God, someone besides me actually played and liked Keen and Jazz Jackrabbit. Hel, I'd play Jazz again, except that it was fast as all hell on a 486/66. Its unplayable on a PIII/600. I know there are programs to slow a computer down, but most of them suck for games.
moslo -1 jazz.exe
and even at 1% its still too fast, but jerky. Would be wonderful to have a truly accurate way to emulate a lsower machine's speed. Then I could play Sun Tzu's ancient art of war one more time, or the original wing commander, which I would love to play again, but I will not have a seperate computer just for old games like that.
okay, I give. I've been seeing the "all your base are belong to us" for weeks now (only on slashdot) but have no clue what the hell they are talking about. Care to enlighten me. (No, I'm not trolling, I just don't read every single post of every single thread on/., so I guess I missed the first time it was posted) I think....therefore I am
You could always edit your preferences to all Yesses, and change your email address to root@127.0.0.1. I think....therefore I am
Re:don't chastize the newbie...
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If this is true, then it would be great to have Mozilla (or other graphical browser) work without having to load up X (and your window manager of choice) every time you just need to check out a few web pages (yes, I could use lynx, which does a wonderful job at what it does, but lets be honest, lynx is really for those who have NO choice, this would give you a choice) I think....therefore I am
Okay folks, time for everyone to start piling the shit on Linus. Fair is fair. You do it to Microsoft every time they push back a release. I think....therefore I am
There is more to it that just renaming it. Have any of you folks actually used windows? or do you just bash it on principle alone?
network places now allows you to open ftp sites like explorer directories. I don't even have an ftp client installed on my machine anymore. It really has become a "network place", kind of like bookmarks for ftp sites, but with the same interface as explorer. No, an ftp client is not innovation, but a service that is consistent with the UI of the OS that allows for browsing of remote directories as if they were local, and even browsing ftp sites is very nice.
KFM is close, you can open an ftp site in a file manager window, but try dragging an entire directory structure into it or from it to transfer it and it will tell you that recursive transfer is not supported.
Windows is not the greatest, but its also not bad, anymore.....you just need to use the right version of Windows, 2000 I think....therefore I am
I registered their software (using an email account that is about to go the way of the dodo) and I did get their email. This is not another case of the MS email tracking hoax, just for the hell of it, I went over to DC's site, following the link provided, to their secure server, and was rpesented with an apportunity to enter my address so that they scould send me a $10 coupon for Radio Shack. It is real. However, since they now want more personal information from me (the original software asked for name and email, not they want address as well) I did not bother to fill it out, but for those who will, DC now has their name, email address and snail mail address. considering that the average consumer who signed up for this won't think along these lines, DC has amde a wonderful $10 investment to get the name/address/email and buying habits of that person. I don't think the $10 is a hoax, I think that maybe the hack was a hoax. They could not have planned it better if they tried.
AOL is not shutting off the community, they are supporting it, there is an official AIM client for linux, hell it was even posted on/. a few weeks ago.
What really makes me mad at the/. crowd is that you don't just want people to play nice, you want them to play by your rules. "Open all servers to any kind of access we want" The truth is, the IM servers are theirs, if they wanted to shut out the linux community, then that is their perogative, but they have not, they have a client for you to use, you don't want to use their client, fine, you don't use their servers.
IM is popular because it is nearly ubiquitous, and AOL made it that way, if you want to have a competing Open Source messaging system, go for it, just don't expect to see everyone you know on it. If you want to talk to those people, you need AIM to connected to AOL's servers. Its really *QUITE* fair.
Stop Your whinning.
flames may be trashed before sending them my way, because they will end up there once they get here anyway, so save the bandwidth, type up your complaints calling me a moron or whatever and
file it in/dev/null
are there still any reliable anonymour remailers? I know that anon.penet.fi lost credibiliy then they gave in to the scientologists, but they were not the only folks running such a service. Are there any anonymous remailers still functioning? If so anonymous email submission of source code to a few sights might be the way to go. I think....therefore I am
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If anyone here has any moderation points, mod this up. At least one other person here seems to agree with me (which of course makes them brilliant;-) and well deserving of karma). I think....therefore I am
They should not be allowed to post thost pictures, and just because someone is able to get away with a crime, does not make other crimes acceptable. They do go after and prosecute child pornographers in many countries, but just because one person gets away with violating that law does not make breaking copyright law acceptable. I think....therefore I am
I noticed in the decoder software on freshmeat that the encoded information is in 3 parts, sperated by.s . The code says serialnumber, barcode type and upc number.
Has anyone done any testing to see if the serial number part is unique for each barcode scanner. If so, then this is how I see their plan, and why they complain.
You must register (name and email) to activate the software, they now tie a person to a particular scanner. Every time you scan something and the cuecat software sends you to a web page, you re-direct through DC first (DC looks up the UPC number to find the manufacturer, either they are re-directing, or the software is communicating this information directly.
If I scan in a few books, or blank cdrs or CDR labels, the UPC code is transmitted and they find out that the manufactureres are Del Rey, Verbatim and Fellowes respectively. THEY NOW KNOW WHO I AM AND SEVERL THINGS I OWN OR AM INSTERESTED IN.
If I hook up my TV and CD player to the audio input. I can get relted content from TV shows or from my music cds. They now know what I am listening to (and presumably own) and what I am watching (bye-bye Neilson).
These people are gering up to collect marketing and consumer preference data on a scale that is unbeleivable. Wired, Forbes and Radio Shack may be the first, but you can bet they are not the last to "give these away".
Of course they do not want you to be able to decode these things and use them any other way. They loose the marketing link if you do. They can not track waht you are scanning and they loose data that in the long run will be worth millions to them and to the manufacturers they intend to sell this stuff to.
Just think of it folks. You scan in A pack of blank CD labels and it takes you to fellowes web site, but now they know you have a cdr drive, and verbatim can send you junk e-mail about every marketting scheme they have for CDRs, and CDR manufacturers can send you mail concerning new CDR drives. YOu scan thank inkjet cartridge and yes, it takes you to a place on the web where you can order a new one, and now paper manufacturers who make paper optimized for inkjet printers now have your email address. If you watch a particular show, or view a particular commercial, they can now target information to you directly.
Now this will be unsolicited email, it might actually be for things you would use, since it directly relates to things you are watching or scanning in, but do you really want this kind of marketing data about you connected to your email address and name.
If you are going to use the software that they provide, I highly recommend getting a disposable email account, using it to register and after getting your unlock code mailed there and retreiving it, close the email account forever.
You may say I am paranoid, but are you willing to risk it
actually it should be quite simple to work around these things. have some small TSR that sits and listens to STDIN and passes everything to STDOUT until it encounters an ALT-F10. WHen it gets this, it wakes, listens for the next character. If it is anything other than a . pass the ALT-F10 to STDOUT, if it is a., buffer STDIN until the next RETURN, then perform some very simple deocding on it, and spit it back out to STDOUT. Freshmeat even has a perl script that has the decoding logic. Just wish I had some clue how to write this one (don't know the windows API, or enough about linux to write a TSR like this)
Anybody out there up to the task? I think....therefore I am
You know, as stupid as this sounds, NSI actually tried to pull this about a year ago. Their main whois search page said nothing about it, but when you search fora domain name, the page that came back said that the information was their property and you could not include it in any other web page or parse the information for inclusion into any other web page and that by viewing this information you were legally bound to that condition. In other words by viewing this page, you are bound to something, written in the page at the bottom;-) what a wonderful world we live in. I personally hope to see linux,windows,BeOS adn mac drivers linked here soon that will let me just plug in my:Cuecat and scan something and have the barcode number appear on my screen as if I had typed it. Then, I will get some use out of it by printing bar code labels and plastering them on everythign I own for inventory purposes.
This reminds me so much of when they added the method of accessing my money that we call ATM's. At first it was in addition to the banking hours, then, after people started using the ATM's, the banks cut their hours and their staff. Now, I am basically forced to use an ATM to ever get money from my account. This was not too bad when I used to get free transactions with my bank's ATM's and 10 free transactions with other ATM's, but now I still get the free transactions with my bank's ATM's. but with others, I get chanrged a fee by the bank whose ATM I am using and a network fee by my own bank, so at times it now costs me $3 to get a $20.
Sure enough, if the eTexts gain even a small foothold, this will happen wth textbooks as well.
I personally do not care. I buy my books, I keep my books, as long as I have access to my own purhcased books, I don't care if I can't transfer them to anyone else. I think....therefore I am
('It's a standard only if it matches what we want')
You know, I've said many, many times in the past here on slashdot and elsewhere. When you command 90% of the market, YOU are the standard, regardless of what the other 10% agree should be standard. It does not matter that everyone except MS agrees that some format should be common, they are the minority, and the "true standard" is what the majority uses, thus windows.
I have had my arguments with Windows for years, and probably will always have some problems with it, but I have used MacOS, linux, solaris and windows in various combinations for years, and for day to day work, I must honestly say that I am most productive under windows 2000 (which is the first MS release I will call a true operating system, since it actually operates my computer without crashing it;-) Regardless of what you may think of windows, or regardless of which superiority it may indeed have, it is not the "standard" for desktop computing, it is a fringe operating system for the desktop, and as such, to make it work on the desktop, and therefor to truly SET the standard, it needs to be the dominant player, not just the technically superior product. To do this, it needs to adhere to the standards that people care about, the standards of ease of use and productivitythat they need, and for that, linux is not there. Gnome gets it close, IMHO, KDE gets it even closer, but its still not there yet, the only
company to get UNIX of any flavor "ready for prime-time" as we used to say, is APPLE, with OSX. When the power user can pull up a CLI and get down to serious work, and the average user can do anything they need to on their system and NEVER pull up a CLI, then linux/unix will be ready for the desktop and may become a large enough player to start setting standards.
Once again, I must let out the old battle cry. "If you want linux to dominate the world, you have to make a linux the world can use"
Before I root for AOL, I think I'll just keep quite. Not sure which the the greater of the two evils.
I generally think that Napster/Gnutella etc SHOULD go the way of the dodo. These programs are not tools of free speech and informaiton interchange, they are ways of ripping people off.
Do not even pretend that they are anything else, becuase if you do you are not only lying to the/. community, you are lying to yourself.
So what if they are big companies that are getting ripped off. Big companies pay the paychecks of a lot of little people, myself included. We steal them blind, they go out of business, I have to find a new job.
The folks here on slashdot advocate OSS, and that is fine, you have chose to allow free and unlimited distribution and modification of your works and all derivitive works. As it is your right to do so with your work, it is my right, or my company's right to sell our work. It is the record labels right to sell the work of those whom they hold under contract (and if those contracts are unfair to the artists, blame THEIR lawyers, not the recording industry, it is the job to negotiate contracts in their favor).
While many of you will quickly scoff at the idea of linux for dummies, check out the books first.
I have actually read through a few of the "For Dummies Books" over the years (I think there is a copy of unix for dummies somewhere in myu pile) and, in general, find them great works for those just delving into a topic. Maybe its time to pick this up so my wife can actually use my machine;-)
Maybe its true that they were not trying to compete against home computers...They might have really been interested in the workstation market, but if I am not mistaken, they were based on Motorola 68040 processors were they not? If this is true, they may have thought of themselves as workstation producers, but with the power of home comptuers. NeXT, from what I recall, could have made a go of it, but like Apple at times, they could not produce enough of them due to chip shortages. Motorola was producing chips for Apple, who could not get their hands on enough of them, so there was very little left for NeXT.
NeXTStep did, however, have an intel incarnation, which I actually did get to use. Very nice Interface, very clean and slick and quite easy to use. I had it running on a stock Pentium (166 at the time a very fast home computer) which basically means it was more powerful than the actual next machines.
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pederast n. A man who has a sexual relationship with a boy.
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ain't dictionary.com grand?
I think....therefore I am
God, someone besides me actually played and liked Keen and Jazz Jackrabbit. Hel, I'd play Jazz again, except that it was fast as all hell on a 486/66. Its unplayable on a PIII/600. I know there are programs to slow a computer down, but most of them suck for games.
moslo -1 jazz.exe
and even at 1% its still too fast, but jerky. Would be wonderful to have a truly accurate way to emulate a lsower machine's speed. Then I could play Sun Tzu's ancient art of war one more time, or the original wing commander, which I would love to play again, but I will not have a seperate computer just for old games like that.
I think....therefore I am
okay, I give. I've been seeing the "all your base are belong to us" for weeks now (only on slashdot) but have no clue what the hell they are talking about. Care to enlighten me. (No, I'm not trolling, I just don't read every single post of every single thread on /., so I guess I missed the first time it was posted)
I think....therefore I am
Only half? What are you wasting the rest of your time on then? ;-)
I think....therefore I am
I think....therefore I am
You could always edit your preferences to all Yesses, and change your email address to root@127.0.0.1.
I think....therefore I am
If this is true, then it would be great to have Mozilla (or other graphical browser) work without having to load up X (and your window manager of choice) every time you just need to check out a few web pages (yes, I could use lynx, which does a wonderful job at what it does, but lets be honest, lynx is really for those who have NO choice, this would give you a choice)
I think....therefore I am
If you want random things to break, just use Windows (any version prior to 2000)
I think....therefore I am
hellish planet = Salusa Secundus if memory serves me correctly.
I think....therefore I am
Okay folks, time for everyone to start piling the shit on Linus. Fair is fair. You do it to Microsoft every time they push back a release.
I think....therefore I am
There is more to it that just renaming it. Have any of you folks actually used windows? or do you just bash it on principle alone?
network places now allows you to open ftp sites like explorer directories. I don't even have an ftp client installed on my machine anymore. It really has become a "network place", kind of like bookmarks for ftp sites, but with the same interface as explorer. No, an ftp client is not innovation, but a service that is consistent with the UI of the OS that allows for browsing of remote directories as if they were local, and even browsing ftp sites is very nice.
KFM is close, you can open an ftp site in a file manager window, but try dragging an entire directory structure into it or from it to transfer it and it will tell you that recursive transfer is not supported.
Windows is not the greatest, but its also not bad, anymore.....you just need to use the right version of Windows, 2000
I think....therefore I am
I registered their software (using an email account that is about to go the way of the dodo) and I did get their email. This is not another case of the MS email tracking hoax, just for the hell of it, I went over to DC's site, following the link provided, to their secure server, and was rpesented with an apportunity to enter my address so that they scould send me a $10 coupon for Radio Shack. It is real. However, since they now want more personal information from me (the original software asked for name and email, not they want address as well) I did not bother to fill it out, but for those who will, DC now has their name, email address and snail mail address. considering that the average consumer who signed up for this won't think along these lines, DC has amde a wonderful $10 investment to get the name/address/email and buying habits of that person. I don't think the $10 is a hoax, I think that maybe the hack was a hoax. They could not have planned it better if they tried.
I think....therefore I am
AOL is not shutting off the community, they are supporting it, there is an official AIM client for linux, hell it was even posted on /. a few weeks ago.
/. crowd is that you don't just want people to play nice, you want them to play by your rules. "Open all servers to any kind of access we want" The truth is, the IM servers are theirs, if they wanted to shut out the linux community, then that is their perogative, but they have not, they have a client for you to use, you don't want to use their client, fine, you don't use their servers.
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What really makes me mad at the
IM is popular because it is nearly ubiquitous, and AOL made it that way, if you want to have a competing Open Source messaging system, go for it, just don't expect to see everyone you know on it. If you want to talk to those people, you need AIM to connected to AOL's servers. Its really *QUITE* fair.
Stop Your whinning.
flames may be trashed before sending them my way, because they will end up there once they get here anyway, so save the bandwidth, type up your complaints calling me a moron or whatever and
file it in
I think....therefore I am
are there still any reliable anonymour remailers? I know that anon.penet.fi lost credibiliy then they gave in to the scientologists, but they were not the only folks running such a service. Are there any anonymous remailers still functioning? If so anonymous email submission of source code to a few sights might be the way to go.
I think....therefore I am
If anyone here has any moderation points, mod this up. At least one other person here seems to agree with me (which of course makes them brilliant ;-) and well deserving of karma).
I think....therefore I am
They should not be allowed to post thost pictures, and just because someone is able to get away with a crime, does not make other crimes acceptable. They do go after and prosecute child pornographers in many countries, but just because one person gets away with violating that law does not make breaking copyright law acceptable.
I think....therefore I am
I noticed in the decoder software on freshmeat that the encoded information is in 3 parts, sperated by .s . The code says serialnumber, barcode type and upc number.
Has anyone done any testing to see if the serial number part is unique for each barcode scanner. If so, then this is how I see their plan, and why they complain.
You must register (name and email) to activate the software, they now tie a person to a particular scanner. Every time you scan something and the cuecat software sends you to a web page, you re-direct through DC first (DC looks up the UPC number to find the manufacturer, either they are re-directing, or the software is communicating this information directly.
If I scan in a few books, or blank cdrs or CDR labels, the UPC code is transmitted and they find out that the manufactureres are Del Rey, Verbatim and Fellowes respectively. THEY NOW KNOW WHO I AM AND SEVERL THINGS I OWN OR AM INSTERESTED IN.
If I hook up my TV and CD player to the audio input. I can get relted content from TV shows or from my music cds. They now know what I am listening to (and presumably own) and what I am watching (bye-bye Neilson).
These people are gering up to collect marketing and consumer preference data on a scale that is unbeleivable. Wired, Forbes and Radio Shack may be the first, but you can bet they are not the last to "give these away".
Of course they do not want you to be able to decode these things and use them any other way. They loose the marketing link if you do. They can not track waht you are scanning and they loose data that in the long run will be worth millions to them and to the manufacturers they intend to sell this stuff to.
Just think of it folks. You scan in A pack of blank CD labels and it takes you to fellowes web site, but now they know you have a cdr drive, and verbatim can send you junk e-mail about every marketting scheme they have for CDRs, and CDR manufacturers can send you mail concerning new CDR drives. YOu scan thank inkjet cartridge and yes, it takes you to a place on the web where you can order a new one, and now paper manufacturers who make paper optimized for inkjet printers now have your email address. If you watch a particular show, or view a particular commercial, they can now target information to you directly.
Now this will be unsolicited email, it might actually be for things you would use, since it directly relates to things you are watching or scanning in, but do you really want this kind of marketing data about you connected to your email address and name.
If you are going to use the software that they provide, I highly recommend getting a disposable email account, using it to register and after getting your unlock code mailed there and retreiving it, close the email account forever.
You may say I am paranoid, but are you willing to risk it
I think....therefore I am
actually it should be quite simple to work around these things. have some small TSR that sits and listens to STDIN and passes everything to STDOUT until it encounters an ALT-F10. WHen it gets this, it wakes, listens for the next character. If it is anything other than a . pass the ALT-F10 to STDOUT, if it is a ., buffer STDIN until the next RETURN, then perform some very simple deocding on it, and spit it back out to STDOUT. Freshmeat even has a perl script that has the decoding logic. Just wish I had some clue how to write this one (don't know the windows API, or enough about linux to write a TSR like this)
Anybody out there up to the task?
I think....therefore I am
You know, as stupid as this sounds, NSI actually tried to pull this about a year ago. Their main whois search page said nothing about it, but when you search fora domain name, the page that came back said that the information was their property and you could not include it in any other web page or parse the information for inclusion into any other web page and that by viewing this information you were legally bound to that condition. In other words by viewing this page, you are bound to something, written in the page at the bottom ;-) what a wonderful world we live in. I personally hope to see linux,windows,BeOS adn mac drivers linked here soon that will let me just plug in my :Cuecat and scan something and have the barcode number appear on my screen as if I had typed it. Then, I will get some use out of it by printing bar code labels and plastering them on everythign I own for inventory purposes.
I think....therefore I am
This reminds me so much of when they added the method of accessing my money that we call ATM's. At first it was in addition to the banking hours, then, after people started using the ATM's, the banks cut their hours and their staff. Now, I am basically forced to use an ATM to ever get money from my account. This was not too bad when I used to get free transactions with my bank's ATM's and 10 free transactions with other ATM's, but now I still get the free transactions with my bank's ATM's. but with others, I get chanrged a fee by the bank whose ATM I am using and a network fee by my own bank, so at times it now costs me $3 to get a $20.
Sure enough, if the eTexts gain even a small foothold, this will happen wth textbooks as well.
I personally do not care. I buy my books, I keep my books, as long as I have access to my own purhcased books, I don't care if I can't transfer them to anyone else.
I think....therefore I am
You know, I've said many, many times in the past here on slashdot and elsewhere. When you command 90% of the market, YOU are the standard, regardless of what the other 10% agree should be standard. It does not matter that everyone except MS agrees that some format should be common, they are the minority, and the "true standard" is what the majority uses, thus windows.
I have had my arguments with Windows for years, and probably will always have some problems with it, but I have used MacOS, linux, solaris and windows in various combinations for years, and for day to day work, I must honestly say that I am most productive under windows 2000 (which is the first MS release I will call a true operating system, since it actually operates my computer without crashing it ;-) Regardless of what you may think of windows, or regardless of which superiority it may indeed have, it is not the "standard" for desktop computing, it is a fringe operating system for the desktop, and as such, to make it work on the desktop, and therefor to truly SET the standard, it needs to be the dominant player, not just the technically superior product. To do this, it needs to adhere to the standards that people care about, the standards of ease of use and productivitythat they need, and for that, linux is not there. Gnome gets it close, IMHO, KDE gets it even closer, but its still not there yet, the only
company to get UNIX of any flavor "ready for prime-time" as we used to say, is APPLE, with OSX. When the power user can pull up a CLI and get down to serious work, and the average user can do anything they need to on their system and NEVER pull up a CLI, then linux/unix will be ready for the desktop and may become a large enough player to start setting standards.
Once again, I must let out the old battle cry. "If you want linux to dominate the world, you have to make a linux the world can use"
I think....therefore I am
Before I root for AOL, I think I'll just keep quite. Not sure which the the greater of the two evils.
/. community, you are lying to yourself.
I generally think that Napster/Gnutella etc SHOULD go the way of the dodo. These programs are not tools of free speech and informaiton interchange, they are ways of ripping people off.
Do not even pretend that they are anything else, becuase if you do you are not only lying to the
So what if they are big companies that are getting ripped off. Big companies pay the paychecks of a lot of little people, myself included. We steal them blind, they go out of business, I have to find a new job.
The folks here on slashdot advocate OSS, and that is fine, you have chose to allow free and unlimited distribution and modification of your works and all derivitive works. As it is your right to do so with your work, it is my right, or my company's right to sell our work. It is the record labels right to sell the work of those whom they hold under contract (and if those contracts are unfair to the artists, blame THEIR lawyers, not the recording industry, it is the job to negotiate contracts in their favor).
I think....therefore I am
While many of you will quickly scoff at the idea of linux for dummies, check out the books first.
;-)
I have actually read through a few of the "For Dummies Books" over the years (I think there is a copy of unix for dummies somewhere in myu pile) and, in general, find them great works for those just delving into a topic. Maybe its time to pick this up so my wife can actually use my machine
I think....therefore I am
Sorry .... have to disagree with you on this one ..... I think that title goes to THE Amiga.
Maybe its true that they were not trying to compete against home computers...They might have really been interested in the workstation market, but if I am not mistaken, they were based on Motorola 68040 processors were they not? If this is true, they may have thought of themselves as workstation producers, but with the power of home comptuers. NeXT, from what I recall, could have made a go of it, but like Apple at times, they could not produce enough of them due to chip shortages. Motorola was producing chips for Apple, who could not get their hands on enough of them, so there was very little left for NeXT.
NeXTStep did, however, have an intel incarnation, which I actually did get to use. Very nice Interface, very clean and slick and quite easy to use. I had it running on a stock Pentium (166 at the time a very fast home computer) which basically means it was more powerful than the actual next machines.