I've already emailed it to the coders from PI and XFree Bugs.
But yeah, it's nice to know i'm not alone:)
it's a problem using plain old twm as well, but for some reason the effect is lessened if you use 8 bpp depth. I recompiled the r128 driver with debugging support enabled if anyone wants a look-see.
I too have compiled XF4 at home, but I have a problem with it...and it's a rather strange problem..
I can start the X server and do most things alright in it ( some pixels here and there don't quite work right, specially in XMMS but hey, it's okay, XFree4 is still beta right? )
But if I switch to a VT and then back, the X desktop is totally messed up, we're talking virtually unrecognizable, the colours are all wrong.
It sounds like ( to me ) that whatever buffer it writes the screen to when switching isn't quite saving all the information, or is writing back to the screen wrong.
Yes I have looked at the code, unfortunatly I'm not a Master C Programmer ( yet ) so it doesn't all make sense to me.
My advice, if you have a Rage 128, ( or at least an AGP Xpert 2000 with 32 megs of ram ), you're probably better of with XFree86 3.3.6.
Then again it could just be my motherboard but somehow I doubt it.
Since wise man never go there, and it's where angels never tread, how do they know if what's there is worthwhile?
I, for one, hope that Slashdot NEVER becomes mainstream, once you've become mainstream you've lost what you are. The "tirade" by CmdrTaco shows that he his HUMAN, and this site is a result of that humanity. One of the problems with the world today is the increasing lack of empathy by corperations, et al. This, I believe, is due to the fact that we view most companies as faceless, unfeeling beings, and since that's how we view them, they start to view themselfs that way. So if it takes Rob going off half-cocked now and again to keep/. HUMAN, then I say so be it. The minute slashdot becomes cold and clinical ( ie CNN ) is the day I stop coming here.
Ah, but there is one thing you fail to hit on. Companies will do just about ANYTHING to attract business. Even if it means, ugh, cooperation. Even better, have a centeral authority that utilizes something akin to a PGP public key. You have a secret key with the credit card company. E-commerce site emails credit card company with the PGP key you provided them, credit card company emails you ( using your public key ) you email them back using a code ( provided in the encrypted email ) and viola, even better, provide a service that does this automagically. Companies pay you to be part of it. What's in it for the companies? Well hell, what's in the internet for most companies? It costs lots of money for a successful business on the internet. But convience attracts customers and customers spend money. If it's easier on the customers, rest assured you'll see more profits. That DVD site almost certainly lost a customer, and that is NOT very good for profits is it?
Surprise, surprise. With the sale of new books, Illiad is once again selling his sub-standard comic to the universe.
A bit of jealousy perhaps? We never hear about "Suprise, Suprise. With the sale of new distributions Linus is once again bringing his sub-standard kernel to the universe". Why is that? Is it because he makes no money off of Linux and Illiad does? Money != bad.
I'm actually rather surprised that more people have not boycotted UF and UFMedia for it's recent commoditization of its audience
Audiences can not be commodized, product can. Get your words straight. I sure hope you're not a writer.
In a recent conversation, someone said, "The biggest problem with User Friendly is the UFies."
Hrm...people make the same argument about Linux, and yet it's a statement full of sound and fury, but signifing nothing. Get over it. IMNSHO The biggest problem with Windows98 is the [L]users.
User Friendly is not good art, it's not good writing, and people need to give up their infatuation for a production that is *beyond* formulaic.
First of all, since when has CARTOONS been considered art? It's COMEDY, by definition it's going to be formulaic, get over it. If you're looking for high-brow technical humor read some April 1st RFCs or something.
The first person that compares Dust Puppy to Opus from Bloom County gets a sticker.
And this would prove what? You might has well have said "The first person that compares Tux to MS Bob gets a sticker"
User Friendly is also mighty derivative, I'll tell you what. User Friendly spoofs spoofs, and dammit, that just ain't funny.
Jezus...what did they do to you to rip your sense of humour out so completely?
So, I say these things - Why am I posting as Anonymous Coward? Because if I logged in with my real account, there would be a goddamned UFie Jihad on me and the place I work.
As well there should be, I hope you burn in NT hell you heretic you.
AFAIK it has to be an open source project, regardless it has to be approved by Sourceforge, so submit a request to use the IA-64 compile farm and see what they say!
Hrm...I hadn't thought of that before, but you could be right. Returning China to "Normal Trade Relations" is overtly a political move anyway. It won't really change things except in the political landscape. Ever notice all the "Made in China" items that you can buy at your local store? Well if we didn't have trade how did we get them? The fact is that every year we decide wither or not to trade with China for the duration of that year, and that decicion can be revoked at any time. The whole "embargo" is simply a political bargining tool. Now if we take this threat away will China be more apt to give Taiwan it's freedom? Probably not, but it is a good showing, and will probably play well in the international scene. Myself, I belive when we place a trade embargo on someone we should cut off ALL trade until they show some good faith ( which China HAS NOT DONE ).
But that is a very intresting idea aclaudet, I wouldn't doubt if it had some kernel of truth to it:)
PS: The text of the bill can be found here there's a PDF version but it's got a horrible layout.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful site That started from this topic board , aboard this tiny box, The Sysop was a mighty hackin' man, the Posters brave and sure, Five thousands readers set replying that day for a Microsoft cure. A Microsoft Cure. Well, Bill started getting rough, the tiny site was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, Slashdot would be lost. Slashdot would be lost. The site set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle With Roblimo, CmdrTaco too, an Emmett and his wife, Timothy, the Coward and Natile Portman, here on AntiMicrosoft Isle.
This will work, it might delete some legit files but it's better then reinstalling. This thing doesn't appear to be THAT bad. Remain calm and do what the man says.
does anybody know what the MS-BUGFIX.EXE file/does/ anyway?
But not totally suprising. How else is "Free Software" going to have any financing? It/is/ a little...disturbing, but as someone else pointing out has long as it's not 800x600 32bit colour frambuffer ads, it's all good, besides you can always stdout >/dev/null. Or simply ignore it. This is just a continuing trend towards "comercialism" that sould have been expected. It happens to every technology has it hits maturity.
Don't sweat it.
As long as I don't see "ext2 brought to you by McDonald's, get your free tux with your happy meal today!" every time I boot up;)
at least as great as the precautions you take to protect your own confidential information
Well hrm....what if I/don't/ take any precautions to protect my confidential information?
Or less crazy, what if the precautions I/do/ take aren't that great?
Just a thought...
Besides, shouldn't we be at least somewhat glad they did THIS. They didn't HAVE to. And yeah it's still stupid that they messed with Kerberos, but this is one step farther that they wouldn't have gone before.
23 is of course a very important number in of itself, but we also then get
2+3 = 5
Hrhmm...Metallica involved with the occult? NEVER.:)
PS: the following was an attempt at humour if you don't get it i suggest you start out with The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson. It has a lot of good refrences. of course d|i|s|i|n|f|o|r|m|a|t|i|o|n isn't a bad place to check out either;)
I think the reason Timothy posted it, and if you noticed his added comments at the bottom, is that:
1) It is cool tech, the idea of streaming MP3s through your phone line without itnterfering/is/ kinda appealing
2) And this is the important one, It's ANOTHER unlicesened, promoting copying, evil evil thing that the RIAA has to worry about. Another case of bop the mole. This is, IMHO, a good thing, the more MP3 hardware that comes out, the bigger an industry that will be built around it and the harder time the RIAA will have not looking like idiots.
This is something that I would/love/ to see more of. It shows some continuity and flow to the stories and proves that you are following up. With the follow up with Be over their BeOS being dropped and I see some very positive signs that Slashdot perhaps has no place else to go but up.
I don't normally bitch about slashdot, it's a pretty good shop, but I must admit, I agree with this... Sometimes i'm suprised by the submissions they end up posting, when I/know/ a better one was submitted, and rejected, not necessarily mine, but someone elses.
This looks a little familiar:) Why not just mirror this one on the front page? or educate people a little more on the various sections. This article can be found in the Your Rights Online section. I suggest that all slashdot readers regularly check the other sections, before bitching about how news didn't make the front page.
Of course now if they'd just run the damn story about Napster and Limp Bizkit teaming up...
Slashdot Mirror
I've already emailed it to the coders from PI and XFree Bugs.
:)
But yeah, it's nice to know i'm not alone
it's a problem using plain old twm as well, but for some reason the effect is lessened if you use 8 bpp depth. I recompiled the r128 driver with debugging support enabled if anyone wants a look-see.
Tis most weird.
Oh BTW.
Kernel 2.2.13, XF86 4.0, twm.
I too have compiled XF4 at home, but I have a problem with it...and it's a rather strange problem..
I can start the X server and do most things alright in it ( some pixels here and there don't quite work right, specially in XMMS but hey, it's okay, XFree4 is still beta right? )
But if I switch to a VT and then back, the X desktop is totally messed up, we're talking virtually unrecognizable, the colours are all wrong.
It sounds like ( to me ) that whatever buffer it writes the screen to when switching isn't quite saving all the information, or is writing back to the screen wrong.
Yes I have looked at the code, unfortunatly I'm not a Master C Programmer ( yet ) so it doesn't all make sense to me.
My advice, if you have a Rage 128, ( or at least an AGP Xpert 2000 with 32 megs of ram ), you're probably better of with XFree86 3.3.6.
Then again it could just be my motherboard but somehow I doubt it.
Any ideas?
Actually, according to the song it's not:
/. HUMAN, then I say so be it. The minute slashdot becomes cold and clinical ( ie CNN ) is the day I stop coming here.
folls[sic] rush in where wise men fear to tread.
But rather:
fools rush in where angels fear to tread
and
Fools rush in where wise men never go
Of course the canonical reply is:
Since wise man never go there, and it's where angels never tread, how do they know if what's there is worthwhile?
I, for one, hope that Slashdot NEVER becomes mainstream, once you've become mainstream you've lost what you are. The "tirade" by CmdrTaco shows that he his HUMAN, and this site is a result of that humanity. One of the problems with the world today is the increasing lack of empathy by corperations, et al. This, I believe, is due to the fact that we view most companies as faceless, unfeeling beings, and since that's how we view them, they start to view themselfs that way. So if it takes Rob going off half-cocked now and again to keep
Ah, but there is one thing you fail to hit on. Companies will do just about ANYTHING to attract business. Even if it means, ugh, cooperation. Even better, have a centeral authority that utilizes something akin to a PGP public key. You have a secret key with the credit card company. E-commerce site emails credit card company with the PGP key you provided them, credit card company emails you ( using your public key ) you email them back using a code ( provided in the encrypted email ) and viola, even better, provide a service that does this automagically. Companies pay you to be part of it. What's in it for the companies? Well hell, what's in the internet for most companies? It costs lots of money for a successful business on the internet. But convience attracts customers and customers spend money. If it's easier on the customers, rest assured you'll see more profits. That DVD site almost certainly lost a customer, and that is NOT very good for profits is it?
Surprise, surprise. With the sale of new books, Illiad is once again selling his sub-standard comic to the universe.
A bit of jealousy perhaps? We never hear about "Suprise, Suprise. With the sale of new distributions Linus is once again bringing his sub-standard kernel to the universe". Why is that? Is it because he makes no money off of Linux and Illiad does? Money != bad.
I'm actually rather surprised that more people have not boycotted UF and UFMedia for it's recent commoditization of its audience
Audiences can not be commodized, product can. Get your words straight. I sure hope you're not a writer.
In a recent conversation, someone said, "The biggest problem with User Friendly is the UFies."
Hrm...people make the same argument about Linux, and yet it's a statement full of sound and fury, but signifing nothing. Get over it. IMNSHO The biggest problem with Windows98 is the [L]users.
User Friendly is not good art, it's not good writing, and people need to give up their infatuation for a production that is *beyond* formulaic.
First of all, since when has CARTOONS been considered art? It's COMEDY, by definition it's going to be formulaic, get over it. If you're looking for high-brow technical humor read some April 1st RFCs or something.
The first person that compares Dust Puppy to Opus from Bloom County gets a sticker.
And this would prove what? You might has well have said "The first person that compares Tux to MS Bob gets a sticker"
User Friendly is also mighty derivative, I'll tell you what. User Friendly spoofs spoofs, and dammit, that just ain't funny.
Jezus...what did they do to you to rip your sense of humour out so completely?
So, I say these things - Why am I posting as Anonymous Coward? Because if I logged in with my real account, there would be a goddamned UFie Jihad on me and the place I work.
As well there should be, I hope you burn in NT hell you heretic you.
SgtPepper
w00t?
AFAIK it has to be an open source project, regardless it has to be approved by Sourceforge, so submit a request to use the IA-64 compile farm and see what they say!
It's also a portal to porting apps to Linux!!!!!
Naw....
"Unsolvable Obscure Math Problems For Dummies"
THERE! NOW IDG will close down slashdot...
shit...maybe i shoulda posted that AC...
Hrm...I hadn't thought of that before, but you could be right. Returning China to "Normal Trade Relations" is overtly a political move anyway. It won't really change things except in the political landscape. Ever notice all the "Made in China" items that you can buy at your local store? Well if we didn't have trade how did we get them? The fact is that every year we decide wither or not to trade with China for the duration of that year, and that decicion can be revoked at any time. The whole "embargo" is simply a political bargining tool. Now if we take this threat away will China be more apt to give Taiwan it's freedom? Probably not, but it is a good showing, and will probably play well in the international scene. Myself, I belive when we place a trade embargo on someone we should cut off ALL trade until they show some good faith ( which China HAS NOT DONE ).
:)
But that is a very intresting idea aclaudet, I wouldn't doubt if it had some kernel of truth to it
PS: The text of the bill can be found here there's a PDF version but it's got a horrible layout.
Could you imagine a beowulf clust...
..what?....
..you mean..?
oh....damn....nevermind
Every single time I read that headline I read it as "Intel releasing Peon today"
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful site
That started from this topic board , aboard this tiny box,
The Sysop was a mighty hackin' man, the Posters brave and sure,
Five thousands readers set replying that day for a Microsoft cure.
A Microsoft Cure.
Well, Bill started getting rough, the tiny site was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew, Slashdot would be lost.
Slashdot would be lost.
The site set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With Roblimo, CmdrTaco too, an Emmett and his wife,
Timothy, the Coward and Natile Portman, here on AntiMicrosoft Isle.
bill is crying, loud
slashdot users don't give a
microsoft will be gone
This will work, it might delete some legit files but it's better then reinstalling. This thing doesn't appear to be THAT bad. Remain calm and do what the man says.
/does/ anyway?
does anybody know what the MS-BUGFIX.EXE file
But not totally suprising. How else is "Free Software" going to have any financing? It /is/ a little...disturbing, but as someone else pointing out has long as it's not 800x600 32bit colour frambuffer ads, it's all good, besides you can always stdout > /dev/null. Or simply ignore it. This is just a continuing trend towards "comercialism" that sould have been expected. It happens to every technology has it hits maturity.
;)
Don't sweat it.
As long as I don't see "ext2 brought to you by McDonald's, get your free tux with your happy meal today!" every time I boot up
at least as great as the precautions you take to protect your own confidential information
/don't/ take any precautions to protect my confidential information?
/do/ take aren't that great?
;)
Well hrm....what if I
Or less crazy, what if the precautions I
Just a thought...
Besides, shouldn't we be at least somewhat glad they did THIS. They didn't HAVE to. And yeah it's still stupid that they messed with Kerberos, but this is one step farther that they wouldn't have gone before.
So far they're acting better then nVidia.
Oooo, that's gonna piss someone off
It appears to obey the law of fives:
:)
;)
3+3+5+4+3+5 = 23
23 is of course a very important number in of itself, but we also then get
2+3 = 5
Hrhmm...Metallica involved with the occult? NEVER.
PS: the following was an attempt at humour if you don't get it i suggest you start out with The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson. It has a lot of good refrences. of course d|i|s|i|n|f|o|r|m|a|t|i|o|n isn't a bad place to check out either
SgtPepper
hail eris
I think the reason Timothy posted it, and if you noticed his added comments at the bottom, is that:
/is/ kinda appealing
/I/ think :)
1) It is cool tech, the idea of streaming MP3s through your phone line without itnterfering
2) And this is the important one, It's ANOTHER unlicesened, promoting copying, evil evil thing that the RIAA has to worry about. Another case of bop the mole. This is, IMHO, a good thing, the more MP3 hardware that comes out, the bigger an industry that will be built around it and the harder time the RIAA will have not looking like idiots.
At least that's what
Sorry man, it happened to me too, misery loves company ;)
Esperaaaaaaanto
This is something that I would /love/ to see more of. It shows some continuity and flow to the stories and proves that you are following up. With the follow up with Be over their BeOS being dropped and I see some very positive signs that Slashdot perhaps has no place else to go but up.
Thank you.
I start hearing the Eagles go though my head:
/know/ it's Desperado.
Esperanto, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you (let somebody love you)
You better let somebody love you before it's too late
Oh Esperanto
ARRRRGH
PS: Yes I
I don't normally bitch about slashdot, it's a pretty good shop, but I must admit, I agree with this... Sometimes i'm suprised by the submissions they end up posting, when I /know/ a better one was submitted, and rejected, not necessarily mine, but someone elses.
Ah well, what can you do though, really?
the Press Release is here. And the FAQ is here. The Spitfire has come a long way baby ;)
And I might as well say it now
Duron, ron ron. Duron ron.
;)
This looks a little familiar :) Why not just mirror this one on the front page? or educate people a little more on the various sections. This article can be found in the Your Rights Online section. I suggest that all slashdot readers regularly check the other sections, before bitching about how news didn't make the front page.
Of course now if they'd just run the damn story about Napster and Limp Bizkit teaming up...