But the most impressive vis plugin I have ever seen is for the (discontinued) Sonique player, and is called THe Rabbit Hole. Truly amazing how it reacts to music, and even to non-technoid one. (Which is the major drawback of most vis plugins IMO, that they work best with technoid sounds.)
Try it out if you have some spare time & bandwidth;)
It's like a chocolate bar left in the sun--it's chocolate, so it could have been good once, but now its just an oozing mess that should be dumped in the garbage.
All you have to do is install a camera which films the thing melting, calling it a "making-of" and run it all over the TV channels for some time. Add "win molten chocolate bar midnight premiere tickets" trivia games and start to sell small replica of the wrapping together with McDonald's Happy Meal.
Gonna become the best chocolate there ever was, I promise you, although some know-it-all purists might argue that the original was better, after all they have seen and tasted it, but who cares for or listens to them anyway.
But I think even the wariest NSA spook will probably at least try to turn the machine on before deciding to disassemble it. As soon as that happens you're safe.
hmm, well on my machines the'll probably simply attach a SCSI cable from their SpookPad(TM) laptops to the back of my SCSI adapter, and power on the just the disks.
You can't hide that much data in the CMOS, you know.
MacCentral has a related Interview with Marc Andreessen here.
Catch Phrases for me were: You know what WAP stands for; it's the sound a WAP cell phone makes when you throw it in the wastebasket. and My attitude is, everybody should try competing with Microsoft once in their life. Once.
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I just looked at my/bin and thought which apps would benefit from a speed improvement by self-compiling. zcat looks like a candidate.
Come ON!
Why would I want to make world?
Why would I want a faster bash? Whats to tweak on tee?
Do an optimized compile for your glibc, takes about 20 minutes, and virtually every app on your system will benefit from any speed improvements. Then perhaps some cpu-hogging multimedia apps you use often, (xine, lame(?)), Xlib, Qt, kdelibs or the gnome libs, and you will automagically have optimized most of the binaries you need.
Ok, the parent is the second one (under my threshold) who apparently tried it for the first time and fell in love with Mozilla.
He mentions mouse gestures, the one above is thrilled with tabs.
This (especially tabbing) is what made me instantly switch to from Netscape to Opera about a year ago.
I honestly don't want to start a browser war here (are there still people interested in this?), but it seems that Mozilla gains some of its appeal embracing ideas from others.
How is that for Embrace & Extend (TM)?
(Granted, the at least don't make money with it, and Opera is striking back with Ad blocking, but still...)
BTW, here is ad blocking for non-windows opera users.
I've been laughing my a** off for two days back then.
You can download the game here btw (probably illegal if you don't own it), and this should be able to play it! Unfortunately, I have not found a link to the manual itself...
yes, and on the probably most virus-plagued system ever, good old AMIGA, there were some viruses whose executable names consisted of non-printable characters, so they would not show in the LIST and DIR commands (well, as "empty" lines anyway).
IIRC the infamous "Lamer Exterminator" series used this, among others.
At least with my card, a SB Live!/emu10k1, four-speaker output works just fine with both OSS and alsa applications.
You just have to enable the rear output by unmuteing the left-most control in alsamixer, entitled "SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack", and adjusting the "Wave Surround" and "Wave Center" controls.
I don't read the kernel mailing list. Could someone who does tell us what we have to look forward to in the 2.4 line?
hmm, neither do I, but I occasionally drop by at Kernel Traffic.
From there, I got to this patch which seems to bring some of the future features to the power-using, look-what-my-kernel-does, plus-three-frames-in-quake3 crowd. Enjoy, I had no problems with that, although I don't leave my PC on overnight, so I can't come up with any uptime numbers.
"my home computer where i leave my DSL on to make it work on SETI"
Actually the SETI team is against such behaviour.
As they clearly state here. They think it important to do the SETI search "in an environmentally conscious way".
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What, exactly, is Longhorn immitating?
GNU, methinks.
works here. FWIMBW.
;))
OTOH, I don't run it a lot, so YMMV.
(don't you just have to *love* those EETLDs?
I'd rather wait for (or have no) visualizations for XMMS than have to rely on Wine to enjoy the goodness that is Mad Spin...
well, MadSpin is available natively for xmms too...
Yea, umm WinAmp visualisations. fine.
;)
But the most impressive vis plugin I have ever seen is for the (discontinued) Sonique player, and is called THe Rabbit Hole.
Truly amazing how it reacts to music, and even to non-technoid one. (Which is the major drawback of most vis plugins IMO, that they work best with technoid sounds.)
Try it out if you have some spare time & bandwidth
Remember what the dormouse said...
It's like a chocolate bar left in the sun--it's chocolate, so it could have been good once, but now its just an oozing mess that should be dumped in the garbage.
All you have to do is install a camera which films the thing melting, calling it a "making-of" and run it all over the TV channels for some time. Add "win molten chocolate bar midnight premiere tickets" trivia games and start to sell small replica of the wrapping together with McDonald's Happy Meal.
Gonna become the best chocolate there ever was, I promise you, although some know-it-all purists might argue that the original was better, after all they have seen and tasted it, but who cares for or listens to them anyway.
Why, then, is there a linux version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein?
Not that i was a port like the stuff Loki did, but why did they bother to make one at all?
As we all know, the linux crowd is not exactly notorious for being willing to pay for software.
But I think even the wariest NSA spook will probably at least try to turn the machine on before deciding to disassemble it. As soon as that happens you're safe.
hmm, well on my machines the'll probably simply attach a SCSI cable from their SpookPad(TM) laptops to the back of my SCSI adapter, and power on the just the disks.
You can't hide that much data in the CMOS, you know.
Imagine if Tom's Harware bought up new laptops, got Linux running on them, and documented what it took to fix some of the basic problems that came up.
A site like that 6 months ago (when I tried to install it on my laptop...) would have meant I'd be a Linux user today.
Well, Tom's Hardware sure didn't (because all they test linux-wise is NVIDIA driver performance, and this only because Q3 is cool.), but others did.
Does anyone have a clue why they did it? After all (and as the poster hints at), linux support does in fact *help* selling ThinkPads.
Okay, but can I disrtibute both content and "program" in the same package?
Or must both be distrubuted seperately?
MacCentral has a related Interview with Marc Andreessen here.
Catch Phrases for me were:
You know what WAP stands for; it's the sound a WAP cell phone makes when you throw it in the wastebasket.
and
My attitude is, everybody should try competing with Microsoft once in their life. Once.
Enjoy the read.
I just looked at my /bin and thought which apps would benefit from a speed improvement by self-compiling. zcat looks like a candidate.
Come ON!
Why would I want to make world?
Why would I want a faster bash? Whats to tweak on tee?
Do an optimized compile for your glibc, takes about 20 minutes, and virtually every app on your system will benefit from any speed improvements.
Then perhaps some cpu-hogging multimedia apps you use often, (xine, lame(?)), Xlib, Qt, kdelibs or the gnome libs, and you will automagically have optimized most of the binaries you need.
Yea, and while you're at it, also mention -Os.
A small kernel would be a good thing, would it not?
Anyway, from my experience it is mostly not the _kernel_ that slows things down. (I am nevertheless running 2.4.18-ck4 right now).
The Red Hat Linux installation program.
:)
here are details.
end of enlightenment.
For what it's worth, gestured mouse operations is hardly a new concept either.
...and (for what it's worth) for me they are worth a lot. I even start to try to close applications by right-click-wiggle.
I for one saw something like it first in blender. But my guess is they weren't the inventors either.
Ok, the parent is the second one (under my threshold) who apparently tried it for the first time and fell in love with Mozilla.
He mentions mouse gestures, the one above is thrilled with tabs.
This (especially tabbing) is what made me instantly switch to from Netscape to Opera about a year ago.
I honestly don't want to start a browser war here (are there still people interested in this?), but it seems that Mozilla gains some of its appeal embracing ideas from others.
How is that for Embrace & Extend (TM)?
(Granted, the at least don't make money with it, and Opera is striking back with Ad blocking, but still...)
BTW, here is ad blocking for non-windows opera users.
Ever read the manual/newspaper to Zack McKracken?
I've been laughing my a** off for two days back then.
You can download the game here btw (probably illegal if you don't own it), and this should be able to play it! Unfortunately, I have not found a link to the manual itself...
one of the world's largest "customers" jumping into the GPL'd software ring.
could you please point me to the part of the article where he mentions switching to GPL? I can not find that...
What is the most useless / weirdest / hackish / funny "feature" that you ever saw on a linux machine or in a proposed kernel patch?
What would you like to see on linux that would fit that category?
yes, and on the probably most virus-plagued system ever, good old AMIGA, there were some viruses whose executable names consisted of non-printable characters, so they would not show in the LIST and DIR commands (well, as "empty" lines anyway).
IIRC the infamous "Lamer Exterminator" series used this, among others.
yes I know its virii
At least with my card, a SB Live!/emu10k1, four-speaker output works just fine with both OSS and alsa applications. You just have to enable the rear output by unmuteing the left-most control in alsamixer, entitled "SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack", and adjusting the "Wave Surround" and "Wave Center" controls.
I don't read the kernel mailing list. Could someone who does tell us what we have to look forward to in the 2.4 line?
hmm, neither do I, but I occasionally drop by at Kernel Traffic.
From there, I got to this patch which seems to bring some of the future features to the power-using, look-what-my-kernel-does, plus-three-frames-in-quake3 crowd.
Enjoy, I had no problems with that, although I don't leave my PC on overnight, so I can't come up with any uptime numbers.
"my home computer where i leave my DSL on to make it work on SETI"
Actually the SETI team is against such behaviour.
As they clearly state here. They think it important to do the SETI search "in an environmentally conscious way".