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Does anyone know where one can find rpms for SuSE 8.1? I know that lots of people with SuSE 8.0 and older would like to upgrade. The rpms are GPL'ed so where can they be downloaded?
+5 karma to the one who gives a FTP or similar:-)
See how Slashdot has evolved in 5 years
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Slashdot Turns 5
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Archive.org has a great archive of Slahdot from the beginning in 1997, and up to today.
Notice that already then people were complaining about MS:)
"These games appealed to the Geek at Work as he could fill in his Friday afternoon.."
I wonder why so many IT-startups have gone bankrupt!
Re:Screenshots of KDE 3.0
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KDE 3.0 is Out
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Thanks for the feedback. I've fixed the antialiased fonts now, and updated a screenshot.
Screenshots of KDE 3.0
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KDE 3.0 is Out
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Kde 3.0 is looking goood!
Have a look at my screenshots here and here!
I must say that Konqueror 3.0 looks really good with antialiased fonts and great themes!
Kde 3.0 is an awesome release, that surely will help Linux to gain some users from you know who:)
KDE 3.0 is what Linux needs to win the desktops!
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I just installed KDE 3.0 on Linux Mandrake; I'm stunned by this high-quality release!
IMHO, KDE 3.0 is good enough to serve as my primary desktop envirnment, especially thanks to Konqueror 3.0, which is fast, and can be used for anything from websurfing to networking and filemanagement. The look and feal of the entire desktop is soooo great! Antialiased fonts, lots of themes etc!
Keep up the good work KDE developers, Thanks for yet another great release!
... doesn't lie in its protocol or security, but in its inconvenience to users. Information simply disappears off of the network, making it almost impossible for regular use. While it was not designed for sharing music and porn, thats what most people think p2p networks are for these days. As a result, the oppressed people that the project was designed for can't use the system. The initial concept that one cannot store information on their system was good, but is being abused by too many people. There simply are not enough permanent connections with enough disk space to support the current incarnation of Freenet.
The second problem is the inability to find information. Even if it does exist, very few people know how to find it. Until the key indices are completed and a uniform naming system is accepted, information will just sit there, and be as good as lost.
I apologize for this being somewhat offtopic and please correct me if either of these problems have been solved. I'd really love to see Freenet take off, but it seems that it may be dead on arrival being too difficult to use for end users.
My bias out of the way: I like freenet. A Lot. I run a freesite (Fishland).
This being said, I'm sorry, but parts of freenet, right now, are a complete train wreck, and the only thing keeping me around is basically the lack of another solution which achieves the goals that I want to see.
The main freenet developers are good at designing protocols. It's often been said that it's a real testiment to the freenet protocol spec, that freenet works in spite of it's codebase and lack of documentation. Those of you who've seen the freenet code will most likely agree with me, that many of the freenet developers couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.
(And no, it's not about java vs. C - it's entierly possible to write good java, but java isn't a magic bullet that makes your code good without any effort. Freenet is proof of this;))
Freenet 0.4 may be beta, but it is a deployed network which people are encouraged to use. There is no 0.3 download at freenetproject.org anymore, which leads me to believe that therefore, 0.4 is the network that you all want me to publish into. And if this is the case, you don't get to say "Oh, but it's the development network" as an excuse for fucking everyone who tries to actully do something with it in the ass.
Similarly, development is no damn excuse for no documentation at all, in face, development is when you *should* be creating the documentation for something as important as FNP, not as some afterthought. FCP is NOT a substitue for FNP, it only allows me to talk to my own node. There are some very good reasons sometimes to not do that. Moreover, since we have had but one set of mandatory upgrades since august 2001 (in january this year), FNP must be pretty static... older nodes seem to interoperate, for the most part, so the node->node protocol can't have changed that dramatically.
You say documentation is a priority. But the actions and words of the freenet teams scream in my face until they are blue, that if I want documentation, then I can go and fuck myself.
This is really the attitude that is percieved... that if one isn't happy with the current situation, then one should go and fuck ones self, if one isn't happy that we get mandatory upgrades with no notice at all on the web page or anywhere else a normal freenetter would look, then one should just go and fuck ones self. If one isn't happy that the general attitude of the freenet developers is that the people who are creating tools for the network, and content for the network don't fucking matter, then one should go fuck ones self.
One day, all of the freesite and freeapp authors will do exactly that, and then where will your network be?
I've been using Mozilla/Netscape as my default browser since Netscape 2.0.
Cool new stuff in Mozilla 0.9.8:
Fast, stable and smooth looking (with modern skin)
Disable popups, and other specific javascript annoyances. Great for Porn-surfing!
Improved bookmarks (icons and drag/drop)
BannerBlinds (plugin from mozdev.org) frmoves ALL unwanted ad-banners
Tabbed browsing (well, not new in this realease, but still)
The memoryimage of Mozilla is about 23 MB, which is nothing these days with cheap memory. I've not had a single crash in 2002. Keep up the good work Mozilla developers!
It was actually pretty interesting to see how this aricle mentions that numerical integration is done in computer games by means of Eulers method. But: Good old Euler is slow and inaccurate!
Simpsons method is more accurate method to integrate, since it creates a exponential polynome that more accurately represents the function. The method follows:
S(n) = dX/3(y(0)+4y(1)+2y(2)+4y(3)+... + y(n))
Use this in your gameengine the next time, and impress!
all that you can't leave behind....
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Swaying CPU Fans
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Doesn't anybody think it's cool to be noisy anymore? I mean, say what you will about being distracting and all that, but I'd love to impress my friends with a PC that sounds like a lawnmower. it's POWER! it's TOUGH! it's AMERICAN!
sometimes worrying about things like noise is too girly, even for me.
Slashdot Mirror
>ScummVM, my project, ...
I really like ScummVM. Nice work!
Give their server a break, and use the Google cache instead. :)
Enjoy
I agree, vi is the only true editor!
If you downloaded Mandrake Linux, then I suggest you join Mandrake Club to support futher development:
Mandrake Club
How are membership fees used?
* Membership fees are primarily used to directly fund the development of the Mandrake Linux distribution. Membership fees also pay the salaries of employees who often contribute directly or indirectly to "external" Free Software projects such as the Linux kernel, KDE, GNOME, Prelude, and others
* Fees may also be used for the development of community websites such as MandrakeLinux.com, MandrakeUser.org, MandrakeForum.com and the development of Internet services specifically for the benefit of Club members
http://www.alltheweb.com/ didn't render properly for me with Mozilla 1.2.0. Most of the text on the page was gone.
The site was Slashdotted in 4 minutes! See Google-cache here
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Does anyone know where one can find rpms
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for SuSE 8.1? I know that lots of people
with SuSE 8.0 and older would like to upgrade.
The rpms are GPL'ed so where can they be downloaded?
+5 karma to the one who gives a FTP or similar
Notice that already then people were complaining about MS :)
Oh well, I guess this offer is relevant to a very limited number of people... Good job /.
Actually, SuSE 8.0 was the very first distro to ship with KDE 3.0
I'm running SuSE 8.0 Pro now, and it's really great!
There are hundereds of articles about Intenet2 here.
I purchased Suse 7.0 personal, and would like up upgrade to 8.0 pro. Can I then buy the 8.0 pro upgrade?
I wonder why so many IT-startups have gone bankrupt!
Thanks for the feedback. I've fixed the antialiased fonts now, and updated a screenshot.
I must say that Konqueror 3.0 looks really good with antialiased fonts and great themes!
Kde 3.0 is an awesome release, that surely will help Linux to gain some users from you know who :)
IMHO, KDE 3.0 is good enough to serve as my primary desktop envirnment, especially thanks to Konqueror 3.0, which is fast, and can be used for anything from websurfing to networking and filemanagement. The look and feal of the entire desktop is soooo great! Antialiased fonts, lots of themes etc!
Keep up the good work KDE developers, Thanks for yet another great release!
Running winamp through Wine has allowed WMA-audio on Linux for a very long time. It's just like in Windows: good sound quality, and perfecly legal.
"Why fix what's not broken?"
I agree with you, Slashdot looks a lot smoother with the extra graphics. The new /. logo is a lot more modern looking.
It's about time that Slashdot updates its look a bit!
Please!
... doesn't lie in its protocol or security, but in its inconvenience to users. Information simply disappears off of the network, making it almost impossible for regular use. While it was not designed for sharing music and porn, thats what most people think p2p networks are for these days. As a result, the oppressed people that the project was designed for can't use the system. The initial concept that one cannot store information on their system was good, but is being abused by too many people. There simply are not enough permanent connections with enough disk space to support the current incarnation of Freenet.
The second problem is the inability to find information. Even if it does exist, very few people know how to find it. Until the key indices are completed and a uniform naming system is accepted, information will just sit there, and be as good as lost.
I apologize for this being somewhat offtopic and please correct me if either of these problems have been solved. I'd really love to see Freenet take off, but it seems that it may be dead on arrival being too difficult to use for end users.
My bias out of the way: I like freenet. A Lot. I run a freesite (Fishland).
;))
This being said, I'm sorry, but parts of freenet, right now, are a complete train wreck, and the only thing keeping me around is basically the lack of another solution which achieves the goals that I want to see.
The main freenet developers are good at designing protocols. It's often been said that it's a real testiment to the freenet protocol spec, that freenet works in spite of it's codebase and lack of documentation. Those of you who've seen the freenet code will most likely agree with me, that many of the freenet developers couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.
(And no, it's not about java vs. C - it's entierly possible to write good java, but java isn't a magic bullet that makes your code good without any effort. Freenet is proof of this
Freenet 0.4 may be beta, but it is a deployed network which people are encouraged to use. There is no 0.3 download at freenetproject.org anymore, which leads me to believe that therefore, 0.4 is the network that you all want me to publish into. And if this is the case, you don't get to say "Oh, but it's the development network" as an excuse for fucking everyone who tries to actully do something with it in the ass.
Similarly, development is no damn excuse for no documentation at all, in face, development is when you *should* be creating the documentation for something as important as FNP, not as some afterthought. FCP is NOT a substitue for FNP, it only allows me to talk to my own node. There are some very good reasons sometimes to not do that. Moreover, since we have had but one set of mandatory upgrades since august 2001 (in january this year), FNP must be pretty static... older nodes seem to interoperate, for the most part, so the node->node protocol can't have changed that dramatically.
You say documentation is a priority. But the actions and words of the freenet teams scream in my face until they are blue, that if I want documentation, then I can go and fuck myself.
This is really the attitude that is percieved... that if one isn't happy with the current situation, then one should go and fuck ones self, if one isn't happy that we get mandatory upgrades with no notice at all on the web page or anywhere else a normal freenetter would look, then one should just go and fuck ones self. If one isn't happy that the general attitude of the freenet developers is that the people who are creating tools for the network, and content for the network don't fucking matter, then one should go fuck ones self.
One day, all of the freesite and freeapp authors will do exactly that, and then where will your network be?
Cool new stuff in Mozilla 0.9.8:
Fast, stable and smooth looking (with modern skin)
Disable popups, and other specific javascript annoyances. Great for Porn-surfing!
Improved bookmarks (icons and drag/drop)
BannerBlinds (plugin from mozdev.org) frmoves ALL unwanted ad-banners
Tabbed browsing (well, not new in this realease, but still)
The memoryimage of Mozilla is about 23 MB, which is nothing these days with cheap memory. I've not had a single crash in 2002. Keep up the good work Mozilla developers!
Go to college like the rest of us!
It was actually pretty interesting to see how this aricle mentions that numerical integration is done in computer games by means of Eulers method. But: Good old Euler is slow and inaccurate!
... + y(n))
Simpsons method is more accurate method to integrate, since it creates a exponential polynome that more accurately represents the function. The method follows:
S(n) = dX/3(y(0)+4y(1)+2y(2)+4y(3)+
Use this in your gameengine the next time, and impress!
Doesn't anybody think it's cool to be noisy anymore? I mean, say what you will about being distracting and all that, but I'd love to impress my friends with a PC that sounds like a lawnmower. it's POWER! it's TOUGH! it's AMERICAN!
sometimes worrying about things like noise is too girly, even for me.