Actually, a lot of the frats here (RPI) do this at many of their parties. They buy kegs of beer, drink them, and then hurl them down the stairs at people whoe try to jump over them.
Last time I was at a party where this was done, the stairs and some poor guy's knee were damaged. I gave him a few quarters, but it didn't seem to fix his knee.
Konqueror and Mozilla share the gecko rendering engine, which is a desperately needed step in the direction of the open source community focusing on depth, not breadth, in choices (applause).
They don't actually. Konqueror uses KHTML, which is a pretty nice HTML engine (Apple chose it over gecko for Safari). As both engines are very nice, I guess either the OSS community isn't taking desperately needed steps or we got enough people to work on a few implementations of things at the same time and make them good.
Having used both browsers extensively, I think the latter is true.
Its more stuff like ThinkTanks, that feature kinda psuedo-unique gameplay that's a bit hard to master but very fun. Reminds me of the good old days of shareware games on DOS.
There are quite a few people on slashdot. Many (most?) of them are raving lunatics with no connection to actual programming of Open Source projects. If you go by what you see on Slashdot, then BSD is dying, Natalie Portman is petrified in hot grits and Taco molests young children. I don't suppose you think all that is also true, do you?
Most of the open source programmers I know, including myself, hate Microsoft as a hobby at best. We code for fun or, as this slashdot poll if you worship slashdot opinion so much, because we like the feeling of pasting SCO code into the kernel. Forget Microsoft, its SCO that's the reason for Open Source:-)
RMS started GNU in the 80s, and not because Microsoft pissed him off, but because he didn't like proprietary software overall. Linus didn't make Linux because he wanted to kill Microsoft, it just kinda developed to scratch an itch, the itch being Minix's simplicity.
Its really not definite that Microsoft is a catalyst for Open Source. Without them helping commercialize computers, OSS could very well have developed as the standard.
The client needed to be patched in the early Warcraft III Beta days too. Later on they just used a loader, but I think it basically loaded the executable into RAM and patched it there. At any rate, an unmodified client couldn't connect to bnetd.
Linux is written in C, SDL is written in C, X (I think) is written in C. The gimp is written in C (along with GTK). Gaim is written in C. There are almost 13000 projects on sourceforge that are registered as being written in C.
C is neither bad nor dead (not that it doesn't have its problems). Whoever wrote this article and the previous one about it on slashdot is a moron.
The enforcers were bad-ass. Jumping into close-quarter battle firing them in gangsta-mode was the best light-hearted fun I've ever had in an FPS. The assault rifle just isn't the same.
I wouldn't have minded a more in-acruate enforcer, but removing them was an Abomination Onto Nuggan.
Is it now? I have a Geforce4 Go 420 in my laptop. Two of my friends has a Radeon 9000 - laptops from two different brands. My laptop runs UT2k4 in Linux like a charm, all settings except for AA maxed (or AA on and all settings at medium). At lowest settings and resolution, their laptops play it horribly choppy. Then of course there's the ever-hated WineX and their lack of support for ATI. All WineX comments aside, GTA3, MOO3, GTA:VC, and BF1942 work perfectly in Linux on my laptop -- better than in Windows (yes, I did measure). I don't know anyone with an ATI card that can say that.
nVidia takes good care of their Linux drivers, ATI puts them out as an afterthought.
And, even if ATI gets their act together, we can still slam them for not having FreeBSD drivers (nVidia does)!:-)
Dosbox definitely does Keen, and it sortof does Duke Nukem 3d as well if you have a fast enough computer. The better option for Duke3D is to get it for Linux. ROTT is also on icculus's site somewhere.
Sound-wise, dosbox is pretty good, except for the newer games where you either get small skips in sound or choppy video (at least on my comp). It emulates loads of sound cards, too. Network-wise, I remember reading something about emulating modems using network sockets (so you could 'dial-up' to game just over the lan), but I can't seem to find any info on that right now.
I havn't run dosemu ever since dosbox first came out, so I can't speak for that.
You mean you don't read Slashdot 6 times an hour? Why, you uncultured pig! You might as well go back to living in caves and hitting passerbys with large rocks and sticks, you primitive, sad exuse for a human being!
You make me sick! Why, I refresh at least once every five minutes, my heart pounding, waiting to see that beautiful new dupe. And to you, they're nothing! You don't even *mind* them, much less CARE! You should be ashamed of yourself!!
What I don't get is how this is different from, say, Debian or Gentoo at all. At the end of his blog he says "If this sounds a lot like Debian, that's because it is in many ways", goes on to list the ways, and then doesn't list any differences other than an Anaconda installer. So, is this debian that installs like redhat and lets you choose packages? I mean, it doesn't sound like there's anything new here at all.
I'm not gonna pretend to be an expert on 802.11 hardware, but I would recommend going with g instead of b. If you want to hold lan parties over this thing, you'll want the extra throughput.
If after setting this up, you want to provide high-speed internet service to the whole appartment as well, you might want to check out Netshare by Speakeasy, which was posted on slashdot a while ago. It should let you recoup some of the cost to spend on more hardware or do something with, or you might be able to use it to convince the landlord to foot some of the bill or something.
Good luck!
You know, I actually used to sell Coke illegally at my school....
What I mean is this: Back in Junior year of high school, my school signed an exclusive contract with Pepsi and outlawed sale of Coka Cola on campus. Almost instantly, me and a few friends seized the opportunity to make some money and started selling Coke to fellow students at a lower price than the school itself sold its Pepsi.
It went well for a few weeks, then rival gangs rose up and soon the school was torn in a Mafia-style Coka Cola peddling war. After a while, our "family" and the other guys' "family" were the only two left, and they decided to turn the heat up and set up shop in plain sight. It started a frenzy, got them shut down by the authorities within a day, and left us as the only ones to reap in the profits.
The result of all that (other than a bit of spare change) has been being able to say "You know, I used to see Coke illegally at my school..." to people and see their reaction.
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Actually, a lot of the frats here (RPI) do this at many of their parties. They buy kegs of beer, drink them, and then hurl them down the stairs at people whoe try to jump over them.
Last time I was at a party where this was done, the stairs and some poor guy's knee were damaged. I gave him a few quarters, but it didn't seem to fix his knee.
Pfft. I actually surf in Linux.
Isn't that the wrong mascott in the slashdot story?
Hint: your OS may be terminally sick :-)
Glad I could help :-)
Site's buckling. I managed to make a mirror.
There's a mirror here. Enjoy.
Konqueror and Mozilla share the gecko rendering engine, which is a desperately needed step in the direction of the open source community focusing on depth, not breadth, in choices (applause).
They don't actually. Konqueror uses KHTML, which is a pretty nice HTML engine (Apple chose it over gecko for Safari). As both engines are very nice, I guess either the OSS community isn't taking desperately needed steps or we got enough people to work on a few implementations of things at the same time and make them good.
Having used both browsers extensively, I think the latter is true.
Its more stuff like ThinkTanks, that feature kinda psuedo-unique gameplay that's a bit hard to master but very fun. Reminds me of the good old days of shareware games on DOS.
There are quite a few people on slashdot. Many (most?) of them are raving lunatics with no connection to actual programming of Open Source projects. If you go by what you see on Slashdot, then BSD is dying, Natalie Portman is petrified in hot grits and Taco molests young children. I don't suppose you think all that is also true, do you?
:-)
Most of the open source programmers I know, including myself, hate Microsoft as a hobby at best. We code for fun or, as this slashdot poll if you worship slashdot opinion so much, because we like the feeling of pasting SCO code into the kernel. Forget Microsoft, its SCO that's the reason for Open Source
RMS started GNU in the 80s, and not because Microsoft pissed him off, but because he didn't like proprietary software overall. Linus didn't make Linux because he wanted to kill Microsoft, it just kinda developed to scratch an itch, the itch being Minix's simplicity.
Its really not definite that Microsoft is a catalyst for Open Source. Without them helping commercialize computers, OSS could very well have developed as the standard.
At least since this.
The client needed to be patched in the early Warcraft III Beta days too. Later on they just used a loader, but I think it basically loaded the executable into RAM and patched it there. At any rate, an unmodified client couldn't connect to bnetd.
Its those damn Earthlians trying to take over Mars! Run for your life!
does it run Linux? :-)
Linux is written in C, SDL is written in C, X (I think) is written in C. The gimp is written in C (along with GTK). Gaim is written in C. There are almost 13000 projects on sourceforge that are registered as being written in C.
C is neither bad nor dead (not that it doesn't have its problems). Whoever wrote this article and the previous one about it on slashdot is a moron.
The enforcers were bad-ass. Jumping into close-quarter battle firing them in gangsta-mode was the best light-hearted fun I've ever had in an FPS. The assault rifle just isn't the same.
I wouldn't have minded a more in-acruate enforcer, but removing them was an Abomination Onto Nuggan.
Is it now? I have a Geforce4 Go 420 in my laptop. Two of my friends has a Radeon 9000 - laptops from two different brands. My laptop runs UT2k4 in Linux like a charm, all settings except for AA maxed (or AA on and all settings at medium). At lowest settings and resolution, their laptops play it horribly choppy. Then of course there's the ever-hated WineX and their lack of support for ATI. All WineX comments aside, GTA3, MOO3, GTA:VC, and BF1942 work perfectly in Linux on my laptop -- better than in Windows (yes, I did measure). I don't know anyone with an ATI card that can say that.
:-)
nVidia takes good care of their Linux drivers, ATI puts them out as an afterthought.
And, even if ATI gets their act together, we can still slam them for not having FreeBSD drivers (nVidia does)!
Dosbox definitely does Keen, and it sortof does Duke Nukem 3d as well if you have a fast enough computer. The better option for Duke3D is to get it for Linux. ROTT is also on icculus's site somewhere.
Sound-wise, dosbox is pretty good, except for the newer games where you either get small skips in sound or choppy video (at least on my comp). It emulates loads of sound cards, too. Network-wise, I remember reading something about emulating modems using network sockets (so you could 'dial-up' to game just over the lan), but I can't seem to find any info on that right now.
I havn't run dosemu ever since dosbox first came out, so I can't speak for that.
You mean you don't read Slashdot 6 times an hour? Why, you uncultured pig! You might as well go back to living in caves and hitting passerbys with large rocks and sticks, you primitive, sad exuse for a human being!
You make me sick! Why, I refresh at least once every five minutes, my heart pounding, waiting to see that beautiful new dupe. And to you, they're nothing! You don't even *mind* them, much less CARE! You should be ashamed of yourself!!
What I don't get is how this is different from, say, Debian or Gentoo at all. At the end of his blog he says "If this sounds a lot like Debian, that's because it is in many ways", goes on to list the ways, and then doesn't list any differences other than an Anaconda installer. So, is this debian that installs like redhat and lets you choose packages? I mean, it doesn't sound like there's anything new here at all.
Hi! Welcome to Slashdot!
Netcraft!
I'm not gonna pretend to be an expert on 802.11 hardware, but I would recommend going with g instead of b. If you want to hold lan parties over this thing, you'll want the extra throughput.
If after setting this up, you want to provide high-speed internet service to the whole appartment as well, you might want to check out Netshare by Speakeasy, which was posted on slashdot a while ago. It should let you recoup some of the cost to spend on more hardware or do something with, or you might be able to use it to convince the landlord to foot some of the bill or something. Good luck!
You know, I actually used to sell Coke illegally at my school....
What I mean is this: Back in Junior year of high school, my school signed an exclusive contract with Pepsi and outlawed sale of Coka Cola on campus. Almost instantly, me and a few friends seized the opportunity to make some money and started selling Coke to fellow students at a lower price than the school itself sold its Pepsi.
It went well for a few weeks, then rival gangs rose up and soon the school was torn in a Mafia-style Coka Cola peddling war. After a while, our "family" and the other guys' "family" were the only two left, and they decided to turn the heat up and set up shop in plain sight. It started a frenzy, got them shut down by the authorities within a day, and left us as the only ones to reap in the profits.
The result of all that (other than a bit of spare change) has been being able to say "You know, I used to see Coke illegally at my school..." to people and see their reaction.