Video players is an area where, for the most part, Windows can't compete with Linux. A good xine or mplayer build will support, out of the box, everything that in Windows would take ages to download and install. This is why my laptop and I are crucial to my local anime club (my official title is "Linux Guy").
When I look at these pictures I am reminded of the new building at my university, it has a very similar colour scheme (primary colours everywhere). It has only been open since Sept 2003 and has already beared the brunt of thousands of jokes.
From the wheelchair ramp that curves in an S shape (it is one lane and impossible to see the bottom from the top, of course leading to collisions), to the fact that they put that corrogated metal that is normally used for Silos _on the walls_, this combined with the fact that red, yellow, and blue is used exstensivly makes you think you are in preeschool while you are actually in differential equations
I have recently been reading a large number of etexts on my Palm Tungsten T. It seems to have great, rechargable battery life, and a nice screen.
I used to use Weasel however I have recently ditched it for Plucker because I can read a number of html texts with images.
Although I can't read books on a computer screen (I think my eyes will start bleading after the first two hours) I seem to be able to read them without any discomfort on a PDA screen, probably because it is LCD or something.
I imagine that a Tungsten T would be relativly cheap these days, I got mine about a year ago when they were relativly new, but won it in a contest so I didn't have to pay for it (alas, now that I am in University I am a less exceptional programmer than I was in high school)
I saw this new page yesterday and when I visited it the hit counter was at about 6000 now it is at ~20000. Well show here who these Slashdot people are!
I experianced the same thing a while ago. Since at this time I was in high school and could not afford to buy every piece of shareware that I need, my only option was to look for cracks/warez. I finally got sick of the moral/legal/painintheass aspects of this method and switched to Linux.
Now every computer I own runs Debian (I switched my server from Gentoo yesterday), my software is 100% legal and it cost me $0. I believe I have given back to the open source community in the form of the amount of bug reports/patches that I have submitted to various projects.
Although switching to a free (not RMSs' fucked up definition, I mean Linux, BSD, or any OS where the majority of programs are no charge) OS was the right choice for me, for you that may be different. I am not one of the pimply faced Linux zealots who believes that Linux is the best OS on the face of the planet etc.
If you can't switch to an OS where the majority of programs are free, I can only suggest paying for a program when you are sure that you will use it more than once, and that it is decent. Otherwise get some good cracks sites and try to remain calm when the 24329th patch you download fails just like the other ones.
I use Debian on my laptop and Gentoo on my server. For my laptop I am using Sid which is up to date enough for me. I wanted XFree 4.3 so I just found some experimental debs for x86 (they are perfectly stable) and used them.
Actually Asimov was the one who said (through one of his charecters) "Violence is the last REFUGE of the incompetent" (emphasis mine to point out the fact that you misquoted him.
It was Salvor Hardins' motto throughout the Foundation Series (by Isaac Asimov). The Foundation series was among the best Science Fiction I have ever read (although Childhoods End still retains the top spot).
At this point 2.6 is _far_ better than 2.4 at the same point in the development cycle. Linus actually ripped out Rik van Riel's VM code and replaced it with new VM code. At this point 2.6 is FAR more stable than 2.4 at a similar stage, there really is no reason for the average user not to upgrade
Would probably be when I was 7 or 8 my neighour and I made an entire city out of lego, at the time I was also ripping apart anything electronic that I could get my hands on so the city had working street lights (leds I got from an answering machine), a loudspeaker in the middle of the square (some speaker I got from somewhere that we played music to the plebes on) and...... a monorail! the monorail was the triumph. Of course it was more like a bus (it had wheels) which rode on a track which was supported on posts, it was still a monorail.
This is why I like my ISP. It is run by what I believe that it is the only (or maybe just the biggest) independant municipal telephone company in Canada (tbaytel.net). Thier "official" bandwidth cap is 4gb per month downstream and none upstream. I found this out when I asked the installation guy and he said
"well it is 4gb but they don't enforce it at all"
apparently they really don't care what I, or anyone else uses, they have never even asked anyone to slow down on thier usage. I would know:D
I have done a few pretty bad tech mistakes myself. The worst occured when I was in grade 11 and the main admin of the school forum server. Because the forum server was inside the school network it was also behind the firewall, we wanted to have a whole bunch of stuff available to the outside that was being blocked by the firewall for remote administration. I decided that instead of arguing with the school board to open a few more ports it would be simpler to just use tunnelling through port 22 (which was open). Because I was by far the most computer literate of all the admins on the server I was writing a step by step tutorial on how to get tunelling working.
I finished the Unix half of the tutorial and wanted to write the windows part. At this time I was still dual booting with windows so I figured the best way to test it with windows was to reboot into windows. No problem type reboot in the nearest open console and I'm done!
Nope
About a millionth of a second after I hit enter on the reboot command I realised that I had not typed it in my computer, but in an open ssh connection to the server! normally this wouldn't be a problem , I had everything that we needed to start in scripts and it would come back up after a minute of downtime. Unfortunately we had just finished installing linux on this comptuer. While we were installing linux on it the comptuer was on a desk in one of the classrooms like any other computer, and to prevent people from screwing around with it we put a bios password on it... And forgot to take it off. As soon as I rebooted the machine stopped, started then hung at the bios password. I unfortunately did this on a friday night so it was at the bios password over the weekend.
When one of the teachers asked me why the forum server was down for such a long time I said that the storm we had over the weekend must have made the power flicker. We should probably get a UPS.:p
Then there was the time on my own computer where I meant to restore the MBR from a backup file. I typed
dd if=mbr.bak of=/dev/hda1
when I meant
dd if=mbr.bak of=/dev/hda
This was when I was still on windows and/dev/hda1 happened to be my NTFS windows partition. Whoops
For me the most enduring music from video games is Kefkas theme from Final Fantasy 3 (or 6, or whatever, I never really got the hang of thier numbering scheme). Some of the other music from that game (and other Final Fantasys') has also stayed with me. But Kefkas theme is the best
The LOL ROFL ROFLMAO ROFLMGDMFAO and the like, along with stupid abbreviations used to obscure the point of a conversation (my theory is that it is a vain attempt to make the recipient believe the sender is more intelligent than they really are by obscuring thier point in a stream of unintelligable ASCII) has been on my list for a very long time. I generally ban anyone on any of my IM lists that attempt to talk to me like that and tell them I will unban them when they learn thier lesson and promise never to do that again.
Another popular tactic is to use the poor excuse for an MSN client I wrote a few years back to send them "OMG j00 sh00d 5t0p yoozing 5TVp1D T/\1| LOL!!!!!11111!!!" followed by a bunch of smileys in a very long for loop. It makes a windows 98 machine slow to a crawl suprisingly quickly.
I was guessing christmas day 2003 for the release of the 2.6 kernel. Oh well, I was wrong.
For the 2.8 kernel I guessed December Fifth 2005 at 6:30 pm (the date and approxamate time when i will turn 20 years old)
Now if a benevolent open source firm would make a patch that gave IE PROPER PNG support, then I would be very grateful (I have been swearing at IE's lack of png support for the last hour for messing up my very cool website design)
I originally had just a regular microsoft optical wheelmouse, the kind that only had one scrollwheel (clickable) and no side buttons or anything. Then when I got my laptop I found that a touchpad was horribly inadequate for any sort of small moter work, so I picked up my Logitech MX500. This is without a doubt the best mouse I have ever used. At school in one of the GIS labs we have 3 button mice but I still like my logitech better, the wheel just begs to be clicked.
When my trusty Microsoft mouse died on my server (Ok its not quite dead but every hour or so it will stop working completely for ten minutes). I went out and picked out another logitech MX500.
They are damn fine mice I don't know why the poster would need a regular 3 button mouse
Luckily I live right near the boarder (Thunder Bay Ontario). If I want that ipod I just take a trip to Duluth for the weekend, take my laptop, load it up with mp3's and pretend I had it all along. The strong Canadian doller will make this cheaper than buying it in Canada:D
I bought an Olympas OM-10 a few years back. Although it isn't manufactured anymore you can ususally pick them up used for relativly cheap. It takes great pictures. I found it to be a great beginners camera.
For me that would have to be my trusty Ti-83 calculator. I have dropped that down flights of stairs, off desks coundless times, exposed it to freezing temperatures, boiling temperatures (I live in Canada, at my place in Canada it goes down to minus 35 degrees celcius in the winter and plus 35 degrees celcius in the summer). And pretty well abused it to all hell. It still works great!.
Sure, mid-December might be when its ready. But I'm sticking with my bet of a Christmas day release. Linus likes to release kernels on holidays (he did one on christmas a while back and noone can forget the greased turkey). Perhaps he will name this one the greased reindeer or something:p
Sorry about that, heres the right one
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Excellent! This will give me a chance to try out my latest invention - these pressure pills.
opens a bottle and a giant pill falls out
Fry: Are you crazy? I cant swallow that!
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, then good news! It's a suppository!
I seem to have a detour from my brain to my mouth/keyboard. The message gets fiddled with in transit:p
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Video players is an area where, for the most part, Windows can't compete with Linux. A good xine or mplayer build will support, out of the box, everything that in Windows would take ages to download and install. This is why my laptop and I are crucial to my local anime club (my official title is "Linux Guy").
When I look at these pictures I am reminded of the new building at my university, it has a very similar colour scheme (primary colours everywhere). It has only been open since Sept 2003 and has already beared the brunt of thousands of jokes.
From the wheelchair ramp that curves in an S shape (it is one lane and impossible to see the bottom from the top, of course leading to collisions), to the fact that they put that corrogated metal that is normally used for Silos _on the walls_, this combined with the fact that red, yellow, and blue is used exstensivly makes you think you are in preeschool while you are actually in differential equations
I have recently been reading a large number of etexts on my Palm Tungsten T. It seems to have great, rechargable battery life, and a nice screen.
I used to use Weasel however I have recently ditched it for Plucker because I can read a number of html texts with images.
Although I can't read books on a computer screen (I think my eyes will start bleading after the first two hours) I seem to be able to read them without any discomfort on a PDA screen, probably because it is LCD or something.
I imagine that a Tungsten T would be relativly cheap these days, I got mine about a year ago when they were relativly new, but won it in a contest so I didn't have to pay for it (alas, now that I am in University I am a less exceptional programmer than I was in high school)
There is a java version of the client called jteg at
http://jteg.sourceforge.net/
which would run on windows
I saw this new page yesterday and when I visited it the hit counter was at about 6000 now it is at ~20000. Well show here who these Slashdot people are!
I experianced the same thing a while ago. Since at this time I was in high school and could not afford to buy every piece of shareware that I need, my only option was to look for cracks/warez. I finally got sick of the moral/legal/painintheass aspects of this method and switched to Linux.
Now every computer I own runs Debian (I switched my server from Gentoo yesterday), my software is 100% legal and it cost me $0. I believe I have given back to the open source community in the form of the amount of bug reports/patches that I have submitted to various projects.
Although switching to a free (not RMSs' fucked up definition, I mean Linux, BSD, or any OS where the majority of programs are no charge) OS was the right choice for me, for you that may be different. I am not one of the pimply faced Linux zealots who believes that Linux is the best OS on the face of the planet etc.
If you can't switch to an OS where the majority of programs are free, I can only suggest paying for a program when you are sure that you will use it more than once, and that it is decent. Otherwise get some good cracks sites and try to remain calm when the 24329th patch you download fails just like the other ones.
Chances are, because it is on an Angelfire page, it will go down within the next 45 seconds. In anycase I have mirrored it at
http://ryans.northernwatercolour.com/chernobyl
I also included page 16 which she mistakenly skipped in the linking, it shows a swimming pool.
I use Debian on my laptop and Gentoo on my server. For my laptop I am using Sid which is up to date enough for me. I wanted XFree 4.3 so I just found some experimental debs for x86 (they are perfectly stable) and used them.
Actually Asimov was the one who said (through one of his charecters) "Violence is the last REFUGE of the incompetent" (emphasis mine to point out the fact that you misquoted him.
It was Salvor Hardins' motto throughout the Foundation Series (by Isaac Asimov). The Foundation series was among the best Science Fiction I have ever read (although Childhoods End still retains the top spot).
At this point 2.6 is _far_ better than 2.4 at the same point in the development cycle. Linus actually ripped out Rik van Riel's VM code and replaced it with new VM code. At this point 2.6 is FAR more stable than 2.4 at a similar stage, there really is no reason for the average user not to upgrade
Would probably be when I was 7 or 8 my neighour and I made an entire city out of lego, at the time I was also ripping apart anything electronic that I could get my hands on so the city had working street lights (leds I got from an answering machine), a loudspeaker in the middle of the square (some speaker I got from somewhere that we played music to the plebes on) and ...... a monorail! the monorail was the triumph. Of course it was more like a bus (it had wheels) which rode on a track which was supported on posts, it was still a monorail.
This is why I like my ISP. It is run by what I believe that it is the only (or maybe just the biggest) independant municipal telephone company in Canada (tbaytel.net). Thier "official" bandwidth cap is 4gb per month downstream and none upstream. I found this out when I asked the installation guy and he said
:D
"well it is 4gb but they don't enforce it at all"
apparently they really don't care what I, or anyone else uses, they have never even asked anyone to slow down on thier usage. I would know
I have done a few pretty bad tech mistakes myself. The worst occured when I was in grade 11 and the main admin of the school forum server. Because the forum server was inside the school network it was also behind the firewall, we wanted to have a whole bunch of stuff available to the outside that was being blocked by the firewall for remote administration. I decided that instead of arguing with the school board to open a few more ports it would be simpler to just use tunnelling through port 22 (which was open). Because I was by far the most computer literate of all the admins on the server I was writing a step by step tutorial on how to get tunelling working. I finished the Unix half of the tutorial and wanted to write the windows part. At this time I was still dual booting with windows so I figured the best way to test it with windows was to reboot into windows. No problem type reboot in the nearest open console and I'm done! Nope About a millionth of a second after I hit enter on the reboot command I realised that I had not typed it in my computer, but in an open ssh connection to the server! normally this wouldn't be a problem , I had everything that we needed to start in scripts and it would come back up after a minute of downtime. Unfortunately we had just finished installing linux on this comptuer. While we were installing linux on it the comptuer was on a desk in one of the classrooms like any other computer, and to prevent people from screwing around with it we put a bios password on it ... And forgot to take it off. As soon as I rebooted the machine stopped, started then hung at the bios password. I unfortunately did this on a friday night so it was at the bios password over the weekend.
When one of the teachers asked me why the forum server was down for such a long time I said that the storm we had over the weekend must have made the power flicker. We should probably get a UPS. :p
Then there was the time on my own computer where I meant to restore the MBR from a backup file. I typed
dd if=mbr.bak of=/dev/hda1
when I meant
dd if=mbr.bak of=/dev/hda
This was when I was still on windows and /dev/hda1 happened to be my NTFS windows partition. Whoops
I hope my Tungsten T will be upgradable. Does anyone know the policy of Palm with regard to upgrading the OS?
For me the most enduring music from video games is Kefkas theme from Final Fantasy 3 (or 6, or whatever, I never really got the hang of thier numbering scheme). Some of the other music from that game (and other Final Fantasys') has also stayed with me. But Kefkas theme is the best
The LOL ROFL ROFLMAO ROFLMGDMFAO and the like, along with stupid abbreviations used to obscure the point of a conversation (my theory is that it is a vain attempt to make the recipient believe the sender is more intelligent than they really are by obscuring thier point in a stream of unintelligable ASCII) has been on my list for a very long time. I generally ban anyone on any of my IM lists that attempt to talk to me like that and tell them I will unban them when they learn thier lesson and promise never to do that again.
Another popular tactic is to use the poor excuse for an MSN client I wrote a few years back to send them "OMG j00 sh00d 5t0p yoozing 5TVp1D T/\1| LOL!!!!!11111!!!" followed by a bunch of smileys in a very long for loop. It makes a windows 98 machine slow to a crawl suprisingly quickly.
Just doing my part to rid the world of idiots
I was guessing christmas day 2003 for the release of the 2.6 kernel. Oh well, I was wrong. For the 2.8 kernel I guessed December Fifth 2005 at 6:30 pm (the date and approxamate time when i will turn 20 years old)
Now if a benevolent open source firm would make a patch that gave IE PROPER PNG support, then I would be very grateful (I have been swearing at IE's lack of png support for the last hour for messing up my very cool website design)
I originally had just a regular microsoft optical wheelmouse, the kind that only had one scrollwheel (clickable) and no side buttons or anything. Then when I got my laptop I found that a touchpad was horribly inadequate for any sort of small moter work, so I picked up my Logitech MX500. This is without a doubt the best mouse I have ever used. At school in one of the GIS labs we have 3 button mice but I still like my logitech better, the wheel just begs to be clicked.
When my trusty Microsoft mouse died on my server (Ok its not quite dead but every hour or so it will stop working completely for ten minutes). I went out and picked out another logitech MX500.
They are damn fine mice I don't know why the poster would need a regular 3 button mouse
Luckily I live right near the boarder (Thunder Bay Ontario). If I want that ipod I just take a trip to Duluth for the weekend, take my laptop, load it up with mp3's and pretend I had it all along. The strong Canadian doller will make this cheaper than buying it in Canada :D
I bought an Olympas OM-10 a few years back. Although it isn't manufactured anymore you can ususally pick them up used for relativly cheap. It takes great pictures. I found it to be a great beginners camera.
For me that would have to be my trusty Ti-83 calculator. I have dropped that down flights of stairs, off desks coundless times, exposed it to freezing temperatures, boiling temperatures (I live in Canada, at my place in Canada it goes down to minus 35 degrees celcius in the winter and plus 35 degrees celcius in the summer). And pretty well abused it to all hell. It still works great!.
I dunno what you want me to put here. Whatever
Sure, mid-December might be when its ready. But I'm sticking with my bet of a Christmas day release. Linus likes to release kernels on holidays (he did one on christmas a while back and noone can forget the greased turkey). Perhaps he will name this one the greased reindeer or something :p
Sorry about that, heres the right one Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Excellent! This will give me a chance to try out my latest invention - these pressure pills. opens a bottle and a giant pill falls out Fry: Are you crazy? I cant swallow that! Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, then good news! It's a suppository! I seem to have a detour from my brain to my mouth/keyboard. The message gets fiddled with in transit :p