Does anybody have a list of the major changes/fixes from 2.6.9? Compiling the changelogs from each release of the beta builds and then distilling it down into Fixes for 2.6.9 VS Fixes for Things Broken in the Previous Beta is a bit much...
This is a little OT, but does anyone know of any media player for Linux that matches Winamp's Media Library. I've tried several (Rhythmbox, Yammi, Madman, Juk), and they don't even come close to Winamp, or, hell, even MusicMatch.
While we're on the subject, does anyone know of a good RSS applet for Linux (preferably for KDE) that displays feeds? I'm aware of Liferea and KNewsTicker, but they either user a browser to display the news or take up half of the taskbar with a scrolling message. I'd prefer something that has a small window popup in the corner, a la Trillian.
And they better be damn good movies. The last one I went to in a theater, I think, was Shrek 2 and only because my daughter bugged the hell out of me. Before that it was Hulk.
Umm, I thought your were talking about "damn good movies". Hulk?
Yes. Lucas wasn't on his digital projection kick yet.
Well, the articles claim that they are the original prints. They describe how they've been sitting in storage for more than twenty years. But if they are the originals, that does raise the question of whether all the new special effects had to be reinserted.
Original cut, no. Those are dead and gone and will never be released again. But HD-DVDs of the Special Editions? Oh, you betcha.
"The Plight Of The Unplayed Game"? Hell, this article should be retitled "The Plight of the Guy With More Money Than He Knows What to Do With". He goes on and on about the games he's bought and never played, and I'm sitting here thinking of how I'm going to make this month's rent.
Said Jim Ward, a Lucasfilm marketer and DVD executive producer, "Our fans have been eagerly awaiting every morsel of `Episode III' as we divulge it. We're giving it to them piece by piece."
No, actually we've become too bitter and jaded for that sort of thing now. Just get the damn thing over with and leave us to wallow in our broken-hearted geek misery...
Not coffee, but caffeine pills...
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This guy from my hometown apparently tried this out a few years ago on a dare. He took most of a 90-pill bottle of caffeine pills and then keeled over in the middle of class. I couldn't find a link to the article on Darwin Awards, where it probably belongs, but you can read about it from a bunch of Google sources.
I've always wondered how he took that many. I imagine him sitting down to breakfast that morning to a bowl of pills submerged in milk.
Yes, the KDE developers really should concentrate on creating a plain, steril interface that looks like IceWM, Blackbox, Sawfish, and every other WM out there. Because everyone knows attrative interfaces are "useless" and are impeding Linux's growth into the desktop market.
Am I the only one who pictured Marvin as being as tall as the other humanoid characters? Well, as tall as them if he was always slouched over? The comic book adapation of HHGTG had his look pretty spot on, in my opinion. Were did this Ewok stuff come from?
"Perhaps tougher penalties and larger fines for people who actually drive drunk would be a better idea."
As a former college student who was recently caught driving drunk, I can atest to the fact that people who drive drunk do not think about the consequences. That's one of the side effects of being drunk: you tend not to weigh the pros and cons of a situation very well before you go out and do something. Plus, you've got that feeling of invulnerability. The phrase most commonly said before someone gets behind the wheel and gets a DUI is, "I'm sober enough to drive!"
I usually file mine into the trashcan. Of course, I just got evicted from my apartment, and my cellphone is cut off, but that's just coincidence. Right?
Well, the Japanese site is already slashdotted (at least, I think it is, seeing as I can't read Japanese) and the American site doesn't have examples of what you can build from the kit. Doesn anyone know if you can build a smaller form-factor case from this kit. One that would, say, hold the inards of an Xbox snuggly?
...but it has been abandoned by Gravis since Windows 98. Now it's possible to pick them up extra cheap
So Linux finally got around to supporting a crappy gamepad setup that was released almost six years ago and isn't even supported by the manufacturer anymore, and we're supposed to...what? Help me out here. In what way could this even be remotely considered news or something that matters?
Did anyone that modded the parent up actually play the games listed? Two first person shooters, two third person adventurers, and one, count it, one side scroller. Have you actually played a game from the first two categories mentioned... on a gamepad? Do you know why Halo was so celebrated? Because it was perhaps the first FPS that was semi-playable on a gamepad.
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Does anybody have a list of the major changes/fixes from 2.6.9? Compiling the changelogs from each release of the beta builds and then distilling it down into Fixes for 2.6.9 VS Fixes for Things Broken in the Previous Beta is a bit much...
This is a little OT, but does anyone know of any media player for Linux that matches Winamp's Media Library. I've tried several (Rhythmbox, Yammi, Madman, Juk), and they don't even come close to Winamp, or, hell, even MusicMatch.
While we're on the subject, does anyone know of a good RSS applet for Linux (preferably for KDE) that displays feeds? I'm aware of Liferea and KNewsTicker, but they either user a browser to display the news or take up half of the taskbar with a scrolling message. I'd prefer something that has a small window popup in the corner, a la Trillian.
Damn. And here's the link to the correct page.
Here's a link that works.
Damn, I'm out of mod points.
When I was laid off, my first priorities were making sure I could pay for food and rent. But to each his own, I guess.
"The Plight Of The Unplayed Game"? Hell, this article should be retitled "The Plight of the Guy With More Money Than He Knows What to Do With". He goes on and on about the games he's bought and never played, and I'm sitting here thinking of how I'm going to make this month's rent.
This guy from my hometown apparently tried this out a few years ago on a dare. He took most of a 90-pill bottle of caffeine pills and then keeled over in the middle of class. I couldn't find a link to the article on Darwin Awards, where it probably belongs, but you can read about it from a bunch of Google sources. I've always wondered how he took that many. I imagine him sitting down to breakfast that morning to a bowl of pills submerged in milk.
War of the Worlds remake? I've never heard the latest adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" called a remake before. They're all based on the same story!
Yes, the KDE developers really should concentrate on creating a plain, steril interface that looks like IceWM, Blackbox, Sawfish, and every other WM out there. Because everyone knows attrative interfaces are "useless" and are impeding Linux's growth into the desktop market.
The oil-rich Kuwait City is the first place modeled? That tells you something about the American military's priorities...
Am I the only one who pictured Marvin as being as tall as the other humanoid characters? Well, as tall as them if he was always slouched over? The comic book adapation of HHGTG had his look pretty spot on, in my opinion. Were did this Ewok stuff come from?
Final Fantasy 2? Who knew the Japanese would be so perceptive?
"Perhaps tougher penalties and larger fines for people who actually drive drunk would be a better idea."
As a former college student who was recently caught driving drunk, I can atest to the fact that people who drive drunk do not think about the consequences. That's one of the side effects of being drunk: you tend not to weigh the pros and cons of a situation very well before you go out and do something. Plus, you've got that feeling of invulnerability. The phrase most commonly said before someone gets behind the wheel and gets a DUI is, "I'm sober enough to drive!"
"If a player completes your game, they are much more likely to buzz about, spreading the word that it was a great game."
Why is he worrying about the players completing his game? He and a team of programmers can't finish it, either!
After many hours of searching, I stumbled on a few that I enjoyed: jodi.org
That piece of "Net.Art" doesn't work in Mozilla/Firebird. Insightful performance piece or lazy coding? It's "art", you decide!
I usually file mine into the trashcan. Of course, I just got evicted from my apartment, and my cellphone is cut off, but that's just coincidence. Right?
Well, the Japanese site is already slashdotted (at least, I think it is, seeing as I can't read Japanese) and the American site doesn't have examples of what you can build from the kit. Doesn anyone know if you can build a smaller form-factor case from this kit. One that would, say, hold the inards of an Xbox snuggly?
Yeah, I can't wait until we can emulate Linux on PC's. Then we'll be able to play Quake!
So Linux finally got around to supporting a crappy gamepad setup that was released almost six years ago and isn't even supported by the manufacturer anymore, and we're supposed to...what? Help me out here. In what way could this even be remotely considered news or something that matters?
Did anyone that modded the parent up actually play the games listed? Two first person shooters, two third person adventurers, and one, count it, one side scroller. Have you actually played a game from the first two categories mentioned... on a gamepad? Do you know why Halo was so celebrated? Because it was perhaps the first FPS that was semi-playable on a gamepad.