how about a making-of duke nukem documentary? that couldn't ever suck, because there would be so much to work with, even if 99.999% of it was bad, that's still enough to make one awesome full-length film.
Global average temperatures have risen, as pirate population has been steadily declining over the past century. Not to mention rising natural disaster occurances.
People who steal laptops know enough not to boot them up. A lot of people's computers have MSN and AIM and what have you running on startup.
A friend of mine had their laptop stolen once, and I saw them come on MSN. I wrote down the IP address, only to find out that it was my friend logging in from their home PC.
In short, if you steal a laptop, you either wipe the hard drive, or bypass the boot process with a CD to snoop around at data.
Get your daughter a proximity alarm, so if she walks away from the laptop, or if it's grabbed from her, a loud alarm sounds.
Having used both distros, it took me a long time to figure out all the apt tools, mostly because I didn't know most of them were there.
On the other hand, pacman is pretty much the only package-related software most Arch users will touch: it replaces apt-get, dpkg, apt's search tool, etc...
I've written a scripting tool for ripping, encoding, taging and naming CDs in Bash. You can find it here.
Also, might I suggest using the MusePack audio format, as it produces higher quality encodes, and is faster than mp3 (both for encoding and decoding), which would be nice for your low-spec machine. However, all the players I know that can use it are X-based (other than the command-line decoder). Is it really an issue to run an X session that opens XMMS? You can use the built-in twm window manager, no Gnome/KDE nonsense.
Go ahead and change the YRO colour scheme while you're at it. The reason I hate lawyers and copyright holders is because I get nauseous whenever I read an article about them here.
my vote goes to Gunstar Heroes for the Genesis. It had four unique weapon types, and you could pair them to create another 10 possible weapons.
Another stand-out feature was the board-game level, where you threw the dice to move along the board, fighting different mini-bosses, solving puzzles, and getting bonuses on the way to reaching the level boss at the End.
It's probably too early to really discuss the topic of GNU/Linux support on this device... but considering Intel's apparent position on the subject (you'll remember the new Centrino processors), I wonder what they'll do.
I've always dreamt about having a box like this with WiFi or Bluetooth connecting several devices in a modular design for I/O... would be sweet to have it work as a music server, portable player, wearable PC, or even home automation. This modular and flexible design would complement a GNU/Linux system optimized for these tasks.
i was going to say "amok" repeated several times, but the damn lameness filter caught me. ahh, i hate that crazy witch movie with sarah jessica parker.
amok amok...
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Well, you could improve that a bit...
First, change "equilibrium_t_300.asf" to 700.asf... you get a much better quality video... no stuttering, double the resolution.
Second, instead of losing more quality by re-encoding the thing, you could just use "mplayer -dumpstream" with the mentioned url, and you get a stream.dump file in the current directory which is basically just a download of the video. You can also use -dumpfile to change the file name.
It is a real shame that many software companies have NO clue as to what ports their software uses. I happen to also have a Linksys router at home, and a couple of years ago I ran into huge problems trying to play online games (like Soldier of Fortune, or UT) because the game publishers simply couldn't tell me what ports I need to forward to my PC on the LAN.
Sure, it's a pain that you have to tweak things for software to work, but you really need to know what you're getting into with things like routers and firewalls -- with security comes the loss of features.
Instead of connecting the modem directly to your PC, you can set your router to have your PC as a DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) host. Basically, this forwards all ports to your computer. Once you have a connection, you can take a look at what ports are being used, and forward just those. The problem is that some software, such as ICQ, use random ports for connecting.
I agree that for home users, who receive legitimate emails only from a (comparitively) small group of friends and family, would benifeit the most from a whitelist filter. However, this would never work for corporations, where they might be receiving many inquiries about goods and services by email. Furthermore, these email addresses are openly published on the company website, thus making them a brighter target for spammers.
The best filter for anybody who maintains a website would be a Bayesian filter, where the mails are analysed, with a database of words contained in spam and non-spam emails. This way, legitimate Nigerian money laundering offers would not be blocked out, while the pr0n stuff goes to/dev/null. I don't receive much email, and I would say that spam might only make up for 25-33% of all the mail I receive, so I can't yet report on the success I've been having with this method, but I am using Bogofilter, an opensource project. You can find it on SF.net
OK, who else thinks the demonstration looks incredibly scary? my first thoughts were "No! No, don't eat me!"
More seriously though, I couldn't figure out what she was saying... I don't claim to be a lip-reading expert, but I can make out maybe 60% of what people are saying on TV while muted.
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how about a making-of duke nukem documentary? that couldn't ever suck, because there would be so much to work with, even if 99.999% of it was bad, that's still enough to make one awesome full-length film.
i know i'm confident nothing good is coming out the next few months. especially not the Xbox 360.
Global average temperatures have risen, as pirate population has been steadily declining over the past century. Not to mention rising natural disaster occurances.
A friend of mine had their laptop stolen once, and I saw them come on MSN. I wrote down the IP address, only to find out that it was my friend logging in from their home PC.
In short, if you steal a laptop, you either wipe the hard drive, or bypass the boot process with a CD to snoop around at data.
Get your daughter a proximity alarm, so if she walks away from the laptop, or if it's grabbed from her, a loud alarm sounds.
Having used both distros, it took me a long time to figure out all the apt tools, mostly because I didn't know most of them were there. On the other hand, pacman is pretty much the only package-related software most Arch users will touch: it replaces apt-get, dpkg, apt's search tool, etc...
Also, might I suggest using the MusePack audio format, as it produces higher quality encodes, and is faster than mp3 (both for encoding and decoding), which would be nice for your low-spec machine. However, all the players I know that can use it are X-based (other than the command-line decoder). Is it really an issue to run an X session that opens XMMS? You can use the built-in twm window manager, no Gnome/KDE nonsense.
Go ahead and change the YRO colour scheme while you're at it. The reason I hate lawyers and copyright holders is because I get nauseous whenever I read an article about them here.
Another stand-out feature was the board-game level, where you threw the dice to move along the board, fighting different mini-bosses, solving puzzles, and getting bonuses on the way to reaching the level boss at the End.
Great game. I've played through it several times.
My head was stuck in Middle Earth... Return of the Los Angeles Kings?
I've always dreamt about having a box like this with WiFi or Bluetooth connecting several devices in a modular design for I/O... would be sweet to have it work as a music server, portable player, wearable PC, or even home automation. This modular and flexible design would complement a GNU/Linux system optimized for these tasks.
Anyway, my vote goes to Johnny 5, from Short Circuit... he was after all a robot controlled by remote.
i was going to say "amok" repeated several times, but the damn lameness filter caught me. ahh, i hate that crazy witch movie with sarah jessica parker. amok amok...
I blame Los Angeles. It's their own fault, after all.
Why is everyone making such a fuss about these "mute ants" ... since when do we care about a bunch of insects who can't talk?
In Soviet Russia, law applies YOU!
First, change "equilibrium_t_300.asf" to 700.asf ... you get a much better quality video... no stuttering, double the resolution.
Second, instead of losing more quality by re-encoding the thing, you could just use "mplayer -dumpstream" with the mentioned url, and you get a stream.dump file in the current directory which is basically just a download of the video. You can also use -dumpfile to change the file name.
Just a couple of suggestions.
Sure, it's a pain that you have to tweak things for software to work, but you really need to know what you're getting into with things like routers and firewalls -- with security comes the loss of features.
Instead of connecting the modem directly to your PC, you can set your router to have your PC as a DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) host. Basically, this forwards all ports to your computer. Once you have a connection, you can take a look at what ports are being used, and forward just those. The problem is that some software, such as ICQ, use random ports for connecting.
Reading the above comments, it is obvious that the name "Windows" was NOT trademarked in the US or Russia, or probably anywhere.
The best filter for anybody who maintains a website would be a Bayesian filter, where the mails are analysed, with a database of words contained in spam and non-spam emails. This way, legitimate Nigerian money laundering offers would not be blocked out, while the pr0n stuff goes to /dev/null. I don't receive much email, and I would say that spam might only make up for 25-33% of all the mail I receive, so I can't yet report on the success I've been having with this method, but I am using Bogofilter, an opensource project. You can find it on SF.net
Bill Gates' birthday video will be available by the end of this week...
The new name shall be PIMP - PIMP Is Maybe Phoenix
Just a few pennies from me to you.
More seriously though, I couldn't figure out what she was saying... I don't claim to be a lip-reading expert, but I can make out maybe 60% of what people are saying on TV while muted.
Anybody care to smack me with a cluestick?
I wonder if the Armadillo in question here was also made of spare parts. John Carmack is considered the god of game programming, afterall...
i wonder if anybody has been clever enough to put you in a bodycast