in my naïveté i've always considered osx to be closer to linux than windows (i'm no developer) so when the osx steam client came out i googled a few times for any evidence that cleverer folk than me were trying to get the osx client working on linux. however all my results were about the client on osx and 'steam is coming to linux. yea!' clearly my google-fu is deficient:( can some friendly slashdotter shed some light on this? perhaps explain what the obstacles are that in my ignorance i cannot see
as an example, using the sysinternals 4 desktop prog, firefox won't open a new window other than on the desktop it is already running on, try opening a new instance on another desktop and i get a message that firefox is already running! well i knew that! this on winxp pro sp3
Police officer: What a nice porn collection... I notice that you're using TrueCrypt, now give us your "other" key
You: Uhh what other key? I don't know what you're talking about.
I'm hoping it will allow two different games bought on the same account to be played at the same time on two different machines, that way you don't need a separate account to buy games for your kids/wife whoever, they can play one game on their machine while you play another game on yours, of course if you both want to play tf2 or similar I guess you still need two accounts.:) As I understand it, at the moment if steam logs on two machines at once then you get risk being flagged as 'cheating'. Otherwise the description of this system provides exactly what happens now.
-- Want to try something fun with Steam? Play your favorite game. Shut down your computer. Disconnect from the Internet (I know, shocking, but try it!). Now start up the computer and play your favorite game again. Oh wait, you CAN'T. In fact, without planning ahead and jumping through all their lame ass hoops, you CANNOT. EVER. PLAY. AGAIN. Until you reconnect to the Internet.
You make a good point, with only two tiny flaws...
1. It's bollocks.
2. It's bollocks.
If I have no internet connection when i start steam then it offers me offline mode, no problem. Unless of course it's an online game:)
i've never understood why there are not more elections to reduce the complexity of each ballot process. each election could then be done using cheap paper methods. there are more opportunity for citizens to be involved in the democratic process, and as a by product it allows voters to show a protest against sitting politicians by voting against the current 'party in power' more often. possibly there are so many elected positions in american local government that ballots would still be too complex for paper, but that would suggest there was a problem with how many positions are elected. too many and, imho, you begin to move away from sensible government, there is less room for good practice and rational thinking by officials and more room for back room deals, corruption and politicking - though none of those are non-existent in a non-elected civil service either!:)
"How the priors are themselves constructed in the mind has yet to be investigated in detail. Obviously they are learned by experience, but the exact process is not properly understood. Indeed, some people suspect that the parsimony of Bayesian reasoning leads occasionally to it going spectacularly awry, with whatever process it is that forms the priors getting further and further off-track rather than converging on the correct distribution.
That might explain the emergence of superstitious behaviour, with an accidental correlation or two being misinterpreted by the brain as causal. A frequentist way of doing things would reduce the risk of that happening. But by the time the frequentist had enough data to draw a conclusion, he might already be dead."
i'm intrigued by the idea that otherwise sane people insist on believing stupid stuff because that's how their brain 'is designed to work', if a brain is hardwired to these types of judgements then it's no surprise that apparently obvious 'frequentist' arguments don't work sometimes.
i use grub to have a smart boot manager image as a boot option, that way i don't have to mess with the bios of my laptop if i want to boot from cd, i leave the bios set to boot from hard disk. using memdisk i can boot floppy images. to do this use smart boot manager on a floppy, configure it to autoboot from cdrom, save the config back to the floppy, then save that floppy image and get grub to boot it when you select 'cdrom' from the grub boot menu, as far as i know lilo won't boot a floppy image or memdisk, i also have an option in grub to boot the 2.8mb tomsrtbt image as an emergency tool, my menu.lst looks like this (note, in the article this file seemed to be called grub.conf): blah blah usual stuff
###snake's extras title cdrom kernel(hd0,1)/memdisk initrd (hd0,1)/sbm.img
title tomsrootboot kernel (hd0,1)/memdisk initrd (hd0,1)/tomsrtbt.img
(hd0,1) is my/boot partition in which i put the tomsrtboot floppy image, the smart boot manager flopppy image as well as memdisk which i found at http://syslinux.zytor.com/
Problem here is if I attach my mp3-player AFTER I've attached eg. my camera,/dev/mp3player would be linked to my camera instead. I've haven't been able to figure out a smart way to attach my usb-devices yet and the documentation is lacking. So right know I can only attach one device at a time. er AFTER I've attached eg. my camera,/dev/mp3player would be linked to my camera instead. I've haven't been able to figure out a smart way to attach my usb-devices yet and the documentation is lacking. So right know I can only attach one device at a time.
does bsd not have/proc or something similar, so you can grep for the device file? in linux i have a little script that parses/proc/scsi/scsi and looks for the model name of my usb stick and works out the scsi device it is assigned, this is not supposed to be necessary with newer distros using udev and hal but i've been doing this ever since i had a usb stick and a usb camera and they would get mounted in different places depending on which was plugged in first
assuming the trailer gives the sense of the film, then from the macho voiceover announcing the film like it's some sort of action flick, via the sheer cowardice of zaphod's hidden second head, through slapstick, slapstick ffs!, onto the apparent absence of that which defines the h2g2 genre, the book, i don't mean the object in the hand, i mean the voice, the calm measured, well spoken voice that tells you that space is big, really big.... just, no
ford: hey zaphod, heard about this msn combined with id card thingy? zaphod: oh belgium man! belgium!
and for those who aren't fans:
"But though even words like "juju-flop," "swut," and "turlingdrome" are now perfectly acceptable in common usage, there is one word that is still beyond the pale. The concept it embodies is so revolting that the publication or broadcast of the word is utterly forbidden in all parts of the galaxy except one - where they don't know what it means..."
i would suggest that awareness of homosexuality itself is behind the 'hyper-masculinisation' you refer to. in a society where being gay is completely taboo then why wouldn't men hold hands and hug? it can't mean they are gay because 'everyone knows that sort of thing doesn't happen'! but all of a sudden there are gay people demanding rights ( a good thing (tm) ), media portrayals of gay people increases and 'ordinary' folk are much more aware of this aspect of human behaviour, now there is a greater danger of being thought of as gay than previously, how to avoid this? see where this is going?
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christianity only exists because of a licensing spat over 'being holy', judaism denied the existence of the 'messiah' on earth, yeah jesus and company, it is called 'the real world' come live in it for while, want to debate that with me? pay for a place for me to live, food for me to eat and then we'll talk
the jews were right, now it is (well past) time for christians to do the right thing and convert to judaism instead of dividing the community
on my winxp pro system msn messenger 6.1 requires admin privileges to play games with other msn users, of course i don't let my daughter access the net with admin privileges so she can't play these games with her friends
i think what causes argument and confusion is that there is no 'goal' of the open source community. everyone who considers themself a member will have a reason for 'belonging'. a lot of members will have similar reasons, a lot of members feel that there 'should' be a goal and become frustrated when they see the consequences of the lack of one unifying goal orientated development process. smaller groupings of members, whether individuals or organisations have their own goals, often commercial and of course they would benefit from the whole community deciding to commit themselves to that objective. but the community doesn't.
as i write i wonder if the word community isn't itself misplaced if there isn't one overall unifying destination for all its members, but then i think that perhaps the dissimilarities of licences such as the bsd and gpl instances to those of microsoft et al do define an identifiable grouping or community.
back to the article: i couldn't help feeling that the first writer has the goal of 'linux on the desktop for all' or whatever, and the second a goal of 'linux on my desktop the way i like it'; of course they disagree, the first was speaking to the lack of community participation by those currently microsoft bound, perhaps at the bottom of the tech-savvy curve, the second was saying the current members are quite happy as they are thankyou every much! both potentially true!
'open source', 'free software' use what terms you will, these refer to a development process and/or to an ideological attitude to intellectual activity. abstract concepts such as these do not have goals, merely consequences, or implications. people have goals, and people are different, contrary and sometimes downright irrational.
i like the idea of a community/arena blah blah that encompasses the whole range of human idiosyncracies, it may not appear to be moving in one unified direction but i believe that when something matters enough, and when people have the freedom to act, folk mostly do the right thing, indeed looking at the past decade or so, perhaps folk already have! it's that pesky little 'freedom to act' phrase that matters, i see an allegory between my description here and the wider world of social and polictical engagement (or lack of it), but there my navel beckons so i'll stop.
having reread your comment i realise that you didn't actually mention mounting - doh! in that case copy your 'docs...' over and use a better registry editor to search and replace all path entries, i find 'registrar lite' handy at www.resplendence.com
if anyone does do the mounting thing, note that ms acknowlege (well they did at the time, who knows, maybe it's fixed) that there is a recycle bin bug that prevents deletion from the mounted volume except by accessing it via a drive letter in explorer, yes - a partition can have both a drive letter and be mounted elsewhere on the system
sorry about missing out this factoid, it's not unimportant!
snake
oh and if you need me to put a disclaimer here then my advice is: don't!:)
Slashdot Mirror
in my naïveté i've always considered osx to be closer to linux than windows (i'm no developer) so when the osx steam client came out i googled a few times for any evidence that cleverer folk than me were trying to get the osx client working on linux.
however all my results were about the client on osx and 'steam is coming to linux. yea!'
clearly my google-fu is deficient:( can some friendly slashdotter shed some light on this? perhaps explain what the obstacles are that in my ignorance i cannot see
snake
as an example, using the sysinternals 4 desktop prog, firefox won't open a new window other than on the desktop it is already running on, try opening a new instance on another desktop and i get a message that firefox is already running! well i knew that!
this on winxp pro sp3
snake
Police officer: What a nice porn collection... I notice that you're using TrueCrypt, now give us your "other" key
You: Uhh what other key? I don't know what you're talking about.
Fezzik, tear his arms off...
You: Oh! You mean that other key!
--What is different here?
I'm hoping it will allow two different games bought on the same account to be played at the same time on two different machines, that way you don't need a separate account to buy games for your kids/wife whoever, they can play one game on their machine while you play another game on yours, of course if you both want to play tf2 or similar I guess you still need two accounts. :) As I understand it, at the moment if steam logs on two machines at once then you get risk being flagged as 'cheating'. Otherwise the description of this system provides exactly what happens now.
snake
-- Want to try something fun with Steam? Play your favorite game. Shut down your computer. Disconnect from the Internet (I know, shocking, but try it!). Now start up the computer and play your favorite game again. Oh wait, you CAN'T. In fact, without planning ahead and jumping through all their lame ass hoops, you CANNOT. EVER. PLAY. AGAIN. Until you reconnect to the Internet.
You make a good point, with only two tiny flaws...
1.
It's bollocks.
2.
It's bollocks.
If I have no internet connection when i start steam then it offers me offline mode, no problem. Unless of course it's an online game :)
snake
Imagine if instead of a non-lethal sonic cannon, they had unleashed a few rounds from a 30mm Cannon modified to fire at sea-based attackers.
I'd prefer a Destructomatic T-47;
or a voodoo cannon ball!
What is the difference between a duck?
one of its legs is both the same!
i've never understood why there are not more elections to reduce the complexity of each ballot process. each election could then be done using cheap paper methods. there are more opportunity for citizens to be involved in the democratic process, and as a by product it allows voters to show a protest against sitting politicians by voting against the current 'party in power' more often. possibly there are so many elected positions in american local government that ballots would still be too complex for paper, but that would suggest there was a problem with how many positions are elected. too many and, imho, you begin to move away from sensible government, there is less room for good practice and rational thinking by officials and more room for back room deals, corruption and politicking - though none of those are non-existent in a non-elected civil service either! :)
i'm shocked! shocked to find that illegal eavesdropping has been going on in here!
> here are your intercepts sir!
oh, thank you very much!
I thought it was "God wrote the rocks, Humans wrote ON the rocks."
actually: "God wrote the rocks, Humans banged them together!."
surely:
fuck you, you fucking uncle fucker?
from the end of tfa:
"How the priors are themselves constructed in the mind has yet to be investigated in detail. Obviously they are learned by experience, but the exact process is not properly understood. Indeed, some people suspect that the parsimony of Bayesian reasoning leads occasionally to it going spectacularly awry, with whatever process it is that forms the priors getting further and further off-track rather than converging on the correct distribution.
That might explain the emergence of superstitious behaviour, with an accidental correlation or two being misinterpreted by the brain as causal. A frequentist way of doing things would reduce the risk of that happening. But by the time the frequentist had enough data to draw a conclusion, he might already be dead."
i'm intrigued by the idea that otherwise sane people insist on believing stupid stuff because that's how their brain 'is designed to work', if a brain is hardwired to these types of judgements then it's no surprise that apparently obvious 'frequentist' arguments don't work sometimes.
and there is yet another theory, which says that this has already happened!
general protection fault has an intelligent slime mould, is that the one?
http://www.gpf-comics.com/
snake
i use grub to have a smart boot manager image as a boot option, that way i don't have to mess with the bios of my laptop if i want to boot from cd, i leave the bios set to boot from hard disk. using memdisk i can boot floppy images.
/boot partition in which i put the tomsrtboot floppy image, the smart boot manager flopppy image as well as memdisk which i found at http://syslinux.zytor.com/
to do this use smart boot manager on a floppy, configure it to autoboot from cdrom, save the config back to the floppy, then save that floppy image and get grub to boot it when you select 'cdrom' from the grub boot menu, as far as i know lilo won't boot a floppy image or memdisk, i also have an option in grub to boot the 2.8mb tomsrtbt image as an emergency tool,
my menu.lst looks like this (note, in the article this file seemed to be called grub.conf):
blah blah
usual stuff
###snake's extras
title cdrom
kernel(hd0,1)/memdisk
initrd (hd0,1)/sbm.img
title tomsrootboot
kernel (hd0,1)/memdisk
initrd (hd0,1)/tomsrtbt.img
(hd0,1) is my
very useful
snake
Problem here is if I attach my mp3-player AFTER I've attached eg. my camera, /dev/mp3player would be linked to my camera instead. I've haven't been able to figure out a smart way to attach my usb-devices yet and the documentation is lacking. So right know I can only attach one device at a time. /dev/mp3player would be linked to my camera instead. I've haven't been able to figure out a smart way to attach my usb-devices yet and the documentation is lacking. So right know I can only attach one device at a time.
/proc or something similar, so you can grep for the device file? /proc/scsi/scsi and looks for the model name of my usb stick and works out the scsi device it is assigned, this is not supposed to be necessary with newer distros using udev and hal but i've been doing this ever since i had a usb stick and a usb camera and they would get mounted in different places depending on which was plugged in first
er AFTER I've attached eg. my camera,
does bsd not have
in linux i have a little script that parses
lurned lots in hi skuwl
:)
that's 'skool', as any fule kno
assuming the trailer gives the sense of the film,
then from the macho voiceover announcing the film like it's some sort of action flick, via the sheer cowardice of zaphod's hidden second head, through slapstick, slapstick ffs!, onto the apparent absence of that which defines the h2g2 genre, the book, i don't mean the object in the hand, i mean the voice, the calm measured, well spoken voice that tells you that space is big, really big....
just,
no
ford: hey zaphod, heard about this msn combined with id card thingy?
zaphod: oh belgium man! belgium!
and for those who aren't fans:
"But though even words like "juju-flop," "swut," and "turlingdrome" are now perfectly acceptable in common usage, there is one word that is still beyond the pale. The concept it embodies is so revolting that the publication or broadcast of the word is utterly forbidden in all parts of the galaxy except one - where they don't know what it means..."
i would suggest that awareness of homosexuality itself is behind the 'hyper-masculinisation' you refer to. in a society where being gay is completely taboo then why wouldn't men hold hands and hug? it can't mean they are gay because 'everyone knows that sort of thing doesn't happen'!
but all of a sudden there are gay people demanding rights ( a good thing (tm) ), media portrayals of gay people increases and 'ordinary' folk are much more aware of this aspect of human behaviour, now there is a greater danger of being thought of as gay than previously, how to avoid this? see where this is going?
christianity only exists because of a licensing spat over 'being holy', judaism denied the existence of the 'messiah' on earth, yeah jesus and company, it is called 'the real world' come live in it for while, want to debate that with me? pay for a place for me to live, food for me to eat and then we'll talk
the jews were right, now it is (well past) time for christians to do the right thing and convert to judaism instead of dividing the community
on my winxp pro system msn messenger 6.1 requires admin privileges to play games with other msn users, of course i don't let my daughter access the net with admin privileges so she can't play these games with her friends
snake
i think what causes argument and confusion is that there is no 'goal' of the open source community. everyone who considers themself a member will have a reason for 'belonging'. a lot of members will have similar reasons, a lot of members feel that there 'should' be a goal and become frustrated when they see the consequences of the lack of one unifying goal orientated development process.
smaller groupings of members, whether individuals or organisations have their own goals, often commercial and of course they would benefit from the whole community deciding to commit themselves to that objective. but the community doesn't.
as i write i wonder if the word community isn't itself misplaced if there isn't one overall unifying destination for all its members, but then i think that perhaps the dissimilarities of licences such as the bsd and gpl instances to those of microsoft et al do define an identifiable grouping or community.
back to the article: i couldn't help feeling that the first writer has the goal of 'linux on the desktop for all' or whatever, and the second a goal of 'linux on my desktop the way i like it'; of course they disagree, the first was speaking to the lack of community participation by those currently microsoft bound, perhaps at the bottom of the tech-savvy curve, the second was saying the current members are quite happy as they are thankyou every much!
both potentially true!
'open source', 'free software' use what terms you will, these refer to a development process and/or to an ideological attitude to intellectual activity. abstract concepts such as these do not have goals, merely consequences, or implications. people have goals, and people are different, contrary and sometimes downright irrational.
i like the idea of a community/arena blah blah that encompasses the whole range of human idiosyncracies, it may not appear to be moving in one unified direction but i believe that when something matters enough, and when people have the freedom to act, folk mostly do the right thing, indeed looking at the past decade or so, perhaps folk already have! it's that pesky little 'freedom to act' phrase that matters, i see an allegory between my description here and the wider world of social and polictical engagement (or lack of it), but there my navel beckons so i'll stop.
as this fellow found out :)
theonion.com
having reread your comment i realise that you didn't actually mention mounting - doh!
:)
in that case copy your 'docs...' over and use a better registry editor to search and replace all path entries, i find 'registrar lite' handy at www.resplendence.com
if anyone does do the mounting thing, note that ms acknowlege (well they did at the time, who knows, maybe it's fixed) that there is a recycle bin bug that prevents deletion from the mounted volume except by accessing it via a drive letter in explorer, yes - a partition can have both a drive letter and be mounted elsewhere on the system
sorry about missing out this factoid, it's not unimportant!
snake
oh and if you need me to put a disclaimer here then my advice is: don't!