I've never heard/seen VoiceOver, but my thought is that voice output is serial, and thus reasonably well suited to conversion to braile output for the deaf and blind.. You might have to add extensions to braile to make up for the loss of audio cues.
As was said before, just deaf is pretty easy. I know lots of people who still run their computers with speakers detached. Once you do that, you've got a computer for the deaf. I have headphones on mine, and I'll often go for days without puting them on.
He's a bit lax on keeping the sources link up to date, but some of the Knoppix packages have shown up in the Debin tree (at least, they show up in dpkg searches when running knoppix ).
He also offers to ship of a CD (or two) full of sources to anybody who mails him a couple of bucks to cover mailing.
My guess is that he mostly just works with the debian binaries, himself.
Just a minute while I go hunting for a 'funny' mod point.
(oh, BTW, gasp isn't a standard UNIX command.
You can, however start with 'look' and 'talk'. If you've got serious 'uptime' issues, then you can go to the 'wall' as well. You would thus end up with:
look; nice ; talk ; touch ; unzip; { wall || tbl ; } ; strip; finger ; head;mount ; more ; while uptime ; do yes Yes! ; done ; unmount ; sleep; who
Remember that the original submitter was looking for something under $100. That pretty much leaves two choices: a $40 cablerouter, or a BSD/Linux firerouter.
Personally, I set up OpenBSD on a P75 w/ 32Meg of ram -- Overkill, I know. It's been running for YEARS -- and if I want redundancy, it's probably cheaper to get two 5-year-old boxes and set up an HA config than to buy a single server with redundant power supplies (and then have the disk drive go on me!).
Many years ago, they had a bunch of 386-33 PCs running as routers (not firewalls) at the University of British Columbia. They handled the 10Megabit networks we had there pretty well (and being Comp Sci and using NFS all over the place, we ran those networks prtty hard at times). I was told the only reason we were using 386-33s is that the vendor had stopped supplying 386-25s.
More precisely: If everybody started saying "no" to these kinds of things, there would be no 'somebody else' to do it anyways. At the very least, the choices of people and/or companies willing to do it would be very small and (hopefully) very incapable).
In the '80s, the US was providing technology and supplies to Saddam's chemical weapons factories. Now, the US is cleaning up the mess, with body parts of it's own young. What goes around, comes around.
It's like cockraoches in the night.. They disappear as soon as you find the lightswitch. That doesn't mean that they're gone, though. They just don't like the light.
The secret remenants of the US 'star wars' program decided it was a 'terrorist act' and shot it down (and now they've realized that they can't even boast of this 'success').
The russians forgot to disable the 'stealth' features of the missile.
The launch was on paper only. They didn't expect people to actually check the results.
It was fueled with hydrogen Peroxide and alcohol... too much of the alcohol was saved to celebrate the successful launch.
Translation error in the instruction list. ("Oh, this pin!")
Open Office is nice, but notice that it didn't start at Sun, and Sun gets to take the code and close it off into the (proprietary) Star Office. -- then there's the Patent deal between Sun and Microsoft that protects Star Office, but not Open Office.
Open Solaris, on the other hand is semi-closed. You can't use the code in GPL projects, and you have to (co) assign copyright in your code to Sun to have any hope of being able to distribute it. Just how does this promote Linux? I'd even question what good their Open Solaris release does for the general Open Source community?
They laptops will come with FreeDOS (no Windows!) and you can get an Ubuntu CD from HP.
Am I the only person who reads this and wants to scream?? I mean, why can't somebody come up with proof that Microsoft is browbeating every major distributor such that they will not sell any average consumer a machine with Linux pre-installed? This is so, so, freaking frustrating.
I really want somebody to sue Microsoft bigtime over this massive restraint of trade practice.
Think about it: 1/2 million users. If 1% of them are malicious assholes, that's 1000 tech-savy vandals vs a half/dozen (or less) journalists just dipping their toes in the wikki pool.
It's pretty obvious who's gonna be on the losing side of that stick.
About the only thing that they could have done would have been to let the Wikki run it's course and (hopefully) edit out all of the malicious work done by the vandals. A secnd backup would have been to disallow posts by anybody referred from Slashdot. That wouldn't have been foolproof, but it would, at least, have filtered things down to the point where they could probably handle what's left of the flood.
Unfortunately, it would have also possibly taken more tech savy than they had at their fingers -- and, although it would have probably been productive, posting a help message on the slashdot article would have probably been counter-intuitive given the apparent source of their difficulties
I managed to get one response. Here it is..
Who are we? Well, for one thing, we're a public-benefit, not-for-profit, California corporation. We're also all volunteers who were originally players, and who love Castle Infinity and want to see it fulfill its potential. We range in age from 15 to 53, and spend minutes to hours a day working on Castle Infinity.
Kevin Quitt...
In putative charge is
Rev. Kevin D. Quitt, who came into his position of Benevolent Dictator by virtue of the fact that he went dumpster diving when Castle Infinity's creators (Starwave) decided there was No Commercial Potential for the game, and threw out the baby with the bath (servers and all). He is the game's and the corporation's administrator, but besides that, he designs some algorithms and codes some of the utilities we use.
John Cantu joined the Castle Infinity staff in 2000 and does assorted administrative tasks. (Have you ever noticed you can't hack connect.dat? That's because he did it first.) Outside C8, John is working towards his B.S. in Computer Information Science with a goal of becoming a systems/network administrator, and currently works as an analyst for a multinational media information company.
David Estes
David Estes is possibly insane due to being a mad scientist
David Estes is glad that this intruder chose to invade his wheat field
David Estes is well known throughout the community for his soccer talents
David Estes is the new assistant provost for teaching
David Estes is president of the lutheran child and family services of illinois
David Estes is one of the owners of pacific northwest distributing
Greg Kumparak's been around Castle Infinity longer than he wishes to disclose. He started playing around the same time he began sporting a Power Rangers lunch box. Greg is responsible for the majority of the new art (including this site) and likes to brand himself as "Lead Level Design" when discussing Castle Infinity with others. Children simultaneously adore and fear him.
He still carries around a Power Rangers lunch box.
Edward Marks, unlike the other architects, never had a chance to play Castle Infinity when it was still operated by Starwave. He began playing in 2000 and joined the architect team in 2002. His original job was as an artist, but Greg has taken over most of his former responsibilities. Now he is responsible for the organization and use of original Starwave material (a lot of it was left on those abandoned hard drives) and has created several body parts, items, levels, and ideas. Outside of the game, he attends Thomas Jefferson School, with Andy, but will soon graduate and enroll full time in Stanford University in California.
Andy Matuschak joined the Castle Infinity team in 2001 as a client programmer (he likes to refer to himself as the "Lead Programmer"), but he's served in various capacities since then. His largest projects for the game include the site you're reading now (which he coded), the Infrared update system, the currency system, and the HUD. On a day to day basis, Andy is responsible for new features in the client, web site updates, and most of the levels that require code. Outside of the game, he attends Thomas Jefferson School in St. Louis, MO (graduating in 2006) and spends much of what time remains working with the Open Sword Group on open-source Mac software.
I actually like 3com cards because I sometimes teach Solaris courses, and 3com's seem to have the best support under Solaris/x86. I really don't care how good they are because I almost never stress them. Truth of the matter is that I think that it would be hard to stress a modern box with anything slower than a gigabit card
Perhaps he just didn't have anything better than a $10.00 RealTek. Not many sonsumer-level users have the kind of network load that makes a 3Com card worth the money.
Apple is (at least for now) promising not to run on 'generic' Intel boxes. This means that OS-X is not a threat to the core market of either Linux or Microsoft.
-- At least, not until Apple decides to change their mind and start selling to OEMs.
While MS might no longer attract the best brains in the industry (did it ever?), they can keep throwing their stock-scam money at a problem for a very long time.
Oh, they have.. Attracted them, captured them, and devoured them.
Well, by the time the VHS isn't worth watching, I'll probably have stopped worrying about it anyways... In either case, the point is that most of the VHS tapes that I've got have already given me their value, and it's really not worth paying $20 for the 'extended DVD' for them. The fact that the MPAA won't let me media shift the copy that I've already paid them good money for is reason enough to refuse to pay for the replacements that I care about. I'll find my own way to work around macrovision and activate my fair use rights.
I havent't watched my VHS copy of "Dune' for over 5 years, and the MPAA wants me to pay $20 so that the replacement DVD can collect dust on my shelf. Forget it.. It's cheaper for me to replace my VHS player with a used box I get in the Buy and Sell for $10.00 in 2010 so that I can watch it again when I want to.
Don't expect me to get rid of my Vinyl record player any time soon either... There are a couple of records that took me years to hunt down in the 70's and 80's I have precious little hope of hunging down the CDs today.... Granted, it
would be cheap for me to transfer to CD, but anybody who's listened to an analogue recording on a half-decent audio system will tell you that a little bit is lost when going to CD --- and I don't have a sound card with quality enough to make a higher resolution recording (on DVD) sound as good as a 12" piece of spinning vinyl.
Strangest thing is that the DVD player that I bought in 2000 is already dead, even though it got precious little use, but a 20 year old Technics turntable still works just fine. similarly, some of my 10 year old CDs are probably in worse shape than my 20+ year old records.
No, I'm sorry, the PLO is not a democracy, and it's not a country. Iran under the shah was most definitely NOT a democracy, or even close. Not the mention the coup was NOT a war. The Coup was not solely orchestrated by the US either. Your points are irrelevant.
The US engineered the coup in Iran to put the Shaw back in place as the dictator. I'm not sure whether or not the the government in place at the time was democratic, but it was definitely in place because of a popular revolt and had popular support vs the shaw.
That was the main reason why the US embasy in Tehran was taken in 1979.. The people of Iran were deathly afraid that the US was plotting to put the shaw back in power again and that fear was far more powerful than Kohmeni's popularity at the time. (He tried to talk the hostage-takers out, but failed).
England POSSESSES the Falklands and was protecting their territory.
England didn't go to war against the Falklands.. They went to war against Argentina -- but I think that Argentina was a dictatorship at the time.
No, but I would say the number of civilians killed by/under dictatorships, fascisms, military governments, etc FAR exceeds those killed in conflicts between democracies and others.
The US is estimated to have killed between 100,000 and 1/2Million in Iraq either directly or indirectly. This puts it into running with other conflicts around the world, and far exceeds the number of americans killed by all forms of terrorism in the last decade.
"Of the 25 countries that have been most adversely affected by terrorism since 1986, eighty per cent have national identity cards, one third of which incorporate biometrics. This research was unable to uncover any instance where the presence of an identity card system in those countries was seen as a significant deterrent to terrorist activity."
"Almost two thirds of known terrorists operate under their true identity. The remainder use a variety of techniques to forge or impersonate identities. It is possible that the existence of a high integrity identity card would provide a measure of improved legitimacy for these people."
Any information that's not on the card will be repeatedly transmitted over various networks. Government entities seem to have really bad records when it comes to system security. It'll be short months before all of that data is in the hands of just about every identity thief willing to pay $.05 for each person's data (in bulk).
I would second the AC's comments.. The Israeli government is racist entity in that it effectively ignores the existence and rights of the vast majority of the Palestinians within it's claimed borders.
Although the Palestinian authority is nominally elected, it 'rules' only at the whims of the Israeli government, which undertakes military actions within Palestinian lands as an 'internal' action.
If you accept Israeli claims that it's actions on Palestinian soil are an 'internal security' matter, then what is going on in Israel is a civil war between the ruling Jewish faction(s) and the disenfranchised Palestinian faction(s).
If you accept Palestinian claims that it is a sovereign country and Israeli actions are invasionary, then the Palestinian Authority inherited a war at it's inception rather than being involved in the starting of one. -- then, of course, you run into the question of whether the PA is actually a democracy, and I'm not even close to knowing enough to begin to answer that question.
Before the inception of the PA, the PLO was a paramilitary/ revolutionary unit seen by many as even terrorist. Although it claimed to represent the Palestinian people, I don't think it even pretended to be a democratic entity.
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That comment, by itself was worth reading the interview. I woulda ROTFL except for the fact that the chair I sit in has very solid sides.
As was said before, just deaf is pretty easy. I know lots of people who still run their computers with speakers detached. Once you do that, you've got a computer for the deaf. I have headphones on mine, and I'll often go for days without puting them on.
He also offers to ship of a CD (or two) full of sources to anybody who mails him a couple of bucks to cover mailing.
My guess is that he mostly just works with the debian binaries, himself.
(oh, BTW, gasp isn't a standard UNIX command.
( 'tbl' is pronounced 'table' )You can, however start with 'look' and 'talk'. If you've got serious 'uptime' issues, then you can go to the 'wall' as well. You would thus end up with:
Personally, I set up OpenBSD on a P75 w/ 32Meg of ram -- Overkill, I know. It's been running for YEARS -- and if I want redundancy, it's probably cheaper to get two 5-year-old boxes and set up an HA config than to buy a single server with redundant power supplies (and then have the disk drive go on me!).
Many years ago, they had a bunch of 386-33 PCs running as routers (not firewalls) at the University of British Columbia. They handled the 10Megabit networks we had there pretty well (and being Comp Sci and using NFS all over the place, we ran those networks prtty hard at times). I was told the only reason we were using 386-33s is that the vendor had stopped supplying 386-25s.
In the '80s, the US was providing technology and supplies to Saddam's chemical weapons factories. Now, the US is cleaning up the mess, with body parts of it's own young. What goes around, comes around.
To quote the Regans: "Just Say NO!"
It's like cockraoches in the night.. They disappear as soon as you find the lightswitch. That doesn't mean that they're gone, though. They just don't like the light.
Open Solaris, on the other hand is semi-closed. You can't use the code in GPL projects, and you have to (co) assign copyright in your code to Sun to have any hope of being able to distribute it. Just how does this promote Linux? I'd even question what good their Open Solaris release does for the general Open Source community?
Am I the only person who reads this and wants to scream ?? I mean, why can't somebody come up with proof that Microsoft is browbeating every major distributor such that they will not sell any average consumer a machine with Linux pre-installed? This is so, so, freaking frustrating.
I really want somebody to sue Microsoft bigtime over this massive restraint of trade practice.
(we now return you to your regular programming.)
It's pretty obvious who's gonna be on the losing side of that stick.
About the only thing that they could have done would have been to let the Wikki run it's course and (hopefully) edit out all of the malicious work done by the vandals. A secnd backup would have been to disallow posts by anybody referred from Slashdot. That wouldn't have been foolproof, but it would, at least, have filtered things down to the point where they could probably handle what's left of the flood.
Unfortunately, it would have also possibly taken more tech savy than they had at their fingers -- and, although it would have probably been productive, posting a help message on the slashdot article would have probably been counter-intuitive given the apparent source of their difficulties
Thanks. Smetimes it's easier to get forgiveness than permission. If that failed, I would have had to point out that I'm too poor to be worth suing.
Who are we? Well, for one thing, we're a public-benefit, not-for-profit, California corporation. We're also all volunteers who were originally players, and who love Castle Infinity and want to see it fulfill its potential. We range in age from 15 to 53, and spend minutes to hours a day working on Castle Infinity.
Kevin Quitt ...
In putative charge is
Rev. Kevin D. Quitt, who came into his position of Benevolent Dictator by virtue of the fact that he went dumpster diving when Castle Infinity's creators (Starwave) decided there was No Commercial Potential for the game, and threw out the baby with the bath (servers and all). He is the game's and the corporation's administrator, but besides that, he designs some algorithms and codes some of the utilities we use.
John Cantu joined the Castle Infinity staff in 2000 and does assorted administrative tasks. (Have you ever noticed you can't hack connect.dat? That's because he did it first.) Outside C8, John is working towards his B.S. in Computer Information Science with a goal of becoming a systems/network administrator, and currently works as an analyst for a multinational media information company.
David Estes
David Estes is possibly insane due to being a mad scientist
David Estes is glad that this intruder chose to invade his wheat field
David Estes is well known throughout the community for his soccer talents
David Estes is the new assistant provost for teaching
David Estes is president of the lutheran child and family services of illinois
David Estes is one of the owners of pacific northwest distributing
Greg Kumparak's been around Castle Infinity longer than he wishes to disclose. He started playing around the same time he began sporting a Power Rangers lunch box. Greg is responsible for the majority of the new art (including this site) and likes to brand himself as "Lead Level Design" when discussing Castle Infinity with others. Children simultaneously adore and fear him.
He still carries around a Power Rangers lunch box.
Edward Marks, unlike the other architects, never had a chance to play Castle Infinity when it was still operated by Starwave. He began playing in 2000 and joined the architect team in 2002. His original job was as an artist, but Greg has taken over most of his former responsibilities. Now he is responsible for the organization and use of original Starwave material (a lot of it was left on those abandoned hard drives) and has created several body parts, items, levels, and ideas. Outside of the game, he attends Thomas Jefferson School, with Andy, but will soon graduate and enroll full time in Stanford University in California.
Andy Matuschak joined the Castle Infinity team in 2001 as a client programmer (he likes to refer to himself as the "Lead Programmer"), but he's served in various capacities since then. His largest projects for the game include the site you're reading now (which he coded), the Infrared update system, the currency system, and the HUD. On a day to day basis, Andy is responsible for new features in the client, web site updates, and most of the levels that require code. Outside of the game, he attends Thomas Jefferson School in St. Louis, MO (graduating in 2006) and spends much of what time remains working with the Open Sword Group on open-source Mac software.
© Castle Infinity, Inc. 1996-2005 (( -- but I hope they don't mind me posting this here. ))
I figure that a fire hose is the only thing that's gonna keep that server from melting down now that it's on Slashdot's front page.
I actually like 3com cards because I sometimes teach Solaris courses, and 3com's seem to have the best support under Solaris/x86. I really don't care how good they are because I almost never stress them. Truth of the matter is that I think that it would be hard to stress a modern box with anything slower than a gigabit card
Perhaps he just didn't have anything better than a $10.00 RealTek. Not many sonsumer-level users have the kind of network load that makes a 3Com card worth the money.
-- At least, not until Apple decides to change their mind and start selling to OEMs.
Oh, they have.. Attracted them, captured them, and devoured them.
(should I insert a "Bwahahahaha!" here?)Well, by the time the VHS isn't worth watching, I'll probably have stopped worrying about it anyways... In either case, the point is that most of the VHS tapes that I've got have already given me their value, and it's really not worth paying $20 for the 'extended DVD' for them. The fact that the MPAA won't let me media shift the copy that I've already paid them good money for is reason enough to refuse to pay for the replacements that I care about. I'll find my own way to work around macrovision and activate my fair use rights.
Don't expect me to get rid of my Vinyl record player any time soon either... There are a couple of records that took me years to hunt down in the 70's and 80's I have precious little hope of hunging down the CDs today.... Granted, it would be cheap for me to transfer to CD, but anybody who's listened to an analogue recording on a half-decent audio system will tell you that a little bit is lost when going to CD --- and I don't have a sound card with quality enough to make a higher resolution recording (on DVD) sound as good as a 12" piece of spinning vinyl.
Strangest thing is that the DVD player that I bought in 2000 is already dead, even though it got precious little use, but a 20 year old Technics turntable still works just fine. similarly, some of my 10 year old CDs are probably in worse shape than my 20+ year old records.
The US engineered the coup in Iran to put the Shaw back in place as the dictator. I'm not sure whether or not the the government in place at the time was democratic, but it was definitely in place because of a popular revolt and had popular support vs the shaw.
That was the main reason why the US embasy in Tehran was taken in 1979.. The people of Iran were deathly afraid that the US was plotting to put the shaw back in power again and that fear was far more powerful than Kohmeni's popularity at the time. (He tried to talk the hostage-takers out, but failed).
England POSSESSES the Falklands and was protecting their territory.
England didn't go to war against the Falklands.. They went to war against Argentina -- but I think that Argentina was a dictatorship at the time.
No, but I would say the number of civilians killed by/under dictatorships, fascisms, military governments, etc FAR exceeds those killed in conflicts between democracies and others.
The US is estimated to have killed between 100,000 and 1/2Million in Iraq either directly or indirectly. This puts it into running with other conflicts around the world, and far exceeds the number of americans killed by all forms of terrorism in the last decade.
Any information that's not on the card will be repeatedly transmitted over various networks. Government entities seem to have really bad records when it comes to system security. It'll be short months before all of that data is in the hands of just about every identity thief willing to pay $.05 for each person's data (in bulk).
Although the Palestinian authority is nominally elected, it 'rules' only at the whims of the Israeli government, which undertakes military actions within Palestinian lands as an 'internal' action.
If you accept Israeli claims that it's actions on Palestinian soil are an 'internal security' matter, then what is going on in Israel is a civil war between the ruling Jewish faction(s) and the disenfranchised Palestinian faction(s).
If you accept Palestinian claims that it is a sovereign country and Israeli actions are invasionary, then the Palestinian Authority inherited a war at it's inception rather than being involved in the starting of one. -- then, of course, you run into the question of whether the PA is actually a democracy, and I'm not even close to knowing enough to begin to answer that question.
Before the inception of the PA, the PLO was a paramilitary/ revolutionary unit seen by many as even terrorist. Although it claimed to represent the Palestinian people, I don't think it even pretended to be a democratic entity.
Possibly the US invasion of Guatemala (1954), although I'm not sure if that was a direct invasion. -- It was definitely US-backed.