For the last couple of years I have been reading an amazing mag called Atomic.
This magazine is desgined and written by geeks for geeks. There is no "filler" crap that gets lumped into there for the sake of filling pages. All the content is well thought out and created for people who know a fair amount about PCs and want to take their knowledge to a "higher" level.
One of the main selling points IMHO is the fact that Atmoic has one hell of a community. Its great to talk (and meet) like minded people and pursue your interests, and gain vast amounts of knowledge at the same time. And then the Atomic sponsored LANs are just amazing:)
Most of the issues the cover are about pushing your system to the max. At the moment they have a indepth article (series) on OCing the P4. As well as the famous Linux series they did (which was very well done). And my most fav of the magazine. The Hotboxes. A place where peopel can show off there highly modded beige monsters.
A truly geeky magazine that is slowly gaining mainstream attention (just won a award for Austrlia's best Tech Mag). Well worth a look.
If you are using KDE as your GUI, then Klipper (all though somewhat annoying) is a very good tool to use.
When I create html pages using Bluefish for my internal web server; constantly cutting and pasting can be a very real nightmare. However EVERYTHING that you ctrl+c or ctrl+x shows up in Klipper (5-10 of last copied/cut items). It gets some time to get use to (always clicking on Klipper to have access to cut and copied info) but once you get the hang of it, you will find things get a whole lot easier:)
Really feel sorry for this guy (or girl). It must really suck when someone promises to fund your project, of which you earn your livley hood from; then the person just dissapears and cuts funding with no explanation (as of yet).
I have never heard of this project till today, but I would not be suprised if this is an all too often occurence in the OSS world.
Hopefully he finds a new sponser so that he can carry on. It really sucks when you put a lot of time and effort into something, then to have someone just pull the plug on you (completly out of your control) and to be then left with nothing.
I really cannot beleive that this is happening. A sstte of denial? No. Just shock at the possibilitys of this draft if it makes it into quote "...'sudden death' reconciliation committee..."
But there does look like there is some hope quote "The catch is that if the Parliament still doesn't like software patents, it has to have a majority of all MEPs to put its amendments, which means that in practice they need a two-to-one or three-to-one majority in the chamber,"
Hopefully this draft gets stopped in the next round of voting. If not, this could be a very bad thing for Europe developers of OSS.
I am a massive fan of Morrowind and have been trying to find a legit copy of Arena for a few months now. Its a nice move on Bethesdas half to release Arena for free. Kudos guys.
how I would get a job there. Everytime I try to browse pRon at work from 9-5 my boss gets quite annoyed and threatens to end my contract. This guy is getting PAID to do it??!! And he is ALLOWED to??!!
Well in all honesty I now use Gnome 2.4. Basically for the same reasons. Very snapy. Click "boof" done. Although KDE 3.2 wasn't to bad; it still didn't do it for me:)
Some how I don't think this study is very well done (from the article). No where did they say who was specifically targeted, any reference to a controled situation, how many people where observed, how they where observed and the period of time.
"Experts". Riiight.
I think the generilization of this report is quite harmfull. Im a gamer. Im not fat or have abnormal violent tendicies. But having the label "Video Games Make Kids Fat, Violent" is quite misleading.
My question to the "Experts" would be "Was the an actual expeperiment followed by a report? Or is this your opioin based on no actual research?"
Come on guys. Get off our backs.
Personally I think this is a very good idea. My programming skills are limited to simple BASH scripts so Im no use to most devel teams. But I do have good documentation/bug hunting skills. I do this as part of my job. So it is a good oppurtunity for those who do want to give something back to the OSS community but fall short in the programming area. Good Idea KDE.
I relise that; but we are not in the US coialation. We did not invade Iraq with them. You are correct we did send peacekeepers but that was done under the guise of the UN not the US.
Christ I never thought I would say this but...your right. I would rather cheer the Australian cricket team the the Black Caps any day. Better cricket IMHO.:)
I didn't contribute to the film in anyway. And yes I am proud that the director is from my country. See its something called "appreciating the fact that someone who is a NZer has accievied to this level that I feel obliged to say that I am proud of them and of my country from which they come from". Nuff said really.
As a New Zelander I can say this is one of the most proudest moments of my life. Imk still in "awe" modd at the fact that we actually pulled this off. 11 out of 11. WOOHOO!!! I for one am proud to be a New Zelander.
Tell the truth I wouldn't be surprised. The tatics of SCO have never being logical so I seriouslly wouldnt put it past them to look up this directory and pull random names and add them to thier "Lets sue" lists.
I have no problem explaining to my neice about the differences between men and women but at a time that is apporiate. Searching for a Barbie site and then finding some naked women preforming dodgy acts is not something I want my sisters kids to see. They want to see Barbies not the process of procreation. Ill redirect the question to you. Your sitting there with your child looking for a G rated movie. You click on a link that you beleive to be related to the film when up pops a child being sexually abused. Now how do YOU explain that. "Oh that man is showing his love to this little girl" Common sense and morals prevail in this situation.
Freedom of who? The person delibertly tricking children into thinking the site they are going into is going to show them pictures and information about thier favourite toy/film character and instead is bombarded with images deemed inapporiate for under 18 yrs? Or for the freedom of the child to not be subjected to those images?
Call me bias but I no whose freedoms I want preserved. Those of the children.
Well how do you think they would get him in the first place? whois doesn't paint a full picture. No one has anonymity on the internet, At one stage or another information would have to leave your computer in order to achieve the tasks you set. As soon as that information leaves your computer you are no longer "anon". Like murders etc; they all have a distinct way of doing thier task. This could be a tell tale sign for law enforcment agencys to pull up on and compare with other similar past offenses. While it may be harder second time around its not impossible.
Well you are right there but at the time I thought it would be a great idea for them to see what to do and how to do it. I quickly learnt that teaching them like that was a bad idea so I do the above now:)
When my sisters kids come over and we go on to the net to look for Barbie's and the like; the amount of times something a little 9 year old shouldnt be seing is incredible. Thanks goodness someone is looking to combat this problem. Although I do question whether going to jail is in order. Making them take down the website and if the then keep re-affending THEN slap them with some jail time.
I too think it is a good idea. Just because it is not the latest ground breaking technology does not mean people don't use it. IMO thats whats great about seeing someone still maintaining it even though it hasn't been in "production" for a while now. Relising that some people might still use it, and continue support for it. Kudos David.
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For the last couple of years I have been reading an amazing mag called Atomic.
:)
This magazine is desgined and written by geeks for geeks. There is no "filler" crap that gets lumped into there for the sake of filling pages. All the content is well thought out and created for people who know a fair amount about PCs and want to take their knowledge to a "higher" level.
One of the main selling points IMHO is the fact that Atmoic has one hell of a community. Its great to talk (and meet) like minded people and pursue your interests, and gain vast amounts of knowledge at the same time. And then the Atomic sponsored LANs are just amazing
Most of the issues the cover are about pushing your system to the max. At the moment they have a indepth article (series) on OCing the P4. As well as the famous Linux series they did (which was very well done). And my most fav of the magazine. The Hotboxes. A place where peopel can show off there highly modded beige monsters. A truly geeky magazine that is slowly gaining mainstream attention (just won a award for Austrlia's best Tech Mag). Well worth a look.
When I create html pages using Bluefish for my internal web server; constantly cutting and pasting can be a very real nightmare. However EVERYTHING that you ctrl+c or ctrl+x shows up in Klipper (5-10 of last copied/cut items). It gets some time to get use to (always clicking on Klipper to have access to cut and copied info) but once you get the hang of it, you will find things get a whole lot easier :)
I have never heard of this project till today, but I would not be suprised if this is an all too often occurence in the OSS world.
Hopefully he finds a new sponser so that he can carry on. It really sucks when you put a lot of time and effort into something, then to have someone just pull the plug on you (completly out of your control) and to be then left with nothing.
Good luck.
But there does look like there is some hope quote "The catch is that if the Parliament still doesn't like software patents, it has to have a majority of all MEPs to put its amendments, which means that in practice they need a two-to-one or three-to-one majority in the chamber,"
Hopefully this draft gets stopped in the next round of voting. If not, this could be a very bad thing for Europe developers of OSS.
I am a massive fan of Morrowind and have been trying to find a legit copy of Arena for a few months now. Its a nice move on Bethesdas half to release Arena for free. Kudos guys.
Same diff. But my content filter blockes pr0n when Im at work. At home now.
how I would get a job there. Everytime I try to browse pRon at work from 9-5 my boss gets quite annoyed and threatens to end my contract. This guy is getting PAID to do it??!! And he is ALLOWED to??!!
"Hugs not err ummm Lawsuits??!!"
Well in all honesty I now use Gnome 2.4. Basically for the same reasons. Very snapy. Click "boof" done. Although KDE 3.2 wasn't to bad; it still didn't do it for me :)
Some how I don't think this study is very well done (from the article). No where did they say who was specifically targeted, any reference to a controled situation, how many people where observed, how they where observed and the period of time. "Experts". Riiight. I think the generilization of this report is quite harmfull. Im a gamer. Im not fat or have abnormal violent tendicies. But having the label "Video Games Make Kids Fat, Violent" is quite misleading. My question to the "Experts" would be "Was the an actual expeperiment followed by a report? Or is this your opioin based on no actual research?" Come on guys. Get off our backs.
Personally I think this is a very good idea. My programming skills are limited to simple BASH scripts so Im no use to most devel teams. But I do have good documentation/bug hunting skills. I do this as part of my job. So it is a good oppurtunity for those who do want to give something back to the OSS community but fall short in the programming area. Good Idea KDE.
I relise that; but we are not in the US coialation. We did not invade Iraq with them. You are correct we did send peacekeepers but that was done under the guise of the UN not the US.
Christ I never thought I would say this but...your right. I would rather cheer the Australian cricket team the the Black Caps any day. Better cricket IMHO. :)
So is that why we didn't follow US, UK, Australia and other "allies against terror" into Iraq?
I didn't contribute to the film in anyway. And yes I am proud that the director is from my country. See its something called "appreciating the fact that someone who is a NZer has accievied to this level that I feel obliged to say that I am proud of them and of my country from which they come from". Nuff said really.
As a New Zelander I can say this is one of the most proudest moments of my life. Imk still in "awe" modd at the fact that we actually pulled this off. 11 out of 11. WOOHOO!!! I for one am proud to be a New Zelander.
Tell the truth I wouldn't be surprised. The tatics of SCO have never being logical so I seriouslly wouldnt put it past them to look up this directory and pull random names and add them to thier "Lets sue" lists.
I have no problem explaining to my neice about the differences between men and women but at a time that is apporiate. Searching for a Barbie site and then finding some naked women preforming dodgy acts is not something I want my sisters kids to see. They want to see Barbies not the process of procreation. Ill redirect the question to you. Your sitting there with your child looking for a G rated movie. You click on a link that you beleive to be related to the film when up pops a child being sexually abused. Now how do YOU explain that. "Oh that man is showing his love to this little girl" Common sense and morals prevail in this situation. Freedom of who? The person delibertly tricking children into thinking the site they are going into is going to show them pictures and information about thier favourite toy/film character and instead is bombarded with images deemed inapporiate for under 18 yrs? Or for the freedom of the child to not be subjected to those images? Call me bias but I no whose freedoms I want preserved. Those of the children.
Well how do you think they would get him in the first place? whois doesn't paint a full picture. No one has anonymity on the internet, At one stage or another information would have to leave your computer in order to achieve the tasks you set. As soon as that information leaves your computer you are no longer "anon". Like murders etc; they all have a distinct way of doing thier task. This could be a tell tale sign for law enforcment agencys to pull up on and compare with other similar past offenses. While it may be harder second time around its not impossible.
Well you are right there but at the time I thought it would be a great idea for them to see what to do and how to do it. I quickly learnt that teaching them like that was a bad idea so I do the above now :)
When my sisters kids come over and we go on to the net to look for Barbie's and the like; the amount of times something a little 9 year old shouldnt be seing is incredible. Thanks goodness someone is looking to combat this problem. Although I do question whether going to jail is in order. Making them take down the website and if the then keep re-affending THEN slap them with some jail time.
I too think it is a good idea. Just because it is not the latest ground breaking technology does not mean people don't use it. IMO thats whats great about seeing someone still maintaining it even though it hasn't been in "production" for a while now. Relising that some people might still use it, and continue support for it. Kudos David.