I have a feeling the media's gonna have fun distorting this one. I read the article at school, get into the car, turn on the radio, and what do I hear? '...this new virus that will affect your computer even if you don't open the e-mail it was sent with is called "Bubbleboy"'.
Hmm there's a very similar site called ExpertCentral that has about the same idea (users answer users' questions) with the option to ask for a fee for the advice given.
Hmm, I can't say anything about the situation regarding Microsoft and all. But what if this is just an attempt by Mr Parish to attract attention onto his company? Does anybody know something about the credibility of this person and his company?
Take for instance, FAQ Item 6: 6) What if I am interested in hiring you as my advisor and has this helped your business?
Just found that interesting. I don't like Microsoft's marketing strategies. I don't own stock in the company (and I don't use their products, either). I don't know anything about Perrish and Company. Just a mild speculation:). With media, especially with webpages, you can never be sure of their integrity or credibility, really, because it's so easy to be anonymous on the web.
Okay, you asked for it, here it goes:) - last night I quickly hacked together a patch for the process.patched xdoom so that if you are root, it displays users instead of processes. If you wound a user, all her/his processes get reniced. If you kill a user, boom go her/his processes - *evil grin*.
Get the patch at http://ultracool.net/xdoom-userfun.patc h.gz. Apply it after you patched xdoom with xdoom-process.patch, in the same way. This includes my pnames patch btw, so don't apply it over that one if you have that (this also means that user/process-names are displayed in addition to the uid/pids).
At http://ultracool.net/xdoom-proc-pnames.gz you'll find a patch that displays process names + pids instead of just the pids. Makes it a lot more fun:). It's a quick hack, but, hey - so was the original patch. Apply it after you applied the original patch, same method.
A while ago somebody posted in the gcc 2.95 announcement article that all you had to do to get the kernel compiled fine with 2.95(.1) was add -fno-strict-aliasing to the CFLAGS in the Makefile - it works fine for me, I've been running 2.2.13 compiled with gcc 2.95.1 since a few hours now.
No xmms in the Audio section. Freshmeat.ORG instead of Freshmeat.NET (no, they are not the same. No Freshmeat.ORG is not likely to be anyone's favorite Linux site;). And no BB in the demo section! BB is probably the most amazing demo I've ever seen (simply because it's in textmode;).
Sure, they offer a lot of choice, but miss out on some important stuff. And the freshmeat.org thing is just plain funny:P.
(oh and this is meant to be *constructive* criticism;).
Open http://corp2.unisys.com/Images/unilogo.g if in The GIMP (1.0.4) and you'll see what I mean. This whole thing is so terribly silly. I wish patents would stop being used in such a way as many large companies do. My 2 cents.
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What concerns X, I just compiled XFree 3.3.4 with gcc 2.95. It compiled fine and it runs a hellovalot faster. This is on an Pentium II-400, with Linux 2.2.10 (also compiled with gcc 2.95 and -fno-strict-aliasing). EGCS Team: Well Done! This is a *great* improvement;). -- sdt
Hi, my name is Stefanus Du Toit, I'm a server developer at the WorldForge Project. For our code we use the GPL, but we found that it wasn't very applicable to Art (Music, Graphics, etc.) and "usual" text (e.g. rulesets). So, we licensed all of the non-code stuff under the OpenContent License (OPL). It is similar to the GPL (free speech type license) but concentrates on artwork and regular text. Go take a look at it, it might be just what you are looking for;).
Hmm, I guess I qualify as one of those duct-tape people. I've got a cgi script (in perl of course), running on Apache, that gives me a nice listing of my songs and lets me pick the ones I want. Also it plays random songs and a kind of "radio"-streaming (it just streams random songs after each other. Currently I'm thinking of implementing song-titles via festival. All the hooks are there, I just need some time to implement it;).
Anyways, these things are really neat, I especially like those empeg car players.... now if I just had a car;). -- sdt
Check out this article on the "history of Linux at IBM".
Interesting quotes:
"Every company that has played ball with Linux or any other piece of open software knows that the community is a moody one, and that a wrong move can produce at best the "Slashdot effect" (a brutal hail of attention and Web traffic prompted by a story in Slashdot, a popular forum and news source for the open-source community), and at worst a total disaster." Do these guys actually have any idea what a 'slashdot effect' is? It's definitely not caused by moodiness.
""I was introduced to Linux even before universities," Valentine says with enthusiasm characteristic of much of the open-source community. "Leo told me about the program you could run on your computer that lets you see everything on the inside--every 1 and 0. It's like Legos for computer scientists."" Huh? Lets you see everything inside? Hello! Linux is protected... perhaps he's referring to open source, but still, it sounds rather strange.
Ah well, I guess it's just the usual suity article. -- sdt
Ehm, NOFX *is* under Fat Wreck Chords. Geez you Anonymous Coward people. Their CDs are distributed in Europe by Epitaph. In America and now and then in Europe they're FAT. NOFX was one of the first bands to appear on Mike's label. He was actually bassist at NOFX before he founded FAT.
IMHO Fat Wreck Chords *really* kicks Epitaph's ass, Epitaph (although they have their "Anti-" image) seems more like the 'marketing', commercial company to me. There are, however, a lot of good bands distributed under Epitaph, although often these are only distributed by Epitaph Europe (located in the Netherlands) in Europe and Asia, and are on cooler (mostly small labels) in the USA. See H2O and other cool punk bands.
It's pretty typical for Epitaph to do this kind of thing. Release songs as MP3s, go 'against the flow', but charge money for them. If at least they provided *some* of their songs for free, like many punk bands do, I'd think of them as a cooler company. This just reminds me of the whole Epitaph situation, be 'Anti', but do a lot of advertising about it.
This person, going by the name "stodge" is extremely dangerous. If you encounter this individual on the street or elsewhere, contact the police IMMEDIATELY. Keep as far away from it and warn others to take the appropriate measures as well.
I live in a small country called Brunei in south-eastern asia. Copyright laws don't seem very clear over here, and many shops offer videos and video-cds for about $3US (B$5) that are very often bootlegged or have those classic "Please call 1800-NO-COPYS" message on them. It's pretty much "normal" over here. A pity really.
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I have a feeling the media's gonna have fun distorting this one. I read the article at school, get into the car, turn on the radio, and what do I hear? '...this new virus that will affect your computer even if you don't open the e-mail it was sent with is called "Bubbleboy"'.
*grumble*
Hmm there's a very similar site called ExpertCentral that has about the same idea (users answer users' questions) with the option to ask for a fee for the advice given.
Hmm, I can't say anything about the situation regarding Microsoft and all. But what if this is just an attempt by Mr Parish to attract attention onto his company? Does anybody know something about the credibility of this person and his company?
Take for instance, FAQ Item 6:
6) What if I am interested in hiring you as my advisor and has this helped your business?
Just found that interesting. I don't like Microsoft's marketing strategies. I don't own stock in the company (and I don't use their products, either). I don't know anything about Perrish and Company. Just a mild speculation :). With media, especially with webpages, you can never be sure of their integrity or credibility, really, because it's so easy to be anonymous on the web.
Heh the article reminds me of this MIT hack, where students renamed the Athena workstations after chemical elements :).
So far I've used
Since my local domain is "sdtzone", the 's'es fit rather nicely :). Plus the names actually say something about the nature of the computers.
Okay, you asked for it, here it goes :) - last night I quickly hacked together a patch for the process.patched xdoom so that if you are root, it displays users instead of processes. If you wound a user, all her/his processes get reniced. If you kill a user, boom go her/his processes - *evil grin*.
Get the patch at http://ultracool.net/xdoom-userfun.patc h.gz. Apply it after you patched xdoom with xdoom-process.patch, in the same way. This includes my pnames patch btw, so don't apply it over that one if you have that (this also means that user/process-names are displayed in addition to the uid/pids).
At http://ultracool.net/xdoom-proc-pnames.gz you'll find a patch that displays process names + pids instead of just the pids. Makes it a lot more fun :). It's a quick hack, but, hey - so was the original patch. Apply it after you applied the original patch, same method.
A while ago somebody posted in the gcc 2.95 announcement article that all you had to do to get the kernel compiled fine with 2.95(.1) was add -fno-strict-aliasing to the CFLAGS in the Makefile - it works fine for me, I've been running 2.2.13 compiled with gcc 2.95.1 since a few hours now.
Here's the gcc 2.95 story, it's comment #26.
No xmms in the Audio section. Freshmeat.ORG instead of Freshmeat.NET (no, they are not the same. No Freshmeat.ORG is not likely to be anyone's favorite Linux site ;). And no BB in the demo section! BB is probably the most amazing demo I've ever seen (simply because it's in textmode ;).
:P.
;).
Sure, they offer a lot of choice, but miss out on some important stuff. And the freshmeat.org thing is just plain funny
(oh and this is meant to be *constructive* criticism
Open http://corp2.unisys.com/Images/unilogo.g if in The GIMP (1.0.4) and you'll see what I mean. This whole thing is so terribly silly. I wish patents would stop being used in such a way as many large companies do. My 2 cents.
What concerns X, I just compiled XFree 3.3.4 with gcc 2.95. It compiled fine and it runs a hellovalot faster. This is on an Pentium II-400, with Linux 2.2.10 (also compiled with gcc 2.95 and -fno-strict-aliasing). EGCS Team: Well Done! This is a *great* improvement ;). -- sdt
Hi, my name is Stefanus Du Toit, I'm a server developer at the WorldForge Project. For our code we use the GPL, but we found that it wasn't very applicable to Art (Music, Graphics, etc.) and "usual" text (e.g. rulesets). So, we licensed all of the non-code stuff under the OpenContent License (OPL). It is similar to the GPL (free speech type license) but concentrates on artwork and regular text. Go take a look at it, it might be just what you are looking for ;).
-- sdtHmm, I guess I qualify as one of those duct-tape people. ;).
I've got a cgi script (in perl of course), running on Apache, that gives me a nice listing of my songs and lets me pick the ones I want. Also it plays random songs and a kind of "radio"-streaming (it just streams random songs after each other. Currently I'm thinking of implementing song-titles via festival. All the hooks are there, I just need some time to implement it
Anyways, these things are really neat, I especially like those empeg car players.... now if I just had a car ;). -- sdt
Check out this article on the "history of Linux at IBM".
Interesting quotes:
"Every company that has played ball with Linux or any other piece of open software knows that the community is a moody one, and that a wrong move can produce at best the "Slashdot effect" (a brutal hail of attention and Web traffic prompted by a story in Slashdot, a popular forum and news source for the open-source community), and at worst a total disaster."
Do these guys actually have any idea what a 'slashdot effect' is? It's definitely not caused by moodiness.
""I was introduced to Linux even before universities," Valentine says with enthusiasm characteristic of much of the open-source community. "Leo told me about the program you could run on your computer that lets you see everything on the inside--every 1 and 0. It's like Legos for computer scientists.""
Huh? Lets you see everything inside? Hello! Linux is protected... perhaps he's referring to open source, but still, it sounds rather strange.
Ah well, I guess it's just the usual suity article. -- sdt
Ehm, NOFX *is* under Fat Wreck Chords. Geez you Anonymous Coward people. Their CDs are distributed in Europe by Epitaph. In America and now and then in Europe they're FAT. NOFX was one of the first bands to appear on Mike's label. He was actually bassist at NOFX before he founded FAT.
IMHO Fat Wreck Chords *really* kicks Epitaph's ass, Epitaph (although they have their "Anti-" image) seems more like the 'marketing', commercial company to me. There are, however, a lot of good bands distributed under Epitaph, although often these are only distributed by Epitaph Europe (located in the Netherlands) in Europe and Asia, and are on cooler (mostly small labels) in the USA. See H2O and other cool punk bands.
It's pretty typical for Epitaph to do this kind of thing. Release songs as MP3s, go 'against the flow', but charge money for them. If at least they provided *some* of their songs for free, like many punk bands do, I'd think of them as a cooler company. This just reminds me of the whole Epitaph situation, be 'Anti', but do a lot of advertising about it.
My 2E-9 cents anyways.
>the name still sucks - its a car! Doh!
THIS IS A WARNING:
This person, going by the name "stodge" is extremely dangerous. If you encounter this individual on the street or elsewhere, contact the police IMMEDIATELY. Keep as far away from it and warn others to take the appropriate measures as well.
Thank you for your time.
I live in a small country called Brunei in south-eastern asia. Copyright laws don't seem very clear over here, and many shops offer videos and video-cds for about $3US (B$5) that are very often bootlegged or have those classic "Please call 1800-NO-COPYS" message on them. It's pretty much "normal" over here. A pity really.