when I try to get some hardware for free that way, it turns out to be only a PR stunt. Sure, I got lots of CDs with poor alpha (I'm sorry, I just cannot call it even beta) software, but I have yet to get any hardware, which I could then tinker with. I hope this time it's not a hoax. By the way, I have to buy a new ultra small soldering iron. This new hardware is so tiny that it's almost impossible to make any use out of it.
they don't hate you cuz you're a woman, they hate you because you're an arrogant, stuck up, retarded bitch.
You remind me a kid, who laughed at me in primary school, because I wore glasses. "But I don't laugh because you wear glasses! I laugh because you have four eyes and look ugly and you are stupid and I don't like you and nobody likes you and everybody likes me!"
You both seem to present equally intelligent arguments.
It's people like you that make me glad I'm still alive, to counter act all the stupidity you excrete into the world.
I think you should definitely calm down. Prozac might help you. It always works for me.
Looking through responses to your comments didn't reveal any insults because you claim to be a woman, but rather because you can't write worth a damn.
So, as soon as you find out that someone presumably cannot write "worth a damn," you instantly feel obligated to insult her? Do you think it is OK to call a woman "b*tch," "c*nt," or "p*ssy," just because you think she cannot write as well as you think you can?
How very mature of yours. I hope it is a rewarding hobby indeed. You should be certainly proud of yourself.
Oh just fuck off you dull cunt. Your troll was funny for the first few posts. It is now not funny, but tedious.
I just cannot believe it!
Is it your hobby to search for old threads, read them and, if you don't find them "funny," insult women as your revenge? Don't you have more important things to do maybe? Don't you think that every woman would find such words extremely offensive?
You might consider finally growing up.
You're not a Mensa member, are you?
Oh, wait, you are. It should have been obvious to me.
Thank you, you are very kind. After all of the insults I got here on Slashdot just because I am a woman, your complement was a very nice surprise indeed.
Is there some special definition for MTBF that changes how "mean time between" is interpreted?
If by some special definition you mean a simple linear multiplication (or division, depanding on your point of view), then yes. Anthony Dipierro probably was mistakenly thinking about a decibel or other logarithmically scaled unit system.
Don't call him a "pirate," unless he was proven guilty of abordage! Otherwise we just sound silly, claiming that Dimitry was not a pirate, but Orrin Hatch suddenly is. Please don't be so inconsistent. Pirate is a pirate. A person guilty of copyright infringement is a person guilty of copyright infringement. Please don't use incorrect meanings of words, at least on Slashdot.
Actually, you are wrong... If you have one drive fail per year for 20 years, then the mean time between failures is 10.5 years.
If I have twenty drives, each of which is estimated to fail once in a twenty-year period, then in such a twenty-year period every one of those disks is estimated to fail once. These are twenty failures in twenty-year period on average, id est one failure per year. It is actually a matter of very simple mathematics.
I might add, that when I was contracted at a server farm, people there used to celebrate every day, when there was no hardware failure, and the record was four times in one month. But have
they complained
that the producers of hardware were lying to them, stating years of MTBF? No. And that's because they knew the basics of mathematics and knew how to use FDIV opcode in their brains.
The only solution is redundancy.
I rarely have an IDE drive last more than 4 years, and my record is 10 years, so what is the deal?
If you have twenty drives with twenty years MTFB (Mean Time Between Failures) each, then you have one failure per year on average. These are basic statistics fighting always against you.
Thank you, I will. By the way, are they expensive? I'd like to build a huge collection, so the prices will add very quickly. I'd like to know in advance how much money do I need.
Seek no more. MoviX is what you are looking for.
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While we're at it, I'd like to see a linux distro (possibly based on Knoppix) that boots into Freevo automatically... (or whatever media player/jukebox, as long as I can hook my PC to a TV)
'The MoviX project is a series of three different tiny Linux CD distributions containing all the software to boot from a CD and play multimedia files through the MPlayer, the best multimedia player in the Unix world:
eMoviX: a micro Linux distro meant to be embedded in a CD together with all video/audio files you want, so that the CD will be able to boot and automagically play all files;
MoviX: a mini CD Linux distro able to boot directly from CD and load in RAM a console interface to MPlayer. From the interface you can easily play DVDs, VCDs, audio/video files Audio CD, internet radios, TV, you name it!
MoviX2: same as MoviX, but it makes use of X and makes use of the nice MPlayer GUI.
Supported formats are all formats supported by MPlayer, most noticeably DivX but more in general any AVI, MPG, QuickTime, MP3, OGG/VORBIS and a few others'.
Don't forget to announce it on Slashdot as soon as you have a first working alpha version. If you need any security-related help, I might be able to contribute my expertise to your project, provided it will be based entirely on free software. I wish you good luck.
This is really great! Once again, Knoppix deserves a medal. I'll download it as soon as I get some ROMs. Where can I get the ROMs of the best classical games from? Thanks a lot!
Has anyone here played the beta version of this game? I've heard a lot unofficial opinions about it, which are quite different than the official ones, and I'd like to hear someone who could honestly say if this game will be really what it is claimed to be. Thanks.
Dumbass must work for microsoft or something, trying to convince people we shouldn't have games on linux.
I don't know what I find the most insulting: that you said I am dumb, that you called me an "ass," or that you suggested I might work for Microsoft. Do you think I would advertise GNU on my user informations page, if I worked for Microsoft? I don't think so. As a matter of fact, I don't even use proprietary software and I find it offensive, that you are implying I have no moral standards suggesting, that I could write such a software.
You are probably right. I sometimes get a little bit paranoid, wondering if Wine might be a Microsoft conspiracy just to say to game developers: "Do you want your games to be portable? Then use DirectX and Win32 API!" You know what I mean...
I'm just worried about Steve's and Bill's evil laughter while they think about us emulating their APIs, supporting their file formats, and otherwise getting dependent on them. But I'm probably wrong. Or at the very least I do really hope so...
Win4Lin and VMware don't have 3d support - so most games are out.
Really? I was sure they have, at least VMware. Is there any reason they shouldn't support 3-D?
Lindows is just a linux distribution.
Lindows is not "just a Linux distribution."
It is meant to be a cheap Windows substitution.
Most of the people without technical knowledge are sure that Lindows runs everything which is written for Windows. We all know how it is in practice, but most of people don't.
Wine runs a few windows games on linux - but not many, and isn't a solution for most games.
Have you seen this list? I would say that 150 screenfuls of games is quite impressive, in my opinion.
...except it wasn't called Super Mario, it was just Mario Bros. You ran around bopping turtles and flies from underneath to get them flipped on their back so you could kick em off.
Yes, that's it! What a game that was back then...
Now, the only important factor is "fps."
I think today game developers could learn a lot from the classic. Actually, it's just like in music.
But the question is, if things like Win4Lin, Wine. Lindows and VMware, are not the very reasons, for which the game producers don't release their games with native GNU/Linux binaries? After all, why would they care to do so, if they assume, that GNU users can run Windows games... This is a serious matter, I wonder what people more familiar with the "gaming industry" think about it. Have anyone done any serious research about this subject?
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Am I the only one, who is terrified, by the "social" activities of today's era?
when I try to get some hardware for free that way, it turns out to be only a PR stunt. Sure, I got lots of CDs with poor alpha (I'm sorry, I just cannot call it even beta) software, but I have yet to get any hardware, which I could then tinker with. I hope this time it's not a hoax. By the way, I have to buy a new ultra small soldering iron. This new hardware is so tiny that it's almost impossible to make any use out of it.
You remind me a kid, who laughed at me in primary school, because I wore glasses. "But I don't laugh because you wear glasses! I laugh because you have four eyes and look ugly and you are stupid and I don't like you and nobody likes you and everybody likes me!" You both seem to present equally intelligent arguments.
I think you should definitely calm down. Prozac might help you. It always works for me.
So, as soon as you find out that someone presumably cannot write "worth a damn," you instantly feel obligated to insult her? Do you think it is OK to call a woman "b*tch," "c*nt," or "p*ssy," just because you think she cannot write as well as you think you can? How very mature of yours. I hope it is a rewarding hobby indeed. You should be certainly proud of yourself.
I'm glad I could be helpful.
I just cannot believe it! Is it your hobby to search for old threads, read them and, if you don't find them "funny," insult women as your revenge? Don't you have more important things to do maybe? Don't you think that every woman would find such words extremely offensive? You might consider finally growing up.
Thank you, you are very kind. After all of the insults I got here on Slashdot just because I am a woman, your complement was a very nice surprise indeed.
If by some special definition you mean a simple linear multiplication (or division, depanding on your point of view), then yes. Anthony Dipierro probably was mistakenly thinking about a decibel or other logarithmically scaled unit system.
Don't call him a "pirate," unless he was proven guilty of abordage! Otherwise we just sound silly, claiming that Dimitry was not a pirate, but Orrin Hatch suddenly is. Please don't be so inconsistent. Pirate is a pirate. A person guilty of copyright infringement is a person guilty of copyright infringement. Please don't use incorrect meanings of words, at least on Slashdot.
If I have twenty drives, each of which is estimated to fail once in a twenty-year period, then in such a twenty-year period every one of those disks is estimated to fail once. These are twenty failures in twenty-year period on average, id est one failure per year. It is actually a matter of very simple mathematics.
I might add, that when I was contracted at a server farm, people there used to celebrate every day, when there was no hardware failure, and the record was four times in one month. But have they complained that the producers of hardware were lying to them, stating years of MTBF? No. And that's because they knew the basics of mathematics and knew how to use FDIV opcode in their brains. The only solution is redundancy.
If you have twenty drives with twenty years MTFB (Mean Time Between Failures) each, then you have one failure per year on average. These are basic statistics fighting always against you.
Thank you, I will. By the way, are they expensive? I'd like to build a huge collection, so the prices will add very quickly. I'd like to know in advance how much money do I need.
'The MoviX project is a series of three different tiny Linux CD distributions containing all the software to boot from a CD and play multimedia files through the MPlayer, the best multimedia player in the Unix world:
Supported formats are all formats supported by MPlayer, most noticeably DivX but more in general any AVI, MPG, QuickTime, MP3, OGG/VORBIS and a few others'.
Don't forget to announce it on Slashdot as soon as you have a first working alpha version. If you need any security-related help, I might be able to contribute my expertise to your project, provided it will be based entirely on free software. I wish you good luck.
This is really great! Once again, Knoppix deserves a medal. I'll download it as soon as I get some ROMs. Where can I get the ROMs of the best classical games from? Thanks a lot!
But you have to admit, that we are a little bit more intelligent, than they are.
Has anyone here played the beta version of this game? I've heard a lot unofficial opinions about it, which are quite different than the official ones, and I'd like to hear someone who could honestly say if this game will be really what it is claimed to be. Thanks.
I have to agree with you. Humans are indeed animals. I doubt they will ever learn...
I don't know what I find the most insulting: that you said I am dumb, that you called me an "ass," or that you suggested I might work for Microsoft. Do you think I would advertise GNU on my user informations page, if I worked for Microsoft? I don't think so. As a matter of fact, I don't even use proprietary software and I find it offensive, that you are implying I have no moral standards suggesting, that I could write such a software.
You are probably right. I sometimes get a little bit paranoid, wondering if Wine might be a Microsoft conspiracy just to say to game developers: "Do you want your games to be portable? Then use DirectX and Win32 API!" You know what I mean... I'm just worried about Steve's and Bill's evil laughter while they think about us emulating their APIs, supporting their file formats, and otherwise getting dependent on them. But I'm probably wrong. Or at the very least I do really hope so...
Really? I was sure they have, at least VMware. Is there any reason they shouldn't support 3-D?
Lindows is not "just a Linux distribution." It is meant to be a cheap Windows substitution. Most of the people without technical knowledge are sure that Lindows runs everything which is written for Windows. We all know how it is in practice, but most of people don't.
Have you seen this list? I would say that 150 screenfuls of games is quite impressive, in my opinion.
Yes, that's it! What a game that was back then... Now, the only important factor is "fps." I think today game developers could learn a lot from the classic. Actually, it's just like in music.
You're right, I meant Mario Bros. Thanks for reminding me. All of the recent versions were "Super," so I forgot the name of the classic Mario Bros...
But the question is, if things like Win4Lin, Wine. Lindows and VMware, are not the very reasons, for which the game producers don't release their games with native GNU/Linux binaries? After all, why would they care to do so, if they assume, that GNU users can run Windows games... This is a serious matter, I wonder what people more familiar with the "gaming industry" think about it. Have anyone done any serious research about this subject?