Hmmm, that's funny. I read the USA Today article, and I didn't read anything about the banquet being exclusively for afflicted homosexuals (such as yourself).
but you know what? I almost always end up going inside to pay anyway, if only because I'm looking for some sort of beverage, and who wants to make two transactions?
What I really hate is when they make you prepay... at least you can still use the pay-at-pump.
Power management and IRQ routing is handled by a standard called "ACPI" which must be implemented by the BIOS. But... that's it. In fact the most any system should ever expect of the BIOS is precisely what's in Intel's ACPI specification.
Everything else is done by drivers: from fooling with the IO-APIC to IDE controllers to RAM diagnostics...
There is no "source code", per se, you have to write it yourself for the architecture you want to implement it on. This is just getting underway for X86... I assume that is the problem area he's concerned with, right?
Because the Type 5 doesn't come in USB... are you telling me the PC version of the Type5 is a regular PS/2 keyboard with the 10 side-keys acting like multi-media keys?
Anyway, I've got tons of Type 6 keyboards lying around at work from country kits on our rackmount suns, do you find them less enjoyable than the type 5?
Simple example: I want a circle. I use a tag. I get a circle. Complex example: I have a database full of geospatial data. I use perl and some XML modules to generate SVG output. If I get cocky, I use the DOM to make elements that are interactive and call the script with new parameters (maybe it zooms, or tells it to do additional queries and add an information dialog on top) it looks reasonably decent... and I didn't have to pay a dime to macromedia... what's wrong with that?
...Since Photoshop 4, when Adobe was just figuring out what their app should look like too. And Paint Shop Pro was just a fancier version of mspaint. GIMP didn't really have much precedence to follow during its pre 1.0 years. GIMP is like GIMP. Photoshop is like Photoshop. Why the fuck should it be any different? GIMP shouldn't try to be a photoshop replacement, that's lame. It should strive to be an raster image processing tool.
(Actually, the difference between GIMP and PS is much smaller than PS and PSP, until recently, IMHO. I couldn't use PSP AT ALL after having learned PS first)
People keep *saying* this, but no one ever explains themselves. I think a lot of the trouble is people have the old Photoshop muscle-memory and it does not translate well into GIMP.
Here's a hint: Painting tools, Layers, Channels, Paths, and their options exist as floating toolbars. Everything else (selection operations, resize, color space and filters) is accessible via right click.
Some people would disagree with you that installing software in everything besides Windows or MacOS is as difficult as it was, like 3 years ago.
And keep in mind GIMP on windows is using GTK-Win32... if you're going straight through GTK (which is the GIMP Toolkit, after all) you're going to be limited by GTK's widgets and GUI metaphors. There is some attempt using native widgets with a special GTK theme only for Win32, but that's not quite the same thing as a native app which doesn't care about the toolkit.
You'll also find that QT apps in Windows have a definite "QT feel" to them: ever use Metis?
For a _simple_ application which has few, well understood modes of operation (music player, web browser, maybe an Acrobat work-alike... and that's probably it) skinning is a nice touch.
A user will immediately expect to find a few common controls, it's a matter of finding a few of them (good skins will be intuitive). The rest of the more complicated parts of the interface should be nestled in a dialog or context menu that does not change with the skin... this is what Winamp 2 and XMMS did, and I think these are excellent applications of skinning.
On the flip side we have Windows Media Player, mplayer, and Nero, these are far too complex application to have their UIs skinned.
There's two methods... IR-LED (in cheap systems) or IR-laser diodes (in more expensive commercial systems). The latter requires multiple sensor areas with a certain amount of optical engineering in the vest, but it's more accurate. I am aware of ONE system that actually uses the sighting beam for registering hits (the "SLR" of lazer tag systems) , they modulate it with on a low-duty cycle PWM scheme so it doesn't make the laser look like it's flickering.
The grandparent was insinuating that radio waves are emitted from the gun to register a hit... this is false. Radio spreads too much to be useful for aiming (worse than non-laser infrared). However, RF COM-link is often used in commercial equipment to trasnmit realtime information to and from the game server.
Are you ... ::pant:: ... kidding??! ::gasp::
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Factoring large composite numbers takes forever if you have an abacus the size of your front yard...::whew::... I need a drink.
Auditing (logging), and policy enforcement (lockouts, password lengths, etc.)
You set it in one place (/etc/pam.d)... configure any special rules for specific services, without having to patch binaries or modify multiple configuration files.
that the stock price dropped not because of the SEC filing, but primarily because of the lawsuit brought against them AFTERWARDS.
A RedHat 9 to Fedora upgrade is easy...
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If you have yum. I swear to god... I did a fresh install, pointed yum at the appropriate mirror, and did a dist-upgrade. The only thing it didn't fix was the/etc/redhat-release still being used in the/etc/issue* banners.
And I would move to joe if I ever encountered a configuration file that contained anything but US-ASCII, which I have not.
And even if I did (let's say I was looking at a file with messages in multiple languages), nano won't munge the Unicode, it would just ignore it. I definitely wouldn't be using a terminal-based editor when entering text with extended character sets in a document.
:D But that's would be too easy. Seriously, I had to tell the truth (nano is awesome, so is vim, but then so is nano). And I don't think anyone can fill a top ten list with configuration tools... people use rarely more than one, if any. I know I don't.
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He's ten times the man Connery will ever be. Indy pwnzs.
Hmmm, that's funny. I read the USA Today article, and I didn't read anything about the banquet being exclusively for afflicted homosexuals (such as yourself).
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wanna battle? :-)
Actually, you gotta give me some pointers on getting started.
but you know what? I almost always end up going inside to pay anyway, if only because I'm looking for some sort of beverage, and who wants to make two transactions?
What I really hate is when they make you prepay... at least you can still use the pay-at-pump.
Power management and IRQ routing is handled by a standard called "ACPI" which must be implemented by the BIOS. But... that's it. In fact the most any system should ever expect of the BIOS is precisely what's in Intel's ACPI specification.
Everything else is done by drivers: from fooling with the IO-APIC to IDE controllers to RAM diagnostics...
There is no "source code", per se, you have to write it yourself for the architecture you want to implement it on. This is just getting underway for X86... I assume that is the problem area he's concerned with, right?
and usually people can detect it. About 30 seconds into the conversation, they'll ask, "Are you in the car?".
But sometimes they'll say that while I'm simply walking outside and trying to not get hit in a parking lot...
Because the Type 5 doesn't come in USB... are you telling me the PC version of the Type5 is a regular PS/2 keyboard with the 10 side-keys acting like multi-media keys?
Anyway, I've got tons of Type 6 keyboards lying around at work from country kits on our rackmount suns, do you find them less enjoyable than the type 5?
Simple example: I want a circle. I use a tag. I get a circle.
Complex example: I have a database full of geospatial data. I use perl and some XML modules to generate SVG output.
If I get cocky, I use the DOM to make elements that are interactive and call the script with new parameters (maybe it zooms, or tells it to do additional queries and add an information dialog on top)
it looks reasonably decent... and I didn't have to pay a dime to macromedia... what's wrong with that?
...Since Photoshop 4, when Adobe was just figuring out what their app should look like too. And Paint Shop Pro was just a fancier version of mspaint. GIMP didn't really have much precedence to follow during its pre 1.0 years. GIMP is like GIMP. Photoshop is like Photoshop. Why the fuck should it be any different? GIMP shouldn't try to be a photoshop replacement, that's lame. It should strive to be an raster image processing tool.
(Actually, the difference between GIMP and PS is much smaller than PS and PSP, until recently, IMHO. I couldn't use PSP AT ALL after having learned PS first)
People keep *saying* this, but no one ever explains themselves. I think a lot of the trouble is people have the old Photoshop muscle-memory and it does not translate well into GIMP.
Here's a hint: Painting tools, Layers, Channels, Paths, and their options exist as floating toolbars. Everything else (selection operations, resize, color space and filters) is accessible via right click.
THAT'S IT!!!
God...
Some people would disagree with you that installing software in everything besides Windows or MacOS is as difficult as it was, like 3 years ago.
And keep in mind GIMP on windows is using GTK-Win32... if you're going straight through GTK (which is the GIMP Toolkit, after all) you're going to be limited by GTK's widgets and GUI metaphors. There is some attempt using native widgets with a special GTK theme only for Win32, but that's not quite the same thing as a native app which doesn't care about the toolkit.
You'll also find that QT apps in Windows have a definite "QT feel" to them: ever use Metis?
For a _simple_ application which has few, well understood modes of operation (music player, web browser, maybe an Acrobat work-alike... and that's probably it) skinning is a nice touch.
A user will immediately expect to find a few common controls, it's a matter of finding a few of them (good skins will be intuitive). The rest of the more complicated parts of the interface should be nestled in a dialog or context menu that does not change with the skin... this is what Winamp 2 and XMMS did, and I think these are excellent applications of skinning.
On the flip side we have Windows Media Player, mplayer, and Nero, these are far too complex application to have their UIs skinned.
There's two methods... IR-LED (in cheap systems) or IR-laser diodes (in more expensive commercial systems). The latter requires multiple sensor areas with a certain amount of optical engineering in the vest, but it's more accurate. I am aware of ONE system that actually uses the sighting beam for registering hits (the "SLR" of lazer tag systems) , they modulate it with on a low-duty cycle PWM scheme so it doesn't make the laser look like it's flickering.
The grandparent was insinuating that radio waves are emitted from the gun to register a hit... this is false. Radio spreads too much to be useful for aiming (worse than non-laser infrared). However, RF COM-link is often used in commercial equipment to trasnmit realtime information to and from the game server.
::sweating and gasping for breath::
::whew::... I need a drink.
Factoring large composite numbers takes forever if you have an abacus the size of your front yard...
what a frigid bitch.
::sticks tounge out::
Oh, and btw, I changed my URL.
Because it'd be really useful right about now...
Auditing (logging), and policy enforcement (lockouts, password lengths, etc.)
You set it in one place (/etc/pam.d)... configure any special rules for specific services, without having to patch binaries or modify multiple configuration files.
AFAIK, Slashdot is anti-RedHat for the most part, because they felt "betrayed" by Fedora.
/. is just taking the POV of the articles they're linking too, which is often the case.
No,
that the stock price dropped not because of the SEC filing, but primarily because of the lawsuit brought against them AFTERWARDS.
If you have yum. I swear to god... I did a fresh install, pointed yum at the appropriate mirror, and did a dist-upgrade. The only thing it didn't fix was the /etc/redhat-release still being used in the /etc/issue* banners.
And I would move to joe if I ever encountered a configuration file that contained anything but US-ASCII, which I have not.
And even if I did (let's say I was looking at a file with messages in multiple languages), nano won't munge the Unicode, it would just ignore it. I definitely wouldn't be using a terminal-based editor when entering text with extended character sets in a document.
I wasn't kidding (personally).
:D
But that's would be too easy. Seriously, I had to tell the truth (nano is awesome, so is vim, but then so is nano).
And I don't think anyone can fill a top ten list with configuration tools... people use rarely more than one, if any. I know I don't.