Ah hell, you beat me to it. Such an apt reference, and I thought that video was excellent. I even ended up ripping the audio from the FLV and made an mp3 out of it.
Heck, I figured that just by reading the summary. Imagine my disappointment, then, when I got to the page and discovered the sounds were all encapsulated in mini Flash players instead of available to download, trim down, and load into the sampler of my choice.
Nice variety of sounds, but totally inaccessible. I give it a D.
... with mplayer you can easily rip the audio from the flv once you download it (assuming you're in a Linux terminal; this should work with the CLI of mplayer on other platforms as well): mplayer -dumpaudio old-file.flv -dumpfile new-file.mp3
(courtesy here via a quick Google search).
It was nigh impossible for me to keep from falling over laughing when I read the summary. Didn't even need to read the article. Attention-seeker or not, this is pretty goddamn funny.
Alright, I thought I posted earlier on this but I guess it didn't go through.
I just finished installing Intrepid on my Dell Inspiron 1525n, and it seems great so far. Will install it on my AMD64 OEM desktop tomorrow most likely.
The bottom line is, I was hoping Intrepid would fix my hibernation problems with my 1525, and it did indeed -- hibernate worked flawlessly on the first try. We'll see how resume goes later, though. All in all, I'm quite happy with it thus far.
I had the same sort of issue when I installed Hardy back in April. I've since learned to back up my xorg.conf. If everything goes to hell on me, I've just wiped my/etc/X11/xorg.conf and restored it from a backup.
That should solve your problem, especially when upgrading to 8.10. I plan on doing that if there's any problems -- I use nvidia drivers too.
I second that. Avira worked very well for me while I still had Windows (switched to Ubuntu last year about this time) -- and I've installed it on my parents' computers as well and they've not had a problem with it.
They also seemed to update their signatures quite often, sometimes once or twice a day even (as far as I had seen at least). The downloads were small enough that they were not bothersome, and it does it in the background as well generally.
If we're going to talk about MMORPGs, PlaneShift is often overlooked IMHO, and it's very much free-to-play, as well as in beer and (mostly) libre (although note the proprietary licence for art and game rules, more about protecting the quality and consistency of the game than anything else).
It's not as popular as WoW by any means, but it's certainly a lot of fun, even given the fact that it's pre-1.0 in terms of status.
Reisinger told a Journal Sentinel reporter in July 2006 she did not know who put up the altered photo because the Web site allowed anyone to upload to the site.
Unless she's just making that up, it sounds like her site had some wiki sort of elements to it, or at least some type of dynamic, editable pages.
*shrugs* All I'm saying is that it needn't have been her who put that image up, and she's made a point of distancing herself from it.
I don't remember ever having to agree to a EULA with Firefox; I thought the licence was to be found elsewhere and the guidelines only applied if you were redistributing or modifying builds yourself. It all seems quite strange, because I thought Mozilla and Ubuntu devs were working closely together, and you would think there wouldn't be a reason for this sort of nonsense as a result.
It's not going to keep me from using Firefox, which I've used religiously for about four years, but it is disappointing.
...but yes, the review did crack me up!
I actually followed this up with a search on Amazon, and reading their excerpt, it confirmed how abjectly terrible this book must be. Strangely enough, four out of six billion people found this book entertaining and worthy of five stars, which puzzles me to no end.
This is more like a blog that became a book, and makes me wary of trying to publish such a thing myself. I suppose that's a good thing though, for my sake.
If his pedantic and repetitive prose (just from the excerpt at least) doesn't convince you to stay away, his idiotic fucking face on the front and back covers should say it all, heh.
This is absolutely fantastic. I remember being quite excited when I heard the news of the discovery, and I've followed up whenever I can on this. I'm a Classics major so this is close to home, at least for my studies, and it's great to see they've learned more about it. I'd be interested to know what actual Greek words they've found on the mechanism as well, though.
Cheers indeed.
Whether it's a ploy to suck in./-ers or not, I think the video simply looks fucking awesome. I suppose that's not surprising, though, seeing as I'm a longtime Radiohead fan. I'm quite impressed in any case.
Not at all. I actually Ctrl-F'd for Karl to see if anyone had beaten me to it, and well, AC, you did so. Glad to see another Pilky fan out there. You a Pilkipedia fan as well?
Of course they aren't. I'm a graduate student and I use journal repositories such as JSTOR all the time (which is a lifesaver), as well as the other databases my library offers. I'm a Classics major (not English classics, I mean Latin and Greek), and many of the sources I utilise can be quite old; we also use a lot of journal articles. Indeed, as someone said above, quality control is a good use for journals.
In any case, for a paper I just wrote, I actually had to dig up a journal article from microfiche, and got a few interesting points out of it. So no, they are not obsolete in the slightest. The field in which I study, well, that's a different matter, heh...
So, going off of these tongue-in-cheek "waterchild" theories in the comments above -- perhaps Thales wasn't so crazy after all positing the origins of the universe as water-based?
I knew I'd get to throw out my (admittedly limited) Presocratic knowledge at some point!
...we could always have the Manchester police force try to help us locate Karl Pilkington! They might even be willing to help put up posters to help catch him if Facebook users are willing to help.
Sorry, I couldn't resist naming that famous Mancunian, given the fact that we're discussing Manchester.
Linus has a point here, and I think we should discourage the use of Ndiswrapper in general. Personally I have a USB wireless stick (Linksys WUSB54GC) with the rt73 chipset, and thus I'm able to use the open-source drivers from the rt2x00 project -- which work flawlessly; Ndiswrapper is a mixed bag generally. I got lucky with my choice of wireless adaptor, but still -- like someone above said -- we should be focusing on making native Linux drivers for these adaptors and not be content with stopgaps such as Ndiswrapper.
I must say, I'm very excited at the prospect. I signed up there and started voting on features, and it's great to see that people are banding together like this. I haven't really articulated my opinions on Ubuntu thus far (I've been using it since September last year), but the ones I do have, I've articulated in comments where helpful.
Cheers to the admins of Brainstorm. I foresee myself whittling away all sorts of time there from now on.
personally I use the optical Marble Mouse -- looking on the bottom, I guess I got it back in 2002, so it's been working smoothly since then. I've always preferred trackballs to normal mice, at least after I started using a Microsoft trackball (I can't remember the name of it now, it's been so long ago). In any case, I recommend the Marble Mouse as well, if you're looking for a relatively large trackball, it's very good. I run into some problems with how I hold the mouse, but they're minor issues.
thought I'd put in my 2 cents.
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Also, re: this comment:
mplayer -dumpaudio old-file.flv -dumpfile new-file.mp3
(courtesy here via a quick Google search).
It was nigh impossible for me to keep from falling over laughing when I read the summary. Didn't even need to read the article. Attention-seeker or not, this is pretty goddamn funny.
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Thanks,
Alright, I thought I posted earlier on this but I guess it didn't go through.
I just finished installing Intrepid on my Dell Inspiron 1525n, and it seems great so far. Will install it on my AMD64 OEM desktop tomorrow most likely.
The bottom line is, I was hoping Intrepid would fix my hibernation problems with my 1525, and it did indeed -- hibernate worked flawlessly on the first try. We'll see how resume goes later, though. All in all, I'm quite happy with it thus far.
Point taken. I had forgotten about their popup ads. Never a fan of those, but the AV is good if you can get past that.
Given most (Windows) users' propensity to immediately click "OK" in a window, I don't think that'll be a huge problem in general.
I had the same sort of issue when I installed Hardy back in April. I've since learned to back up my xorg.conf. If everything goes to hell on me, I've just wiped my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restored it from a backup.
That should solve your problem, especially when upgrading to 8.10. I plan on doing that if there's any problems -- I use nvidia drivers too.
I second that. Avira worked very well for me while I still had Windows (switched to Ubuntu last year about this time) -- and I've installed it on my parents' computers as well and they've not had a problem with it.
They also seemed to update their signatures quite often, sometimes once or twice a day even (as far as I had seen at least). The downloads were small enough that they were not bothersome, and it does it in the background as well generally.
If we're going to talk about MMORPGs, PlaneShift is often overlooked IMHO, and it's very much free-to-play, as well as in beer and (mostly) libre (although note the proprietary licence for art and game rules, more about protecting the quality and consistency of the game than anything else).
It's not as popular as WoW by any means, but it's certainly a lot of fun, even given the fact that it's pre-1.0 in terms of status.
Doesn't this seem like a huge conflict of interests to anyone?
"Defending" media (ha ha); now they're making their job easier... entrapment perhaps?
Unless she's just making that up, it sounds like her site had some wiki sort of elements to it, or at least some type of dynamic, editable pages.
*shrugs* All I'm saying is that it needn't have been her who put that image up, and she's made a point of distancing herself from it.
My first thought: What the fuck IS this shit?
I don't remember ever having to agree to a EULA with Firefox; I thought the licence was to be found elsewhere and the guidelines only applied if you were redistributing or modifying builds yourself. It all seems quite strange, because I thought Mozilla and Ubuntu devs were working closely together, and you would think there wouldn't be a reason for this sort of nonsense as a result.
It's not going to keep me from using Firefox, which I've used religiously for about four years, but it is disappointing.
...but yes, the review did crack me up! I actually followed this up with a search on Amazon, and reading their excerpt, it confirmed how abjectly terrible this book must be. Strangely enough, four out of six billion people found this book entertaining and worthy of five stars, which puzzles me to no end. This is more like a blog that became a book, and makes me wary of trying to publish such a thing myself. I suppose that's a good thing though, for my sake. If his pedantic and repetitive prose (just from the excerpt at least) doesn't convince you to stay away, his idiotic fucking face on the front and back covers should say it all, heh.
Perhaps obscure, but perhaps also obligatory: what about using the Resonator to see these dimensions? Humans are such easy prey...
Here's hoping for a Linux port, as id has been Linux-friendly in the past. And would that it is x64 as well!
This is absolutely fantastic. I remember being quite excited when I heard the news of the discovery, and I've followed up whenever I can on this. I'm a Classics major so this is close to home, at least for my studies, and it's great to see they've learned more about it. I'd be interested to know what actual Greek words they've found on the mechanism as well, though. Cheers indeed.
Whether it's a ploy to suck in ./-ers or not, I think the video simply looks fucking awesome. I suppose that's not surprising, though, seeing as I'm a longtime Radiohead fan. I'm quite impressed in any case.
Not at all. I actually Ctrl-F'd for Karl to see if anyone had beaten me to it, and well, AC, you did so. Glad to see another Pilky fan out there. You a Pilkipedia fan as well?
Of course they aren't. I'm a graduate student and I use journal repositories such as JSTOR all the time (which is a lifesaver), as well as the other databases my library offers. I'm a Classics major (not English classics, I mean Latin and Greek), and many of the sources I utilise can be quite old; we also use a lot of journal articles. Indeed, as someone said above, quality control is a good use for journals. In any case, for a paper I just wrote, I actually had to dig up a journal article from microfiche, and got a few interesting points out of it. So no, they are not obsolete in the slightest. The field in which I study, well, that's a different matter, heh...
So, going off of these tongue-in-cheek "waterchild" theories in the comments above -- perhaps Thales wasn't so crazy after all positing the origins of the universe as water-based?
I knew I'd get to throw out my (admittedly limited) Presocratic knowledge at some point!
...we could always have the Manchester police force try to help us locate Karl Pilkington! They might even be willing to help put up posters to help catch him if Facebook users are willing to help. Sorry, I couldn't resist naming that famous Mancunian, given the fact that we're discussing Manchester.
Linus has a point here, and I think we should discourage the use of Ndiswrapper in general. Personally I have a USB wireless stick (Linksys WUSB54GC) with the rt73 chipset, and thus I'm able to use the open-source drivers from the rt2x00 project -- which work flawlessly; Ndiswrapper is a mixed bag generally. I got lucky with my choice of wireless adaptor, but still -- like someone above said -- we should be focusing on making native Linux drivers for these adaptors and not be content with stopgaps such as Ndiswrapper.
I must say, I'm very excited at the prospect. I signed up there and started voting on features, and it's great to see that people are banding together like this. I haven't really articulated my opinions on Ubuntu thus far (I've been using it since September last year), but the ones I do have, I've articulated in comments where helpful. Cheers to the admins of Brainstorm. I foresee myself whittling away all sorts of time there from now on.
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Baggins....
personally I use the optical Marble Mouse -- looking on the bottom, I guess I got it back in 2002, so it's been working smoothly since then. I've always preferred trackballs to normal mice, at least after I started using a Microsoft trackball (I can't remember the name of it now, it's been so long ago). In any case, I recommend the Marble Mouse as well, if you're looking for a relatively large trackball, it's very good. I run into some problems with how I hold the mouse, but they're minor issues. thought I'd put in my 2 cents.