Ultimately, we all find our paths, those who go seeking for them, that is. It is only when we can all accept the paths that others follow as being legitimate can we get closer to solving some of the *real* problems on this planet.
ttyl Farrell J. McGovern Chronicler, Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship
Many of the comments that George Lucas made are very similar to those made by current day Pagan revivalists. What surprises me is the lack of commentary on and about paganism here on Slashdot...Pagans tend to make up a large percentage of the Computer populace. Many well-know people involved with computer that make you think (FSF, Open Source, MIT Media Lab, etc.) are either Pagan or Pagan sympathetic.
ttyl Farrell J. McGovern Chronicler, Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship
Which is built upon free software. Commercial transport nets like Compuserve and AOL are big...but without the Internet, they would never have grown as big as they are now.
Thusly, most of MS & Co's business plans would no longer be valid if free software didn't exist.
Actually, Entrust's headquarters are in Canada. The US office is just a "branch" but for US laws, it looks like the Head Office, and it is, of the US division. Entrust was a Nortel Spin-off, and a friend of mine works for them. So I know abit of what I speak of.
I've been exchanging email with another person there about the study...there are a number of people that are turning their heads at ZD. The Labs people seem to be Linux Hip, it is the mainstream publishing, which as always, is slow to move.
Gee, Mr. Bill has forgotten the little bit of History that created the PC business...A little program called Visicalc for the Apple ][. Suddenly, it wasn't a hobbiest machine, it was a business machine that could do company payroles in minutes what it took people by hand to do in a day.
Then another little package called Lotus 1-2-3 came along, and did much the same for the IBM PC.
Let's all send them email thanking them for releasing the Specs, and making good quality Video Cards..and us Canadians can thank them for being Canadian too!
These things used to be sold by Virtual IO systems, and we used them at Reality Bytes, a Virtual Reality Gaming Cafe in Ottawa. These things have a decent position tracker, and were wonderful under Doom II for immersive VR, and for true 3-d spaces, Descent was wonderful. Look for my posts in the sci-virtual.worlds newsgroup for more comments on VR and the Virtual IO glasses.
Representative Democracy cannot work, thus all countries with them will fail. Simlarly, to a president of a standard model corp. an anarchy based management system will fail. This is not FUD, it is simply Mr. Bill's myopia. We should pitty the man, and hope that his Billions keep him warm at night.
I don't have any MP3s, but I have bought fewer CDs in the past few years for a number of reasons, listed below. Another problem with the market is the aging Baby Boomers. I mean, you can only by Hotel California so many time, eh?
1) Lack of good music. I don't mean that there are not good bands around...but the music business is not getting it out to us. There have been no real "mega" groups or artists come along for a long time that have wide ranging appeal. 2) Most albums are pretty spotty in terms of consistancy of songs. Too many albums have two or three really good songs, and the rest suck. 3) No really big tours. Tours sell albums. If I go to a concert and see a band, I am more likely to buy the album. 4) CD costs...retail blank CDs are under $2 CDN. Average CD price is $15-$20 range. But that is about the same as it was a decade ago, when only plants could cut CDs.
In the past 6 months, I have only bought a few CDS, the new Garbage, the new Sarah McLauchlan, 3 Chris Franke (two Babylon 5 soundtracks & one other). I used to buy an CD every couple of weeks. Nothing appeals much to me anymore.
Ignore it people...remember that this is a community, and anyone who recieves benefits, also benefits the community. As long as Red Hat stays a member of the Linux Community, we all benefit!
ttyl Farrell
I'd Forgive Bill Games if...
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he put his personal fortune behind space colonization!
You have to make sure that you have cleaned out your/usr/src/linux link...it is a link to your kernel source tree. I just delete it, untar the new kernel, rename the directory to the appropriate kernel name and re-create the link. I am pretty sure those sig 11 problems people are having are due to them simply overwriting their existing 2.0.x kernel.
I've developed Kiosk Applications for OS/2, and it is rock solid. A nice environment to work in and fairly consistant throughout. I ran a BBS under OS/2 for half a decade...runing Maximus, Binkleyterm with a Fidonet and PODnet node. I only moved away from OS/2 when I took down my BBS. Now, you can run Max and Bink under DOSEMU, by the Gods! it is a FOSSIL driver!, and might just put my BBS, Solsbury Hill, back up. It was one of the first 500 or so Fidonet BBSs, and one of the first dozen PODNet BBSs...
Yes, I admit, I am an early adopter...I mean, I started using Linux with version 0.12 kernel...
Bah...You all loose Geek Points for not knowing SPACE:1999, that almost horrible series that had the best intra-system space craft (The Eagle) of any TV series or Movie...
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But many, like myself are not.
I've been Pagan since about 1980...and loving it!
Ultimately, we all find our paths, those who go seeking for them, that is. It is only when we can all accept the paths that others follow as being legitimate can we get closer to solving some of the *real* problems on this planet.
ttyl
Farrell J. McGovern
Chronicler, Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship
Many of the comments that George Lucas made are very similar to those made by current day Pagan revivalists. What surprises me is the lack of commentary on and about paganism here on Slashdot...Pagans tend to make up a large percentage of the Computer populace. Many well-know people involved with computer that make you think (FSF, Open Source, MIT Media Lab, etc.) are either Pagan or Pagan sympathetic.
ttyl
Farrell J. McGovern
Chronicler, Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship
Which is built upon free software. Commercial transport nets like Compuserve and AOL are big...but without the Internet, they would never have grown as big as they are now.
Thusly, most of MS & Co's business plans would no longer be valid if free software didn't exist.
ttyl
Farrell
Actually, Entrust's headquarters are in Canada. The US office is just a "branch" but for US laws, it looks like the Head Office, and it is, of the US division. Entrust was a Nortel Spin-off, and a friend of mine works for them. So I know abit of what I speak of.
ttyl
Farrell
I've been exchanging email with another person there about the study...there are a number of people that are turning their heads at ZD. The Labs people seem to be Linux Hip, it is the mainstream publishing, which as always, is slow to move.
ttyl
Farrell
Gee, Mr. Bill has forgotten the little bit of History that created the PC business...A little program called Visicalc for the Apple ][. Suddenly, it wasn't a hobbiest machine, it was a business machine that could do company payroles in minutes what it took people by hand to do in a day.
Then another little package called Lotus 1-2-3 came along, and did much the same for the IBM PC.
SO, spreadsheets are not important...yeah, right.
ttyl
Farrell
They did well with the tape-based Walkman way back when...many expect them to do well with their new portable digital audio playback "Walkman".
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Farrell
Put up the Slogan!!!
ttyl
Farrell
Let's all send them email thanking them for releasing the Specs, and making good quality Video Cards..and us Canadians can thank them for being Canadian too!
ttyl
Farrell
All Hail Discordia!
Kallisti!
fnord
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Farrell
(another POPE, and Druid as well!)
Hey! I don't think so. IO-Glasses are immersive enough to cause transition sickness...
ttyl
Farrell
These things used to be sold by Virtual IO systems, and we used them at Reality Bytes, a Virtual Reality Gaming Cafe in Ottawa. These things have a decent position tracker, and were wonderful under Doom II for immersive VR, and for true 3-d spaces, Descent was wonderful. Look for my posts in the sci-virtual.worlds newsgroup for more comments on VR and the Virtual IO glasses.
ttyl
Farrell
Representative Democracy cannot work, thus all countries with them will fail. Simlarly, to a president of a standard model corp. an anarchy based management system will fail. This is not FUD, it is simply Mr. Bill's myopia. We should pitty the man, and hope that his Billions keep him warm at night.
ttyl
Farrell
I don't have any MP3s, but I have bought fewer CDs in the past few years for a number of reasons, listed below. Another problem with the market is the aging Baby Boomers. I mean, you can only by Hotel California so many time, eh?
1) Lack of good music. I don't mean that there are not good bands around...but the music business is not getting it out to us. There have been no real "mega" groups or artists come along for a long time that have wide ranging appeal.
2) Most albums are pretty spotty in terms of consistancy of songs. Too many albums have two or three really good songs, and the rest suck.
3) No really big tours. Tours sell albums. If I go to a concert and see a band, I am more likely to buy the album.
4) CD costs...retail blank CDs are under $2 CDN. Average CD price is $15-$20 range. But that is about the same as it was a decade ago, when only plants could cut CDs.
In the past 6 months, I have only bought a few CDS, the new Garbage, the new Sarah McLauchlan, 3 Chris Franke (two Babylon 5 soundtracks & one other). I used to buy an CD every couple of weeks. Nothing appeals much to me anymore.
Ignore it people...remember that this is a community, and anyone who recieves benefits, also benefits the community. As long as Red Hat stays a member of the Linux Community, we all benefit!
ttyl
Farrell
he put his personal fortune behind space colonization!
ttyl
Farrell
It was a blast last year...check out the URL above!
ttyl
Farrell
You have to make sure that you have cleaned out your /usr/src/linux link...it is a link to your kernel source tree. I just delete it, untar the new kernel, rename the directory to the appropriate kernel name and re-create the link. I am pretty sure those sig 11 problems people are having are due to them simply overwriting their existing 2.0.x kernel.
ttyl
Farrell
Back in the early '90s, they were the top SGI sales company in the National Capital Region...that is, Canada's National Capital.
...Still would love to have a Crimsion Reality Engine at home...
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Farrell
Yuppers.
Slackware not only is a decent distribution it is the easiest to customize, IMOHO. But then again, I have been using Linux since kernel v0.12...
ttyl
Farrell
I've developed Kiosk Applications for OS/2, and it is rock solid. A nice environment to work in and fairly consistant throughout. I ran a BBS under OS/2 for half a decade...runing Maximus, Binkleyterm with a Fidonet and PODnet node. I only moved away from OS/2 when I took down my BBS. Now, you can run Max and Bink under DOSEMU, by the Gods! it is a FOSSIL driver!, and might just put my BBS, Solsbury Hill, back up. It was one of the first 500 or so Fidonet BBSs, and one of the first dozen PODNet BBSs...
Yes, I admit, I am an early adopter...I mean, I started using Linux with version 0.12 kernel...
ttyl
Farrell
Bah...You all loose Geek Points for not knowing SPACE:1999, that almost horrible series that had the best intra-system space craft (The Eagle) of any TV series or Movie...
ttyl
Farrell
On Sept. 13, 1999 a nuclear disposal dump on the Moon explodes, hurling it out of orbit...You can make it happen!
Get the Russians to use their heavy lift boosters to send all excess nuclear fuels to the moon!
ttyl
Farrell