Competitions: We will host a multitude of demoscene and game-competitions, as well as several other surprise-compos. Much more information will of course be available as soon as the new website is in place, but for now these are the competitions which are going to be held at The Gathering 2004:
Demoscene: * Combined demo (Amiga, PC, Mac) * Combined 64k intro (Amiga, PC, Mac) * Wild/animation * Tracked music * HiQuality music * Pixeled graphics * Rendered graphics * Fast intro * Fast music * Webdesign * Useless utility
I've never been to the Gathering but I try to attend Assembly, which is held in Finland every year. It's not quite the same as it used to be during the early nineties when Amiga still ruled the demoscene but the PC's were already coming. I still remember in Assembly '92 when a really cool (can't remember the name) PC demo got a standing ovation from the Amiga crowd.
A person with a decent disassembler and knowledge of reverse engineering can get to your secrets even if they are binary only, so that argument is not valid. IIRC, Nvidia stated that their driver include some third party code that they cannot open source.
I've been reading Ntfaq.com for years and IMO it's at least a good place to start when beginning to administer Windows platforms. I am not sure if the forums are what you've been looking for but you can see it for yourself.
That's what Open Source does to you, it will make you fat! Just look at RMS and where he is now and he's been in the Open Source business more than ten years longer than Linus. So my prediction is that ten years from now, Linus looks like an exact copy of RMS (without the beard). Stay away from Open Source!
Very off-topic but after my last post I surfed to Tooldiscography.com and noticed the following: "SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE... Doom 3 game (PC) (1 original song) Mar 01, 2004"
I used ftp at my college and transferred it to my home PC using floppies:) I bought the CD next week as I had been a Tool fan since Undertow, so I *had* to get the new album as soon as it was available, regardless of the medium.
I was using Fraunhofer's player at the time as it was the fastest and didn't skip with my 133 Pentium.
One step closer to DNI and one step closer to the day when I can fulfill my dream and actually move to the 'Net and kiss Real Life goodbye. I just hope someboy will come to feed me and change my diapers from time to time;)
Can be found from Interix. You can change the crappy KSH to Bash and get a nice build system up and going in no time. I normally use Cygwin but I'm going to give this a try, even if it isn't GPL'd.
I used to work for an OEM in their laptop factory. They used to mislead customers in a very curious way: the advertisment said that a laptop had a 10 Gb harddrive but we put a 12Gb or even bigger ones inside. The problem was our automated labeling system which checked the partnumber from the database (which I maintained) and printed the label accordingly. So I had to write a script which changed the partnumbers for the laptop models (where this policy was used) so the labels would print showing the smaller HDD instead of the bigger one.
I don't know what kind of problems this caused for the dealers if a customer returned a laptop because of a faulty HDD...
RTFA. It appears that updating trajectory is a normal procedure when a probe approaches a planet.
"It was the fourth and possibly last time the course has been adjusted for the six-wheeled robot. Such adjustments become necessary as the craft gets closer to its destination."
And they actually trying to land it in a crater.
"Spirit is being sent to Gusev Crater, a depression the size of Connecticut that scientists believe once held a lake. It is set to land Saturday."
I got it around '85 or so and sure hated it when everybody else had C-64s or even Amstrads. The basic had to be loaded from a tape if you wanted to do programming. And the damn thing didn't even have proper sprites!
About a year later I got a C-128D and that thing kicked ass! You could even overclock the C-64 to 2 MHz! Except most games wouldn't work after that. Didn't use CP/M very much as the floppy was missing from the package and I couldn't care less back then.
After that the Amiga and PCs since 1993.
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Quote from the website:
Competitions:
We will host a multitude of demoscene and game-competitions, as well as several other surprise-compos. Much more information will of course be available as soon as the new website is in place, but for now these are the competitions which are going to be held at The Gathering 2004:
Demoscene:
* Combined demo (Amiga, PC, Mac)
* Combined 64k intro (Amiga, PC, Mac)
* Wild/animation
* Tracked music
* HiQuality music
* Pixeled graphics
* Rendered graphics
* Fast intro
* Fast music
* Webdesign
* Useless utility
Game:
* Warcraft 3 (1on1)
* Unreal Tournament 2003 (1on1)
* Counter-Strike (5on5)
I've never been to the Gathering but I try to attend Assembly, which is held in Finland every year. It's not quite the same as it used to be during the early nineties when Amiga still ruled the demoscene but the PC's were already coming. I still remember in Assembly '92 when a really cool (can't remember the name) PC demo got a standing ovation from the Amiga crowd.
A person with a decent disassembler and knowledge of reverse engineering can get to your secrets even if they are binary only, so that argument is not valid. IIRC, Nvidia stated that their driver include some third party code that they cannot open source.
I've been reading Ntfaq.com for years and IMO it's at least a good place to start when beginning to administer Windows platforms. I am not sure if the forums are what you've been looking for but you can see it for yourself.
Is it just me but those pictures look like really crappy Photoshop jobs, don't they?
That's what Open Source does to you, it will make you fat! Just look at RMS and where he is now and he's been in the Open Source business more than ten years longer than Linus. So my prediction is that ten years from now, Linus looks like an exact copy of RMS (without the beard). Stay away from Open Source!
Very off-topic but after my last post I surfed to Tooldiscography.com and noticed the following:
"SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE... Doom 3 game (PC) (1 original song) Mar 01, 2004"
I used ftp at my college and transferred it to my home PC using floppies :) I bought the CD next week as I had been a Tool fan since Undertow, so I *had* to get the new album as soon as it was available, regardless of the medium.
I was using Fraunhofer's player at the time as it was the fastest and didn't skip with my 133 Pentium.
Dr. Nick: Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
One step closer to DNI and one step closer to the day when I can fulfill my dream and actually move to the 'Net and kiss Real Life goodbye. I just hope someboy will come to feed me and change my diapers from time to time ;)
Can be found from Interix. You can change the crappy KSH to Bash and get a nice build system up and going in no time. I normally use Cygwin but I'm going to give this a try, even if it isn't GPL'd.
I used to work for an OEM in their laptop factory. They used to mislead customers in a very curious way:
the advertisment said that a laptop had a 10 Gb harddrive but we put a 12Gb or even bigger ones inside.
The problem was our automated labeling system which checked the partnumber from the database (which
I maintained) and printed the label accordingly. So I had to write a script which changed the partnumbers
for the laptop models (where this policy was used) so the labels would print showing the smaller HDD
instead of the bigger one.
I don't know what kind of problems this caused for the dealers if a customer returned a laptop because
of a faulty HDD...
RTFA. It appears that updating trajectory is a normal procedure when a probe approaches a planet.
"It was the fourth and possibly last time the course has been adjusted for the six-wheeled robot. Such adjustments become necessary as the craft gets closer to its destination."
And they actually trying to land it in a crater.
"Spirit is being sent to Gusev Crater, a depression the size of Connecticut that scientists believe once held a lake. It is set to land Saturday."
You should check KDE on Cygwin.
Works nicely, IMHO, but I haven't tested Konqueror if it compiles.
Check out the earlier pictures if the site isn't slahdotted anymore...
That's not Heineken he's drinking. It's quite clearly a bottle of Danish Tuborg Ol.
I got it around '85 or so and sure hated it when everybody else had C-64s or even Amstrads. The basic had to be loaded from a tape if you wanted to do programming. And the damn thing didn't even have proper sprites! About a year later I got a C-128D and that thing kicked ass! You could even overclock the C-64 to 2 MHz! Except most games wouldn't work after that. Didn't use CP/M very much as the floppy was missing from the package and I couldn't care less back then. After that the Amiga and PCs since 1993.
One that seems to have a complete kit: ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/i 586/
At least here in Europe. Going to upgrade MDK 9.1 using ftp as soon as I get home.