Straight from http://www2.berlin-consortium.org/wiki/html/Berlin/ArchitectureQuestions.htm:
"The jerk who crashed a bunch of people's computers by putting malicious javascript in BerlinVsX wasn't very cool either -- I'm soliciting suggestions on how to prevent that in the future."
So you know it wasn't intended as a bomb.
Re:OK, Jon, you *obviously* didn't read Hofstadter
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You need to read Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas R. Hofstadter. It explains a few "experiments" he lead and other Farg programs. Table Top is very interesting, and there's a recap on Copycap, if you read already know about the project.
The scope browser will open documents using either ie or moz, it's always your choice. Great for developpers. Note that there are some usability problems using moz, but those should be resolved soon.
http://www.iomojo.com/demos/ for the demos.
This is really great: no plugins, no java, just html. Not even "push" technology.
Hurry, and you can catch llamasonic at his desk right now!
"...Sometimes we need to help the less-knowledgable understand that sometimes it isn't worth the trouble to hang onto these old computers..."
"...I can't think of how many times we have had to explain to the administration around here that those old computers just weren't worth it, and that we couldn't make them good for anything..."
I had to reply to this one, although I'm a little late in the conversation. Blame it on my current computer, a vintage pentium 75 (oc to 90Mhz, thank you very much). No, actually, blame it on my current schedule, because this computer is just fine.
When I bought it, back in 95, it came with a mail-in coupon to get a Windows 95 CD. Today, I'm running the last version released/patched. Of course, I had the insight of buying more memory back then, upgrading from the default 8MB to 24MB. And it runs rather smoothly.
Of course, I prefer Opera to MSIE when it comes to browsing. I even used to surf with any graphics, but that was with my 56k modem. Now with a 900Mb dsl connection, I can watch all the pretty pictures (yet I still disable animations, but that's just me.).
I use the Bat for email, never had much luck with Outlook personally. I also develop a bit, but I use gcc or bc5.5 for my c++ needs. I also have a tiny spreadsheet program, always come in handy. Oh, I also happen to run litestep for my shell (see my current desktop), instead of the usual Explorer shell.
I'm not going to enumerate all the software I use (Paint Shop Pro 7 works, a little slow, but no trashing), I'm only going to add this: Apache/Perl.
(This scream *n*x or *bsd, I know, I'm just comfortable with this setup right now, and it can even stay up for a week at a time.) I got a domain a little while ago, and now hosting a bunch of sites, like rymmarks, my bookmark search engine (I have > 14000 bookmarks).
Anyhow, my point is that old computers still work. It's a myth that a computer decreases is usefullnes. How can anybody not see thru this consumer hoax? If you can find the old software for your old machine, you should be just as happy as anyone else running the latest Word version.
And you know what? This is where the spirit of free software really shines - it makes it harder, I mean impossible, to call a computer obselete when it's running the software it was meant to be.
"I have heard MANY people saying that Qt is fully GPL. If this means that it can be used for free in a commercial product, Sun, HP, et al may have more decisions to make."
Excuse me, but just _who_ is moderating this? Since when exactly has the GPL allowed its use in commercial products? LGPL, maybe, but it's being deprecated as we speak...
Tele-immersion enables users at geographically distributed sites to
collaborate in real time in a shared, simulated, hybrid environment
as if they were in the same physical room.
Once the episode is recorded I fire up MainActor, snip out the commercials and splice the various parts together [...]
While I'm not terribly familiar with MainActor (after all, I just read its product description), it doesn't seem to make this editing a batch process, which would become rather tedious after a while.
Not everyone is interested in taking the time to edit out commercials of course, but for those programs one really enjoys, viewing the show without interruption enhances the experience immensly and is well worth waiting a day or so to watch [...]
Exactly. So I'm thinking, why not bypass the editing altogether and let dvgrab take care of it? Not that I'm more familiar with it (don't you love moderation?)... but I'm guessing it's gpl, whereas MainActor is a commercial app, thus difficult to modify. So dvgrab could be patched - but that might not even be necessary - to either stop recording at specific intervals, for specific amounts of time, or check for something like db level (is it true the volume generally goes up for commercials?).
Come to think of it, this is pretty off-topic. Sorry:)
1. PONG itself would be hellishly difficult to code. In fact, the original PONG didn't even have code, so to speak. It was entirely generated and controlled by analogue circuits. At best, you could make a passable simulation of 2 'bats' and a 'ball'. Something tells me this has been done before.
As weird as it may sound, I remember someone doing the actual circuit emulation, but I wasn't able to find a url again. If someone else knows where to find more info, I'd be glad to have that link back.
Slashdot Mirror
... and another round of meta-moderation begins.
Which leads me to this question: have you played nomic lately?
"And I'm going to make sure that everybody I know boycotts Red Hat products."
I'm guessing a lot of people know this ac...
You could call it Gnu Squares
Actually, here's where to get it:t form/Utility/3.1/NT45/EN-US/nshc.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000pla
Straight from http://www2.berlin-consortium.org/wiki/html/Berlin /ArchitectureQuestions.htm:
"The jerk who crashed a bunch of people's computers by putting malicious javascript in BerlinVsX wasn't very cool either -- I'm soliciting suggestions on how to prevent that in the future."
So you know it wasn't intended as a bomb.
Come on? You don't need exclusive use of oggs? .ogg files", right?
Oh, wait, you probably meant "if only it played
Where can we see it? Is that too much to ask?
You need to read Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas R. Hofstadter. It explains a few "experiments" he lead and other Farg programs. Table Top is very interesting, and there's a recap on Copycap, if you read already know about the project.
Cheers!
More from Denis Leary: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~hades/ncfc.html
Actually, 4000 was last year, they've since doubled that: http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010427S 0011
http://www.razorsys.com/%7Efahim/Scope.htm
The scope browser will open documents using either ie or moz, it's always your choice. Great for developpers. Note that there are some usability problems using moz, but those should be resolved soon.
Oh, and it's just a 250k download :)
Two mirrors that worked for me:
Here's a real alternative to plugins (or Java): www.iomojo.com or here Was just released a few days ago, but it rocks!
http://www.iomojo.com/demos/ for the demos. This is really great: no plugins, no java, just html. Not even "push" technology. Hurry, and you can catch llamasonic at his desk right now!
I had to reply to this one, although I'm a little late in the conversation. Blame it on my current computer, a vintage pentium 75 (oc to 90Mhz, thank you very much). No, actually, blame it on my current schedule, because this computer is just fine.
When I bought it, back in 95, it came with a mail-in coupon to get a Windows 95 CD. Today, I'm running the last version released/patched. Of course, I had the insight of buying more memory back then, upgrading from the default 8MB to 24MB. And it runs rather smoothly.
Of course, I prefer Opera to MSIE when it comes to browsing. I even used to surf with any graphics, but that was with my 56k modem. Now with a 900Mb dsl connection, I can watch all the pretty pictures (yet I still disable animations, but that's just me.).
I use the Bat for email, never had much luck with Outlook personally. I also develop a bit, but I use gcc or bc5.5 for my c++ needs. I also have a tiny spreadsheet program, always come in handy. Oh, I also happen to run litestep for my shell (see my current desktop), instead of the usual Explorer shell.
I'm not going to enumerate all the software I use (Paint Shop Pro 7 works, a little slow, but no trashing), I'm only going to add this: Apache/Perl.
(This scream *n*x or *bsd, I know, I'm just comfortable with this setup right now, and it can even stay up for a week at a time.) I got a domain a little while ago, and now hosting a bunch of sites, like rymmarks, my bookmark search engine (I have > 14000 bookmarks).
Anyhow, my point is that old computers still work. It's a myth that a computer decreases is usefullnes. How can anybody not see thru this consumer hoax? If you can find the old software for your old machine, you should be just as happy as anyone else running the latest Word version.
And you know what? This is where the spirit of free software really shines - it makes it harder, I mean impossible, to call a computer obselete when it's running the software it was meant to be.
Glad you cleared the matter :)
Tele-immersion enables users at geographically distributed sites to collaborate in real time in a shared, simulated, hybrid environment as if they were in the same physical room.
http://www.internet2.edu/html/tele-immersion.htmlThis is so much better then a 70,000$ remote projector tv.
Task: Develop a driver for the Cypress EZ USBFX that works in conjunction with the system USB driver stack.
If you are interested in joining this team or have suggestions please email
While I'm not terribly familiar with MainActor (after all, I just read its product description), it doesn't seem to make this editing a batch process, which would become rather tedious after a while.
Exactly. So I'm thinking, why not bypass the editing altogether and let dvgrab take care of it? Not that I'm more familiar with it (don't you love moderation?)... but I'm guessing it's gpl, whereas MainActor is a commercial app, thus difficult to modify. So dvgrab could be patched - but that might not even be necessary - to either stop recording at specific intervals, for specific amounts of time, or check for something like db level (is it true the volume generally goes up for commercials?).
Come to think of it, this is pretty off-topic. SorryIt took me a while to get to their site, so here's a little mirror to the news release and a bit more, but no downloadable iso from me, sorry.
As weird as it may sound, I remember someone doing the actual circuit emulation, but I wasn't able to find a url again. If someone else knows where to find more info, I'd be glad to have that link back.
The Binary Freedom database seem to have trouble handling yours truly load, so here's the complimentary mirror, brought to you by Waglo Labs.
google
Still, the question stands: how much can you drink??
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