us why ? I looked at the website, and it looks really fucking cool to me. gameplay may be a different issue though.
grim fandango site.
When I was in high school I worked at a grocery store, and there was a blind man that came in regularly to shop. I would walk him around the store and tell him the things that I saw, the sizes, etc. When he bought canned goods, he would make notches in the paper label so he knew what it was.
When he had to pay, he had different denominations of bills folded differently in his wallet, presumably done at the bank or by a trusted helper.
There are lots of little systems like this that are a part a blind persons life, to deal with the things that sighted people take for granted.
Here's the rub, there is no best OS on the planet you phewls. There is a best OS for a certain use, and that is still subjective. Do u need a RTOS? OS X may not be the best choice for that. Do you need security ? Maybe windows isn't for you. Do you want a pretty operating system that yyou won't have to mess with ? try OS X. Do you want to do it yourself and explore cutting edge open source software? Linux is the great for that....
I know why. Mac people are rabidly pro mac to the point of wierdness. Case in point the studio manager at the company that I work for. He won't even let a non-mac RIP into the room for his plotters, so now he is doomed because this rip software he uses for the plotters _still_ only runs on os9 machines. This means right now he is stuck on old hardware, which means slower RIPs. We could have been using an EFI Fiery, that runs on custom wintel boxes, and it would run circles around what he is stuck with. The funny part is that he is operating this mac only enclave in a Novell 5.5 environment that has almost hostile file services for the mac, and no print services. He has a ghetto file server in the corner with some of those big LaCie's attached since the company servers are so sketchy (AFP over Appletalk via Prosoft). Viva beauracracy. Even the host for his ftp site is one of those mac rack places. (written on a PowerMac G4)
but can you punch out the write protect with a hole puncher and use the back of it even though it SAYS single sided, and use extra tracks and sectors that weren't ever meant to be used ? I know all the tricks, baby ! Don't make me get all Locksmith 5.1 on your azz.
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(Hi-Res<>Hijackers/The 202 Alliance/WareBusters!)
THE PIPELINE..BBS/CATFUR 300/1200
OVER 10MEGZ <718> PRI-VATE
It was immensely helpful in administering the SGI box at my last job, we ran fullpress and all of the easy admin tools were part of the 'toolchest' or whatever they call it in IRIX, x-windows based of course. I was able to run the x-app on my local machine finally, previously had to use the PC.
anon coward 1: RTFriendlyArticle. For memory protection they've done the same thing as Apple did and what PalmSource will soon have to do. And they always had true multitasking.
anon coward 2: And what is that?
RTFA: a virtual machine a la classic mode for legacy apps, mmkay.
From tfa: Hyperion realized that with the current state of the Amiga applications market, asking developers to write for a completely new operating system was unrealistic. After all, if you are going to do that, you might as well write for the Windows market and have your old users run old Amiga applications in an 68k Amiga emulator such as the excellent WinUAE. Instead, Hyperion decided to rewrite the old Exec kernel from AmigaOS 3.1 in PPC code, supporting virtual memory and memory protection, but leave the memory protection features turned off by default. This allows application developers to easily port their old 68k Amiga apps to PPC and 4.0 native code, often with a single recompile. The current plan is to introduce memory protection for OS4 apps in version 4.1. However, the kernel can watch for illegal memory accesses and when it finds them, it displays a "Grim Reaper" dialog that allows the user to kill the offending application.
Legacy Amiga applications, such as games, that were written to access the old custom chipset hardware directly, will not run in OS4.0. However, a port of WinUAE for OS4, called E-UAE, has been produced that will allow these games to be run as well. So-called "system friendly" legacy Amiga applications, the kind that were able to use PC-based graphics cards, run directly from the OS4 shell. The operating system launches a 68020 emulator seamlessly in the background when the application's icon is double-clicked. In this release of the OS, the emulator is interpretive only, and provides the speed of about a 50MHz 68040 on the 800Mhz AmigaOne hardware.
you had to link to bash, where I immediately wasted 1/2 hr. found this tho:
(@Legion) Dudes (@Legion) I just thought of something amazing (@Legion) What if Bilbo (from The Hobbit) had the middle name Terrence? (@Legion) He would be Bilbo T. Baggins (@Legion) =D
funny you should mention that, as it has saved my ass many a time in nethack ! check out the prayer spoiler for a glimpse at the complexities of prayer in nethack
If by equivalent, you mean highly derivative, unoriginal and needing faster video cards than the last iteration, then yes.
That said, I still like fragging my office buddies on _any_ FPS.
Ontopic, I quit playing those games because they got too twitchy and gave me motion sickness. I found bzflag's slower movement and focus on gameplay to be just what I needed. I have also enjoyed the great community and well moderated servers. Since I am an 'old school' gamer I enjoy playing with a mature crowd. I always loved the slightly abstact games like tempest, qix, discs of tron, food fight, etc., so to me a tank game set in an arena with geometric shapes, and driving tanks that can jump = wierd fun, right up my alley. Learning the controls and quirks of gameplay takes a few solid weeks of dedication, cutting down on the noob factor, which can be good and bad. Less casual idiots, but also less new players period.
Keep thinking that as Oracle slowly steamrolls the world with their borglike tactics. These guys are oozing money, c'mon, Ellison sponsors a friggin racing yacht, or whatever the hell you call those things.
In the world of America's Cup racing, money counts. As such Oracle Racing, with their hefty $90 million budget, nearly three times that of GBR Challenge, seem a good bet. But success rides on a question that's on everyone's lips: will Larry Ellison become the most high-profile owner/driver in world sailing? The debate about the rights and wrongs of a wealthy team owner taking control of a grand prix America's Cup team rages on with valid arguments on both sides.
nah, the EMP power-up is hidden on the top of the level, behind the bell tower. you just need to worry if they have double damage and lightning gun. Bzzzzt.
This type of anecdotal evidence kills me. I am a administrator at a fairly large site, and have had 2 G5's that were bad right out of the box. One had a fuxed video card that left all kinds of wierd artifacts on the screen, and the other had either bad memory or logic board and crashed at random, and would just shut down completely at random (usually while doing a firewire file xfer.) On the other hand, I have a Blue and White that sits quietly in the corner with no monitor and serves files without rebooting for months at a time. Matter of fact it requires no attention at all, cept when I feel like doing updates.
This is 2 out of an order of twenty, that is a whopping 10% failure rate. Compare this to the hundreds of PC's we deployed last year as part of our XP rollout, we had NO problems out of the box. There were a rash of Maxtor drive failures later on in the Dells however, but I also have a stack of Maxtors from G4's that failed right outside of the warranty period.
What does this tell us? nothing. They could have been fine when they left the factory, but a bolt of lightning may have hit the container they were shipped in for all we know, or someone dropped their electric eel, or whatever.....
Here's my anecdote to add to the pile: On the other hand, I have a Blue and White that sits quietly in the corner with no monitor and serves files without rebooting for months at a time. Matter of fact it requires no attention at all, cept when I feel like doing updates.
Here's the one i'm trying to see. the snapshot works, but not the live feed: Grote Markt (Market square), one of the most beautiful squares in the Netherlands... http://mozart.amadeus-hotel.com:82 /view/index.shtm l
So, What freakin plug-in do I need to make this work with safari? I have some voyeurism to attend to. Ok Ok I'll download mozilla, but DON'T tell me to use explorer, please. It is officially in atrocity status on macs, due to microsoft's abandonment of it.
Listen, I am getting tired of this joke, sure, lots of you are socially inept nerds, but I do have a wife, and I know for a fact that she is outside showing the gardener something or other in the back yard. Let me pull up my surveillance cam, see, there she is showing the gardener the. um . WTF ?!
I don't want my daughter (3 1/2) to come near a computer until she is well into her teenage years. Then, she can learn about computers on some sort of Unix variant. Until then, I want her to be a child and play, read, color, run, jump, etc.
I understand where you are coming from, but most of us cut our teeth on computers around 3rd grade. My friends and I could write basic programs, and operate the TRS-80 better than our folks. For me the computer turned out to be the only thing that made me any money, all thanks to my engineer dad who was excited about the first personal computers and found a way to buy a Trash-80. I wasn't athletic, didnt sing or dance, hated drawing and painting, but loved to sit for hours fiddling with that piece of junk. My friends were into computers too and when we weren't doing kid stuff outside it was a great wholesome way to pass the time. It certainly is better than getting a playstation or xbox for your young impressionable kids.
A more sensible approach would be to expose her to it and see if she shows an interest or apptitude for programming or computers, then nurture that if it appears. One of the most adept network admins that I know grew up in a hacker/unix family and was exposed very early to some pretty advanced stuff. If she likes dancing and acrobatics or riding her bike better, then nurture that instead. Besides, by the time a girl is a teenager she won't be the least bit interested in 'unix variants', more like Corey variants and make-up shade variants.
hahaha. Ever since being forced to learn vi, I wonder how any non nerd could ever hope to use it. I was lucky to have 50 of berkeley's finest nerds around to ask questions to (how do I do a global search and replace, how do I form regular expressions, etc). For everyone else, working at non tech companies it was a struggle going from WP to Office in the mid 90's. Even now most people's knowledge of word is pretty rudimentary. I attempted to learn GNU Emacs in the 90's and found that it was colliding with my vi knowledge and soon I would be able to use neither. Emacs seemed even more convoluted than vi was (vi made a wierd sort of sense to me, i could easily remember dl, dw, dd and other such commands since they stood for something.
I forced myself to learn vi so I could edit my usenet kill files. At one point I had a 600 line kill file for rec.music.misc. Ahh the joy of instantly killing depeche mode discographies and spandau ballet discussions was intoxicating. I think I got more joy watching my kill file at work than reading what was left.
I see this on bzflag servers all the time, seems like when someone finally gets the 3d working right on linux they fire up good old bzflag to test it out. I constantly see comments like, "i finally got 3d acceleration working !" Seems you are not alone.
Yes it does, DVD is a release format, a finished product, not to be reencoded or reedited. If you wanted to release video in a format different than DVD, you would go back a step to the master (an uncompressed digital video format of one kind or another). So, the way to get a better svcd or xvid would be to encode from the original rather than reencode a compressed format, so we kind of are barking up the same tree once all is clarified.
Any encoder with a modicum of talent will divert more of the available bitrate to high-action scenes.
Apparently these encoders are not part of the 'scene' because I am generally disappointed with the blocking and other crappy looking stuff that occurs whenever everything isn't perfectly still. I think my digital cable sucks too though, the key in basketball has the jaggies on the top rounded part, and stuff blocks up on regular shows as well. I may just be impossible to please.
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Mark my words, 2005 will be the year of HURD on the desktop.
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I am going to start a project to rename every friggin FOSS project there is to gain popularity. I happen to know a little about publicity and advertising, and I can tell you right off the bat that products like the gimp, hurd, lame, gnu, etc etc will never gain widespread acceptance until they have a more marketable name. Case in point: Mozilla --> Firefox.
Hurd will now be known as (dropping all of the stupid recursive abbreviation crap that RMS is so fond of) FUTURINO OPERATING SYSTEM
The Gimp will now be called PHOTOFRIEND.
Lame is hereby dubbed - MUSICSHRINK 5000.
Gnu/Emacs shall become - WORD-O-LATOR FREE
and so on...
It's really fun to see Live CDs really catching on.
On a sad note, I helped one of our desktop support guys yesterday with regular ole Knoppix. He was trying to get at someones data on a non booting xp system. Booted up, started samba server, went to said support guys PC and showed him how to connect. His first question was "what is a Live CD?". He was happy to have one more bullet in his clip though.
Im excited to try Cube, couldn't get it running on my G4 even after installing all of the SDL crap.
Instead of me having to fork over money for a game that you see as the nail in lucas arts adventure game coffin, why not just tell us why ? I looked at the website, and it looks really fucking cool to me. gameplay may be a different issue though. grim fandango site.
When I was in high school I worked at a grocery store, and there was a blind man that came in regularly to shop. I would walk him around the store and tell him the things that I saw, the sizes, etc. When he bought canned goods, he would make notches in the paper label so he knew what it was.
When he had to pay, he had different denominations of bills folded differently in his wallet, presumably done at the bank or by a trusted helper.
There are lots of little systems like this that are a part a blind persons life, to deal with the things that sighted people take for granted.
Here's the rub, ....
there is no best OS on the planet you phewls. There is a best OS for a certain use, and that is still subjective. Do u need a RTOS? OS X may not be the best choice for that. Do you need security ? Maybe windows isn't for you. Do you want a pretty operating system that yyou won't have to mess with ? try OS X. Do you want to do it yourself and explore cutting edge open source software? Linux is the great for that
I know why. Mac people are rabidly pro mac to the point of wierdness. Case in point the studio manager at the company that I work for. He won't even let a non-mac RIP into the room for his plotters, so now he is doomed because this rip software he uses for the plotters _still_ only runs on os9 machines. This means right now he is stuck on old hardware, which means slower RIPs. We could have been using an EFI Fiery, that runs on custom wintel boxes, and it would run circles around what he is stuck with. The funny part is that he is operating this mac only enclave in a Novell 5.5 environment that has almost hostile file services for the mac, and no print services. He has a ghetto file server in the corner with some of those big LaCie's attached since the company servers are so sketchy (AFP over Appletalk via Prosoft). Viva beauracracy. Even the host for his ftp site is one of those mac rack places.
(written on a PowerMac G4)
but can you punch out the write protect with a hole puncher and use the back of it even though it SAYS single sided, and use extra tracks and sectors that weren't ever meant to be used ?
//
I know all the tricks, baby ! Don't make me get all Locksmith 5.1 on your azz.
Uploaded By: RAMPANT CRIMINAL
Expanding your Apple Cat
By:
((%>> The Ware-Wolf <<%))
(Hi-Res<>Hijackers/The 202 Alliance/WareBusters!)
THE PIPELINE..BBS/CATFUR 300/1200
OVER 10MEGZ <718> PRI-VATE
It was immensely helpful in administering the SGI box at my last job, we ran fullpress and all of the easy admin tools were part of the 'toolchest' or whatever they call it in IRIX, x-windows based of course. I was able to run the x-app on my local machine finally, previously had to use the PC.
they should make it go to 11, naturally.
anon coward 1:
RTFriendlyArticle. For memory protection they've done the same thing as Apple did and what PalmSource will soon have to do. And they always had true multitasking.
anon coward 2:
And what is that?
RTFA: a virtual machine a la classic mode for legacy apps, mmkay.
From tfa:
Hyperion realized that with the current state of the Amiga applications market, asking developers to write for a completely new operating system was unrealistic. After all, if you are going to do that, you might as well write for the Windows market and have your old users run old Amiga applications in an 68k Amiga emulator such as the excellent WinUAE. Instead, Hyperion decided to rewrite the old Exec kernel from AmigaOS 3.1 in PPC code, supporting virtual memory and memory protection, but leave the memory protection features turned off by default. This allows application developers to easily port their old 68k Amiga apps to PPC and 4.0 native code, often with a single recompile. The current plan is to introduce memory protection for OS4 apps in version 4.1. However, the kernel can watch for illegal memory accesses and when it finds them, it displays a "Grim Reaper" dialog that allows the user to kill the offending application.
Legacy Amiga applications, such as games, that were written to access the old custom chipset hardware directly, will not run in OS4.0. However, a port of WinUAE for OS4, called E-UAE, has been produced that will allow these games to be run as well. So-called "system friendly" legacy Amiga applications, the kind that were able to use PC-based graphics cards, run directly from the OS4 shell. The operating system launches a 68020 emulator seamlessly in the background when the application's icon is double-clicked. In this release of the OS, the emulator is interpretive only, and provides the speed of about a 50MHz 68040 on the 800Mhz AmigaOne hardware.
you had to link to bash, where I immediately wasted 1/2 hr. found this tho:
(@Legion) Dudes
(@Legion) I just thought of something amazing
(@Legion) What if Bilbo (from The Hobbit) had the middle name Terrence?
(@Legion) He would be Bilbo T. Baggins
(@Legion) =D
funny you should mention that, as it has saved my ass many a time in nethack ! check out the prayer spoiler for a glimpse at the complexities of prayer in nethack
If by equivalent, you mean highly derivative, unoriginal and needing faster video cards than the last iteration, then yes.
That said, I still like fragging my office buddies on _any_ FPS.
Ontopic, I quit playing those games because they got too twitchy and gave me motion sickness. I found bzflag's slower movement and focus on gameplay to be just what I needed. I have also enjoyed the great community and well moderated servers. Since I am an 'old school' gamer I enjoy playing with a mature crowd. I always loved the slightly abstact games like tempest, qix, discs of tron, food fight, etc., so to me a tank game set in an arena with geometric shapes, and driving tanks that can jump = wierd fun, right up my alley. Learning the controls and quirks of gameplay takes a few solid weeks of dedication, cutting down on the noob factor, which can be good and bad. Less casual idiots, but also less new players period.
Keep thinking that as Oracle slowly steamrolls the world with their borglike tactics. These guys are oozing money, c'mon, Ellison sponsors a friggin racing yacht, or whatever the hell you call those things.
In the world of America's Cup racing, money counts. As such Oracle Racing, with their hefty $90 million budget, nearly three times that of GBR Challenge, seem a good bet. But success rides on a question that's on everyone's lips: will Larry Ellison become the most high-profile owner/driver in world sailing? The debate about the rights and wrongs of a wealthy team owner taking control of a grand prix America's Cup team rages on with valid arguments on both sides.
from here
nah, the EMP power-up is hidden on the top of the level, behind the bell tower. you just need to worry if they have double damage and lightning gun. Bzzzzt.
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djdavetrouble is on a killing spree !
This type of anecdotal evidence kills me. I am a administrator at a fairly large site, and have had 2 G5's that were bad right out of the box. One had a fuxed video card that left all kinds of wierd artifacts on the screen, and the other had either bad memory or logic board and crashed at random, and would just shut down completely at random (usually while doing a firewire file xfer.) On the other hand, I have a Blue and White that sits quietly in the corner with no monitor and serves files without rebooting for months at a time. Matter of fact it requires no attention at all, cept when I feel like doing updates.
This is 2 out of an order of twenty, that is a whopping 10% failure rate. Compare this to the hundreds of PC's we deployed last year as part of our XP rollout, we had NO problems out of the box. There were a rash of Maxtor drive failures later on in the Dells however, but I also have a stack of Maxtors from G4's that failed right outside of the warranty period.
What does this tell us? nothing. They could have been fine when they left the factory, but a bolt of lightning may have hit the container they were shipped in for all we know, or someone dropped their electric eel, or whatever.....
Here's my anecdote to add to the pile: On the other hand, I have a Blue and White that sits quietly in the corner with no monitor and serves files without rebooting for months at a time. Matter of fact it requires no attention at all, cept when I feel like doing updates.
no, its a futurama quote. Bender steals leela's ring, and glosses it over with that comment.
Here's the one i'm trying to see. the snapshot works, but not the live feed :2 /view/index.shtm l
Grote Markt (Market square), one of the most beautiful squares in the Netherlands...
http://mozart.amadeus-hotel.com:8
So,
What freakin plug-in do I need to make this work with safari? I have some voyeurism to attend to. Ok Ok I'll download mozilla, but DON'T tell me to use explorer, please. It is officially in atrocity status on macs, due to microsoft's abandonment of it.
Listen, I am getting tired of this joke, sure, lots of you are socially inept nerds, but I do have a wife, and I know for a fact that she is outside showing the gardener something or other in the back yard. Let me pull up my surveillance cam, see, there she is showing the gardener the. um . WTF ?!
I don't want my daughter (3 1/2) to come near a computer until she is well into her teenage years. Then, she can learn about computers on some sort of Unix variant. Until then, I want her to be a child and play, read, color, run, jump, etc.
I understand where you are coming from, but most of us cut our teeth on computers around 3rd grade. My friends and I could write basic programs, and operate the TRS-80 better than our folks. For me the computer turned out to be the only thing that made me any money, all thanks to my engineer dad who was excited about the first personal computers and found a way to buy a Trash-80. I wasn't athletic, didnt sing or dance, hated drawing and painting, but loved to sit for hours fiddling with that piece of junk. My friends were into computers too and when we weren't doing kid stuff outside it was a great wholesome way to pass the time. It certainly is better than getting a playstation or xbox for your young impressionable kids.
A more sensible approach would be to expose her to it and see if she shows an interest or apptitude for programming or computers, then nurture that if it appears. One of the most adept network admins that I know grew up in a hacker/unix family and was exposed very early to some pretty advanced stuff. If she likes dancing and acrobatics or riding her bike better, then nurture that instead. Besides, by the time a girl is a teenager she won't be the least bit interested in 'unix variants', more like Corey variants and make-up shade variants.
hahaha. Ever since being forced to learn vi, I wonder how any non nerd could ever hope to use it. I was lucky to have 50 of berkeley's finest nerds around to ask questions to (how do I do a global search and replace, how do I form regular expressions, etc). For everyone else, working at non tech companies it was a struggle going from WP to Office in the mid 90's. Even now most people's knowledge of word is pretty rudimentary. I attempted to learn GNU Emacs in the 90's and found that it was colliding with my vi knowledge and soon I would be able to use neither. Emacs seemed even more convoluted than vi was (vi made a wierd sort of sense to me, i could easily remember dl, dw, dd and other such commands since they stood for something.
I forced myself to learn vi so I could edit my usenet kill files. At one point I had a 600 line kill file for rec.music.misc. Ahh the joy of instantly killing depeche mode discographies and spandau ballet discussions was intoxicating. I think I got more joy watching my kill file at work than reading what was left.
I see this on bzflag servers all the time, seems like when someone finally gets the 3d working right on linux they fire up good old bzflag to test it out. I constantly see comments like, "i finally got 3d acceleration working !" Seems you are not alone.
This statement no sense
Yes it does, DVD is a release format, a finished product, not to be reencoded or reedited. If you wanted to release video in a format different than DVD, you would go back a step to the master (an uncompressed digital video format of one kind or another). So, the way to get a better svcd or xvid would be to encode from the original rather than reencode a compressed format, so we kind of are barking up the same tree once all is clarified.
Any encoder with a modicum of talent will divert more of the available bitrate to high-action scenes.
Apparently these encoders are not part of the 'scene' because I am generally disappointed with the blocking and other crappy looking stuff that occurs whenever everything isn't perfectly still. I think my digital cable sucks too though, the key in basketball has the jaggies on the top rounded part, and stuff blocks up on regular shows as well. I may just be impossible to please.
...who thought they are going to release a clone of Q3A on the new HL2 engine "Source"?
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Probably not. Statistically speaking there has to be at least one other dyslexic on