My SO's Mac does not have a burner so I'd have to do this "update" process from my PC with Linux. Is the update CD Apple sends a regular ISO9660 that can be read by a PC or is it in HFS+ or some variant? If it's HFS+, I could use BeOS to read it.
I installed StarOffice last week, actually. It crashed about two seconds after loading. That was the version 6 beta...perhaps 5.2 is more stable? A number of spreadsheets we use at work use VB macros...I do believe StarOffice 6 beta can handle them, but what about 5.2?
Yes, it will be nice playing Half Life TFC in Linux. If WineX can handle something as intensive as a 3D FPS video game, how is it at handling something relatively boring and mundane, such as Excel 97? If I can get Excel 97, which I use at work, running at home on my Mandrake box, I'll be very happy. Currently, Gnumeric is servicing my "home spreadsheet" needs like household budgeting. But I need the features of Excel for a lot of the complex financial modelling I do at work.
Junior Achievement...if I rewind my memory back to the seventh or eighth grade, I seem to remember Junior Achivement as a sort of mobile capitalist indoctrination course...but I could be wrong.
I'm in a similar boat. I may be receiving an Acer P150 laptop pretty soon with 16 megs of RAM. I'd *like* to run KDE with Mosfet's Liquid engine for bragging rights at work, but I know that will require gobs of RAM. Since RAM is so cheap nowadays, how much is enough? 64, 128, 256?
If I go with Blackbox and use KDE apps (most likely), will I still be able to take advantage of KDE's anti-aliasing in Konq & company? I seem to recall not having this ability by default on an experimental install many months ago.
They were also plugging some stupid rainbow-colored boots earlier in the show. The remainder of Will & Grace was about 20 minutes of Karen and Jack's son locked in a room together with an XBox and Xbox screen in full view all the time. At least it wasn't as bad as having the Evil One (tm) do a guest spot on the 200th Frasier. But still, these product plugs are removing any last bit of dignity that the show had.
I've seen other episodes of Will & Grace where they're plugging Razor scooters, those little IM pages and how you can use the pager to bid on Ebay. I'll know it's time to stop watching when Jack starts to wax exstatic on the wonders of Astro Glide.
didn't show text in a just slightly vertically misaligned manner and let me use Tab and Shift-Tab to move between links and fields, it would do everything that Internet Explorer does, and then some, minus the security exploits.
"My Dad had put me on a train to New York to expand my teenage horizons. I returned with 4004 and 8008 data sheets and some chip
samples."
It sounds like he sent you there "to become a man," but you came back a geek instead:-)
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Its future may be uncertain, but BeOS still provides the best way to store your MP3s and Ogg Vorbis files. The filesystem (BFS) is rather like XFS, a 64 bit journalling filesystem that lets you attach attributes to files, much like a database.
Unlike XFS, however, BFS gives you live queries. ie...have a query window open with some search results based on the "artist" attribute, change another file's artist attribute to what you were looking for in the query and it will instantly come up in the query results window.
I use a program called RipEnc to rip CD's to MP3 format. Using a combination of the CDDA filesystem where CD tracks become WAV files and the FreeDB database, RipEnc stores all your mp3's in the folder heirarchy of/mp3/artist/album/songs.mp3. It also inserts the ID3 tags based upon the FreeDB results. *And* it puts the same info from the ID3 tags into each file's attributes.
The benefit to all of this is that even though your songs get stored in a reasonable folder system, they can really be anywhere on your hard drive and you can still pull up any combination of songs using filesystem queries.
In addition to RipEnc, two other handy utilities for playing MP3's on BeOS are MP3 Flashlight and Be in Your Stereo. The former is a small query app that lets you do MP3 specific attribute searches (instead of using the general query tool). You can then play the results or committ them to a playlist. The latter lets you stream your music over your network using a sophisticated web interface.
I agree with animal experiments that could save human lives, but I rather draw the line at using animals for testing something as shallow and vain as cosmetics. Even if little Susan doesn't want to do her own cosmetics testing, she'll look just as nice without them. And I don't think I'm the only guy here that thinks cosmetics only serve to oppress women and enhance their perception as mere sexual objects.
Let's not forget the "FPS" that preceeded Wolfenstein and Doom by several years...DUNGEONS OF DAGORATH for Radio Shack's TRS 80. It was kind of like an InfoCom game, but with simple graphics. The baddies were simple line figures and you moved about corridors, ladders and holes by typing commands. To attack a monster, you had to type AL (attack left) or AR (attack right), depending upon which hand you held your sword in. Other supplies were in your backpack.
There were two things that made the game really scary and tense. Although the sounds were primitive beeps and waveforms, you grew to *fear* the sounds associated with the monsters, right up to your sweaty palms, twitchy fingers and rapid pulse...which brings me to the other cool part of the game. The only other sound in addition to the sounds of monsters and your weapons (there was no music) was the sound of your character's heartbeat. Whenever you ran a lot, attacked a monster for a while or cast certain spells, your heartbeat would increase. The bottom center of the screen had a tiny little heart that beated onscreen. If it went too fast, you'd die.
I spent tons of hours playing that game as a kid, using a 13-inch Goldstar B&W television as a monitor and speakers. I still have the cart, but my TRS 80 hasn't worked in years.
Linux isn't hurting anyone...it's bringing in business for HP. Sun has no inherent right to receive revenues.
Why is it that when a commercial product garners some marketshare, it's called "competition", but when Free software does the same, it's "hurting" someone? It's all competition.
Keep in mind that these witnesses were a bunch of Russians out in the middle of nowhere. For them, the room was probably moving around in an S-shaped path, if you know what I mean.
Spell checkers don't check context, however. The "forth" error would have popped up still since forth (in the programming context) is a legitimate word.
"Just look at Gobe Productive to see the difference in quality between open source and commercial software!"
I have a copy of Gobe Productive (closed source commercial) for BeOS and I've also used AbiWord/Gnumeric (OSS) and KOffice (OSS) for Linux. The two latter groups of apps IMO are far superior to Gobe Productive in terms of features and usability. And, they didn't cost anything, where as Gobe's software was $80. I still think Office 97 (closed source commercial) is the best office package for my needs, but the open source competitors give it a good run for its money, whereas Gobe Productive is very lacking.
Whether or not something is commercial or open source is irrelevant; it all has to do with the dedication one puts into a project. Just because *you* worship money as a god doesn't mean others will only succeed with their projects by doing the same.
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He had such a *cute* way of saying "Indians."
IHN-dians
My SO's Mac does not have a burner so I'd have to do this "update" process from my PC with Linux. Is the update CD Apple sends a regular ISO9660 that can be read by a PC or is it in HFS+ or some variant? If it's HFS+, I could use BeOS to read it.
...then Apple's fax machine would be getting a damn good slashdotting with order forms for the update CD.
;-)
Ohh...is that a blue&white G3 sitting in my dining room/home office? Excuse me I have some business to atttend to
I installed StarOffice last week, actually. It crashed about two seconds after loading. That was the version 6 beta...perhaps 5.2 is more stable? A number of spreadsheets we use at work use VB macros...I do believe StarOffice 6 beta can handle them, but what about 5.2?
Yes, it will be nice playing Half Life TFC in Linux. If WineX can handle something as intensive as a 3D FPS video game, how is it at handling something relatively boring and mundane, such as Excel 97? If I can get Excel 97, which I use at work, running at home on my Mandrake box, I'll be very happy. Currently, Gnumeric is servicing my "home spreadsheet" needs like household budgeting. But I need the features of Excel for a lot of the complex financial modelling I do at work.
Junior Achievement...if I rewind my memory back to the seventh or eighth grade, I seem to remember Junior Achivement as a sort of mobile capitalist indoctrination course...but I could be wrong.
I'm in a similar boat. I may be receiving an Acer P150 laptop pretty soon with 16 megs of RAM. I'd *like* to run KDE with Mosfet's Liquid engine for bragging rights at work, but I know that will require gobs of RAM. Since RAM is so cheap nowadays, how much is enough? 64, 128, 256?
If I go with Blackbox and use KDE apps (most likely), will I still be able to take advantage of KDE's anti-aliasing in Konq & company? I seem to recall not having this ability by default on an experimental install many months ago.
Ryan Stiles is on the British version, too.
They were also plugging some stupid rainbow-colored boots earlier in the show. The remainder of Will & Grace was about 20 minutes of Karen and Jack's son locked in a room together with an XBox and Xbox screen in full view all the time. At least it wasn't as bad as having the Evil One (tm) do a guest spot on the 200th Frasier. But still, these product plugs are removing any last bit of dignity that the show had.
I've seen other episodes of Will & Grace where they're plugging Razor scooters, those little IM pages and how you can use the pager to bid on Ebay. I'll know it's time to stop watching when Jack starts to wax exstatic on the wonders of Astro Glide.
didn't show text in a just slightly vertically misaligned manner and let me use Tab and Shift-Tab to move between links and fields, it would do everything that Internet Explorer does, and then some, minus the security exploits.
This technology should also be applied to a Tivo-like device for TV shows to cut out offensive material.
It would have been put to great use during the first couple minutes of the 200th episode of "Frasier" last night.
On the other hand...
Rental of "The Crying Game" from video store: $1.99
Popcorn and drinks for your parents who have never seen the above film: $5
The look of shock in your dad's face when he discovers the truth about that "cute girl.": Priceless
"My Dad had put me on a train to New York to expand my teenage horizons. I returned with 4004 and 8008 data sheets and some chip
:-)
samples."
It sounds like he sent you there "to become a man," but you came back a geek instead
Its future may be uncertain, but BeOS still provides the best way to store your MP3s and Ogg Vorbis files. The filesystem (BFS) is rather like XFS, a 64 bit journalling filesystem that lets you attach attributes to files, much like a database.
/mp3/artist/album/songs.mp3. It also inserts the ID3 tags based upon the FreeDB results. *And* it puts the same info from the ID3 tags into each file's attributes.
Unlike XFS, however, BFS gives you live queries. ie...have a query window open with some search results based on the "artist" attribute, change another file's artist attribute to what you were looking for in the query and it will instantly come up in the query results window.
I use a program called RipEnc to rip CD's to MP3 format. Using a combination of the CDDA filesystem where CD tracks become WAV files and the FreeDB database, RipEnc stores all your mp3's in the folder heirarchy of
The benefit to all of this is that even though your songs get stored in a reasonable folder system, they can really be anywhere on your hard drive and you can still pull up any combination of songs using filesystem queries.
In addition to RipEnc, two other handy utilities for playing MP3's on BeOS are MP3 Flashlight and Be in Your Stereo. The former is a small query app that lets you do MP3 specific attribute searches (instead of using the general query tool). You can then play the results or committ them to a playlist. The latter lets you stream your music over your network using a sophisticated web interface.
I agree with animal experiments that could save human lives, but I rather draw the line at using animals for testing something as shallow and vain as cosmetics. Even if little Susan doesn't want to do her own cosmetics testing, she'll look just as nice without them. And I don't think I'm the only guy here that thinks cosmetics only serve to oppress women and enhance their perception as mere sexual objects.
Capitalism implies that both parties are both well informed as to the facts. Therefore, it's just cruelty and thievery.
That's nothing that 5 minutes with a Dremel can't fix.
1. Smart chastity belts would be running OpenBSD. I'd like to get in on *that* code audit.
2. Women's clothing that changes tampons when necessary. Transvestites everywhere will be scared back into Haagars, Slates and Dockers.
3. "Hey, that's a sharp suit you're wearing!" "Thanks, and my shoes are by Sony!"
Let's not forget the "FPS" that preceeded Wolfenstein and Doom by several years...DUNGEONS OF DAGORATH for Radio Shack's TRS 80. It was kind of like an InfoCom game, but with simple graphics. The baddies were simple line figures and you moved about corridors, ladders and holes by typing commands. To attack a monster, you had to type AL (attack left) or AR (attack right), depending upon which hand you held your sword in. Other supplies were in your backpack.
There were two things that made the game really scary and tense. Although the sounds were primitive beeps and waveforms, you grew to *fear* the sounds associated with the monsters, right up to your sweaty palms, twitchy fingers and rapid pulse...which brings me to the other cool part of the game. The only other sound in addition to the sounds of monsters and your weapons (there was no music) was the sound of your character's heartbeat. Whenever you ran a lot, attacked a monster for a while or cast certain spells, your heartbeat would increase. The bottom center of the screen had a tiny little heart that beated onscreen. If it went too fast, you'd die.
I spent tons of hours playing that game as a kid, using a 13-inch Goldstar B&W television as a monitor and speakers. I still have the cart, but my TRS 80 hasn't worked in years.
Linux isn't hurting anyone...it's bringing in business for HP. Sun has no inherent right to receive revenues.
Why is it that when a commercial product garners some marketshare, it's called "competition", but when Free software does the same, it's "hurting" someone? It's all competition.
You don't have to use CSS on DVDs if you don't want to.
Keep in mind that these witnesses were a bunch of Russians out in the middle of nowhere. For them, the room was probably moving around in an S-shaped path, if you know what I mean.
rm -rf /tern/laden
Kind of spoils the meaning, doesn't it?
Spell checkers don't check context, however. The "forth" error would have popped up still since forth (in the programming context) is a legitimate word.
"Just look at Gobe Productive to see the difference in quality between open source and commercial software!"
I have a copy of Gobe Productive (closed source commercial) for BeOS and I've also used AbiWord/Gnumeric (OSS) and KOffice (OSS) for Linux. The two latter groups of apps IMO are far superior to Gobe Productive in terms of features and usability. And, they didn't cost anything, where as Gobe's software was $80. I still think Office 97 (closed source commercial) is the best office package for my needs, but the open source competitors give it a good run for its money, whereas Gobe Productive is very lacking.
Whether or not something is commercial or open source is irrelevant; it all has to do with the dedication one puts into a project. Just because *you* worship money as a god doesn't mean others will only succeed with their projects by doing the same.