Firstly, I'd like to know what you're using to boot your xterm. Is it a home-rolled solution or one of the many projects out there? If it's one that I'm familiar with, I can probably help you with sound. It's not too difficult, as you can use either esd or nasd.
Secondly, What did this little guy cost you? I can't seem to find one, even after spending hours in the IT malls here, and I get blank stares and questions of if it's an Intel or AMD.
I suspect that, though it's sexy, it won't replace my current preferred client, 800 Baht (US$19) Dells with everything ripped out, paletted from Japan.
Paraphrase
The internet is a medium which allows average citizens to exchange porn and gossip anonymously... The internet has given every American a voicee, and they have chosen to use that voice to talk about movies.
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
A truly classic movie!
I was going to post similar feelings, so I'm glad that I read down a bit first. I set up a listening lab fo a university and their software was Win98 and a Macromedia app that required the non-NT line of OSes. 98Lite and removing every other superfluous thing on the computer saved my but on that deal. Later the director said that they needed Office and IE on the computers. I looked at her with disbelief -- they didn't use anything like that. She just wanted them on the computers for some unknown reason. Moz and OOo fixed her problem and kept the stability.
I set up an automatic ghost recovery disk for the secretary before my contract was over, but they remained stable and error free for at least eight months after, or until they upgraded everything to IE6 and warez MSOffice. TIT (This is Thailand!)
But what if you wanted to run xmms on a remote system, and have it display and play music on your local desktop? You could set the $DISPLAY variable to get the video onto your screen, but the sound would still come out on the remote system, because $DISPLAY has nothing to do with audio.
I see no replies to this now, so I will say:
I do this every day now and everything works fine. I can record and play back from a diskless terminal where the whole desktop is running remotely. What's the problem?
P.S. The moderator who gave it 'insightful' is full of it.
300 Baht a piece with stacks of them at my IT mall... Wasn't hard at all. Finding socket 370 MBs after the government's low-cost computer initiative was another matter...
I love my VIA C3 Gigapro. I wish they had included the new EPIA stuff in their comparison. I would like to know just where they stand on a price / performance comparison.
Before you flame me for my low power chip (that was a joke, sonnnn! Laugh!), know that I went from that lowly 1.1GHz Duron powering my lab of 5 thin clients and overheating in the unairconditioned noonday heat of Bangkok several times a week to a VIA C3 600 MHz, with very little difference to the end user, and it's cool to the touch. No burnouts here.
The chip costs 300 Baht, or about US$7.00
Smoke them apples!
I purchase whatever Linux mags I can find here, whenever they come out, as a show of support for them. They seem to disappear regularly, though.
More on topic, we really need to know (and yes I have read both sides of this story) whether, when SSC started paying the contributors, if there was something in their contract(s) ahnding over the trademark. If there was, then this is a dead issue and the old guard is in the wrong. If SSC was paying for the editing, and if they had a standard "all production by the employees belongs to the company" clause, then the new linuxgazette.net folk might be out of luck.
As a reference, I give you the "Famous Amos" cookie company, based out of my home state. When Amos got disgusted, quit, and started a new company, he had to name it "Noname" and be blurred out of the commercials because his picture and name were trademarked to the company that took him over.
I'm sorry: it was kind of an inside joke. Lt. Skat is a card game for KDE, but it has (gotta be) 10,000 different solitaire games in there. I was just playing. Sorry again.
Yeah, and I know that you are on an intermittent modem connection just like I am. Sucks to download for three days only to find that your MD5sum doesn't compute. (Sometimes I just say "screw it" and try the install anyway, fixing the broken packages if I can.)
No offense, but you're bullshitting and don't know what you're talking about. The starting salary for college grads here in Thailand is 6000-8000 Baht per month, or about US$150-200. People without the education make significantly less than that.
Thailand is considered one of the more developed countries in the area, with Myanmar (Burma), Cambodian, and Laos residents flooding in to get the good jobs, like being a nanny for 2500 (US$55) a month.
While your post is serious flamebait and rather first-world elite, I'm going to agree with the general tone of it. The real answer to developing countries like Malaysia and Thailand (where I live) is to enforce these laws, which will force the populace or govenment to create solutions based on local talent, thereby increasing the amount of this talent and encouraging a sprouting IT industry.
The ICT Ministry here had that well in focus until MS poured billions of Baht on the minitry's head.
The original Magic The Gathering card game
I think that one's somewhere in Lieutenant Skat. Click around a bit.;)
Seriously, why do you want to play it on a computer, and why don't you play the game with your friends around a table? Sounds like more fun, though I never liked Magic, anyway.
Are you in Malay? Here in Thailand, you see these disks everywhere. People apparently try to take them and use them as real production servers. It is beyond belief.
It is totally sick that I can always buy the newest build of some MS OS, but I have to scour the whole IT mall to find the six month old release of Linux distribution X, if it is there at all.
I live in Thailand, and can say that, although there are quite a few books in the local store teaching desktop linux, the 60% pre-installed figure (it may even be higher. I don't know) really doesn't trtanslate into anything, because the customers just go home and wipe the disk, installing 98SE like they have for years.
The other 40% (or less, maybe) are almost completely sold with a "thirty day trial" of XP Home (which we all know doesn't exist. These are also replaced with pirated copies. The government puts the rate at over 90%.
Microsoft dropped their prices on only the government low-cost computer, which was set to put (best Dr. Evil voice) one million machines with desktop Linux on the street. The other prices remain about 80% of what they were last year. This govenment program is credited, however, with destroying MS' "one price around the world" policy oncee and for ever.
I am going to step in here and go against comments by both of you.
I haven't taken a math class in 15 years (nor used it on a regular basis), but I remember many of the constants that I used up through my 500 level courses. That, despite being too lazy to memorize my multiplication table until the 6th grade. Until that time, I could traverse an imaginary table in my head faster than the information was needed. Sometimes, though, memorization is useful, and mine freed me up to do more important things with my brain, jumping three grade levels of math in a single year.
The bottom line is that you need to know how to spell, whether there is a dictionary or computer nearby or not. You need to understand basic sentence structure without a grammar checker or syle book next to you, and you need to understand how to arrive at the non-numerical answer for a math problem without the use of a computer or calculator.
In fact, computers and calculators were allowed in every advanced math class I took simply because they couldn't help you. The profs were certain of that. Then again, that was 15+ years age, so...
To sum up: memorization is useful, though not a substitute for comprehension. We need them both, and to go to one extreme or the other makes for an individual who either:
Can't think on his/her own; or
Is helpless without tools to assist him/her.
Neither of these is desirable.
As a side note, the great chefs that I have worked with can use whatever technology is available to them, but are not dependent on it. Making a hollandaise with a blender or by hand is a choice they make on a situation-by-situation basis.
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Jeez! I was being trollish with this last post. It should have been modded down to 0, off-topic, not up to 5, funny. F'ing mods!
Are they going to be upgrading to the new 2.6 kernel? I have a new chipset I was hoping would be supported.
Firstly, I'd like to know what you're using to boot your xterm. Is it a home-rolled solution or one of the many projects out there? If it's one that I'm familiar with, I can probably help you with sound. It's not too difficult, as you can use either esd or nasd.
Secondly, What did this little guy cost you? I can't seem to find one, even after spending hours in the IT malls here, and I get blank stares and questions of if it's an Intel or AMD.
I suspect that, though it's sexy, it won't replace my current preferred client, 800 Baht (US$19) Dells with everything ripped out, paletted from Japan.
Paraphrase ... The internet has given every American a voicee, and they have chosen to use that voice to talk about movies.
The internet is a medium which allows average citizens to exchange porn and gossip anonymously
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. A truly classic movie!
I was going to post similar feelings, so I'm glad that I read down a bit first. I set up a listening lab fo a university and their software was Win98 and a Macromedia app that required the non-NT line of OSes. 98Lite and removing every other superfluous thing on the computer saved my but on that deal. Later the director said that they needed Office and IE on the computers. I looked at her with disbelief -- they didn't use anything like that. She just wanted them on the computers for some unknown reason. Moz and OOo fixed her problem and kept the stability.
I set up an automatic ghost recovery disk for the secretary before my contract was over, but they remained stable and error free for at least eight months after, or until they upgraded everything to IE6 and warez MSOffice. TIT (This is Thailand!)
That would be here.
I just don't like repeating myself...
Ummm...
Probably reverse those two steps, eh?
First, you'll need this:
/sbin/esd -public -nobeeps -tcp -port 16001 &
Then, you'll need to:
export ESPEAKER=$YourIP:16001
export ESDDSP_MIXER=1
That's about it...
I do this every day now and everything works fine. I can record and play back from a diskless terminal where the whole desktop is running remotely. What's the problem?
P.S. The moderator who gave it 'insightful' is full of it.
300 Baht a piece with stacks of them at my IT mall... Wasn't hard at all. Finding socket 370 MBs after the government's low-cost computer initiative was another matter...
Until this week, my Duron 1.1 ran five of my desktops, thanks to LTSP. It was too hot, so it now is a VIA C3 600 MHz. I'm laughing to the bank.
I love my VIA C3 Gigapro. I wish they had included the new EPIA stuff in their comparison. I would like to know just where they stand on a price / performance comparison.
Before you flame me for my low power chip (that was a joke, sonnnn! Laugh!), know that I went from that lowly 1.1GHz Duron powering my lab of 5 thin clients and overheating in the unairconditioned noonday heat of Bangkok several times a week to a VIA C3 600 MHz, with very little difference to the end user, and it's cool to the touch. No burnouts here.
The chip costs 300 Baht, or about US$7.00
Smoke them apples!
Apt-cdrom, my man. Just type apt-cdrom add and you have your local (an d out of date) repository. My distro (rpm based LinuxTLE) supports it.
I purchase whatever Linux mags I can find here, whenever they come out, as a show of support for them. They seem to disappear regularly, though.
More on topic, we really need to know (and yes I have read both sides of this story) whether, when SSC started paying the contributors, if there was something in their contract(s) ahnding over the trademark. If there was, then this is a dead issue and the old guard is in the wrong. If SSC was paying for the editing, and if they had a standard "all production by the employees belongs to the company" clause, then the new linuxgazette.net folk might be out of luck.
As a reference, I give you the "Famous Amos" cookie company, based out of my home state. When Amos got disgusted, quit, and started a new company, he had to name it "Noname" and be blurred out of the commercials because his picture and name were trademarked to the company that took him over.
I'm sorry: it was kind of an inside joke. Lt. Skat is a card game for KDE, but it has (gotta be) 10,000 different solitaire games in there. I was just playing. Sorry again.
Yeah, and I know that you are on an intermittent modem connection just like I am. Sucks to download for three days only to find that your MD5sum doesn't compute. (Sometimes I just say "screw it" and try the install anyway, fixing the broken packages if I can.)
No offense, but you're bullshitting and don't know what you're talking about. The starting salary for college grads here in Thailand is 6000-8000 Baht per month, or about US$150-200. People without the education make significantly less than that.
Thailand is considered one of the more developed countries in the area, with Myanmar (Burma), Cambodian, and Laos residents flooding in to get the good jobs, like being a nanny for 2500 (US$55) a month.
I tried to explain to my girlfriend why I was laughing so much, but she didn't get it.
While your post is serious flamebait and rather first-world elite, I'm going to agree with the general tone of it. The real answer to developing countries like Malaysia and Thailand (where I live) is to enforce these laws, which will force the populace or govenment to create solutions based on local talent, thereby increasing the amount of this talent and encouraging a sprouting IT industry.
The ICT Ministry here had that well in focus until MS poured billions of Baht on the minitry's head.
The original Magic The Gathering card game ;)
I think that one's somewhere in Lieutenant Skat. Click around a bit.
Seriously, why do you want to play it on a computer, and why don't you play the game with your friends around a table? Sounds like more fun, though I never liked Magic, anyway.
Are you in Malay? Here in Thailand, you see these disks everywhere. People apparently try to take them and use them as real production servers. It is beyond belief.
It is totally sick that I can always buy the newest build of some MS OS, but I have to scour the whole IT mall to find the six month old release of Linux distribution X, if it is there at all.
I live in Thailand, and can say that, although there are quite a few books in the local store teaching desktop linux, the 60% pre-installed figure (it may even be higher. I don't know) really doesn't trtanslate into anything, because the customers just go home and wipe the disk, installing 98SE like they have for years.
The other 40% (or less, maybe) are almost completely sold with a "thirty day trial" of XP Home (which we all know doesn't exist. These are also replaced with pirated copies. The government puts the rate at over 90%.
Microsoft dropped their prices on only the government low-cost computer, which was set to put (best Dr. Evil voice) one million machines with desktop Linux on the street. The other prices remain about 80% of what they were last year. This govenment program is credited, however, with destroying MS' "one price around the world" policy oncee and for ever.
I don't believe in the preview button... Oh, h*ll, who am I kidding: I just screwed up.
I haven't taken a math class in 15 years (nor used it on a regular basis), but I remember many of the constants that I used up through my 500 level courses. That, despite being too lazy to memorize my multiplication table until the 6th grade. Until that time, I could traverse an imaginary table in my head faster than the information was needed. Sometimes, though, memorization is useful, and mine freed me up to do more important things with my brain, jumping three grade levels of math in a single year.
The bottom line is that you need to know how to spell, whether there is a dictionary or computer nearby or not. You need to understand basic sentence structure without a grammar checker or syle book next to you, and you need to understand how to arrive at the non-numerical answer for a math problem without the use of a computer or calculator.
In fact, computers and calculators were allowed in every advanced math class I took simply because they couldn't help you. The profs were certain of that. Then again, that was 15+ years age, so...
To sum up: memorization is useful, though not a substitute for comprehension. We need them both, and to go to one extreme or the other makes for an individual who either:
- Can't think on his/her own; or
- Is helpless without tools to assist him/her.
Neither of these is desirable.As a side note, the great chefs that I have worked with can use whatever technology is available to them, but are not dependent on it. Making a hollandaise with a blender or by hand is a choice they make on a situation-by-situation basis.