Sorry, I don't think there are any hardcore flight sims working with WineX. There are some "lighter" ones working, but then you might as well play Blue Max.;-)
I'd really, really wish they'd support Fighter Ace III, Falcon 4.0 or other more advanced flight sims.
That could mean your current projects are boring. Sometimes, my client projects are really boring, and I have to force myself to program. (Like the current one, where I design and implement a COM layer) Every few hours, I hit CTRL-ALT-F7 to get out of VMware (I love that program!) and play with Emacs Lisp, as a stress or boredom relief.
I find lack of motivation to be the hardest part to deal with. One trick to motivate oneself is to try to make the code as beautiful as possible, and refactor all the time, if the application itself is boring to design and program. At least I'll probably learn something new that way.
Pretty much everything out there is an improvement over VB 6.0. Trust me, I've been programming in VB from time to time since '94 and, lo and behold, it still sucks. VB should have stayed at 3.0. Something isn't OO just because there is a checkbox named "Object". (If I remember correctly from VB 4.0.)
Will there be Linux drivers for these cards supporting 3D acceleration/OpenGL under XFree86, so I can play RtCW and Flightgear on my favorite platform?
If so, count me in. Otherwise, I'll stick to NVidia.
And there was also AMOS and Blitz Basic. I played a few games made with those, and some of them were quite good. I haven't played them for ages though, so they might suck now.:)
Can't wait to tell some relative over the phone: "And then you just rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\t%{VENDOR}\n" | awk '$2 ~/Ximian/ {print $1}' | sort | perl -pe 's/ \n/;/'
Not to mention Alien vs Predator 1. I really loved how you were only allowed one or two saves on the hardest difficulty setting. It made the game much more terrifying and exciting. AvP 1 must be one of the best FPS ever.
There's so much good electronic music from the 70's and 80's, like Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle. Check them out! (Especially Nag! Nag! Nag! by Cabaret Voltaire)
Coil is a long time favorite. A good introduction would be the Unnatural History compilations and Time Machine. (Time Machine is _very_ ambient, and brilliantly simple.)
For the harder stuff, I'd listen to Skinny Puppy(Worlock and Tin Omen are classics), Frontline Assembly and Klinik.
And of course, one of the greatest bands ever, DAF (Deustsche Amerikanische Freundschaft.) Look for Der Mussolini, Verschwinde deine Jugend and Sex unter wasser on your favorite p2p network.
Meat Beat Manifesto is another brilliant band, once found on the brainwashed site. (A big "thank you" to the people who maintain that site.)
Cool! You work for Cisco as a programmer? How's working as a programmer for such a big company? I'm self-employed, and a bit scared of those big corps, so it would be great if you'd share some opinions.
I want a small and fast laptop with a geforce card and IBM's wonderful butterfly keyboard.
Is IBM still manufacturing laptops with the butterfly keyboards? I loved those, and I still keep an old 701CS next to my bed. (Some customers call me in the middle of the night, and I really hate getting out of bed in the middle of the night.)
Cool application: Use the technology for finding friends, various places etc., hook it up with a GPS/map software to be able to find other things not connected via 802.11, and connect it to a pair of glasses with a superimposed LCD display or whatever.
Now add a direction bar and a length display to the display on the glasses. (For example, the height of the waypoint marker could be a distance indicator. Or a 3D-cube could be displayed to indicate an objects position and size.) It should also be able to display names over objects connected via the 802.11 network.
First, thanks for your reply. You seem quite considerate and thoughtful in your response.
Second, I wasn't aware of the size of the military aid USA was giving Egypt. (I presume it is large, since you brought it up.)
As for the physical pressure part, this is a legitimization of physical harm to suspects. I truely resent that, and there have been numerous reports in the media of rather unorthodox investigation methods used by the Israeli police and military.
Regarding the settlers part, I'd recommend having a look at History of the palestine problem. It is IMO interesting to note that the palestinians have always been forgotten, just like the jews. However, the Jews was finally remembered in 1948.
The Israeli settlements were started in '67, after the Six Day War. There have been numerous UN Security Council resolutions against it, but still Israel has accelerated it (until very recently at least, I'm not updated on the statistics here). If you base your view on this subject on the result of a war in '48, shouldn't we also just ask the jews who immigrated in the 20's and 40's to move back to their original countries and then create a state, accepting only native jews and palestines as citizens? Remember that over 750' Palestines was forced to flee after that war, and another 400-500' or so after '67. That amounts to over 1 000 000 people.
I agree with you that suicide bombings are a disgusting and horrible way of 'fighting', killing civilians even worse. Both sides go way back here.
However, the PA has only light arms, not at all suitable for warfare in the 21st century. Still, some applaud when weapons bought by the Palestinians are seized by Israeli army or others. Also, the results of the Intifada has not been anything to talk either, so throwing rocks are out of the question. That leaves them with quite simple, yet disgusting, measures.
As for Sharon being personal responsible or not, the tone in international nowadays seems to clearly put responsibility not only on those doing the actual killings, but also those who support it.
There is unfortunately no easy solution to the middle east conflict in general, and the palestine problem in particular. I only do hope that PLO get Hamas under control, and that the Israelis elect a somewhat less hawkish govermnent.
Well, what if US stopped selling all that dirt cheap military equipment to Israel?
What if the US started putting some real pressure on the Israeli government?
(Oh, and is it still allowed in Israel to use "moderate physical pressure" when interrogating Palestinians? I can only imagine what an officer or police man can do when being allowed to apply "moderate physical pressure", or torture, as we call it in more civilized countries.)
And how about those settlers? I mean, 'settlers.' Are they only following the proud American tradition? Is there some, to the rest of the world, unknown territory, totally uninhabited, that we don't know of? Or could there actually be people living there in the first place?
Yes, Israels neighbouring countries have behaved as irrational assholes, but why on earth (or space, to be on-topic:-) must Israel punish the Palestinians?
Why they elect some massmurderer responsible for the slaying of 1000 civilians in refugee camps as prime minister is beyond me. The Israelis, of all people, should know better.
Press F2 to get the slim "enter url"-dialog, and then type 'g slashdot' to search Google for slashdot, or 'r xfree86 rgbpath anti-alias debian' to search on groups.google.com.
The keymappings and which URL they'll send your input to can be configured in ~/.opera/search.ini . If it's missing, copy it from/usr/share/opera.
15 minutes ago, I brought home a new Zyxel 316 Wireless starter kit. I just figured I check slashdot before I configured it, and now its obsolete. Great.
I don't agree. GT3's license tests are excellent. Half of the fun is taking the licenses, and they actually train you for the races in the pro-league. (Without the license tests, I wouldn't have learnt how to do cornering properly etc.)
Also, there are AFAIK cheat codes which will unlock the courses for you. GT3 is a great game, the only thing I miss is car damage. (At least tyre damage is included)
Nautilus? What? Name a sub after a file manager? Hell no.
:)
(What impressed me was the following: "The aft portion of the saloon has a largea crylic window, providing a view astern that also acts as a large hydraulically operated hatch. A small automobile could be kept in thea ft section if desired." Wow.)
Slashdot Mirror
Will there be an 'official' 2.4.19 kernel image package for Debian Woody?
I can verify the Promise part. I've been using the new Promise Ultra ATA 133 controller on 2.4.19-rc1 for a little while, and it works great!
Sorry, I don't think there are any hardcore flight sims working with WineX. There are some "lighter" ones working, but then you might as well play Blue Max. ;-)
I'd really, really wish they'd support Fighter Ace III, Falcon 4.0 or other more advanced flight sims.
(And yes, I'm a subscriber.)
That could mean your current projects are boring. Sometimes, my client projects are really boring, and I have to force myself to program. (Like the current one, where I design and implement a COM layer) Every few hours, I hit CTRL-ALT-F7 to get out of VMware (I love that program!) and play with Emacs Lisp, as a stress or boredom relief.
:-)
I find lack of motivation to be the hardest part to deal with. One trick to motivate oneself is to try to make the code as beautiful as possible, and refactor all the time, if the application itself is boring to design and program. At least I'll probably learn something new that way.
(Or think about the money
Holy holy, let's get back to the bat cave. :-)
Pretty much everything out there is an improvement over VB 6.0. Trust me, I've been programming in VB from time to time since '94 and, lo and behold, it still sucks. VB should have stayed at 3.0. Something isn't OO just because there is a checkbox named "Object". (If I remember correctly from VB 4.0.)
Thank <insert-favourite-deity> for J2EE.
Maybe they are Big In Japan.
Will there be Linux drivers for these cards supporting 3D acceleration/OpenGL under XFree86, so I can play RtCW and Flightgear on my favorite platform?
If so, count me in. Otherwise, I'll stick to NVidia.
And there was also AMOS and Blitz Basic. I played a few games made with those, and some of them were quite good. I haven't played them for ages though, so they might suck now.:)
Ah, simple installation.
/Ximian/ {print $1}' | sort | perl -pe 's/ \n/;/'
Can't wait to tell some relative over the phone: "And then you just
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\t%{VENDOR}\n" | awk '$2 ~
Not to mention Alien vs Predator 1. I really loved how you were only allowed one or two saves on the hardest difficulty setting. It made the game much more terrifying and exciting. AvP 1 must be one of the best FPS ever.
There's so much good electronic music from the 70's and 80's, like Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle. Check them out! (Especially Nag! Nag! Nag! by Cabaret Voltaire)
Coil is a long time favorite. A good introduction would be the Unnatural History compilations and Time Machine. (Time Machine is _very_ ambient, and brilliantly simple.)
For the harder stuff, I'd listen to Skinny Puppy(Worlock and Tin Omen are classics), Frontline Assembly and Klinik.
And of course, one of the greatest bands ever, DAF (Deustsche Amerikanische Freundschaft.) Look for Der Mussolini, Verschwinde deine Jugend and Sex unter wasser on your favorite p2p network.
Meat Beat Manifesto is another brilliant band, once found on the brainwashed site. (A big "thank you" to the people who maintain that site.)
A PC? No wonder you haven't heard of those, then. 16 years? Not enough.
Those games are classics, and I've played them on my C64. (Although I guess they were available for the Spectrums, as well.)
Cool! You work for Cisco as a programmer? How's working as a programmer for such a big company? I'm self-employed, and a bit scared of those big corps, so it would be great if you'd share some opinions.
I want a small and fast laptop with a geforce card and IBM's wonderful butterfly keyboard.
Is IBM still manufacturing laptops with the butterfly keyboards? I loved those, and I still keep an old 701CS next to my bed. (Some customers call me in the middle of the night, and I really hate getting out of bed in the middle of the night.)
Cool application: Use the technology for finding friends, various places etc., hook it up with a GPS/map software to be able to find other things not connected via 802.11, and connect it to a pair of glasses with a superimposed LCD display or whatever.
:-)
Now add a direction bar and a length display to the display on the glasses. (For example, the height of the waypoint marker could be a distance indicator. Or a 3D-cube could be displayed to indicate an objects position and size.) It should also be able to display names over objects connected via the 802.11 network.
Wooo. I'd buy one.
First, thanks for your reply. You seem quite considerate and thoughtful in your response.
Second, I wasn't aware of the size of the military aid USA was giving Egypt. (I presume it is large, since you brought it up.)
As for the physical pressure part, this is a legitimization of physical harm to suspects. I truely resent that, and there have been numerous reports in the media of rather unorthodox investigation methods used by the Israeli police and military.
Regarding the settlers part, I'd recommend having a look at
History of the palestine problem. It is IMO interesting to note that the palestinians have always been forgotten, just like the jews. However, the Jews was finally remembered in 1948.
The Israeli settlements were started in '67, after the Six Day War. There have been numerous UN Security Council resolutions against it, but still Israel has accelerated it (until very recently at least, I'm not updated on the statistics here). If you base your view on this subject on the result of a war in '48, shouldn't we also just ask the jews who immigrated in the 20's and 40's to move back to their original countries and then create a state, accepting only native jews and palestines as citizens? Remember that over 750' Palestines was forced to flee after that war, and another 400-500' or so after '67. That amounts to over 1 000 000 people.
I agree with you that suicide bombings are a disgusting and horrible way of 'fighting', killing civilians even worse. Both sides go way back here.
However, the PA has only light arms, not at all suitable for warfare in the 21st century. Still, some applaud when weapons bought by the Palestinians are seized by Israeli army or others. Also, the results of the Intifada has not been anything to talk either, so throwing rocks are out of the question. That leaves them with quite simple, yet disgusting, measures.
As for Sharon being personal responsible or not, the tone in international nowadays seems to clearly put responsibility not only on those doing the actual killings, but also those who support it.
There is unfortunately no easy solution to the middle east conflict in general, and the palestine problem in particular. I only do hope that PLO get Hamas under control, and that the Israelis elect a somewhat less hawkish govermnent.
Well, what if US stopped selling all that dirt cheap military equipment to Israel?
:-) must Israel punish the Palestinians?
What if the US started putting some real pressure on the Israeli government?
(Oh, and is it still allowed in Israel to use "moderate physical pressure" when interrogating Palestinians? I can only imagine what an officer or police man can do when being allowed to apply "moderate physical pressure", or torture, as we call it in more civilized countries.)
And how about those settlers? I mean, 'settlers.' Are they only following the proud American tradition? Is there some, to the rest of the world, unknown territory, totally uninhabited, that we don't know of? Or could there actually be people living there in the first place?
Yes, Israels neighbouring countries have behaved as irrational assholes, but why on earth (or space, to be on-topic
Why they elect some massmurderer responsible for the slaying of 1000 civilians in refugee camps as prime minister is beyond me. The Israelis, of all people, should know better.
XEXPR - A Scripting Language for XML
Read and weep.
I use the search feature in opera like this:
/usr/share/opera.
:-)
Press F2 to get the slim "enter url"-dialog, and then type 'g slashdot' to search Google for slashdot, or 'r xfree86 rgbpath anti-alias debian' to search on groups.google.com.
The keymappings and which URL they'll send your input to can be configured in ~/.opera/search.ini . If it's missing, copy it from
This saves both screen space and time
15 minutes ago, I brought home a new Zyxel 316 Wireless starter kit. I just figured I check slashdot before I configured it, and now its obsolete. Great.
I don't agree. GT3's license tests are excellent. Half of the fun is taking the licenses, and they actually train you for the races in the pro-league. (Without the license tests, I wouldn't have learnt how to do cornering properly etc.)
Also, there are AFAIK cheat codes which will unlock the courses for you. GT3 is a great game, the only thing I miss is car damage. (At least tyre damage is included)
Nautilus? What? Name a sub after a file manager? Hell no.
:)
(What impressed me was the following:
"The aft portion of the saloon has a largea crylic window, providing a view astern that also acts as a large hydraulically operated hatch. A small automobile could be kept in thea ft section if desired." Wow.)
its seems like you're bullshitting because you don't like AOL.
Me too!!!!!
dotcomms were just like the USSR... good concept, bad implementation.
;-)
If USA is the opposite of USSR, its a bad concept, good implementation, then?