About "religious" people i can add something: Jesus fought with the religious people of their time, calling them hippocrites in public, and was killed in one of the worst forms of execution in history because of that. Just because somebody is religious and calls himself a christian, doesn't mean that he *is* indeed a christian. I believe you haven't met much christians then, as we christians act like Jesus and want to be like him, a profile not even near-filled by most religious people.
And i agree that God is not a boogeyman, he sent his only son to a horrible death for us, and a boogeyman wouldn't do that for anybody.
Being christian does ensure more morality, but not as a goal but as a side-effect, as you want to be like the only perfect human that has lived in this world, and that makes for a very good person, you know?:)
In the times that everybody was rushing to have a 3D look on old games, there was Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (for playstation, the Saturn version sucked). The game was in almost full 2D, and we have a huge world, with more secrets that the Pentagon, a highly detailed world, and music compared with real classics by people who knows (if i find the link to an article i read recently on this point i'll post it). Just yesterday i rediscovered it and started playing it again.
And Starcraft. A really good game, 2D too. I usually play it with some friends on weekends, and it's still one of the best.
Ah, look around on your linux distro for the little gem named xkobo, but be warned that if you start playing it, you won't want to stop.
-You mean that if i were root, i could get passwords?
Have you played Jetfighter? that was another good example of that point. The carrier landings on this game were really realistic , to the point that real pilots confirmed it (sorry, don't have the reference at hand), but we were flying a multimillion dollar jet with really few controls.
The fact that it ran at full speed on my 386 on that time was another plus:)
-You mean that if i were root, i could get passwords?
Funny that you mention that sensation. The first time i played Zork I (this year, to further the point), i was killed by the thief. I was there, dead, just my soul, standing in front of the gates of hell, and i noticed that i could act, i was not just lying there, so i got away from that place, really tense, and suddenly, it hit me: "the Chapel!!". I got there about five minutes later of looking around (i was a bit disoriented, bear with me), and with real hope i prayed. I was revived! The sensation was undescriptible. Then i noticed it, and was suddenly surprised of being so connected with a game with no graphics at all, even on this times of Nvidias and Voodoos.
-You mean that if i were root, i could get passwords?
You do realize that, at least with free software, we, the users, are both the testing base and the developers, do you? BR>
-you mean that if i were root, i could get all the passwords?
We all know that go+rx is not a good idea, but as Kurt says, if you protect the userdirs (chmod go-rwx) the apache user directory behavior (the "go to http://our_server/~yourusername to see your webpage" thing) breaks.
Is there a safe workaround? i mean, i have here a computer room for a school with 270 users that want their homepage to show up, even if it's internal -we have one dialup for 12 computers and no money for a bigger connection or more PC's:( - Is not like they have top secret documents, but...
BR>
-you mean that if i were root, i could get all the passwords?
The first time i used a computer it was an old Apple computer in a logo class (it was some course on vacations, don't remember the age i had so it had to be a small number). After that i got computer classes in school, and the main topics were algorithms (the teacher had a clue, lucky me), Wordstar, and Turbo Pascal (and zaxxon:). After that i entered university to go on to study Systems Engineering. So, i benefited from computers at a very early age.
Now i'm working at a school as the sysadmin, and it pisses me off to see the situation shown on most of the posts and the article, on the facts that the students usually know more than the teachers, that computers are used as glorified typewriters or internet terminals, and that the old school teachings ala Seymour Papert (yes, the LOGO creator, any computer teacher must read his books) and their group, that the children need to use the computer as a tool to learn, is forgotten.
I am working hard here to make a difference, reinstate programming again, teach the teacher, put the necessary software tools on the computers, and change the focus from "keystroke teaching" to real teaching, but is hard to go against the status quo.
What are your feelings on this, people?
"We will run this with the same kind of openness we have run Windows,"
Ok, i'd like those scripts (post the link here or send it to me by email to dodge the/. effect) And as downloader, may i suggest wget? it works well, supports resuming (the -c option) and is included by default in almost any distro.
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
I suggest looking at the links on the EDU-SIG page at python.org. Look specially at the links "How to think like a computer scientist" (is at this address), and the one called "livewires" (at here). The last one includes a module that makes even turtle graphics!.
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
May i suggest a little different objective? In www.worldforge.org is a project of making a free ultima-online-like game, and one of the objectives is making the NPCs (Non Playing Characters) intelligent. There's a good overview of the objectives at here As you see, is a very interesting project. For the lazy, the idea is making NPCs that behave realistic, not that LOOK realistic, so that they have goals and ambitions, transmit them to their offspring and make decisions based on the environment. Very ambitious, but that's the cool part, isn't it:)
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
I am from Colombia (not Columbia), and now i see that you don`t have any interest on the truth, and that the only thing you want is a litte nice spot like that Metcalfe guy: You spout things to get attention and hits, without even knowing what you`re saying. Do you know Colombia? Do you know about the rivers of blood running here in the fight against the small band of bastards that are the drug lords? Do you know about the thousands dead in this war? all because those killers want to provide the addicts in YOUR country with drugs? Do you know us? Is it a good idea to treat a WHOLE COUNTRY that YOU DON`T KNOW as a cartel? Eh? Ask Linus, he was here last week.
This is the last time i honor you with a hit.
Learn to respect people, Mr. Gasbag, especially if you don`t know them
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
I will be interested in the details of your implementation, i've been having some little problems here with it (mainly because some of the stations, 5x86-133 with 24 Mb RAM that worked OK with Win/MsOff97, are too slow for this, and i would want to erradicate the last spawns of MS software here while i can)
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
"Software based processor" sounds a lot like the winmodems: they cut things in hardware to do them in software and the result is not good. Is this the same thing?
That was the impression that i got but i'll be glad to be wrong (at least this time:-)
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
You should have seen that the other day. I had no computer in sight (my sister doing some work in there; i really need another computer), and in nickelodeon or discovery kids (so what, i was bored) there was a song dedicated to him!! The "computer man". He vas portraited as a computer head with a video of his face talking inside, with long robotic arms typing at a keyboard and all that. Really ugly.
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
This guy was a witness of the 1992 Michelangelo Virus scare (so was i, btw). Everybody was running for cover and screaming for help. Then the day came, almost nothing happened, and everything got back to normal, nobody mentioning the embarrasment.
I think itll be the same here, to some extent. The doomsayers will be back in their caves, and everybody will keep their mouth shut about being wrong in the subject. What do you think?
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
You've just described Linux Mandrake...
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... Almost!
Mandrake has the main install categories (server, workstation and custom), but not the subcategories.
The package categories are almost like it. And it has Mandrake-update: You start it, it fetches the list of mirrors of the FTP site, let's you select one, then fetches the list of RPMs to update, you select the ones to get, it downloads and installs them, and you're set.
Now, they're preparing the next incarnation, we can suggest this to them, it shouldn't be hard to implement.
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
Slashdot Mirror
umm.. blame Canada? :)
You forgot one link: ...interesting intro to nethack :)
The adventures of Spyke Johnson-- Ascii Archaeologist
This is an
About "religious" people i can add something: Jesus fought with the religious people of their time, calling them hippocrites in public, and was killed in one of the worst forms of execution in history because of that. Just because somebody is religious and calls himself a christian, doesn't mean that he *is* indeed a christian. I believe you haven't met much christians then, as we christians act like Jesus and want to be like him, a profile not even near-filled by most religious people.
:)
And i agree that God is not a boogeyman, he sent his only son to a horrible death for us, and a boogeyman wouldn't do that for anybody.
Being christian does ensure more morality, but not as a goal but as a side-effect, as you want to be like the only perfect human that has lived in this world, and that makes for a very good person, you know?
> Whistler will have the option to only run signed applications. You can turn this off.
And supposedly you can turn off active content in Outlook, its just that nobody bothers to do it.
-You mean that if i were root, i could get passwords?
In the times that everybody was rushing to have a 3D look on old games, there was Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (for playstation, the Saturn version sucked). The game was in almost full 2D, and we have a huge world, with more secrets that the Pentagon, a highly detailed world, and music compared with real classics by people who knows (if i find the link to an article i read recently on this point i'll post it). Just yesterday i rediscovered it and started playing it again.
And Starcraft. A really good game, 2D too. I usually play it with some friends on weekends, and it's still one of the best.
Ah, look around on your linux distro for the little gem named xkobo, but be warned that if you start playing it, you won't want to stop.
-You mean that if i were root, i could get passwords?
Have you played Jetfighter? that was another good example of that point. The carrier landings on this game were really realistic , to the point that real pilots confirmed it (sorry, don't have the reference at hand), but we were flying a multimillion dollar jet with really few controls. :)
The fact that it ran at full speed on my 386 on that time was another plus
-You mean that if i were root, i could get passwords?
Funny that you mention that sensation. The first time i played Zork I (this year, to further the point), i was killed by the thief. I was there, dead, just my soul, standing in front of the gates of hell, and i noticed that i could act, i was not just lying there, so i got away from that place, really tense, and suddenly, it hit me: "the Chapel!!". I got there about five minutes later of looking around (i was a bit disoriented, bear with me), and with real hope i prayed. I was revived! The sensation was undescriptible. Then i noticed it, and was suddenly surprised of being so connected with a game with no graphics at all, even on this times of Nvidias and Voodoos.
-You mean that if i were root, i could get passwords?
You do realize that, at least with free software, we, the users, are both the testing base and the developers, do you?
BR> -you mean that if i were root, i could get all the passwords?
We all know that go+rx is not a good idea, but as Kurt says, if you protect the userdirs (chmod go-rwx) the apache user directory behavior (the "go to http://our_server/~yourusername to see your webpage" thing) breaks.
:( - Is not like they have top secret documents, but...
Is there a safe workaround? i mean, i have here a computer room for a school with 270 users that want their homepage to show up, even if it's internal -we have one dialup for 12 computers and no money for a bigger connection or more PC's
BR> -you mean that if i were root, i could get all the passwords?
The first time i used a computer it was an old Apple computer in a logo class (it was some course on vacations, don't remember the age i had so it had to be a small number). After that i got computer classes in school, and the main topics were algorithms (the teacher had a clue, lucky me), Wordstar, and Turbo Pascal (and zaxxon :). After that i entered university to go on to study Systems Engineering. So, i benefited from computers at a very early age.
Now i'm working at a school as the sysadmin, and it pisses me off to see the situation shown on most of the posts and the article, on the facts that the students usually know more than the teachers, that computers are used as glorified typewriters or internet terminals, and that the old school teachings ala Seymour Papert (yes, the LOGO creator, any computer teacher must read his books) and their group, that the children need to use the computer as a tool to learn, is forgotten.
I am working hard here to make a difference, reinstate programming again, teach the teacher, put the necessary software tools on the computers, and change the focus from "keystroke teaching" to real teaching, but is hard to go against the status quo.
What are your feelings on this, people?
"We will run this with the same kind of openness we have run Windows,"
Well, i use about 8 to 15 windows always when i'm on the net, but the typical user i've seen gets confused with 2 or 3.
"We will run this with the same kind of openness we have run Windows,"
another IE exploit or Hotmail hole?
"We will run this with the same kind of openness we have run Windows,"
Ok, i'd like those scripts (post the link here or send it to me by email to dodge the /. effect)
And as downloader, may i suggest wget? it works well, supports resuming (the -c option) and is included by default in almost any distro.
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
I suggest looking at the links on the EDU-SIG page at python.org. Look specially at the links "How to think like a computer scientist" (is at this address), and the one called "livewires" (at here). The last one includes a module that makes even turtle graphics!.
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
May i suggest a little different objective? In www.worldforge.org is a project of making a free ultima-online-like game, and one of the objectives is making the NPCs (Non Playing Characters) intelligent. There's a good overview of the objectives at here As you see, is a very interesting project. For the lazy, the idea is making NPCs that behave realistic, not that LOOK realistic, so that they have goals and ambitions, transmit them to their offspring and make decisions based on the environment. Very ambitious, but that's the cool part, isn't it :)
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
I am from Colombia (not Columbia), and now i see that you don`t have any interest on the truth, and that the only thing you want is a litte nice spot like that Metcalfe guy: You spout things to get attention and hits, without even knowing what you`re saying. Do you know Colombia? Do you know about the rivers of blood running here in the fight against the small band of bastards that are the drug lords? Do you know about the thousands dead in this war? all because those killers want to provide the addicts in YOUR country with drugs? Do you know us? Is it a good idea to treat a WHOLE COUNTRY that YOU DON`T KNOW as a cartel? Eh? Ask Linus, he was here last week.
This is the last time i honor you with a hit.
Learn to respect people, Mr. Gasbag, especially if you don`t know them
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
I will be interested in the details of your implementation, i've been having some little problems here with it (mainly because some of the stations, 5x86-133 with 24 Mb RAM that worked OK with Win/MsOff97, are too slow for this, and i would want to erradicate the last spawns of MS software here while i can)
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
I was :)
Yeah! Wolfenstein 3D all the way! I remember when DOOM was too much for my old machine.....
Sight, memories.......
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
"Software based processor" sounds a lot like the winmodems: they cut things in hardware to do them in software and the result is not good. Is this the same thing?
:-)
That was the impression that i got but i'll be glad to be wrong (at least this time
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
You should have seen that the other day. I had no computer in sight (my sister doing some work in there; i really need another computer), and in nickelodeon or discovery kids (so what, i was bored) there was a song dedicated to him!! The "computer man". He vas portraited as a computer head with a video of his face talking inside, with long robotic arms typing at a keyboard and all that. Really ugly.
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
You should see the homepage of Steve Mann, at http://www.wearcomp.org, and the wearable webring
:)
Be ready with a bucket for all that drool. On second thought, better get a boat
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
This guy was a witness of the 1992 Michelangelo Virus scare (so was i, btw). Everybody was running for cover and screaming for help. Then the day came, almost nothing happened, and everything got back to normal, nobody mentioning the embarrasment.
I think itll be the same here, to some extent. The doomsayers will be back in their caves, and everybody will keep their mouth shut about being wrong in the subject. What do you think?
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
... Almost!
Mandrake has the main install categories (server, workstation and custom), but not the subcategories.
The package categories are almost like it.
And it has Mandrake-update: You start it, it fetches the list of mirrors of the FTP site, let's you select one, then fetches the list of RPMs to update, you select the ones to get, it downloads and installs them, and you're set.
Now, they're preparing the next incarnation, we can suggest this to them, it shouldn't be hard to implement.
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"
Well, have you heard about the click of death?
Here's a link: Information on the click of death
Iomega is digging it's own grave.
"Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"