I was not implying any kind of `warez` help. (Our Corporation uses Notes v5 throughout our enterprise.) I am hoping to build and show-off a complete Linux-based solution so I can say: Look, we spent over $2,000,000.00 CDN to MS last year for licenses; this (new) solution is free.
I can't tell you how gratefull I am for this detailed of a reply. Thanks.
I completely disagree. Everything in your comment is based on the principal the internet = anarchy, BUT if that were true then no packets would ever leave their home subnet. Nothing would get routed, nothing would work.
There are strick rules in place that govern the operation of the internet. I think a better analgy for your comment would be that of the days of Knights & Kings.
The tyrants that are making your life miserable lives Thousands of miles away in a seemingly solid fortress that prevents us (the peons) from ever stopping them.
A few good Knights step up to the cause, and try to put these villians in their place, but there are also bad Knights who enjoy adding to our torture.
-------------- I really should get out more. --------------
I must admit guys I am impressed and I want to say thanks.
No, I am not talking about the video, I am talking about *nix.
I have worked with linux before but CLI only (firewalls mostly + apache). I just installed mandrake v9.2 (I am searching for a disto that I like, and no I can't roll-my-own) and after getting it setup in a way that I could work with I saw this torrent link on/.
Challenge! I d'loaded and installed the BT.rpm (I don't think it worked) so I went and grabbed the.py files from the cvs.
5 minutes later I was d'loading the movie. I just tried playing it and I assumed that it wouldn't work (all the warnings about divix, and I know that I haven't tried installing any codecs) and to my surprise it started up right away. AND it runs smoother then it would in XP.
Congratualtions and way-to-go. Thanks to all who contribute.
I think he used the same tool to measure that I did as a kid.
I bought an SPL meter from Radio Shack so I could test how loud my car stereo got. The needle on the meter went to a max of 130Db. I was able to bury the needle on several occasions.
Considering the evidence that you have quoted there is no doubt in my mind that the meter was worthless.
My point: maybe he just has shitty testing equipment?
That sounds very cool that Armed & Dangerous actually increases the health as opposed to accuracy you must admit that this is the exception and not the rule. I hope the trend continues in new games.
IMHO Descent will always be more like a flight-sim then a FPS. FreeSpace was a bit of a dissapointment, the franchise will always hold a special place for me.
What made good games in the past is different then what makes a good game now.
Consider the programming restrictions that a C64 game had compared to any modern game. The programmers knew that they could only do so much with the graphics so they consentrated on plot/level design.
Most modern games only get harder because the AI is instructed to "shoot straighter". Take any FPS game and the only difference in levels is that the AI is a better shot.
RPG's suffer a similar fate (although a bit more understandably) where the bad guys have more health and more powerfull weapons/spells BUT (not understandably) heal quicker too.
Consoles by nature should always have more exciting game-play (same reason for quality on C64), while PC's should always have a wider range of games available (using more horsepower).
Maybe I am just getting too old for this anymore, but I miss the days of playing a game that kept me captivated. RPG's have just become boring, FPS are repetative twitch-fests (I only play T2 anymore), strategy games have been done to death. Moo2 & Civ are still excellent, but I can win on any setting because I have played them so much I know the games limitation and advantages in the tech-tree. RTS are just Turn-based games for the twitch players. Whoever builds more units wins.
The original D&D C64 games were winners, so were most turn-based strategy. The only original quality FPS was Descent (everything else was an evolution of Wolf3d).
Here's an idea: let writers create game ideas, not programers. Too many big-biz software publishing houses only make "safe" games. This is the same reason that 90% of the Hollywood movies suck too.
My point wasn't to discredit the research that Hubble has done or could do. The NASA dude was talking about intentionally crashing HST. I thought that what is the harm in just letting it stay there (they did put it in a high enough orbit to start with didn't they?)
I agree 100% with you but the only flaw in your statement is that the only thing Hubble can do is collect information.
Experimentation & observation are the only 2 ways that science can advance. Wouldn't fully-functional "other-then-Earth" space lab be better? (ie. Mars)
I know people will mod this as troll -99 but this is a serious question that I hope somebody can answer for me.
What tangible benefits has Hubble provided us? Other then advancing our knowledge of and expanding the "pure-sciences" involved how has humanity improved by this telescope?
It's my understanding that _ALL_ telescopes goal is to see as far back in time as possible. We want to prove or disprove the Big-Bang theory. What if we do prove it. Then what?
Please don't misunderstand me. I feel very strongly that all pure science must be pursued, I just don't understand what the big deal about Hubble is. Let's keep using it untill it disintegrates during re-entry, why invest more money into it?
You are correct with your statement, I was just trying to refresh our memories as to life before Mosaic. Gopher searches + telenet to connect and all that other fun.
www has made life so much more easier. I don't care that MS is evil. I am just glad the x86 line allows me to run anything I choose.
I have not rented or purchased any of the LotR DVD's simply because I want to BUY the trilogy as a set. The same goes for Matrix. I have not even seen M3 yet because I want to wait and enjoy the entire experience as a whole.
I work for a large printer company and I just had my first bit of luck getting CUPS to work with a few of our networked printers today. I must tip my hat to the Ghostscript folks. Thanks to them I can now print. But I had to use a generic post-script "driver" to make it work. The were no enhanced funstions available to me (and why would there be, you programers can't do everything), BUT why not include the option of using a printers PPD (Postscript Printer Definition) file to determine the available functions?
Mac does this, Windows does this, Adobe's own "Universal printer Driver" does this too. There are several programs that also override the OS's printer drivers and require direct access to the PPD. Quark Xpress, In-Design are 2 examples. As part of my job I need to be able to access and demo these functions to potential customers, this one speed-bump is the only thing that keeps me from doing it 100% in Linux.
I am not a programmer. My programming skills stopped at basic: 10 print " hello world" 20 goto 10
So please don't yell at me for not writing my own fix for this. I'm not the bad guy, I am trying to endorse a better alternative to MS.
Yes, I agree that reliability should be a #1 concern.
One thing that I think SCSI will still always win is sustained transfer rate as well. I own two 250 Gb SATA drives that I use for storage, and if I were to copy files from one drive to another it feels like it crawls compared to my U2W SCSI drives, and they are 2 generations old!
Back in the day a friend of mine had a Tandy PC with DOS 5 in ROM. Yes it was slow as hell, and impossible to upgrade, but I think they might have had an acceptable idea.
Make an appliance that people just turn on and it works. Little bells and whistles, little speed but 100% idiot proof. A small HD to store the files that they want (including MP3's). A Knoppix style idea might even be perfect for some people.
An virus that a person might get is removed at reboot. (Just don't run the infected file again.)
Nobody that any of us know would ever own one (we wouldn't let them), but think of how many complete n00bs that this might help with. Hell you could charge $100 - $300 and make it disposable.
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On a Win32 platform nothing beats Solar Winds for the probing & inspecting of your entire network.
I am also quite fond of Iris for packet sniffing.
(There are "bigger & better" packet sniffers around {including one in Solar Winds} but IMHO it just a nice tight solid program.
Well, thank-you.
I was not implying any kind of `warez` help. (Our Corporation uses Notes v5 throughout our enterprise.) I am hoping to build and show-off a complete Linux-based solution so I can say: Look, we spent over $2,000,000.00 CDN to MS last year for licenses; this (new) solution is free.
I can't tell you how gratefull I am for this detailed of a reply. Thanks.
Can you comment on if/when those Notes packages will ever be made available to the public? (or even warez group)
Notes is the only thing that keeps me dual-booting XP at work. (I have tried the wine route both with no luck )
As the President of the AAPOAA I protest at the useage of this acronymn.
American Association for the Protection of Over-Abused Acronymns.
=) Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I completely disagree. Everything in your comment is based on the principal the internet = anarchy, BUT if that were true then no packets would ever leave their home subnet. Nothing would get routed, nothing would work.
There are strick rules in place that govern the operation of the internet. I think a better analgy for your comment would be that of the days of Knights & Kings.
The tyrants that are making your life miserable lives Thousands of miles away in a seemingly solid fortress that prevents us (the peons) from ever stopping them.
A few good Knights step up to the cause, and try to put these villians in their place, but there are also bad Knights who enjoy adding to our torture.
--------------
I really should get out more.
--------------
I must admit guys I am impressed and I want to say thanks.
/.
.py files from the cvs.
No, I am not talking about the video, I am talking about *nix.
I have worked with linux before but CLI only (firewalls mostly + apache). I just installed mandrake v9.2 (I am searching for a disto that I like, and no I can't roll-my-own) and after getting it setup in a way that I could work with I saw this torrent link on
Challenge! I d'loaded and installed the BT.rpm (I don't think it worked) so I went and grabbed the
5 minutes later I was d'loading the movie.
I just tried playing it and I assumed that it wouldn't work (all the warnings about divix, and I know that I haven't tried installing any codecs) and to my surprise it started up right away. AND it runs smoother then it would in XP.
Congratualtions and way-to-go. Thanks to all who contribute.
FooBar2000 already has plugin's available that can do this too...
www.foobar2000.com for details.
I think he used the same tool to measure that I did as a kid.
I bought an SPL meter from Radio Shack so I could test how loud my car stereo got. The needle on the meter went to a max of 130Db. I was able to bury the needle on several occasions.
Considering the evidence that you have quoted there is no doubt in my mind that the meter was worthless.
My point: maybe he just has shitty testing equipment?
That sounds very cool that Armed & Dangerous actually increases the health as opposed to accuracy you must admit that this is the exception and not the rule. I hope the trend continues in new games.
IMHO Descent will always be more like a flight-sim then a FPS. FreeSpace was a bit of a dissapointment, the franchise will always hold a special place for me.
What made good games in the past is different then what makes a good game now.
Consider the programming restrictions that a C64 game had compared to any modern game. The programmers knew that they could only do so much with the graphics so they consentrated on plot/level design.
Most modern games only get harder because the AI is instructed to "shoot straighter". Take any FPS game and the only difference in levels is that the AI is a better shot.
RPG's suffer a similar fate (although a bit more understandably) where the bad guys have more health and more powerfull weapons/spells BUT (not understandably) heal quicker too.
Consoles by nature should always have more exciting game-play (same reason for quality on C64), while PC's should always have a wider range of games available (using more horsepower).
Maybe I am just getting too old for this anymore, but I miss the days of playing a game that kept me captivated. RPG's have just become boring, FPS are repetative twitch-fests (I only play T2 anymore), strategy games have been done to death. Moo2 & Civ are still excellent, but I can win on any setting because I have played them so much I know the games limitation and advantages in the tech-tree.
RTS are just Turn-based games for the twitch players. Whoever builds more units wins.
The original D&D C64 games were winners, so were most turn-based strategy. The only original quality FPS was Descent (everything else was an evolution of Wolf3d).
Here's an idea: let writers create game ideas, not programers. Too many big-biz software publishing houses only make "safe" games. This is the same reason that 90% of the Hollywood movies suck too.
There is no creativity left.
My point wasn't to discredit the research that Hubble has done or could do. The NASA dude was talking about intentionally crashing HST. I thought that what is the harm in just letting it stay there (they did put it in a high enough orbit to start with didn't they?)
hehe
That reminds me... Could somebody explain CVS too?
=)
I agree 100% with you but the only flaw in your statement is that the only thing Hubble can do is collect information.
Experimentation & observation are the only 2 ways that science can advance. Wouldn't fully-functional "other-then-Earth" space lab be better? (ie. Mars)
I know people will mod this as troll -99 but this is a serious question that I hope somebody can answer for me.
What tangible benefits has Hubble provided us? Other then advancing our knowledge of and expanding the "pure-sciences" involved how has humanity improved by this telescope?
It's my understanding that _ALL_ telescopes goal is to see as far back in time as possible. We want to prove or disprove the Big-Bang theory. What if we do prove it. Then what?
Please don't misunderstand me. I feel very strongly that all pure science must be pursued, I just don't understand what the big deal about Hubble is. Let's keep using it untill it disintegrates during re-entry, why invest more money into it?
I couldn't agree with you more....
/?" 75% of the time that I am stuck.
I have been trying to work with linux since Rh v5.2 and I still type "command
It was just such a perfect way to get information about what switches do what & how to use the command
You are correct with your statement, I was just trying to refresh our memories as to life before Mosaic. Gopher searches + telenet to connect and all that other fun.
www has made life so much more easier. I don't care that MS is evil. I am just glad the x86 line allows me to run anything I choose.
Because if MS didn't include a web-browser then 99% of the people who would want something else would not be able to find & d'load it.
Try explaining telnet & gopher to your mom.
I was just thinking about this type of habit this morning.
What genres of music do you listen to that correspond to your activities?
This is how I have my playlists setup:
gaming: Dance-hip hop-techno
coding: classical
browsing: top40 (70's, 80's & 90's)
General computer activities: all of the above
How do your activities influence what you want to listen to?
I have not rented or purchased any of the LotR DVD's simply because I want to BUY the trilogy as a set. The same goes for Matrix. I have not even seen M3 yet because I want to wait and enjoy the entire experience as a whole.
Does anybody else wait on purpose?
Cogeco.ca is suffering from this as well.
I ran into this exact problem too.
Luckily just by instaling and using FireFox 0.8 my fonts went "back to normal".
I work for a large printer company and I just had my first bit of luck getting CUPS to work with a few of our networked printers today. I must tip my hat to the Ghostscript folks. Thanks to them I can now print. But I had to use a generic post-script "driver" to make it work. The were no enhanced funstions available to me (and why would there be, you programers can't do everything), BUT why not include the option of using a printers PPD (Postscript Printer Definition) file to determine the available functions?
Mac does this, Windows does this, Adobe's own "Universal printer Driver" does this too.
There are several programs that also override the OS's printer drivers and require direct access to the PPD. Quark Xpress, In-Design are 2 examples.
As part of my job I need to be able to access and demo these functions to potential customers, this one speed-bump is the only thing that keeps me from doing it 100% in Linux.
I am not a programmer. My programming skills stopped at basic:
10 print " hello world"
20 goto 10
So please don't yell at me for not writing my own fix for this. I'm not the bad guy, I am trying to endorse a better alternative to MS.
Yes, I agree that reliability should be a #1 concern.
One thing that I think SCSI will still always win is sustained transfer rate as well. I own two 250 Gb SATA drives that I use for storage, and if I were to copy files from one drive to another it feels like it crawls compared to my U2W SCSI drives, and they are 2 generations old!
This seems like a perfect upgrade symphony. Reminds me a lot of the Win95 launch.
PCI-Ex
Win64
iSCSI
A nice trio of technologies that sound like they are maturing together.
Damn, and I just got my Visa paid-off from christmas.
=)
Back in the day a friend of mine had a Tandy PC with DOS 5 in ROM. Yes it was slow as hell, and impossible to upgrade, but I think they might have had an acceptable idea.
Make an appliance that people just turn on and it works. Little bells and whistles, little speed but 100% idiot proof. A small HD to store the files that they want (including MP3's). A Knoppix style idea might even be perfect for some people.
An virus that a person might get is removed at reboot. (Just don't run the infected file again.)
Nobody that any of us know would ever own one (we wouldn't let them), but think of how many complete n00bs that this might help with. Hell you could charge $100 - $300 and make it disposable.