Offsite-backups though - the way these things work is that they will take anything that looks technical, and anything that looks like it could store data.
Hell in some cases they will take your VCR. (I know of some cheap backup systems that write data to video tapes; although I've never seen one in use).
Genuine question - when you say that it didn't work out what do you mean?
The implication is that you intended it to provide income, so I'm curious if I may ask what level(s) were you seeking vs. recieving?
I know that it's non-free now as I remember using it briefly before deciding that I wanted to write my own.
Although incoming hasn't been stunning I can claim that my current job was landed as an almost direct result of this code - and that I've received several hundreds of dollars worth of donations in either books/film/contract work since then.
Whilst I couldn't live off it I have been pleased and satisfied - as well as having had a lot of fun on the way.
My solution to the punctuation and l33t-speak type spams is simply to run the incoming message through a spell checker.
Whilst lots of people make typos and use words not in my dictionary it does become obvious when the spelt-wrong/spelt-correctly ratio is high that it's likely spam.
I don't have a MacOS machine so I'm not your target audience.
I would fix the obvious typo on the front page though. "infinte" is not the word you wanted;)
Glad it's going well for you, but I guess it depends how much competition you have for your game(s) and your platform of choice.
On the PC there are a million and one freeware games that you have to compete with - and lots more shareware. I guess if you can sell one or two and support the cost of your time + hosting then you're OK.
But right now it's hard for me to imagine that a small company could come out and sell enough to become anything other than a cult hit.
That's OK there are many things that can be usefully done even if you're not a programmer.
For example I have a project which has happily had a few people contribute to - but I know there are areas I cannot manage myself.
Contribute a logo?, or contribute some documentation? These are equally valid ways of given some time to help the project.
Of course I like toys/rewards but even minor things like a good bugreport will make my day.
I think a lot of projects are very similar to mine, a large userbase but a very small core of people who will tell you what they want and give you a small patch every now and again.
It's not often that a project gets large enough to actually get lots of people working on it, and I'm glad that mine isn't like that to be honest. Sure I'd like to think that at some point I can hand it away to others and it will continue to exist - but as long as I've had fun along the way and learnt interesting things that's enough for me.
The next time you find some free software and have trouble installing it why don't you write up your experiences and post it to a newsgroup/mailing list. Google will happily index it and chances are six months later somebody you've never met on the other side of the world will be very grateful you took the time to contribute documentation. It's a funny world like that!
I'm not sure that I can prove this, but I created a distributed client of sorts in 1997.
It was a java applet which ostensibly did some cute" image animation, back when such things were new and fun to write.
What it actually did was download from my server the latest value of PI and try to compute more digits. When the applet was destroyed it submitted its result to the server.
It was fun watching the result get gradually longer and longer with no effort on my part just due to people who were interested in my webpages.
Maybe it should have been advertised, but I took pleasure knowing what was going on..
At the company I work for we do have SCO for COBOL development using the Microfocus compiler.
I wish I didn't have to support it at all but it has to be said once it's up and running it's not so bad. It mostly looks after itself like our Debian boxes, or our Solaris boxes.
I had a lot of pain doing the install on a recent Dell box due to the poor the hardware support.
Choosing an external modem for the dialup UUCP connection for example, getting an internal tape drive working was also tricky; but the best part for me was that I could install all the familiar GNU tools like Screen, Sudo, etc.
I'm running apache/samba and stuff on the machine as well just because it's a box that's not usually too loaded.
My plan for migration? Sadly I don't have one which is going to cause trouble if SCO does indeed disappear. I tried experimenting with the emulation under Linux but I could never get more than simple static binaries to run.
Well I don't know about anybody else but I've never read a comic in my life and I loved the first film.
Sure I knew most of the story from watching the cartoons and the old tv shows, but comics just never appealled to me as a kid - ditto for the X-Men.
Maybe I'm the perfect target audience, maybe I'm not qualified to comment at all, either way I loved the first one and will be seeing this when it comes out.
Right now I'm just waiting to see the RoTK (I did read those books as a child and never imagined I'd see an adaptation, let alone a good one!:)
Whilst I agree that the gentoo system looks good, and the package management appears simple, concise and good there is one flaw compared to Debian.
Debian has the notion of a 'stable' release - I
'm sure you've heard of it, lots of people complain that it's outdated, but I run it happily on multiple server machines where the latest and greatest isn't necessary.
As part of the stable serious security fixes are backported sensibly.
Gentoo as far as I can tell insists on using the latest and greatest for everything, and their idea of security fixes are to upgrade to the latest release - that's simply not acceptible for a server.
If I'm wrong I'd love to be told; so that I could take a closer look at it..
Eventualy I end up with dozens of unused pakages on my system and no easy way to find which are redundant
This can be a problem I agree, however it is neatly solved with `deborphan`.
From the description:
It determines which packages have no other packages
depending on their installation, and shows you a list of
these packages. It is most useful when finding libraries,
but it can be used on packages in all sections.
better idea to develop OSS device drivers that allow read/write access to ext2/ext3/reiserfs filesystems instead.
You can already access your ext2/ext3 filesystems from Windows, using Explorer2fs.
I'm unaware of other filesystem drivers - but I know that there are different programs for accessing ext2 at least.
I used these happily a year or two ago when I was dualbooting. (I'm certain you can use ext3 as that is backwards compatible if you ignore the journal file, but I've never tested that. Back when I did this kind of thing ext3 wasn't ready for the prime time).
But the NTFS driver would be on the Windows partition, which would be an NTFS filesystem - right?
So presumably the setup looks like this:
Mount the NTFS filesystem RO with the normal kernel driver
Copy the ntfs.sys driver to/tmp
Unmount the NTFS filesystem
Mount it RW using the copied driver
Seems to me that either just "stealing" the ntfs.sys driver (wonder if it gets changed by different service packs?) or using the normal kernel one would be far easier.
But then again I don't use Windows so I have no NTFS partitions..
From the standpoint of the movies, the Saruman plot is finished, over, and done with.
I don't have a problem with the cuts, as it was well known that the scouring of the shire was going to be cut.
That is really where he comes into play.
It would have just been nice to see Saruman being cast out by Gandalf; and had the scene with the Palatari(sp?).
That was used to lure Mordor into the early strike; I guess they can just ignore that bit and have everything come to a head without any forcing.
Really what I'm trying to say is that it's not that I hate the cuts, just as a long time fan a couple of minutes for a scene like that would have been rewarding.
(For example I thought the council scene in the first movie was a bit of a letdown not enough people, not long enough - but I loved it when we had the words from the book "I will go, but I do not know the way").
No, apart from the new ISO's being built for people to test the new installer.
The intention with Debian is that you only install once, you get the updates via apt-get.
I guess this sucks if you've got poor connectivity, but it's possible to download the list of packages needing updates and then fetch those at work - which is what I used to do, carrying my parallel port Zip disk to and from the office to transfer the.debs...
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Offsite-backups though - the way these things work is that they will take anything that looks technical, and anything that looks like it could store data.
Hell in some cases they will take your VCR. (I know of some cheap backup systems that write data to video tapes; although I've never seen one in use).
Genuine question - when you say that it didn't work out what do you mean?
The implication is that you intended it to provide income, so I'm curious if I may ask what level(s) were you seeking vs. recieving?
I know that it's non-free now as I remember using it briefly before deciding that I wanted to write my own.
Although incoming hasn't been stunning I can claim that my current job was landed as an almost direct result of this code - and that I've received several hundreds of dollars worth of donations in either books/film/contract work since then.
Whilst I couldn't live off it I have been pleased and satisfied - as well as having had a lot of fun on the way.
(I'm the author of GNUMP3d)
Due to the Savanna compromise the downloads aren't available from gnu.org.
You may either use CVS to checkout the code - or download from a temporary archive I've setup.
Thanks for the plug ;)
Wouldn't work as the emails would probably be spammed by untracable people from far away.
Whereas actual faxes always have the senders number on them making them a lot easier to trace back to the source.
My solution to the punctuation and l33t-speak type spams is simply to run the incoming message through a spell checker.
Whilst lots of people make typos and use words not in my dictionary it does become obvious when the spelt-wrong/spelt-correctly ratio is high that it's likely spam.
Interesting; I assumed that any modern version of Perl would work for my gnump3d app.
I've not touched it since the Savannah.gnu.org compromise, but I'll have a look over the code and try to test it on a BSD box sometime soon.
I don't have a MacOS machine so I'm not your target audience.
I would fix the obvious typo on the front page though. "infinte" is not the word you wanted ;)
Glad it's going well for you, but I guess it depends how much competition you have for your game(s) and your platform of choice.
On the PC there are a million and one freeware games that you have to compete with - and lots more shareware. I guess if you can sell one or two and support the cost of your time + hosting then you're OK.
But right now it's hard for me to imagine that a small company could come out and sell enough to become anything other than a cult hit.
That's OK there are many things that can be usefully done even if you're not a programmer.
For example I have a project which has happily had a few people contribute to - but I know there are areas I cannot manage myself.
Contribute a logo?, or contribute some documentation? These are equally valid ways of given some time to help the project.
Of course I like toys/rewards but even minor things like a good bugreport will make my day.
I think a lot of projects are very similar to mine, a large userbase but a very small core of people who will tell you what they want and give you a small patch every now and again.
It's not often that a project gets large enough to actually get lots of people working on it, and I'm glad that mine isn't like that to be honest. Sure I'd like to think that at some point I can hand it away to others and it will continue to exist - but as long as I've had fun along the way and learnt interesting things that's enough for me.
The next time you find some free software and have trouble installing it why don't you write up your experiences and post it to a newsgroup/mailing list. Google will happily index it and chances are six months later somebody you've never met on the other side of the world will be very grateful you took the time to contribute documentation. It's a funny world like that!
I'm not sure that I can prove this, but I created a distributed client of sorts in 1997.
It was a java applet which ostensibly did some cute" image animation, back when such things were new and fun to write.
What it actually did was download from my server the latest value of PI and try to compute more digits. When the applet was destroyed it submitted its result to the server.
It was fun watching the result get gradually longer and longer with no effort on my part just due to people who were interested in my webpages.
Maybe it should have been advertised, but I took pleasure knowing what was going on ..
At the company I work for we do have SCO for COBOL development using the Microfocus compiler.
I wish I didn't have to support it at all but it has to be said once it's up and running it's not so bad. It mostly looks after itself like our Debian boxes, or our Solaris boxes.
I had a lot of pain doing the install on a recent Dell box due to the poor the hardware support.
Choosing an external modem for the dialup UUCP connection for example, getting an internal tape drive working was also tricky; but the best part for me was that I could install all the familiar GNU tools like Screen, Sudo, etc.
I'm running apache/samba and stuff on the machine as well just because it's a box that's not usually too loaded.
My plan for migration? Sadly I don't have one which is going to cause trouble if SCO does indeed disappear. I tried experimenting with the emulation under Linux but I could never get more than simple static binaries to run.
Stalker-tastic!
Well I don't know about anybody else but I've never read a comic in my life and I loved the first film.
Sure I knew most of the story from watching the cartoons and the old tv shows, but comics just never appealled to me as a kid - ditto for the X-Men.
Maybe I'm the perfect target audience, maybe I'm not qualified to comment at all, either way I loved the first one and will be seeing this when it comes out.
Right now I'm just waiting to see the RoTK (I did read those books as a child and never imagined I'd see an adaptation, let alone a good one! :)
I looked over the code once upon a time and don't remember anything obvious that would stop it from working.
Me - I'm spoilt it's already packaged by somebody for Debian :)
Now if only the client could be run on Windows too ..
Check out Gnocatan sometime if you're bored.
It implements many of the expansion series and can be played against reasonably competent AI players.
I recommend the computer version if you want to experiment more - I found that I got much better after a few rounds against the AI's
Gnocatan is the name and it rocks!
(It has modes for the normal games, the seafairers and other expansion packs).
Whilst I agree that the gentoo system looks good, and the package management appears simple, concise and good there is one flaw compared to Debian.
Debian has the notion of a 'stable' release - I 'm sure you've heard of it, lots of people complain that it's outdated, but I run it happily on multiple server machines where the latest and greatest isn't necessary.
As part of the stable serious security fixes are backported sensibly.
Gentoo as far as I can tell insists on using the latest and greatest for everything, and their idea of security fixes are to upgrade to the latest release - that's simply not acceptible for a server.
If I'm wrong I'd love to be told; so that I could take a closer look at it ..
I use "rsync -e ssh" for this and don't install rsync itself as a server.
Mostly because I backup remote sites where the only think I can access is ssh.
Am I losing out by not running it standalone?
This can be a problem I agree, however it is neatly solved with `deborphan`.
From the description:
You can already access your ext2/ext3 filesystems from Windows, using Explorer2fs.
I'm unaware of other filesystem drivers - but I know that there are different programs for accessing ext2 at least.
I used these happily a year or two ago when I was dualbooting. (I'm certain you can use ext3 as that is backwards compatible if you ignore the journal file, but I've never tested that. Back when I did this kind of thing ext3 wasn't ready for the prime time).
But the NTFS driver would be on the Windows partition, which would be an NTFS filesystem - right?
So presumably the setup looks like this:
Seems to me that either just "stealing" the ntfs.sys driver (wonder if it gets changed by different service packs?) or using the normal kernel one would be far easier.
But then again I don't use Windows so I have no NTFS partitions..
/usr/share/doc/spamassassin/examples/
Along with a whole host of README's in the parent directory.
Debian includes README's and things in /usr/share/doc/$packagename generally, along with the standard manpages etc.
There are a lot of arguments about the nature of Tom online and in papers.
This is probably the best collection I've seen : What is Tom Bombadil?
Interesting stuff if you're a Tolkien geek..
I don't have a problem with the cuts, as it was well known that the scouring of the shire was going to be cut.
That is really where he comes into play.
It would have just been nice to see Saruman being cast out by Gandalf; and had the scene with the Palatari(sp?).
That was used to lure Mordor into the early strike; I guess they can just ignore that bit and have everything come to a head without any forcing.
Really what I'm trying to say is that it's not that I hate the cuts, just as a long time fan a couple of minutes for a scene like that would have been rewarding.
(For example I thought the council scene in the first movie was a bit of a letdown not enough people, not long enough - but I loved it when we had the words from the book "I will go, but I do not know the way").
That would be one way of doing it "apt-get -S upgrade" would show you the list of packages to be updated.
However the simple way of doing it is to install and use "apt-zip", from the description:
"Update a non-networked computer using apt and removable media"
No, apart from the new ISO's being built for people to test the new installer.
The intention with Debian is that you only install once, you get the updates via apt-get.
I guess this sucks if you've got poor connectivity, but it's possible to download the list of packages needing updates and then fetch those at work - which is what I used to do, carrying my parallel port Zip disk to and from the office to transfer the .debs ...