I can remember dreaming about playing deathmatch.. it was really weird, because the 'map' was my school, but the dark red marine sprite was running around - but i recognised him as my mate Toby.
And when I saw Toby run under a bridge that I was standing on, I shouted in my dream, "You can't do that! Its not true 3D!"
At my uni, the 'Computer Programming' course is Java. This is a basic course designed to teach people the principals of computer programming.
They encouraged people to use their Linux workstations for doing their code, which was a pain for most people in the class because getting the JDK for Windows was a problem.
The assignments said 'you should use java 1.1.7 because that is what we have on the workstations'. I went ahead and did all my development on my own linux box with java 1.2.2, learning it out of a different book than was recommended by the course.
As I came to hand the assignments in, I panicked because I realised I had used classes that hadn't been introduced until java 2.
It all turned out OK though, and I came out with 99% overall.:-)
Why wasn't it posted when I submitted it, huh?!? I guess only CmdrTaco gets the right to rant????
Nah, seriously, there seems to be so many clichés on/.. "No doubt this'll get moderated down..", "I submitted this last week, and NOW it gets posted.." etc.
The mix of stuff on/. is pretty good on the whole - but how about an option to see the rejected, 'b-side' stories too if you have too much time to waste?:)
I'd say it would be substantially different, actually. The source that was stolen a few years ago only went as far as winquake, as far as i remember; this includes the GL versions and QuakeWorld.
As far as I remember, the players just jumped up and down on some sensors. Can't remember much else about it, but I found this link which explains the program quite well.
Works in reverse for me. Since I rarely have enough time or the connection to trawl the net for the tracks I want, I tend to buy a lot of songs on single. BUT, I would _never_ buy singles unless I could rip+encode+jukebox 'em. I wouldn't spend £3 on a single that I was just going to play once through for all the different mixes etc, then stick on my shelf and never bother to get again; but if I can rip and encode them and have them in a random playlist, I will. I also find it a lot of hassle changing albums whenever I want to listen to something, so I encode everything. Since my computer is always on when I want to listen to music anyway (it has to be at the moment cos my CD player is dead), having all my collection online is no inconvenience. So in this case, the MP3 technology actually encourages me to buy more CDs; I've also been in the situation where I've leeched albums from friends, and then gone out and bought other CDs by the same artist.. or even the same album, if tracks were missing in the rip. I'm rambling. I wonder how common this scenario is, though?
>Also, the Solaris GUI only runs under Solaris Sparc, not Solaris x86.
Uhm.. you sure? I'm sure that when I looked on the FW1 CD and did a 'file' on the executables in the Solaris/x86/gui area (can't remember the proper path), they were i386-elf..
The licensing costs for the OS/hardware. At my work, we bought FW1 for NT even though we wanted to run it on UNIX - but it would have cost a lot more (out of our budget) to get the machine and OS.
So we ended up with FW1 on a cheap NT license and cheap clone hardware. If we can run it on free Linux and cheap clone hardware, I'll be much happier..
I work in the IT dept at a Local Authority and we're currently working on Y2k compliancy. I believe the govt. set the Y2k-compliancy deadline as the beginning of the month. ATM we're a bit behind, although all we have left to do is put the SR2a for Office 97 on all the PCs (sigh) But all the council tax, billing etc systems (run on a UNIX/Oracle box) are (we are assured by the suppliers..) Y2k compliant. So long as our Novell servers tick over properly (I'm not convinced about those but I don't really know enough to say for sure) and the NT/Exchange server carries on going, we'll be OK. I'm pretty sure the Caldera OpenLinux box I have running as a DNS server will carry on regardless, tho:)
I had a light-saber fight with Darth Vader last night J'ai eu un combat de lumière-light-saber avec Darth Vader passée la nuit I had a combat of light-light-saber with Darth Vader last the night J'ai eu un combat de lumière-lumière-light-light-saber avec le bout de Darth Vader la nuit I had a combat of light-light-light-light-saber with the end of Darth Vader the night J'ai eu un combat de lumière-lumière-lumière-lumière-light-light-light- light-saber avec la fin de Darth Vader la nuit I had a combat of light-light-light-light-light-light-light-light-sa ber with the end of Darth Vader the night J'ai eu un combat de lumière-lumière-lumière-lumière-lumière-lumière-lu mière-lumière-light-light-light-light-li ght-light-light-light-saber avec la fin de Darth Vader la nuit I had a combat of light-light-light-light-light-light-light-light-li ght-light-light-light-light-light-light- light-saber with the end of Darth Vader the night
I would guess that instead of prepending 'lumiere' onto 'light' it should've replaced it.. still, its interesting:)
(and in case you're wondering, there was a guy in a Darth Vader costume at the nightclub I went to last night. I tried fighting him with my glowstick. I lost.)
Being young, infinitely interested in computing and eager to have something else to put on my CV;), i've always wanted to get my hands on a Mac of some description so i can claim experience.
Thing is, not knowing anything about Macs, and not knowing anyone who does -- what should i be looking for in an old Mac? What spec, hardware etc would be best while still being cheap?
I'd envision that i'd mostly want to mess around with networking it, using it as a terminal, a web browser, and maybe a little bit of programming too.. anybody have any suggestions, including where i might pick one up and how much i might expect to pay? (in the UK)
I read thru this the other night and pretty much came to the conclusion that this was a clever hoax /scam. Can anybody else come up with some more concrete evidence?
I'm in the UK, so perhaps the climate is somewhat different.
But, how DO *most* people get their MSCE/CNE/etc papers? Do most people pay for them themselves out of savings etc, out of their salaries, or do they have their employers pay for them?
As for me, I'm 19 with no formal qualifications. I'm working in the IT dept. at a council because I aced the techy quiz I was given at the interview, 'cos I'm a cocky bastard who knows what he knows and knows enough buzzwords and background info about what he doesn't know to get by.:-)
The difference in practical knowledge levels and approach between my degree-educated colleagues and the self-taught self is extremely noticable.
Most of the skills I've brought to the dept. are UNIX and Internet related, but a few months ago the council paid to send me on the Exchange Server course, so I could set up the email for council. If we have enough money in the budget I might even get sent on the NT admin courses that were the prerequisite for the Exchange course:)
This is what worries me: So, everyone backs down and says "we are taking our systems offline over the new year's period." So then you know that a nation will be unable to strike back during those hours. What's to stop someone (eg Saddam) attacking during this downtime? even if the systems weren't *really* down, it would still cause nuclear war. Kinda scares me. DocTee
The game engine (renderer, sound, etc) will be native, but the *game* code (controlling what all the objects do etc) will be interpreted.
This has been in John Carmack's.plan for ages.
But this isn't the reason they are doing 3 boxes, the data (including compiled gamecode) will be the same anyway, only the binaries for Win32/Mac/Linux will be different.
My guess is that they're after the demographics. id have enuff money that they shouldn't really need to worry about how much it'll cost to press 3 different CDs, but i think in the future they'll move to 1 CD which will run on all platforms.
Slashdot Mirror
"So you're saying that I can debug multi-threaded applications?"
"No. I'm saying that when you're ready.. you won't have to."
I thought id released the Linux version first, in order to try and find out how large the market was etc.
That was the original plan anyway - did it actually come off that way?
I can remember dreaming about playing deathmatch.. it was really weird, because the 'map' was my school, but the dark red marine sprite was running around - but i recognised him as my mate Toby.
And when I saw Toby run under a bridge that I was standing on, I shouted in my dream, "You can't do that! Its not true 3D!"
weird.
..experiments to find out what dreaming does :/
Yup. I didn't have much respect for the tutors though.
:-)
Paid off in the end, but I'll be much more careful in the future.
At my uni, the 'Computer Programming' course is Java. This is a basic course designed to teach people the principals of computer programming.
:-)
They encouraged people to use their Linux workstations for doing their code, which was a pain for most people in the class because getting the JDK for Windows was a problem.
The assignments said 'you should use java 1.1.7 because that is what we have on the workstations'. I went ahead and did all my development on my own linux box with java 1.2.2, learning it out of a different book than was recommended by the course.
As I came to hand the assignments in, I panicked because I realised I had used classes that hadn't been introduced until java 2.
It all turned out OK though, and I came out with 99% overall.
Why wasn't it posted when I submitted it, huh?!? I guess only CmdrTaco gets the right to rant????
/.. "No doubt this'll get moderated down..", "I submitted this last week, and NOW it gets posted.." etc.
/. is pretty good on the whole - but how about an option to see the rejected, 'b-side' stories too if you have too much time to waste? :)
Nah, seriously, there seems to be so many clichés on
The mix of stuff on
I'd say it would be substantially different, actually. The source that was stolen a few years ago only went as far as winquake, as far as i remember; this includes the GL versions and QuakeWorld.
There've been a LOT of changes since then.
As far as I remember, the players just jumped up and down on some sensors. Can't remember much else about it, but I found this link which explains the program quite well.
http://www.qwe rtyuiop.co.uk/gs/atoz/programmes/c/cyberzone/index .htm
Works in reverse for me. Since I rarely have enough time or the connection to trawl the net for the tracks I want, I tend to buy a lot of songs on single.
BUT, I would _never_ buy singles unless I could rip+encode+jukebox 'em. I wouldn't spend £3 on a single that I was just going to play once through for all the different mixes etc, then stick on my shelf and never bother to get again; but if I can rip and encode them and have them in a random playlist, I will.
I also find it a lot of hassle changing albums whenever I want to listen to something, so I encode everything.
Since my computer is always on when I want to listen to music anyway (it has to be at the moment cos my CD player is dead), having all my collection online is no inconvenience.
So in this case, the MP3 technology actually encourages me to buy more CDs; I've also been in the situation where I've leeched albums from friends, and then gone out and bought other CDs by the same artist.. or even the same album, if tracks were missing in the rip.
I'm rambling. I wonder how common this scenario is, though?
And hoping that someone is going to read it and say, "Hey! You should be on more than that! Give me a call!" ;)
LinuxWS:/cdrom/solaris2-i386/CKPfw/reloc/bin# file fwui
:-/
fwui: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked, stripped
I just assumed this was the GUI executable, but I guess that might not be true then?
No point trying to get iBCS2 to run them in that case
>Also, the Solaris GUI only runs under Solaris Sparc, not Solaris x86.
..
Uhm.. you sure?
I'm sure that when I looked on the FW1 CD and did a 'file' on the executables in the Solaris/x86/gui area (can't remember the proper path), they were i386-elf
Or maybe that was just my imagination?
The licensing costs for the OS/hardware. At my work, we bought FW1 for NT even though we wanted to run it on UNIX - but it would have cost a lot more (out of our budget) to get the machine and OS.
So we ended up with FW1 on a cheap NT license and cheap clone hardware. If we can run it on free Linux and cheap clone hardware, I'll be much happier..
When discussing things with my friends we find it difficult not to start going "Phil-iiiip", "Lili-uuhhn" and "Angel-ick-ah" in That Voice. :-)
Next time I redo my network I'll be using Prime.autobot.tf, HotRod.autobot.tf, and BumbleBee.autobot.tf, tho :)
Hubble
Bubble
Toil
Trouble
But the boring ones like "Mail", "Sequent", "Caldera", "Firewall" stuck.
The boss isn't *against* 'fun' names for the servers; it's just, well, its a hassle having to remember which name means what :-)
(I'm not saying that it should or shouldn't be 'GNU/Linux' in other contexts, tho :))
Presumably because you'd be dead? :)
Is it possible to leave lawsuits in your will?
I work in the IT dept at a Local Authority and we're currently working on Y2k compliancy. I believe the govt. set the Y2k-compliancy deadline as the beginning of the month. ATM we're a bit behind, although all we have left to do is put the SR2a for Office 97 on all the PCs (sigh) But all the council tax, billing etc systems (run on a UNIX/Oracle box) are (we are assured by the suppliers..) Y2k compliant. So long as our Novell servers tick over properly (I'm not convinced about those but I don't really know enough to say for sure) and the NT/Exchange server carries on going, we'll be OK. I'm pretty sure the Caldera OpenLinux box I have running as a DNS server will carry on regardless, tho :)
I had a light-saber fight with Darth Vader last night- light-saber avec la fin de Darth Vader la nuit a ber with the end of Darth Vader the night u mière-lumière-light-light-light-light-li ght-light-light-light-saber avec la fin de Darth Vader la nuit i ght-light-light-light-light-light-light- light-saber with the end of Darth Vader the night
:)
J'ai eu un combat de lumière-light-saber avec Darth Vader passée la nuit
I had a combat of light-light-saber with Darth Vader last the night
J'ai eu un combat de lumière-lumière-light-light-saber avec le bout de Darth Vader la nuit
I had a combat of light-light-light-light-saber with the end of Darth Vader the night
J'ai eu un combat de lumière-lumière-lumière-lumière-light-light-light
I had a combat of light-light-light-light-light-light-light-light-s
J'ai eu un combat de lumière-lumière-lumière-lumière-lumière-lumière-l
I had a combat of light-light-light-light-light-light-light-light-l
I would guess that instead of prepending 'lumiere' onto 'light' it should've replaced it.. still, its interesting
(and in case you're wondering, there was a guy in a Darth Vader costume at the nightclub I went to last night. I tried fighting him with my glowstick. I lost.)
Being young, infinitely interested in computing and eager to have something else to put on my CV ;), i've always wanted to get my hands on a Mac of some description so i can claim experience.
Thing is, not knowing anything about Macs, and not knowing anyone who does -- what should i be looking for in an old Mac? What spec, hardware etc would be best while still being cheap?
I'd envision that i'd mostly want to mess around with networking it, using it as a terminal, a web browser, and maybe a little bit of programming too.. anybody have any suggestions, including where i might pick one up and how much i might expect to pay? (in the UK)
I read thru this the other night and pretty much
came to the conclusion that this was a clever hoax
/scam. Can anybody else come up with some more
concrete evidence?
I'm in the UK, so perhaps the climate is somewhat different.
:-)
:)
But, how DO *most* people get their MSCE/CNE/etc papers? Do most people pay for them themselves out of savings etc, out of their salaries, or do they have their employers pay for them?
As for me, I'm 19 with no formal qualifications. I'm working in the IT dept. at a council because I aced the techy quiz I was given at the interview, 'cos I'm a cocky bastard who knows what he knows and knows enough buzzwords and background info about what he doesn't know to get by.
The difference in practical knowledge levels and approach between my degree-educated colleagues and the self-taught self is extremely noticable.
Most of the skills I've brought to the dept. are UNIX and Internet related, but a few months ago the council paid to send me on the Exchange Server course, so I could set up the email for council. If we have enough money in the budget I might even get sent on the NT admin courses that were the prerequisite for the Exchange course
This is what worries me:
So, everyone backs down and says "we are taking
our systems offline over the new year's period."
So then you know that a nation will be unable to
strike back during those hours. What's to stop
someone (eg Saddam) attacking during this downtime?
even if the systems weren't *really* down, it would
still cause nuclear war.
Kinda scares me.
DocTee
The game engine (renderer, sound, etc) will be native, but the *game* code (controlling what all the objects do etc) will be interpreted.
.plan for ages.
This has been in John Carmack's
But this isn't the reason they are doing 3 boxes, the data (including compiled gamecode) will be the same anyway, only the binaries for Win32/Mac/Linux will be different.
My guess is that they're after the demographics. id have enuff money that they shouldn't really need to worry about how much it'll cost to press 3 different CDs, but i think in the future they'll move to 1 CD which will run on all platforms.