1. Cygwin (www.cygwin.com). That gives nice cvs and ssh. And gcc on win32.
2. Far file manager (www.farmanager.com its origins is russia, so there's cyrillic). Supports windows explorer context menus through plugin. I mostly use it for file management, cvs checkins/outs
2. TortoiseCVS (nice plugin, allows to do all CVS stuff with context menus) 3. TortoiseSVN: the same for subversion 4. WinCVS 5. WinMerge 6. VMware workstation 4.5.1 (I have OSes on my computer: 4 Linuxes - varios flavour, 1 freebsd, 2 win3k2, 1 win2k, 1 win98, 1 win95). And yes, I have licenses for them (through company's MSDN subscription) and license for VMware Workstation too.
7. Ethereal & WinPCAP 8. Visual C++ of course;) 9. ActivePerl 10. MS Office (that's just a question of interop)
I think finally e-Books can get off the ground! Clicky-click, I want my "Mastering Perl Regilar Expressions" while sitting at the sofa. Here it goes. No more giant bookshelves, no more eye-strain while reading from CRT or LCD screen. It's silent revolution, guys.
With propertiary renderer it's still costly to reverse-engineer 3d models. Like, say in games, or in custom java applet. How many models say in everquest has been pirated and distributed with other games ? zero I guess. Models and things are a great deal in games - IIRC 90% work hours spent on the modern game is content (models, sounds, textures, plot). Models take significant portion of it. So like portability format it's of course great, but studios hardly will adopt it for redistribution.
What I don't quite understand is how copy protection of 3d models will be addressed. Imagine some indie studio extracts models, modifies the mesh so no one will be able to say it's the same model, and use it in own project, to save money on top-notch modeller. Not saying it's too bad of course - in general scheme of things everyone wins, but... Won't big studios just say "fuck it" and convert to propertiary formats then ? Interoperability is great of course.
Sure it didn't exists. My point is that it's normal to do such sort of things in order for software to be cross-platform. And has always been done. Everything has its price, nothing to do with it.
> When we ported to a new version of unix, we had scripts that would compile test programs for each of 100s of known features that differentiated these unii (plural of unix?). Results of the test programs would auto-create the config program
LOL man:) You just described GNU autoconf. What's wrong with it ?
Whoa. You fail to differentiate between forking and branching. Branching is done all the time, look how mozilla is being developed. And yes, modding kernel IS branching, in every sense, since you submit patches, which are being incorporated into the main tree by kernel maintainers. Ever managed to work with modern versioning systems? Even half-assed CVS supports it nice, and bitkeeper is very good at it since supports distributed repositories.
Not so certain. Don't know if debian apt has these features, but apt-rpm certainly doesn't. i.e. you can search only for package name. Enlighten me how to do it from the command line if I'm wrong.
I belive they're talking about remote repositories. You cannot get rpm description before the said rpm is fetched. For this thing to work, you need to introduce a server which will index rpms and search for descriptions and answer queries so the whole rpm isn't fetched. Good idea though.
> in photoshop, you have to constantly swtich to a zoom mode to move around the image you're working on
You could just use "Navigator" pane. Drag it somewhere you can access it instantly and you've just got powerful seeking device. For someone new to photoshop: it's thumbnailed image with virtual viewpoint in it. So you can grab the viewpoint and scroll everywhere you like without losing the clue where you actually are. I found this feature very powerful and simple to use.
While talking to the computer is very good. Wouldn't it be great to have a browser presented like an animated character who can ask questions and listen to answers. That would make my browsing experience exciting. I'm so tired of these boring buttons, shortcuts etc. I want something alive... Who can talk, walk, jump, and popup yellow balloons...
Geez... The guy said how tablet is useful to HIM... These are exact reasons why I want the one too.
If someone likes one of microsoft products it doesn't mean they can't think for themselves. You can hate MS all night and day - nobody will complain, but please don't fuck with other ppls opinions and insult them personally. Anyway.. get a life.
All it takes to discover how mouses' genes modifications map to human genes modification. Science isn't just experimental, it can predict things very accurately too after some information (often incomplete) is available. Actually isn't it the science is for ?
I certainly remember we played duke3d deathmatch about 2 years ago on win2k. I din't think XP is any different. Heh;-) that was FUN! Although it works only on LAN. And you should install IPX protocol on your network adapter.
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I'm a developer (win32, linux)
;)
So here's my install list:
1. Cygwin (www.cygwin.com). That gives nice cvs and ssh. And gcc on win32.
2. Far file manager (www.farmanager.com its origins is russia, so there's cyrillic). Supports windows explorer context menus through plugin. I mostly use it for file management, cvs checkins/outs
2. TortoiseCVS (nice plugin, allows to do all CVS stuff with context menus)
3. TortoiseSVN: the same for subversion
4. WinCVS
5. WinMerge
6. VMware workstation 4.5.1 (I have OSes on my computer: 4 Linuxes - varios flavour, 1 freebsd, 2 win3k2, 1 win2k, 1 win98, 1 win95). And yes, I have licenses for them (through company's MSDN subscription) and license for VMware Workstation too.
7. Ethereal & WinPCAP
8. Visual C++ of course
9. ActivePerl
10. MS Office (that's just a question of interop)
> Maybe we'll get those atomic-powered automobiles after all ...
Yeah, reserve flying one for me.
Thanks.
I use joe for 9 years already. /usr/ports/editors/joe; make install
And know what I do when getting on new systems:
apt-get install joe
or cd
Period.
I can edit in vi with no problem. But still I prefer joe. It's my friend.
I think finally e-Books can get off the ground!
Clicky-click, I want my "Mastering Perl Regilar Expressions" while sitting at the sofa. Here it goes.
No more giant bookshelves, no more eye-strain while reading from CRT or LCD screen.
It's silent revolution, guys.
OK, when they will do the same with two MALE mouses, I'll eat my shoe, I swear :)
With propertiary renderer it's still costly to reverse-engineer 3d models. Like, say in games, or in custom java applet. How many models say in everquest has been pirated and distributed with other games ? zero I guess.
Models and things are a great deal in games - IIRC 90% work hours spent on the modern game is content (models, sounds, textures, plot). Models take significant portion of it.
So like portability format it's of course great, but studios hardly will adopt it for redistribution.
What I don't quite understand is how copy protection of 3d models will be addressed.
Imagine some indie studio extracts models, modifies the mesh so no one will be able to say it's the same model, and use it in own project, to save money on top-notch modeller.
Not saying it's too bad of course - in general scheme of things everyone wins, but... Won't big studios just say "fuck it" and convert to propertiary formats then ?
Interoperability is great of course.
Sure it didn't exists.
My point is that it's normal to do such sort of things in order for software to be cross-platform. And has always been done.
Everything has its price, nothing to do with it.
> When we ported to a new version of unix, we had scripts that would compile test programs for each of 100s of known features that differentiated these unii (plural of unix?). Results of the test programs would auto-create the config program
:) You just described GNU autoconf.
LOL man
What's wrong with it ?
Whoa. You fail to differentiate between forking and branching.
Branching is done all the time, look how mozilla is being developed.
And yes, modding kernel IS branching, in every sense, since you submit patches, which are being incorporated into the main tree by kernel maintainers.
Ever managed to work with modern versioning systems? Even half-assed CVS supports it nice, and bitkeeper is very good at it since supports distributed repositories.
Not so certain. Don't know if debian apt has these features, but apt-rpm certainly doesn't. i.e. you can search only for package name.
Enlighten me how to do it from the command line if I'm wrong.
I belive they're talking about remote repositories.
You cannot get rpm description before the said rpm is fetched.
For this thing to work, you need to introduce a server which will index rpms and search for descriptions and answer queries so the whole rpm isn't fetched.
Good idea though.
Secure as windows and user-friendly as linux, yeah, that makes sense :)
> in photoshop, you have to constantly swtich to a zoom mode to move around the image you're working on
You could just use "Navigator" pane.
Drag it somewhere you can access it instantly and you've just got powerful seeking device.
For someone new to photoshop: it's thumbnailed image with virtual viewpoint in it. So you can grab the viewpoint and scroll everywhere you like without losing the clue where you actually are.
I found this feature very powerful and simple to use.
> One wonders how the US government would react if a foreign nation tried a similar approach.
They will react by making an appeal by the means of court. What poster of this article is expecting them to do ? Cover-bomb Australia or what ?
Dear Opera,
:)))
While talking to the computer is very good.
Wouldn't it be great to have a browser presented like an animated character who can ask questions and listen to answers. That would make my browsing experience exciting. I'm so tired of these boring buttons, shortcuts etc. I want something alive...
Who can talk, walk, jump, and popup yellow balloons...
Oh.. wait...
Can it walk and detect a presence of water and life on Mars ? ;-)
Geez...
The guy said how tablet is useful to HIM...
These are exact reasons why I want the one too.
If someone likes one of microsoft products it doesn't mean they can't think for themselves. You can hate MS all night and day - nobody will complain, but please don't fuck with other ppls opinions and insult them personally.
Anyway.. get a life.
All it takes to discover how mouses' genes modifications map to human genes modification.
Science isn't just experimental, it can predict things very accurately too after some information (often incomplete) is available.
Actually isn't it the science is for ?
> BioPython, Rasmol, Bioperl, Bioconductor. For more information please see the bioknoppix home page.
Yes, but can you build biowulf cluster of these ?
Another one:
Russian scientists built lunar rover which finds american rovers and robs them for data and material.
Once again that naked boy... I had enough...
It should be The Matrix failure or slashdot's dupe...
Oh wait...
I certainly remember we played duke3d deathmatch about 2 years ago on win2k. I din't think XP is any different. Heh ;-) that was FUN!
Although it works only on LAN. And you should install IPX protocol on your network adapter.
what idiots, i can't belive
Interesting what jabber server you're using.
Last time I checked jabber.org haven't msn gateway installed.
Would you please tell us?