Mark Podlipec has put forth an incredible effort to support as many video formats as he has time for. He has sent emails to the various companies involved, has expressed willingness to compromise when licensing has been an issue, and all in all has gone out of his way for the community and the good of the code.
Just wanted to say thanks, Mark.
Next time you want to complain about something xanim doesn't support, find out why; chances are Mark or someone else has given it their best shot.
I used to read Freff Connor Cochrane's columns in Keyboard Magazine, and I think what I liked about his writing is reflected in this person's column as well. It is insightful without being overly subjective. Opinions based on observations are more valuable to me than opinions based on maintaining a comic-book anti-hero self-image.
This guy looks like a keeper. What's Stan Kelly-Bootle up to? Maybe add him too...
I have been making a point of installing an OS each week on my spare Cyrix 200MX, 64M system. So far:
Slackware, SuSE, Redhat, Debian, Turbolinux, Stampede, BeOS, FreeBSD, Solaris 2.6, NT. I also booted Plan 9 for a moment...
Which is best? I suppose this would comprise an entire article. Debian appeals to my free software sensibilities, and has an excellent package manager, and follows the File System Standard fairly well. SuSE is dreamy; I love it, and that is the OS running on it now (Debian is still on my primary system). BeOS was neat, but is interesting only as a developer, not a user; there is almost no software for it on Intel. Everything else was less than excellent, though many were more than satisfactory. Notably sad, of course, was NT, with Solaris coming in a close second for silliness and bloat.
The speculations as to what music I like aside (bzzt, wrong), Zappa was a far more interesting person to read about than listen to. People who like Zappa are also likely to dig Rush, Dream Theater, and other bands that are better known for playing instruments than playing music.
Admittedly, my post was flame bait. Shame on me. Kurt Vonnegut is a hack.
Mind you, it was the early Eighties. Basic, Logo, and those ultra cool Atari, TRS-80, and Commodore machines. I sat down and wrote stupid games and simulations all day long, and taught myself assembler to make them crash more.
But I was already interested; "Wargames" and "Whiz Kids" and the whole blossoming geek culture. Dress your kid funny so he or she can't make friends, and teach them to speak their mind and build within them an intimidating vocabulary. They will either turn to role-playing games, vandalism, computers, or all of the above.
I have built most of my own computers, except my first 286, and that came with Geoworks, so I don't have a lot to bitch about. The only complete machine I ordered besides the 286 came with command.com and nothing besides, which wasn't needed anyway for my CD-ROM install of Debian.
I wouldn't recommend the company that sold me the machine for any reason other than not making me buy windows 95, unfortunately.
-Gabriel
Unreal was a good demo, but come on
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I remember looking at Unreal in like 1991. It was a pretty good demo, and my hat's off to Future Crew, but porting a dos 'eurodemo' to Linux seems absurd. Besides, the whole idea is to show off the hardware; hard to do that when insulated from the hardware by the kernel!
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Mark Podlipec has put forth an incredible effort to support as many video formats as he has time for. He has sent emails to the various companies involved, has expressed willingness to compromise when licensing has been an issue, and all in all has gone out of his way for the community and the good of the code.
Just wanted to say thanks, Mark.
Next time you want to complain about something xanim doesn't support, find out why; chances are Mark or someone else has given it their best shot.
I used to read Freff Connor Cochrane's columns in Keyboard Magazine, and I think what I liked about his writing is reflected in this person's column as well. It is insightful without being overly subjective. Opinions based on observations are more valuable to me than opinions based on maintaining a comic-book anti-hero self-image.
This guy looks like a keeper. What's Stan Kelly-Bootle up to? Maybe add him too...
The only problem I have with Civilization is that it isn't at all like Quake.
I hope they fix that in this version.
Nothing wrecks a game more than strategy
I'm all choked up. Poor Applixware... they've been jilted by a coward...
When my friend answers the phone at work, he says "A I X tech support..."
i don't know where I was going with that one.
I would personally love to see X on a nice Hercules. I saw an EGA video projector the other day, too, but I don't know of any EGA X server.
Well, you can run the Infocom game "Trinity" under Linux with infozip, but that will run without any video card at all if you have a nice terminal.
I have been making a point of installing an OS each week on my spare Cyrix 200MX, 64M system.
So far:
Slackware, SuSE, Redhat, Debian, Turbolinux, Stampede, BeOS, FreeBSD, Solaris 2.6, NT. I also booted Plan 9 for a moment...
Which is best? I suppose this would comprise an entire article. Debian appeals to my free software sensibilities, and has an excellent package manager, and follows the File System Standard fairly well. SuSE is dreamy; I love it, and that is the OS running on it now (Debian is still on my primary system). BeOS was neat, but is interesting only as a developer, not a user; there is almost no software for it on Intel. Everything else was less than excellent, though many were more than satisfactory. Notably sad, of course, was NT, with Solaris coming in a close second for silliness and bloat.
Is this the same PHT whose FTP site I couldn't
:)
bring up for over a week?
This is the massive scalability I have been waiting for
He had a phrase that said something to the effect of "now they are taking open source and changing it to free software".
What a backward and absurd statement!
I vote for Kragen as the slashdot equivalent of Ralph Nader. Or is Ralph Nader the slashdot equivalent of Ralph Nader already?
It's so confusing.
Where does Noam Chomsky fit in?
I'd love to read more articles from Kragen.
-gabriel
I want to go home right now and be with my linux boxen.
My point isn't the GUI... when I say interface I mean at the coding level. The source code is a joy to read, and the object model is well-designed.
If we had the Be object tree on Linux, it would be something I'd be interested in developing for.
Anybody have a web page where they plan to list servers? (or is it peer to peer thing? haven't gotten my copy yet)
BFRIS clans?
I am really bored of Quake2. I can't wait to destroy y'all in my brand new Zero Gravity Fighter.
I think I support my bank singlehandedly with overdrafts and mindless spending.
The speculations as to what music I like aside (bzzt, wrong), Zappa was a far more interesting person to read about than listen to. People who like Zappa are also likely to dig Rush, Dream Theater, and other bands that are better known for playing instruments than playing music.
Admittedly, my post was flame bait. Shame on me.
Kurt Vonnegut is a hack.
It's interesting that they are going to sell
these oddball $2.00 k-mart artists. Are they
going to also sell music?
Mind you, it was the early Eighties.
Basic, Logo, and those ultra cool Atari, TRS-80, and Commodore machines. I sat down and wrote stupid games and simulations all day long, and taught myself assembler to make them crash more.
But I was already interested; "Wargames" and "Whiz Kids" and the whole blossoming geek culture. Dress your kid funny so he or she can't make friends, and teach them to speak their mind and build within them an intimidating vocabulary. They will either turn to role-playing games, vandalism, computers, or all of the above.
Jerry is either a very poor web designer or is paying one far too much.
Still, a browse through the available corpus of Linux Advocacy information would do many slashdotters a considerable amount of good.
Terms like "Windoze", besides sounding very stupid around the third time, won't win many hearts.
I plan to patent the idea of stupid patents.
I'll be rich!
Back when I was a boy, we called them globes.
I have built most of my own computers, except my first 286, and that came with Geoworks, so I don't have a lot to bitch about. The only complete machine I ordered besides the 286 came with command.com and nothing besides, which wasn't needed anyway for my CD-ROM install of Debian.
I wouldn't recommend the company that sold me the machine for any reason other than not making me buy windows 95, unfortunately.
-Gabriel
I remember looking at Unreal in like 1991. It was a pretty good demo, and my hat's off to Future Crew, but porting a dos 'eurodemo' to Linux seems absurd. Besides, the whole idea is to show off the hardware; hard to do that when insulated from the hardware by the kernel!