Why have I not seen a, "Duke Nukem Forever Released" slashdot header
Because they rejected my article:(
You might as well check the Duke Nukem site (www.3drealms.com) because They DID relase the code for Duke Nukem 3d... As well as Duke Nukem Forever (Atari 2600 Edition)...
In Quebec, university degrees are shorter due to the CEGEP system.
I wish it was shorter... I know, i'm doing one... it's 4 years like anyone else in Canada even if we have to take 2 pre-university years in CEGEP (after 11 of primary and secondary shcool). At least i only have to pay around 2500$CAN/year for education... The rest is paid by the gouverment.
For those who want to know, most degree are 3 years around here (Except for engineering and medecine)
For reference:
- http://www.polymtl.ca/etudes/bc/index.php
And if you can't read French, here's one from Concordia: (i couldn't find one from Mcgill)
- http://www.encs.concordia.ca/scs/Sequences/COEN/CO EN-Hardware-Sep1999.htm
Why are we endorsing guilds? Didn't they go out with middleages?
Well the basic idea is that you can be held responsible for not doing you job correctly... even if everything was within "legal parameters". That way you protect the customer. If the someone can carry the name "Engineer" that mean he is competent enough to gain the trust of the "guild". (meening: you're supposed to get less con artists that way)
it's true it's not a perfect system, but it's one that seems to work around here.
You need to have done at least 4 years in engineering courses in a reconized University.
You are member of a professionnal order... which mean you can be kicked you out and lose the title "engineer" even if you you did is "legal" right. Canadians Engineers have an ethic code to follow besides the law.
Now I know a bunch of computer engineers, most of those guys are hardware, not software, but these guys wouldn't want to be engineers under Canadian law if they were doing programming.
So True! In Canada, the term "Engineer" holds much. Believe me the software industry would simply collapse if programmers could be liable for the "Ethic" aspect of software.
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I'm not English spekin so the abouve texte is ful of mistakes.
The problem,with the qnx disk mentioned above, is that you can't find the "incredible 1.44 challenge demo disk" (or something like that) on the qnx site anymore... Using the wayback machine, you can see it
Everyone should try these at least once. I was really impressed by what you could acheive with a simple 1.44 floppy disk. You get a gui with a net acess and a simple browser! (And this was done in 1998!)
Anyway, this a good starting point for making those computers works.
One advice i can give it that theses olds computers can be put to simple use like routers or graphicals terminals, but don't expects a lot out of a 386. Your best bet would be to start by visiting google and google directories. You can also try the Linux terminal server project page. They have debian-based packages, so it's not to hard to install on any computer.
They pick on us (in dorms), because we have IP adresse in the 132.*.*.* range, and with it a close close connection to the university Internet connection.
In others words we got a phat pipe. The want to make the downloading more difficult this way.
The fact is, that's it's possible with a mailing list (like the ones in LUGs).
Every poster has to sign the mail to get posted to the entire list. Every poster has to sign the mail so the mailman (or whatever mail server the list uses) can certified the key is a known one... The non-signed messages get to the moderators (who can easily filter it) so they can deside if the mail is ok or not (and teach the user to user PGP or GPG).
it's not a complete solution for the entire net (you can't change people in a day) but it can be used in some contexts to greatly reduce the amount of spam received.
Nice to see progress being made in this direction...
For thos who do not understand the value of making Svg work on the desktop, it's because you never worked with SVG before.
I've worked all summer long on a job where i had to make a (sacled down and very acurate) map available via web... and it had to be interactively linked to a database...
Now with fixed image this could have been a real pain, but once the map had been transfered from autocad, it was a simple matter: the text in tha map was clickable!
(well, i did have to write a script to build the Svg from a DXF file and it really needs to be cleaned before i post it)
The biggest problem i had to face was the fact that not a single svg viewer passed the W3c Test. The best one i had at the time (The Adobe SVG viewer) was not capable of anchor viewport (ie, using wahtever.svg#viewportdef to automagicaly load the viewport 'viewportdef')
I just wish the format could be more popular... it could the next flash...
What about nice simple mouse fingerprinting devices on mice?
here,
here,or simply
this... and i think it would be a better security system than using a fake login screen.... (altough it could make a really good joke...)
When I went on a trip to the US 2 years ago, I remember everyone freaking out at prices that were less than half of what we pay here...
Even to the point that we put up sites to find the best gas prices...
One of those sites even made the 6 o'clock news here in Quebec (Canada) during a "price war"
Not sure if these sites work anymore.. People are becoming accustomed to new, higher, prices
Giving that we (in North America) do has much has 3 times the distance, gas prices are REALLY important (around here the next "major" citie is at least 1 hour drive away...)
Since I heard about China buying censoring technology from the US, it has bothered me that companies' ethics aren't better.
I'm suprised to know that someone thought companies' followed ethics in the first place. I'm not talking about small or medium sized companies' who, usually are more ethical, i'm taking about the big multi-nationals.
If you know anythign about buizness, you probably know that the bottom line is money. Making profit is usually more important than anything else. Just thinking about Nike or Nestley who are encouraging slavery by buying from the lowest bider in third world country. Or think about the lastest Worldcom scam. Huge company usually forget about ethics fast when money and profit is the game. We, as customers, are partly to blame because we want the best price not the best quality.
What kind of example are they setting as corporate citizens of the community?
They are making profit.
I, frankly, don't know how these CEO can sleep at night knowing the misery they've cause just to have more money
The idea behind "big" books, is that it's a reference book. You only open it once or twice a week when you want a specific information (aka phone book).
if you want a book to introduce you to a subjet, it should'nt be 10000+ pages... just a small good read... that you read once and you can easily re-read when you to refresh you memory.
I think everyone is going to say something different about this (depending on their own experience), but overall it all goes down to a couple of importants things:
1) If you want the best performace with linux, you will propably have to re-compile everything. You can do all this by hand by following the procedures giving by the
Linux from Scratch projet. If this is too much for you, you can go with source-type distributions.
2) If you don't want to go down the "compile-for-3-days" path, you can try modern distros of linux or BSD: FreeBSD,
NetBSD or
OpenBSD (there is a debian "port" of netbsd and one of freebsd that *could* make life easier). Most are compiled for i386 and can be used if you...
3) Carefully choose your applications! Don't use Kde or Gnome unless it has been carefully stripped of all the surplus. Don't use Mozilla, try pheonix instead.
4) Try it! The best way to know if this is better than that is to try it out.
If it's still too slow or un-usable for you, you can try to give you computer a specific task... like X-terminal or even a router...
I did make some old machines working again with these simples guidelines but i think the most important thing is to...
Actually Keenspace has always been in second while Keenspot gets all the server and bandwith... can't really blame them since Keenspot is a collection a carefully chosen comics has opposed to Keenspace where anyone can get an account.
Web comics are nice... but they are becoming an addiction
The problem is not the "Text-base install" as much as "No hardware detection" and "too technical centric". The install sometimes looks cryptic to some (have to know that a geforce use the "nv" driver, etc.).
It took me a while to figure out the exact driver for my sparcstation, and in the end, i had to open the box and do a search on google to know.
This new incentive to push debian into the desktop is "a good thing". Even if it doesnt turn out perfect, it's still a step in the right direction.
I'm suprised to see that no one talked about the OpenCD project... http://www.theopencd.org/
I always use the list as reference to get most (free) Win32 applications i need...
Even if the project looks dead now (not much messages on the developpement mailing list), it's a good start for that "650 megs of solid gold"
Actually, if you did read the article, you would find that the proposed systems is build on ATA100 supported by RAID5 software...
which mean that the last of the 8 160GB drive, would be used for parity and that leaves *ONLY* (7*160GB)/1024= 1.09375TB!
Now, i know that hardware RAID5 is expensive, but just think for a second: you would have hot-swapable secure-as-long-as-only-1-hard-drive-fail personnal massive-and-fast storage system...
A dream system:)
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And I tried to submit it
b =forum;f=25)
And you weren't the only one:
2003-04-01 23:03:40 Hail to the code, baby! (developers,games) (rejected)
But it's kind of normal that they doubted the viability of the article... I was skeptical myself at first.(It was April Fools after all)
From what I understand, it will take some major reworking to get it running in Windows 2000/XP.
But for those who want to know, the thing as Already been ported to Linux! ( http://icculus.org/duke3d/)
And 3dRealm has built a section of their forum devoted to the Code: (http://forums.3drealms.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ub
Why have I not seen a, "Duke Nukem Forever Released" slashdot header
:(
Because they rejected my article
You might as well check the Duke Nukem site (www.3drealms.com) because They DID relase the code for Duke Nukem 3d... As well as Duke Nukem Forever (Atari 2600 Edition)...
since this news is about the only "real" news we will get today....
:)
Or maybe Duke Nukem Forever could top that list
In Quebec, university degrees are shorter due to the CEGEP system.
O EN-Hardware-Sep1999.htm
I wish it was shorter... I know, i'm doing one... it's 4 years like anyone else in Canada even if we have to take 2 pre-university years in CEGEP (after 11 of primary and secondary shcool). At least i only have to pay around 2500$CAN/year for education... The rest is paid by the gouverment.
For those who want to know, most degree are 3 years around here (Except for engineering and medecine) For reference:
- http://www.polymtl.ca/etudes/bc/index.php
And if you can't read French, here's one from Concordia: (i couldn't find one from Mcgill)
- http://www.encs.concordia.ca/scs/Sequences/COEN/C
Why are we endorsing guilds? Didn't they go out with middleages?
Well the basic idea is that you can be held responsible for not doing you job correctly... even if everything was within "legal parameters". That way you protect the customer. If the someone can carry the name "Engineer" that mean he is competent enough to gain the trust of the "guild". (meening: you're supposed to get less con artists that way)
it's true it's not a perfect system, but it's one that seems to work around here.
Actually it is more then just "licenced"...
You need to have done at least 4 years in engineering courses in a reconized University. You are member of a professionnal order... which mean you can be kicked you out and lose the title "engineer" even if you you did is "legal" right. Canadians Engineers have an ethic code to follow besides the law.
Now I know a bunch of computer engineers, most of those guys are hardware, not software, but these guys wouldn't want to be engineers under Canadian law if they were doing programming.
So True! In Canada, the term "Engineer" holds much. Believe me the software industry would simply collapse if programmers could be liable for the "Ethic" aspect of software.
---
I'm not English spekin so the abouve texte is ful of mistakes.
The problem ,with the qnx disk mentioned above, is that you can't find the "incredible 1.44 challenge demo disk" (or something like that) on the qnx site anymore... Using the wayback machine, you can see it
And as mentioned on Tiny apps.org, the downloads are available here
Everyone should try these at least once. I was really impressed by what you could acheive with a simple 1.44 floppy disk. You get a gui with a net acess and a simple browser! (And this was done in 1998!)
Anyway, this a good starting point for making those computers works.
One advice i can give it that theses olds computers can be put to simple use like routers or graphicals terminals, but don't expects a lot out of a 386. Your best bet would be to start by visiting google and google directories. You can also try the Linux terminal server project page. They have debian-based packages, so it's not to hard to install on any computer.
I read the title really fast and thought it said: "Boost to Chances of Life in Europe?"
From the description, i immediatly thought of professor Hawking... He suffered from disability and reduce mobility like the one you describe...
You might want to check is web page
They pick on us (in dorms), because we have IP adresse in the 132.*.*.* range, and with it a close close connection to the university Internet connection.
In others words we got a phat pipe. The want to make the downloading more difficult this way.
And having that much bandwith is really cool!
The fact is, that's it's possible with a mailing list (like the ones in LUGs).
Every poster has to sign the mail to get posted to the entire list. Every poster has to sign the mail so the mailman (or whatever mail server the list uses) can certified the key is a known one... The non-signed messages get to the moderators (who can easily filter it) so they can deside if the mail is ok or not (and teach the user to user PGP or GPG).
it's not a complete solution for the entire net (you can't change people in a day) but it can be used in some contexts to greatly reduce the amount of spam received.
police style walkie talkies are an equivalent option.
Well, during 9/11, those little "talkies" stopped working because the communication tower was on top of the second tower.
Ironic, isn't it?
Nice to see progress being made in this direction...
For thos who do not understand the value of making Svg work on the desktop, it's because you never worked with SVG before.
I've worked all summer long on a job where i had to make a (sacled down and very acurate) map available via web... and it had to be interactively linked to a database...
Now with fixed image this could have been a real pain, but once the map had been transfered from autocad, it was a simple matter: the text in tha map was clickable!
(well, i did have to write a script to build the Svg from a DXF file and it really needs to be cleaned before i post it)
The biggest problem i had to face was the fact that not a single svg viewer passed the W3c Test. The best one i had at the time (The Adobe SVG viewer) was not capable of anchor viewport (ie, using wahtever.svg#viewportdef to automagicaly load the viewport 'viewportdef')
I just wish the format could be more popular... it could the next flash...
What about nice simple mouse fingerprinting devices on mice?
here, here,or simply this... and i think it would be a better security system than using a fake login screen.... (altough it could make a really good joke...)
When I went on a trip to the US 2 years ago, I remember everyone freaking out at prices that were less than half of what we pay here...
Even to the point that we put up sites to find the best gas prices...
One of those sites even made the 6 o'clock news here in Quebec (Canada) during a "price war"
Not sure if these sites work anymore.. People are becoming accustomed to new, higher, prices
Giving that we (in North America) do has much has 3 times the distance, gas prices are REALLY important (around here the next "major" citie is at least 1 hour drive away...)
Since I heard about China buying censoring technology from the US, it has bothered me that companies' ethics aren't better.
I'm suprised to know that someone thought companies' followed ethics in the first place. I'm not talking about small or medium sized companies' who, usually are more ethical, i'm taking about the big multi-nationals.
If you know anythign about buizness, you probably know that the bottom line is money. Making profit is usually more important than anything else. Just thinking about Nike or Nestley who are encouraging slavery by buying from the lowest bider in third world country. Or think about the lastest Worldcom scam. Huge company usually forget about ethics fast when money and profit is the game. We, as customers, are partly to blame because we want the best price not the best quality.
What kind of example are they setting as corporate citizens of the community?
They are making profit.
I, frankly, don't know how these CEO can sleep at night knowing the misery they've cause just to have more money
Actually, we just want good books.
The idea behind "big" books, is that it's a reference book. You only open it once or twice a week when you want a specific information (aka phone book).
if you want a book to introduce you to a subjet, it should'nt be 10000+ pages... just a small good read... that you read once and you can easily re-read when you to refresh you memory.
1) If you want the best performace with linux, you will propably have to re-compile everything. You can do all this by hand by following the procedures giving by the Linux from Scratch projet. If this is too much for you, you can go with source-type distributions.
2) If you don't want to go down the "compile-for-3-days" path, you can try modern distros of linux or BSD: FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD (there is a debian "port" of netbsd and one of freebsd that *could* make life easier). Most are compiled for i386 and can be used if you...
3) Carefully choose your applications! Don't use Kde or Gnome unless it has been carefully stripped of all the surplus. Don't use Mozilla, try pheonix instead.
4) Try it! The best way to know if this is better than that is to try it out.
If it's still too slow or un-usable for you, you can try to give you computer a specific task... like X-terminal or even a router...
I did make some old machines working again with these simples guidelines but i think the most important thing is to...
5)Have fun! I know i did!
Actually Keenspace has always been in second while Keenspot gets all the server and bandwith... can't really blame them since Keenspot is a collection a carefully chosen comics has opposed to Keenspace where anyone can get an account. Web comics are nice... but they are becoming an addiction
The problem is not the "Text-base install" as much as "No hardware detection" and "too technical centric". The install sometimes looks cryptic to some (have to know that a geforce use the "nv" driver, etc.).
It took me a while to figure out the exact driver for my sparcstation, and in the end, i had to open the box and do a search on google to know.
This new incentive to push debian into the desktop is "a good thing". Even if it doesnt turn out perfect, it's still a step in the right direction.
I'm suprised to see that no one talked about the OpenCD project... http://www.theopencd.org/ I always use the list as reference to get most (free) Win32 applications i need... Even if the project looks dead now (not much messages on the developpement mailing list), it's a good start for that "650 megs of solid gold"
Actually, if you did read the article, you would find that the proposed systems is build on ATA100 supported by RAID5 software... which mean that the last of the 8 160GB drive, would be used for parity and that leaves *ONLY* (7*160GB)/1024= 1.09375TB! Now, i know that hardware RAID5 is expensive, but just think for a second: you would have hot-swapable secure-as-long-as-only-1-hard-drive-fail personnal massive-and-fast storage system... A dream system :)