Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it, Soldiers are gunning us down Should have been done long ago. What if you knew her, and Found her dead on the ground? How can you run when you now?
...
Gotta get down to it, Soldiers are gunning us down Should have been done long ago What if you knew her, and found her dead on the ground? How can you run when you now?
Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Four dead in Ohio Four dead in Ohio Four dead in Ohio...
I got razzed in Efnet's #linux chatroom a few days ago for bringing this up, but now seems like the perfect time to say it (and kinda eerily concidental).
There's a plugin for Winamp called DFX. It adds psuedo- hi fidelity sound to MP3 playback. It's demoware in Win9x, but let me just be the first person to say this -- it is INCREDIBLE. The bigger the stereo system, the better it sounds, but it even sounds great on headphones. How about something similar to this for XMMS? If it's done well, it's an almost sure-fire win.
Note: I can't program, or else I'd be one of the first people trying to do this ^_^. Also, for those who want to check out DFX, it's at www.fxsound.com
I'm seriously hoping something BETTER than DFX can be created for linux. OpenGL / Spectrum Analysis / Visual plugins are cool, but you're not listening to music to watch some wavy effects.
Most mp3s are in public folders on the network (Linux only people: think Samba in share, not user mode). Since it's mainly Win9x boxen, all you really need is a password to access a share, not a username, and many passwords are common "mp3", "music", and the person's name or computer name.
I doubt they busted anyone who ran an ftp site, in most cases that would require a port scanner to find them. If they didn't have a l/p to the site, then they have no evidence as to what they're distributing, and can't make any judgements as to whether or not they're "engaging in illegal activities".
There's a bit of software for win9x, called MP3 Voyeur. It scans local area networks for mp3s, and other multimedia files.
The catch? It queries the author's homepage every time it's run, AND leaves the connection open during use. I haven't set anything up to see if it's sending anything back, but I'd count on it. Every time the website goes down (which isn't often), or the author feels the need to discontinue the program (which already happened once), the software lets the user know this, and refuses to run. It's painfully annoying during the few times when the outside connection goes down at our University, and we only have a local net connection. I'm more scared, however, of what the program is sending back during the time it's running / scanning.
And of course, like almost all Win apps, it's closed source. And of course, like almost all Win apps, many people use it without fully realizing what it's doing. I get chills whenever I run it, but it's very convienent, and I haven't seen another program do what it's supposed to do.
If anyone wants to test it out to see exactly WHAT it recieves / sends back from the main server, it's at http://www.jawed.com/mp3voyeur. Of course, it IS Win9x software, and I haven't had the opportunity to test it in Wine (don't have Wine installed at the moment).
>>We follow the standards. Microsoft make their own.
Standards have to be created before they can be followed.
We need to go further than that. Let's make the next Mozilla 100% compatible with the latest version of W3C's HTML standards, and add in all the features that makes IE a superior browser in Windows.
Once that's completed, we need to take it one step further. Let's start creating our own standards. Let MS, for ONCE, have to catch up to US. Why must it constantly be the other way around? Don't add in features that will ultimately break the browser, but add in features that will enhance & elevate Netscape / Mozilla's functionality above IE's. WE need to be the innovators, the creators of dreams, those who create the magic that entices the average Joe to use our software.
Good guys don't always follow the rules, and vice versa: those who follow the rules aren't always the good guys. Remember that before you make that kind of statement again.
I don't know if I'm missing the point or not. All we know is that MS is making a console, and I personally have heard of no developers jumping on the bandwagon to port / develop for it. Even if it IS just a low-end Windows machine taylored especially for games, it WILL require porting on current Windows-platform game developers. Also, since most PC games now require actual hard disk space, which the X-Box has very little to speak of (just 32 megs of ram, no physical drive), all games will have to be run completly off of the media that the X-Box uses. Making a game go from directly playable off a CD to a CD / hard drive combination is MUCH harder than making a game that plays off a hard drive / CD to CD only -- SEVERAL optimizations have to be implemented on the way data is accessed to prevent slowdown. There are only rumors at this point of a 4 gig hard drive -- nothing confirmed. This also defeats the purpose of console gaming platforms, you don't need to install a game first to play it on a playstation or N64. Console games are all about popping in a CD, DVD or Cart, turning on the system, and start the game.
It still seems like me that MS is getting in over their heads. The console realm is already full of cutthroat business and corporate backstabbing (ahem.. Nintendo may be one of the most vile companies in existance. I don't recall what it was off the top of my head, but something I read about them made me think that they're even lower than MS), I don't think even MS is prepared to compete. No matter how much money they invest, if there's few quality games for their platform, they'll have few customers, and as a result, very little real market share.
There's many console companies that are loyal to a single platform. Squaresoft, Rare (they're a subsidiary of Nintendo, so they don't really count) comes to mind immediately. There are others who are already developing different games for different platforms, because each platform has specific features that the others don't have. How is MS going to recruit developers to develop games for an advanced gaming system when there's already 2 advanced (PSX 2 & Dreamcast) console systems on the market, and a third (Dolphin) on the Horizon?
Honestly, it seems like Microsoft is charging into a market where they're very unprepared to compete. If they're the only one developing games for their console, the X-Box is going to go the way of the Atari Jaguar very quickly.
Even if they are able to charge lower prices than Nintendo, Sega & Sony, if they have no developer support, then they are going to fall flat on their face.
Maybe. I think overall, the Rush's were a little, well, rushed out the door. (Absouletly no pun intended)
I had a Hercules Stingray 128-3D up until about 3 months ago. It had been in my computer for over a year and a half, for little other reason than I didn't want to spend the money to get a new PCI graphics card when I knew I'd be upgrading to a AGP based system.
Let's just say I've had some very, very bad, painful memories with that card. Anything that causes MS Dev Studio in Windows (along with 60% of all the applications I run) to crash randomly -- not just crash, but completly "freeze", warranting the need for an immediate cold-reboot) is bad enough. However, my card was something that could cause 50% of all KDE apps, and all of Gnome / E to completly lock up. Anything that can do that consistently to a Linux system, without a fix other than replacement, is something that belongs in the bottom of a landfill.
Fortunately, I believe that's where my Hercules card might be right now.
Yes, apparently Quicktime 4 likes to assume that Netscape & IE do not know how to render pngs on their own.
Upside is that gamma with Quicktime is perfect, so gamma-dependant images in netscape can be viewed as they should be.
Downside is that alpha rendering with Quicktime is just as bad as how Netscape renders it, so in IE5 (haven't found a machine to test IE4 yet), when you view a PNG rendered by QT (not an inline image), it's WORSE quality than that of IE5's internal renderer.
Of course, QT has one of the worst hooks of any application. It's not a matter of going into the given program's ini files or the registry, you need to rearrage the order of the files in the plugin folders for each in order to view / not view movies or images or midis(!!) with QT. At least this was the case for older Quicktimes -- it's downright absurd.
I just tested IE 5, Netscape (Win9x) & Mozilla M10 (Linux). Netscape did rather poorly on all tests, while IE5 did much better, although wasn't able to render some things correctly.
Mozilla had it's own problems. It didn't have many problems rendering the pngs against a background, but the pngs themselves seemed broken and unable to render correctly. From the descriptions I read, I couldn't tell if this was intended or not.
Right, which is one of the main reasons I use my DXR. That and it also has either an AC3 output, which standard sound cards just don't have these days:)
Let's face it. No matter how much we push the code, no matter how much we optimize the routines, no matter how fast our machine is, there is *no* way a software decoder, open source or not, will outperform & look better than a hardware decoder.
After we get the Linux-DVD project on the road to completion (now that CSS & Data encryption have been cracked, and a makeshift player has been put together -- way to go IceFox, a "snowball" effect is almost sure to start...) Within a few months, we should see quality (hopefully) GPL'ed players emerge. But there's something that really irks me. We need to concentrate on the manufacturers of hardware decoders. Creative has given somewhere between a very poor to slightly poor effort to bring drivers for it's DXR series of decoder cards to *NIX systems. They've opened up the SB Live drivers, but what of the DXRs? We need to e-mail, petition, press (not harass, just make our voices heard) to open up the source for the hardware decoder drivers. Many of you (including me and my DXR3) have a $70-$150 card in our computers that if we were to delete Windows, which some of us have, would become worthless to us. This is a shame -- and should be our next challenge to overcome.
Way to go on the software. Now we need to get the hardware.
gftp is almost a joke (no offense if the designers are in the crowd ^_^). Besides Mozilla, I've never seen a program crash so much.
I've been using IglooFTP Pro for the past few months now. It's GTK based, stable, supports cut & paste quick sites (very useful, the windows boys will know what I'm talking about). Unfortunately, it's nagWare(tm). I'm not sure how much the author wants for it, but considering he's distributing it from a nonprofit site, I'm in very little hurry to open up my wallet to pay for it.
I'd use IglooFTP (vanilla; GPL, I think), but it had quite a few bugs last time I checked, such as no domain name lookup. However, both clients are just about as easy to use as CuteFTP, and are quite powerful.
It's something that, as a Christian, I wouldn't play:-) (and am about to fire up UT to play a little CTF)
I'm not sure about the engine. It looks like they're using the Jedi Knight engine, which in itself isn't that bad, just a little outdated. If they're using an engine they developed, it looks like they did a decent job, although the game looks dated by about a year.
If this game would have used the Q3 engine or the Unreal engine, I'd at least download the demo. I'm not sure if I'd like it, I'm not one for either gratutious violence or unrealistic happy no-blood-no-guts action games (realistic violence is alot more effective, if you cut someone, or thing in this case, with a sword, it bleeds. If you shoot someone with a bazooka, he better gib), but then again, I don't believe in demons either.
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Around my college, and likewise with many other people who liken themselves to be 'IT' professionals and are too snooty to use a mac, I'd love to carry one of those around with LinuxPPC installed.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd really get a kick out of people snickering, maybe even laughing at me until they came over and saw KDE running in X. (Or even better, came over and saw the linux CLI on the screen. I can imagine it, "whoah, is that a screensaver?")
Sad thing is that many folks are completly set against Apple & Macintoshes in general, that they forget that they can be a very useful computing system. Ask most who does computer graphics or animation for a living, and if they're not using Be (they could EASILY overtake Macintosh if they pushed their OS to software developers more), they're using a Mac.
...And I'd much rather have Mac OS X on my computer than Windows.
Usually it's Marketing that decides upon the final, "public" name of any given product. Each project is given an interal name by a department, usually R&D, and Marketing doesn't touch it until it's completed (in ideal cases, in most cases, they're all over it from the beginning). Most of the product names you see out there (Pentium, Itanium, Windows 2000, to name 3 very common ones) are decided from marketing, not from the teams which research, design and manufacture them. Marketing's prime goal is to make a product sell as many copies as possible, this includes a flashy name. In Microsoft's case, Windows NT 5.0 sounded too technical, they wanted to continue the "year" series. This is also why Intel held onto Pentium for so long -- it became highly visible to the mass market, and they were afraid if they changed the name dramaticaly, they'd lose market recognition.
Washington(AP): In a move that suprised people everywhere, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has made an agreement with the National Air and Space Administration to fund the next 5 years of space programs. The agreement, valued somewhere between $500,000,000 and $750,000,000 calls for renovations to the space shuttles and the space program itself. Each of the Space Shuttle's control computers will be refitted with Intel Pentium III Xeon processors. In order to pay for this, NASA has let Intel paint "Intel Inside: Pentium III Xeon" in large letters on the Space Shuttles. Additionally, a new design of a sattelite, being co-designed by Intel and Nasa at Kennedy Space Center, will help to illuminate the night sky during new moons. Instead of a moon, there will be a square banner that reads "Planet Earth: Intel Inside".
At the time of press, neither NASA nor Intel could be reached for comment.
In balance basically means that if we were to sit back, not touch the environment around us (okay, so that would mean that all humans would have to pack their stuff up and leave earth, or a massive, human-only genocide would take place), nature could survive on its own for an indefinate amount of time (barring any natural disasters).
I don't know how many creatures go extinct each day... My guess is that it's more like a sub-species (say for example, a type of wolf, not an entire species) goes extinct about one sub-species for every month. My numbers are probably way off, but I'm just speculating
What we are doing could potentially ruin our ecosystem. All creatures have methods of adaptation. While we hear propaganda from both sides of the eco-coin, the truth is the ecosystem is in balance right now. Introducing an element that was once part of it, but is no longer is does just as much harm to an ecosystem as introducing a specimen that has never been there at all. If we re-introduce Wooly Mammoths into nature, we don't know how well they will adapt, and we don't know how well nature will adapt around them.
For all we know, this could be something that completly devistates the earth. Long shot, but if we keep tinkering...
>>Folders would be rooms. Files are monsters >>that originate in the rooms. Symbolic links >>would be mapped as teleporters.
So wait, if you have a symbolic link to a file, wouldn't you then telefrag that file (monster) if you went through it? Uh-oh, time to remove all sym links to/vmlinuz:)
Nahh... more like, the little marines are running around mindlessly, going into the startx room, flipping on a switch that starts up netscape. But you always have that rogue marine that's trying to open (find the keycard to) the/root folder, other people's folders in/home, or playing around with executables that he should be playing around with in/sbin and/usr/sbin. What do we do then? We get some Combat Armor on, we find a grenade launcher and a bunch of grenades, and track him down (god bless Doom & it's automap) and pop him a few times, thus ending his noseyness.
Maybe perhaps level entrances will signify open ports -- and the doors will be open. If you see a marine that shouldn't be standing in the doorway of, say, port 139, then well you get out that damn double-barreled shotgun (doom 2), and blast his little ass off.
MainWin will come out and very very likely be much better than WINE. But it will cause the open-source movement to rally around WINE, to show how far it has to go. Lots more effort will be put into it's development, and as a result, we will get a far superior, Open-sourced product than the one we have.
Bring MainWin on. I'll use it, until WINE Improves on all of it's features. And as open sourced recods have shown, it won't take very long.
I've been using the beta for awhile now too, and from what I can tell, RPM on Slack fails at almost every attempt because it can't find the dependencies it needs. Of course, rpm2tgz && su -c "installpkg foo.tgz" will always get the job done.
I'm sure there's a switch to use with RPM to make it ignore dependencies, but I'm too lazy to care:)
Yes I know... Part of the Gates foundation is for education. I don't like that fact either -- I know that they use it to advocate NT & other Windows products. They don't specify how much money is given for educational purposes, they do for the one that I'm most concerned with Global Health dontations -- $138 million since Dec 1998.
I'd like to see official records if this is true amount of money sent out. But they're not bent on shipping out copies of Windows 98 or 2000 to starving children in third world countries. The Global Health is founded to help get vaccines to those children in third world countries who aren't expected to live more than 5 years.
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Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it,
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her, and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you now?
...
Gotta get down to it,
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her, and
found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you now?
Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio
Four dead in Ohio...
-CSN&Y (Lyrics by Y)
I got razzed in Efnet's #linux chatroom a few days ago for bringing this up, but now seems like the perfect time to say it (and kinda eerily concidental).
There's a plugin for Winamp called DFX. It adds psuedo- hi fidelity sound to MP3 playback. It's demoware in Win9x, but let me just be the first person to say this -- it is INCREDIBLE. The bigger the stereo system, the better it sounds, but it even sounds great on headphones. How about something similar to this for XMMS? If it's done well, it's an almost sure-fire win.
Note: I can't program, or else I'd be one of the first people trying to do this ^_^. Also, for those who want to check out DFX, it's at www.fxsound.com
I'm seriously hoping something BETTER than DFX can be created for linux. OpenGL / Spectrum Analysis / Visual plugins are cool, but you're not listening to music to watch some wavy effects.
Most mp3s are in public folders on the network (Linux only people: think Samba in share, not user mode). Since it's mainly Win9x boxen, all you really need is a password to access a share, not a username, and many passwords are common "mp3", "music", and the person's name or computer name.
I doubt they busted anyone who ran an ftp site, in most cases that would require a port scanner to find them. If they didn't have a l/p to the site, then they have no evidence as to what they're distributing, and can't make any judgements as to whether or not they're "engaging in illegal activities".
There's a bit of software for win9x, called MP3 Voyeur. It scans local area networks for mp3s, and other multimedia files.
The catch? It queries the author's homepage every time it's run, AND leaves the connection open during use. I haven't set anything up to see if it's sending anything back, but I'd count on it. Every time the website goes down (which isn't often), or the author feels the need to discontinue the program (which already happened once), the software lets the user know this, and refuses to run. It's painfully annoying during the few times when the outside connection goes down at our University, and we only have a local net connection. I'm more scared, however, of what the program is sending back during the time it's running / scanning.
And of course, like almost all Win apps, it's closed source. And of course, like almost all Win apps, many people use it without fully realizing what it's doing. I get chills whenever I run it, but it's very convienent, and I haven't seen another program do what it's supposed to do.
If anyone wants to test it out to see exactly WHAT it recieves / sends back from the main server, it's at http://www.jawed.com/mp3voyeur. Of course, it IS Win9x software, and I haven't had the opportunity to test it in Wine (don't have Wine installed at the moment).
>>We follow the standards. Microsoft make their own.
Standards have to be created before they can be followed.
We need to go further than that. Let's make the next Mozilla 100% compatible with the latest version of W3C's HTML standards, and add in all the features that makes IE a superior browser in Windows.
Once that's completed, we need to take it one step further. Let's start creating our own standards. Let MS, for ONCE, have to catch up to US. Why must it constantly be the other way around? Don't add in features that will ultimately break the browser, but add in features that will enhance & elevate Netscape / Mozilla's functionality above IE's. WE need to be the innovators, the creators of dreams, those who create the magic that entices the average Joe to use our software.
Good guys don't always follow the rules, and vice versa: those who follow the rules aren't always the good guys. Remember that before you make that kind of statement again.
I don't know if I'm missing the point or not. All we know is that MS is making a console, and I personally have heard of no developers jumping on the bandwagon to port / develop for it. Even if it IS just a low-end Windows machine taylored especially for games, it WILL require porting on current Windows-platform game developers. Also, since most PC games now require actual hard disk space, which the X-Box has very little to speak of (just 32 megs of ram, no physical drive), all games will have to be run completly off of the media that the X-Box uses. Making a game go from directly playable off a CD to a CD / hard drive combination is MUCH harder than making a game that plays off a hard drive / CD to CD only -- SEVERAL optimizations have to be implemented on the way data is accessed to prevent slowdown. There are only rumors at this point of a 4 gig hard drive -- nothing confirmed. This also defeats the purpose of console gaming platforms, you don't need to install a game first to play it on a playstation or N64. Console games are all about popping in a CD, DVD or Cart, turning on the system, and start the game.
It still seems like me that MS is getting in over their heads. The console realm is already full of cutthroat business and corporate backstabbing (ahem.. Nintendo may be one of the most vile companies in existance. I don't recall what it was off the top of my head, but something I read about them made me think that they're even lower than MS), I don't think even MS is prepared to compete. No matter how much money they invest, if there's few quality games for their platform, they'll have few customers, and as a result, very little real market share.
Who's going to develop games for this?
There's many console companies that are loyal to a single platform. Squaresoft, Rare (they're a subsidiary of Nintendo, so they don't really count) comes to mind immediately. There are others who are already developing different games for different platforms, because each platform has specific features that the others don't have. How is MS going to recruit developers to develop games for an advanced gaming system when there's already 2 advanced (PSX 2 & Dreamcast) console systems on the market, and a third (Dolphin) on the Horizon?
Honestly, it seems like Microsoft is charging into a market where they're very unprepared to compete. If they're the only one developing games for their console, the X-Box is going to go the way of the Atari Jaguar very quickly.
Even if they are able to charge lower prices than Nintendo, Sega & Sony, if they have no developer support, then they are going to fall flat on their face.
Maybe. I think overall, the Rush's were a little, well, rushed out the door. (Absouletly no pun intended)
I had a Hercules Stingray 128-3D up until about 3 months ago. It had been in my computer for over a year and a half, for little other reason than I didn't want to spend the money to get a new PCI graphics card when I knew I'd be upgrading to a AGP based system.
Let's just say I've had some very, very bad, painful memories with that card. Anything that causes MS Dev Studio in Windows (along with 60% of all the applications I run) to crash randomly -- not just crash, but completly "freeze", warranting the need for an immediate cold-reboot) is bad enough. However, my card was something that could cause 50% of all KDE apps, and all of Gnome / E to completly lock up. Anything that can do that consistently to a Linux system, without a fix other than replacement, is something that belongs in the bottom of a landfill.
Fortunately, I believe that's where my Hercules card might be right now.
Yes, apparently Quicktime 4 likes to assume that Netscape & IE do not know how to render pngs on their own.
Upside is that gamma with Quicktime is perfect, so gamma-dependant images in netscape can be viewed as they should be.
Downside is that alpha rendering with Quicktime is just as bad as how Netscape renders it, so in IE5 (haven't found a machine to test IE4 yet), when you view a PNG rendered by QT (not an inline image), it's WORSE quality than that of IE5's internal renderer.
Of course, QT has one of the worst hooks of any application. It's not a matter of going into the given program's ini files or the registry, you need to rearrage the order of the files in the plugin folders for each in order to view / not view movies or images or midis(!!) with QT. At least this was the case for older Quicktimes -- it's downright absurd.
I just tested IE 5, Netscape (Win9x) & Mozilla M10 (Linux). Netscape did rather poorly on all tests, while IE5 did much better, although wasn't able to render some things correctly.
Mozilla had it's own problems. It didn't have many problems rendering the pngs against a background, but the pngs themselves seemed broken and unable to render correctly. From the descriptions I read, I couldn't tell if this was intended or not.
Right, which is one of the main reasons I use my DXR. That and it also has either an AC3 output, which standard sound cards just don't have these days :)
Let's face it. No matter how much we push the code, no matter how much we optimize the routines, no matter how fast our machine is, there is *no* way a software decoder, open source or not, will outperform & look better than a hardware decoder.
After we get the Linux-DVD project on the road to completion (now that CSS & Data encryption have been cracked, and a makeshift player has been put together -- way to go IceFox, a "snowball" effect is almost sure to start...) Within a few months, we should see quality (hopefully) GPL'ed players emerge. But there's something that really irks me. We need to concentrate on the manufacturers of hardware decoders. Creative has given somewhere between a very poor to slightly poor effort to bring drivers for it's DXR series of decoder cards to *NIX systems. They've opened up the SB Live drivers, but what of the DXRs? We need to e-mail, petition, press (not harass, just make our voices heard) to open up the source for the hardware decoder drivers. Many of you (including me and my DXR3) have a $70-$150 card in our computers that if we were to delete Windows, which some of us have, would become worthless to us. This is a shame -- and should be our next challenge to overcome.
Way to go on the software. Now we need to get the hardware.
gftp is almost a joke (no offense if the designers are in the crowd ^_^). Besides Mozilla, I've never seen a program crash so much.
I've been using IglooFTP Pro for the past few months now. It's GTK based, stable, supports cut & paste quick sites (very useful, the windows boys will know what I'm talking about). Unfortunately, it's nagWare(tm). I'm not sure how much the author wants for it, but considering he's distributing it from a nonprofit site, I'm in very little hurry to open up my wallet to pay for it.
I'd use IglooFTP (vanilla; GPL, I think), but it had quite a few bugs last time I checked, such as no domain name lookup. However, both clients are just about as easy to use as CuteFTP, and are quite powerful.
It's something that, as a Christian, I wouldn't play :-) (and am about to fire up UT to play a little CTF)
I'm not sure about the engine. It looks like they're using the Jedi Knight engine, which in itself isn't that bad, just a little outdated. If they're using an engine they developed, it looks like they did a decent job, although the game looks dated by about a year.
If this game would have used the Q3 engine or the Unreal engine, I'd at least download the demo. I'm not sure if I'd like it, I'm not one for either gratutious violence or unrealistic happy no-blood-no-guts action games (realistic violence is alot more effective, if you cut someone, or thing in this case, with a sword, it bleeds. If you shoot someone with a bazooka, he better gib), but then again, I don't believe in demons either.
Around my college, and likewise with many other people who liken themselves to be 'IT' professionals and are too snooty to use a mac, I'd love to carry one of those around with LinuxPPC installed.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd really get a kick out of people snickering, maybe even laughing at me until they came over and saw KDE running in X. (Or even better, came over and saw the linux CLI on the screen. I can imagine it, "whoah, is that a screensaver?")
Sad thing is that many folks are completly set against Apple & Macintoshes in general, that they forget that they can be a very useful computing system. Ask most who does computer graphics or animation for a living, and if they're not using Be (they could EASILY overtake Macintosh if they pushed their OS to software developers more), they're using a Mac.
...And I'd much rather have Mac OS X on my computer than Windows.
Usually it's Marketing that decides upon the final, "public" name of any given product. Each project is given an interal name by a department, usually R&D, and Marketing doesn't touch it until it's completed (in ideal cases, in most cases, they're all over it from the beginning). Most of the product names you see out there (Pentium, Itanium, Windows 2000, to name 3 very common ones) are decided from marketing, not from the teams which research, design and manufacture them. Marketing's prime goal is to make a product sell as many copies as possible, this includes a flashy name. In Microsoft's case, Windows NT 5.0 sounded too technical, they wanted to continue the "year" series. This is also why Intel held onto Pentium for so long -- it became highly visible to the mass market, and they were afraid if they changed the name dramaticaly, they'd lose market recognition.
Washington(AP): In a move that suprised people everywhere, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has made an agreement with the National Air and Space Administration to fund the next 5 years of space programs. The agreement, valued somewhere between $500,000,000 and $750,000,000 calls for renovations to the space shuttles and the space program itself. Each of the Space Shuttle's control computers will be refitted with Intel Pentium III Xeon processors. In order to pay for this, NASA has let Intel paint "Intel Inside: Pentium III Xeon" in large letters on the Space Shuttles. Additionally, a new design of a sattelite, being co-designed by Intel and Nasa at Kennedy Space Center, will help to illuminate the night sky during new moons. Instead of a moon, there will be a square banner that reads "Planet Earth: Intel Inside".
At the time of press, neither NASA nor Intel could be reached for comment.
In balance basically means that if we were to sit back, not touch the environment around us (okay, so that would mean that all humans would have to pack their stuff up and leave earth, or a massive, human-only genocide would take place), nature could survive on its own for an indefinate amount of time (barring any natural disasters).
I don't know how many creatures go extinct each day... My guess is that it's more like a sub-species (say for example, a type of wolf, not an entire species) goes extinct about one sub-species for every month. My numbers are probably way off, but I'm just speculating
What we are doing could potentially ruin our ecosystem. All creatures have methods of adaptation. While we hear propaganda from both sides of the eco-coin, the truth is the ecosystem is in balance right now. Introducing an element that was once part of it, but is no longer is does just as much harm to an ecosystem as introducing a specimen that has never been there at all. If we re-introduce Wooly Mammoths into nature, we don't know how well they will adapt, and we don't know how well nature will adapt around them.
For all we know, this could be something that completly devistates the earth. Long shot, but if we keep tinkering...
Interesting thought on Revenants. They respawn killed monsters, so would they respawn killed processes? Damnit, Netscape just won't die!!!
Maybe the Revenant shouldn't be linked to a process at all, just thrown in there to make an admin's life hell (or fun)
>>Folders would be rooms. Files are monsters >>that originate in the rooms. Symbolic links >>would be mapped as teleporters.
/vmlinuz :)
So wait, if you have a symbolic link to a file, wouldn't you then telefrag that file (monster) if you went through it? Uh-oh, time to remove all sym links to
Nahh... more like, the little marines are running around mindlessly, going into the startx room, flipping on a switch that starts up netscape. But you always have that rogue marine that's trying to open (find the keycard to) the /root folder, other people's folders in /home, or playing around with executables that he should be playing around with in /sbin and /usr/sbin. What do we do then? We get some Combat Armor on, we find a grenade launcher and a bunch of grenades, and track him down (god bless Doom & it's automap) and pop him a few times, thus ending his noseyness.
Maybe perhaps level entrances will signify open ports -- and the doors will be open. If you see a marine that shouldn't be standing in the doorway of, say, port 139, then well you get out that damn double-barreled shotgun (doom 2), and blast his little ass off.
Just my [stock market crash] 1,739 cents.
MainWin will come out and very very likely be much better than WINE. But it will cause the open-source movement to rally around WINE, to show how far it has to go. Lots more effort will be put into it's development, and as a result, we will get a far superior, Open-sourced product than the one we have.
Bring MainWin on. I'll use it, until WINE Improves on all of it's features. And as open sourced recods have shown, it won't take very long.
I've been using the beta for awhile now too, and from what I can tell, RPM on Slack fails at almost every attempt because it can't find the dependencies it needs. Of course, rpm2tgz && su -c "installpkg foo.tgz" will always get the job done.
:)
I'm sure there's a switch to use with RPM to make it ignore dependencies, but I'm too lazy to care
Yes I know... Part of the Gates foundation is for education. I don't like that fact either -- I know that they use it to advocate NT & other Windows products. They don't specify how much money is given for educational purposes, they do for the one that I'm most concerned with Global Health dontations -- $138 million since Dec 1998.
I'd like to see official records if this is true amount of money sent out. But they're not bent on shipping out copies of Windows 98 or 2000 to starving children in third world countries. The Global Health is founded to help get vaccines to those children in third world countries who aren't expected to live more than 5 years.