I read the title as "Scientologists create zombie cockroaches" and actually caught myself thinking, "Yeah, they've been working up to this for a while now."
Line 6's software stuff technically isn't dependant on the hardware, but it does use it as a sort of dongle and won't operate if the hardware isn't connected. The only exception to this is Amp Farm, which is TDM and therefore requires a (ridiculously expensive) Pro Tools HD rig.
I'd like to take this opportunity to advertise Foxit PDF Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/). There's a free (beer) edition, which doesn't nag or expire, acts like Adobe Reader and does it all quickly.
Gather round and listen to the tale of my attempts to get my sound card running in Ubuntu, which was supposed to be the friendly one.
I downloaded kernel sources. I downloaded ALSA sources. I compiled stuff. I removed stuff, and compiled some more stuff. I changed some settings, read a lot of forum posts, changed some more settings and compiled some other stuff.
In the end I gave up and used the damn onboard sound. Oh, and when I enabled my secondary IDE channel again, my CD drives disappeared.
Booting into GNOME only worked the first time; all subsequent times, that failed and I ended up installing KDE from a failsafe console.
The most depressing thing about it all though was that I'd used Linux in the past and I was convinced that I'd have to do this. Even after all the usability advances, I still had an undeniable worry that I'd end up having to hand-edit conf files. And I did it anyway.
If that had happened in Windows, everyone on Slashdot would be jumping up and down about it. It's just calmly accepted by most Linux people as something that has to be done...
The drivers to support my soundcard were released as a source patch against the alsa-lib sources. They weren't integrated into the core codebase.
Also, how do you apt-get install something that's not in any apt-get repositories? The point I was making is that many things are released source-only.
Well, I should probably start this off by mentioning the download limits and the shaping that comes into effect. With this plan, you get 500mb, and after that, you start paying extra, up to the $59.95 cap. After you hit that cap, your bandwidth is slowed to 64k/s.
You hit that cap after 500mb over the included data. This means you get 1gb of data at the speeds advertised before you have, essentially, single channel ISDN.
That's two minutes and five seconds at the theoretical maximum, or eleven minutes and six seconds at the much more likely 1500k/s.
Gee thanks, iiNet. I can't wait to sign up.
Does anyone remember the slashdot story that stated that programmers tended to be metalheads? If that's true, all these guys have to do is license the Nuclear Blast label (and maybe InsideOut) and they've got the Slashdot/programmer crowd, which is pretty much 90% of the people that care.
Better off? Well, I guess it depends what you're after. Keep in mind that freedom includes the freedom to starve to death, and the freedom to live in a ditch. It's very easy to discount the importance of food and shelter when you have them. It's also very easy to balk at an alternative when you've never tried it... just try asking someone to use Firefox...
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I read the title as "Scientologists create zombie cockroaches" and actually caught myself thinking, "Yeah, they've been working up to this for a while now."
Line 6's software stuff technically isn't dependant on the hardware, but it does use it as a sort of dongle and won't operate if the hardware isn't connected. The only exception to this is Amp Farm, which is TDM and therefore requires a (ridiculously expensive) Pro Tools HD rig.
I propose a petition to get these guys to deviate from the route and crash the thing into Tamworth when the country music festival hits town.
Oh well, there we go, then. That certainly makes it OK to detonate a nuclear device in two densely populated cities.
I'd like to take this opportunity to advertise Foxit PDF Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/). There's a free (beer) edition, which doesn't nag or expire, acts like Adobe Reader and does it all quickly.
I'm paying about that amount for 256 kbit :-(
Gather round and listen to the tale of my attempts to get my sound card running in Ubuntu, which was supposed to be the friendly one.
I downloaded kernel sources. I downloaded ALSA sources. I compiled stuff. I removed stuff, and compiled some more stuff. I changed some settings, read a lot of forum posts, changed some more settings and compiled some other stuff.
In the end I gave up and used the damn onboard sound. Oh, and when I enabled my secondary IDE channel again, my CD drives disappeared.
Booting into GNOME only worked the first time; all subsequent times, that failed and I ended up installing KDE from a failsafe console.
The most depressing thing about it all though was that I'd used Linux in the past and I was convinced that I'd have to do this. Even after all the usability advances, I still had an undeniable worry that I'd end up having to hand-edit conf files. And I did it anyway.
If that had happened in Windows, everyone on Slashdot would be jumping up and down about it. It's just calmly accepted by most Linux people as something that has to be done...
The drivers to support my soundcard were released as a source patch against the alsa-lib sources. They weren't integrated into the core codebase. Also, how do you apt-get install something that's not in any apt-get repositories? The point I was making is that many things are released source-only.
- Go to Sourceforge or Google and search for app.
- Download app, which is either a source-only distribution or is binary-incompatible with your distro (or distro version).
- Extract the
.tar.gz archive.
- ./configure
- Download the dependencies that configure complained about.
- Download their respective dependencies.
- Build all those dependencies
- ./configure your original app
- make
- make install
- Create your own desktop icons because 'make install' didn't create them in the right place and you don't have a clue how to move them.
- Feel uber1337 because you actually managed to get this far.
- Watch the app segfault as you try to open it.
And don't even get me started on the ALSA patches to support my sound card...How does one use a gun for good?
Actually, that's accurate. The unit you're thinking of is called a gibibyte. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte
I was going to read your witty response, but I
I bet you were burning the midnight oil at both ends to come up with that one.
I'm gonna suggest that qualification was revoked from the self-titled album.
If you develop web sites that require more than rendering HTML to function, you're not developing them particularly well.
Well, I should probably start this off by mentioning the download limits and the shaping that comes into effect. With this plan, you get 500mb, and after that, you start paying extra, up to the $59.95 cap. After you hit that cap, your bandwidth is slowed to 64k/s. You hit that cap after 500mb over the included data. This means you get 1gb of data at the speeds advertised before you have, essentially, single channel ISDN. That's two minutes and five seconds at the theoretical maximum, or eleven minutes and six seconds at the much more likely 1500k/s. Gee thanks, iiNet. I can't wait to sign up.
Does anyone remember the slashdot story that stated that programmers tended to be metalheads? If that's true, all these guys have to do is license the Nuclear Blast label (and maybe InsideOut) and they've got the Slashdot/programmer crowd, which is pretty much 90% of the people that care.
God's green earth? Shit, something tells me I owe a lot of back rent...
But I always thought the goal for Chandler was to have sex with Phoebe?
Arial? For print? Why use a sans serif font if it's going to be printed?
There's a bad rim-jobbing joke in there but I just don't have the inclination to search it out.
IIRC, Jeremy Soule (arguably the number 1 composer in the games industry) also used to work for Square.
Better off? Well, I guess it depends what you're after. Keep in mind that freedom includes the freedom to starve to death, and the freedom to live in a ditch. It's very easy to discount the importance of food and shelter when you have them. It's also very easy to balk at an alternative when you've never tried it... just try asking someone to use Firefox...