How much fun was it working in the Xena/Hercules Universe? And how challenging was it to play opposite and off of the charactors of Xena and Gabrielle?
Texas Instruments used to have some of the best Speech Synthsis chips out there...I remember the TI/99 computer had a speech module, and one skiing game got both male and female realistic sounding voices out of the speech module. If they could do it in the early 1980's why can't they do it now?
But it wasn't good either. It seemed like a pilot for a TV show that got modified to become a vehicle for Jet Li. I must admit, I did enjoy the point in the final fight scene where the Good Li changed from a Hard Form martial art to Soft Form martial art...nice in joke!
Could it be that the Slaktool project has a better system, and thus he gave up? Here is what the Slaktool people have to say about themselves:
"Slaktool is a project to improve the Slackware package manager with all the features of the more advanced package managers while retaining the classic.tgz format. It does this by way of a generic library that links into the various GUI (or textmode) package managers.
The library handles all the package operations transparently, and does not base around any GUI or text console."
I hate to be a "me too", but I really enjoyed that interview. It gave a good inside look at someone that everyone thinks they know because he was on our TV sets for so long.
The real world, before MS achieved their monopoly was very different from today's.Word Processors like Wordstar, WordPerfect, and even Microsoft Word would run all day without a crash.The operating system would *never* crash...be it DOS or CP/M or Unix.
Today, users consider themselves lucky if they only have one failure that causes them to re-boot a day. Software frequently fails, and more often than not crashes the OS. And it *still* runs on DOS, and I bet most faults are in all the layers above DOS.
I used to use AltaVista all the time, but now I use Google. Since AltaVista was severed from it's hardware base, DEC, it has gone downhill. Also, I think the editorial descision to include paying customers as part of the results rather than as separate adds like Google does also make me less likly to use AltaVista.
A lot will depend on where in our country you are. Industry Canada has their Schoolnet Initiative in the past, and I don't know what they have currently, but spend some time at strategis.ic.gc.ca and see what you can dig up. I'm also interested in decent bandwith to rual areas in Canada...where I want to live, I am about 5 kilometers from the closest Cable (ick, Rogers@home!) feed. I don't think that bell has ADSL out there yet. A company is starting to deploy wireless in a number of rual regions around Ottawa, probably using 820.11b, but I haven't investigated them much.
Please make sure and follow up if you find a solution!
Chick comics are some of the most evil pieces of racist and religioius intolerance propaganda ever published. Please moderate the post this is a reply to into the trash heap!
The last thing we need in North America is divisive people like said poster. Muslim, Christian, Pagan, Hindu, Jew, etc. all are the target of bin Laden, simply because they live here in North America. He is targeting those who do not agree with him, and killing those who do not agree with you is not a civilized response.
Geesh, I remember before we had shared message areas, there was just what we called "netmail", the ability to send a message to another BBS on Fidonet...and that was cool. Then this guy name Jeff Rush came up with a way to take the new messages in a special message area and ship them to another BBS...way cool! It was called Echomail. Then we started doing it between a bunch of Fidonet BBSs, there were less than 500 of them at that point. It was Echomail that really made Fidonet take off...and the worst of it was that us Sysops bore the brunt of the funding for it...we ran the systems, sometimes bought the software to run it on, and paid the long distance bills to bring in the echo we wanted. Eventually, we banded together in areas like Ottawa, and pooled our efforts. Then one person got permission to use the ir companies bulk long-distance, and started pulling in all the echos for free! Then, we started to really grow in the Ottawa area..net 163. For the longest time our net host was a guy named Al Hacker...really, that was his name! He even showed us his driver's ID and all! And then the evil politics started, and we splintered into nets 163 and 148.
So, I will leave the story there...
ttyl
Farrell McGovern
SysOP Solsbury Hill BBS
(originally Fidonet 1:163/5)
Thinking about it...on systems in the past, they ran fairly slowly, and to get a real-time pre-emptible systems ment making the system very small, so that each event didn't hog (relatively) system resources too long. But today's systems that run at upwards to 2 gigahertz, the process switching time even for large processes is so fast, that resources can be quickly reallocated and thus are not spent waiting. TANJ, it's been too long since I studied OS kernels and read Tannenbaum's book! I bet Minix's message passing system would run real nice on today's hardware!
ttyl
Farrell
"Erisian principal"...see below for more info.
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Goto fnord.org, and click on the funny symbol with an apple and a pentagon on it. You will be enlightened.
What freaked me out was the collapse of the twin towers...I know a bit about structural engineering, and knew that these buildings were designed to withstand a passenger jet hitting them. But what really got to me is how they collapsed, like a controlled explosion where the fold the building in on itself.
One Declan McCullagh's mailing list, someone posted a much better analysis of the collapse than what has been seen in the media...most of the media engineers were mostly wrong. Take a gander
at this url:
http://www.pfarrell.com/rants/archtower.html.
This article talks about how the outside latticework of the WTC was actually a load-bearing member, and there were no internal support columns...and this explains why it collapsed the way that it did.
We can only theorize that the extreme heat of the jet fuel weaking the steel coupled with the fact that these jets were going fast enough to destroy the lattice work on almost all four sides of the structure where they hit caused the eventual collapse of the structures.We can only that what dieties you pray to that they fell in the manner the did...if they had fallen sidewas, in different directions...the death toll would have gone up by possibly an order of magnitutde!
If you want to know a popular distribution, then learn both RedHat and Mandrake...which are very similar. If you want to get more into the nitty-gritty, try either Slackware or Debian. I personally like Slackware, and use it most places, but have used RedHat a fair bit as well, since it is popular.
I started using Linux about 9 years ago...so I can probably deal with just about any distro...but Slackware is still my *personal* fav, followed closely, but for different reason, Tom's Ultimate Root/Boot disk.
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How much fun was it working in the Xena/Hercules Universe? And how challenging was it to play opposite and off of the charactors of Xena and Gabrielle?
ttyl
Farrell
Texas Instruments used to have some of the best Speech Synthsis chips out there...I remember the TI/99 computer had a speech module, and one skiing game got both male and female realistic sounding voices out of the speech module. If they could do it in the early 1980's why can't they do it now?
ttyl
Farrell
He also has a mailing list! Go to http://ralf.org and get hooked up. Of course, you should recognize the name of the web site!
See you on the list!
ttyl
Farrell
But it wasn't good either. It seemed like a pilot for a TV show that got modified to become a vehicle for Jet Li. I must admit, I did enjoy the point in the final fight scene where the Good Li changed from a Hard Form martial art to Soft Form martial art...nice in joke!
ttyl
Farrell
One for the Good Guys!
Thanx to all you involved with this directly!
ttyl
Farrell
Could it be that the Slaktool project has a better system, and thus he gave up? Here is what the Slaktool people have to say about themselves:
.tgz format. It does this by way of a generic library that links into the various GUI (or textmode) package managers.
"Slaktool is a project to improve the Slackware package manager with all the features of the more advanced package managers while retaining the classic
The library handles all the package operations transparently, and does not base around any GUI or text console."
ttyl
Farrell
I hate to be a "me too", but I really enjoyed that interview. It gave a good inside look at someone that everyone thinks they know because he was on our TV sets for so long.
Thanx to everyone who made it possible!
ttyl
Farrell
The real world, before MS achieved their monopoly was very different from today's.Word Processors like Wordstar, WordPerfect, and even Microsoft Word would run all day without a crash.The operating system would *never* crash...be it DOS or CP/M or Unix.
Today, users consider themselves lucky if they only have one failure that causes them to re-boot a day. Software frequently fails, and more often than not crashes the OS. And it *still* runs on DOS, and I bet most faults are in all the layers above DOS.
ttyl
Farrell
Why the F8ck can't I find a Job?!?!?!
ttyl
Farrell
I used to use AltaVista all the time, but now I use Google. Since AltaVista was severed from it's hardware base, DEC, it has gone downhill. Also, I think the editorial descision to include paying customers as part of the results rather than as separate adds like Google does also make me less likly to use AltaVista.
ttyl
Farrell
A lot will depend on where in our country you are. Industry Canada has their Schoolnet Initiative in the past, and I don't know what they have currently, but spend some time at strategis.ic.gc.ca and see what you can dig up. I'm also interested in decent bandwith to rual areas in Canada...where I want to live, I am about 5 kilometers from the closest Cable (ick, Rogers@home!) feed. I don't think that bell has ADSL out there yet. A company is starting to deploy wireless in a number of rual regions around Ottawa, probably using 820.11b, but I haven't investigated them much.
Please make sure and follow up if you find a solution!
ttyl
Farrell
Twice is enemy action...
First ZKS shuts is services, now PGP is orphened...it does not take a conspiricy fan to put this together.
ttyl
Farrell
Maybe they should combine operations and work out sometime to keep both of them afloat.
ttyl
Farrell
It amazes me that us North Americans allow their elected officials to be bought...it makes me sad.
ttyl
Farrell
Chick comics are some of the most evil pieces of racist and religioius intolerance propaganda ever published. Please moderate the post this is a reply to into the trash heap!
The last thing we need in North America is divisive people like said poster. Muslim, Christian, Pagan, Hindu, Jew, etc. all are the target of bin Laden, simply because they live here in North America. He is targeting those who do not agree with him, and killing those who do not agree with you is not a civilized response.
ttyl
Farrell
Get a couple of phone connections, and multiplex it between two channels...should give you about 80% more bandwith...maybe more depending on the code.
ttyl
Farrell
Geesh, I remember before we had shared message areas, there was just what we called "netmail", the ability to send a message to another BBS on Fidonet...and that was cool. Then this guy name Jeff Rush came up with a way to take the new messages in a special message area and ship them to another BBS...way cool! It was called Echomail. Then we started doing it between a bunch of Fidonet BBSs, there were less than 500 of them at that point. It was Echomail that really made Fidonet take off...and the worst of it was that us Sysops bore the brunt of the funding for it...we ran the systems, sometimes bought the software to run it on, and paid the long distance bills to bring in the echo we wanted. Eventually, we banded together in areas like Ottawa, and pooled our efforts. Then one person got permission to use the ir companies bulk long-distance, and started pulling in all the echos for free! Then, we started to really grow in the Ottawa area..net 163. For the longest time our net host was a guy named Al Hacker...really, that was his name! He even showed us his driver's ID and all! And then the evil politics started, and we splintered into nets 163 and 148.
So, I will leave the story there...
ttyl
Farrell McGovern
SysOP Solsbury Hill BBS
(originally Fidonet 1:163/5)
Thinking about it...on systems in the past, they ran fairly slowly, and to get a real-time pre-emptible systems ment making the system very small, so that each event didn't hog (relatively) system resources too long. But today's systems that run at upwards to 2 gigahertz, the process switching time even for large processes is so fast, that resources can be quickly reallocated and thus are not spent waiting. TANJ, it's been too long since I studied OS kernels and read Tannenbaum's book! I bet Minix's message passing system would run real nice on today's hardware!
ttyl
Farrell
Goto fnord.org, and click on the funny symbol with an apple and a pentagon on it. You will be enlightened.
ttyl
Farrell
fnord
Not greater truth has been written about Token Ring!
ttyl
Farrell
What freaked me out was the collapse of the twin towers...I know a bit about structural engineering, and knew that these buildings were designed to withstand a passenger jet hitting them. But what really got to me is how they collapsed, like a controlled explosion where the fold the building in on itself.
One Declan McCullagh's mailing list, someone posted a much better analysis of the collapse than what has been seen in the media...most of the media engineers were mostly wrong. Take a gander at this url: http://www.pfarrell.com/rants/archtower.html.
This article talks about how the outside latticework of the WTC was actually a load-bearing member, and there were no internal support columns...and this explains why it collapsed the way that it did.
We can only theorize that the extreme heat of the jet fuel weaking the steel coupled with the fact that these jets were going fast enough to destroy the lattice work on almost all four sides of the structure where they hit caused the eventual collapse of the structures.We can only that what dieties you pray to that they fell in the manner the did...if they had fallen sidewas, in different directions...the death toll would have gone up by possibly an order of magnitutde!
ttyl, Farrell J. McGovern (No relation)
It makes a good point, and everyone in the US that reads Slashdot should do it!
ttyl
Farrell
If you want to know a popular distribution, then learn both RedHat and Mandrake...which are very similar. If you want to get more into the nitty-gritty, try either Slackware or Debian. I personally like Slackware, and use it most places, but have used RedHat a fair bit as well, since it is popular.
I started using Linux about 9 years ago...so I can probably deal with just about any distro...but Slackware is still my *personal* fav, followed closely, but for different reason, Tom's Ultimate Root/Boot disk.
ttyl
Farrell
Then it keep going, and going and going and going...until you put them in backwards...then it keeps cumming and cumming and cumming...
ttyl
Farrell
Well, I guess you got your load test...unfortunately!
Thanx anyways for letting us have a kick at the tires!
ttyl
Farrell