Yeah, I grabbed an old machine and slapped debian on it for my music collection.
But are those PHP frontends really useful? I just use command line and SFTP to upload/organize my music. And building the.m3u playlist was a six-line shellscript. Building the photo thumbnails similarly.
I did look at the three websites you mentioned, but didn't spot any features that looked both useful and easier than command-line/SFTP.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of CmdTaco's links feels wrong to me. He just links the wrong words. As you say, the anchor should tell you what you're going to get when you click on this. In this case you're going to get a report written by such-and-such journal about such-and-such a topic. So the anchor should cover both these things.
CmdrTaco will link the words "proper anchor texting". But such a link should be purely about "proper anchor texting" -- it should be a link to what wikipedia or w3c says is proper anchor texting.
Within Word, if you type in "header spacing of last few pages" it gives you about 20 help topics.
If you read one of the topics but it doesn't help, then click the "NO this information was not helpful" button. It asks you how they can make the information more helpful, and you type in your frustration, click Submit, and it goes back to them. They really do read these! And pay particular attention to them!
But if none of the topics looked useful, then click "Can't find it". That takes you to a web page with discussion groups and, at the bottom, another link "Was this information helpful" and one for "Contact Us".
And again, they really pay attention to these feedbacks -- the people who go to the trouble of writing down their frustrations and problems tend to be particularly helpful.
Just to calibrate, how much spam to you consider too much?
My personal email account gets about 20 genuine emails a day and 1 spam. Would this be acceptable? My email address has been advertised on usenet and webpages since 1998. I use spamassassin with bayesian filtering.
But let's put it a second way. GMail is a second-rate mail service because it doesn't provide IMAP. This is an ugly hack to fix an ugly problem. It'd be better (ie. more elegant, more powerful, more user-friendly) to upgrade to a real email provider and a phone that does IMAP.
Email-via-web-pages seems a terrible idea of cellphones. My Sony Ericsson T616 does email via IMAP. It works great, the phone has more knowledge about emails and how to display them, it integrates into the phone's contact list, the phone can poll every 5 minutes for mail, and it displays a little icon at the top of the screen showing how many emails you have waiting.
This is surely The Right Way To Do It. And mobile gmail is an unpleasant compromise for less-able phones.
I set my Sony Ericsson T616 to check IMAP mail every five minutes. On a Cingular "unlimited data" plan for $15/month (being unlimited the frequent polls don't matter).
In the US in 1997 a total of about $2000 per person per year was spent on advertising. I can only imagine it's gone up since then. Of course the costs are passed on to consumers -- it becomes like a LARGE invisible tax that we all pay for something that we detest. Advertising here in the US is seriously out of control.
You will need 3 files to be placed into your civ4 game folder (where Civilization4.exe resides)
A single zipped pack is attached to this post (see bottom of the post), or you may visit this URL (thanks to phalzyr for this mirror): http://209.174.48.134/downloads/harkfix.zip
'zlib1.dll' just loads 'PatchByHarkonnen.dll', otherwise it was compiled from most recent zlib source from zlib.net
Note that it is necessary to download and replace zlib1.dll (either via.zip or solely), otherwise memory fix won't have any effect because PatchByHarkonnen.dll won't be loaded.
I recommend to turn AGP on (SMARTGART for ATi cards for example) and set AGP apperture size to maximum in BIOS (if you don't know how, just don't care). Your AGP setting might be off because it helped some people earlier to keep game non-crashing, so they still might have it off.
This patch is primarily for those who have at least 64Mb (better 128Mb) of video memory with preferably TnL card above GeForce2. You may give it a try even with lower specs - some people reported it had effect on very low-end machines.
First of all please follow these steps. Note that some steps are about decreasing graphics quality. This is not required, it is just to make sure that your first start with my memory-fix to be success, so you may increase graphics quality later when you get it running for the first time.
So, let's go:
1) Modify "Civiliation4.ini" - set "D3D9Query = 1", "DynamicAnimPaging = 0". If you have trouble finding/editing this file, don't care and skip to step 2. 2) If you have 1 Gb of memory or above, skip past step 9. 3) Run the game (if it doesn't run, follow past step 9) 4) Set it to windowed mode (not must-do, but preferable to get stable first launch) 5) Set anti-aliasing to 0 (also not 100% required) 6) Set all low/high settings on the left to 'low' (same as above) 7) Check 'Low resolution textures' (same as above) 8) Then you may check anything on the right, i.e. effects and animations. 9) Exit the game
If the game hangs during 'Initializing Python' step, just restart it and hold down 'Shift' key, so it updates its files cache. This thing is not about my patch, this is something about fresh python24.dll sources...
If you could do all of these steps, try loading some of your huge savegames. If the game crashed or graphics becomes damanged (main menu globe and sun), set 'insane_mode = 0' in Harkonnen.ini file and try again.
!IMPORTANT!
If the game crashes during loading (and crash comes from PatchByHarkonnen.dll if you click details), try recommendation from this post on this thread (post #50): http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpo...0&postcount =50 It says to turn off ATI Tray Tools software. RivaTuner appears to be ok with my fix (thanks to Kolyana for pointing that out).
Also, xFire coming with 1.09 patch is also causing this crash according to a lot of data sent by filterban per my mail requests. This will be fixed with the next release, and thanks to filterban for his help! It's enough just to quit xFire, no need to uninsntall it. And, again, it's temporary solution until next release of my fix.
I'm the same: Windows, linksys firewall, no virus protection software running, use IE but with an ad-rewriting proxy.
No viruses in the past five years.
How do I know? to I remotely log into my corporate network, they require eTrust antivirus to be turned on and have done a scan. So once every few months my computer gets an eTrust scan.
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
We're currently bombarded with ads. Everywhere. In 1995 america about $2000 was spent PER PERSON PER YEAR on advertising. I don't want to know about every product in existence. That wouldn't help me at all. I *NEVER* make purchases as a consequence of targetted ads. NEVER. All my purchases come from researching the field, from me searching out the ads rather than the other way round, from asking friends or browsing a shop's selection. Maybe people who grew up in America don't realise just how ridiculously over-the-top it is here.
I agree entirely. Google is an advertising firm. It's sole purpose is to collect data about us and show us more advertising. That's evil from the ground up.
I think they advertise THEMSELVES so well that collectively the internet community has the wool pulled over its eyes.
In any case, I understand that html-rewriting is already a commonly-used Firefox extension anyway. (not part of the core program!) (I think it's happier as a general proxy, rather than firefox-specific.)
"Seems obvious"? If a thing has been researched, I refer to the research. If it hasn't, I have to go by instinct but with less confidence in my instinct.
"Fully inconclusive"? Only if you read slashdot. Not if you read the literature.
The conscious mind normally refers to the frontal cortex. That's where the subjective experience is. The bit that posts to slashdot is using this and the linguistic/analytical bits of the brain. Which are physically distinct from the neuronal-connection-strengthing happening elsewhere in the brain.
I'm sure the actual actions do translate to some extent. Here's a minor example. When we experience a cat, the "cat" bits of our brain light up. This is true whether the cat is on a video-screen, in a book or in real life. If we play a cat-killing game, it will inevitably trigger the same cat centers that are triggered by real life cats.
I think the same is true for killing. You say that killing in a video game is fundamentally different from killing in real life. I agree that they're very different, and more different than the video cat vs. real cat. But not completely different. And also, I think the general aggression responses are more like cats than killing.
"Unable to tell" appropriate situations? Sure, most of us can tell, most of the time. Can all of us tell all the time? No. If 50% of society has 1% stronger bonds between cats and violence, there'll surely be an increase which slips through the appropriate-situation filter. Not enough to trigger legal culpability or to call someone a psychopath, but enough I think to make a real and undesirable change on society.
"Introducing context"? You paint it as black and white, either able to introduce context or psycopathically not.
There's a much bigger grey area between contexts. Words like "grok" and "n00b" carry over from online computer discussion into everyday computer life. (well, "grok" carried over from Heinlein into everyday life into computers and back). We only call it a disorder if it's extreme.
But everyone does smaller inappropriate context mixes all the time. Trilingual people speak in the wrong language. People make inappropriate rude contexts in polite social circles.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I grabbed an old machine and slapped debian on it for my music collection.
.m3u playlist was a six-line shellscript. Building the photo thumbnails similarly.
But are those PHP frontends really useful? I just use command line and SFTP to upload/organize my music. And building the
I did look at the three websites you mentioned, but didn't spot any features that looked both useful and easier than command-line/SFTP.
I think you've given the best answer.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of CmdTaco's links feels wrong to me. He just links the wrong words. As you say, the anchor should tell you what you're going to get when you click on this. In this case you're going to get a report written by such-and-such journal about such-and-such a topic. So the anchor should cover both these things.
CmdrTaco will link the words "proper anchor texting". But such a link should be purely about "proper anchor texting" -- it should be a link to what wikipedia or w3c says is proper anchor texting.
Within Word, if you type in "header spacing of last few pages" it gives you about 20 help topics.
If you read one of the topics but it doesn't help, then click the "NO this information was not helpful" button. It asks you how they can make the information more helpful, and you type in your frustration, click Submit, and it goes back to them. They really do read these! And pay particular attention to them!
But if none of the topics looked useful, then click "Can't find it". That takes you to a web page with discussion groups and, at the bottom, another link "Was this information helpful" and one for "Contact Us".
And again, they really pay attention to these feedbacks -- the people who go to the trouble of writing down their frustrations and problems tend to be particularly helpful.
Thank you! That was a fascinating post.
Cingular's dataplan is called "MEdianet". It costs $15/mo for 10mb of data, and $20/mo for unlimited data.
(confusingly, the "rateplan" section of their website lists a "dataplan". But that's different).
Risk homeostasis. If there is a spike welded to steering wheels, people will adjust their behavior to the overall same level of risk.
Net result: same number of car injuries and fatalities, but with lower speeds overall.
Personally I enjoy high speeds! So I'll embrace safety features, because they let me drive faster while keeping the same level of risk.
Just to calibrate, how much spam to you consider too much?
My personal email account gets about 20 genuine emails a day and 1 spam. Would this be acceptable? My email address has been advertised on usenet and webpages since 1998. I use spamassassin with bayesian filtering.
Sure, it's about gmail being accessible.
But let's put it a second way. GMail is a second-rate mail service because it doesn't provide IMAP. This is an ugly hack to fix an ugly problem. It'd be better (ie. more elegant, more powerful, more user-friendly) to upgrade to a real email provider and a phone that does IMAP.
Email-via-web-pages seems a terrible idea of cellphones. My Sony Ericsson T616 does email via IMAP. It works great, the phone has more knowledge about emails and how to display them, it integrates into the phone's contact list, the phone can poll every 5 minutes for mail, and it displays a little icon at the top of the screen showing how many emails you have waiting.
This is surely The Right Way To Do It. And mobile gmail is an unpleasant compromise for less-able phones.
Could you make your phone poll more frequently?
I set my Sony Ericsson T616 to check IMAP mail every five minutes. On a Cingular "unlimited data" plan for $15/month (being unlimited the frequent polls don't matter).
In the US in 1997 a total of about $2000 per person per year was spent on advertising. I can only imagine it's gone up since then. Of course the costs are passed on to consumers -- it becomes like a LARGE invisible tax that we all pay for something that we detest. Advertising here in the US is seriously out of control.
The patch is here:
.zip or solely), otherwise memory fix won't have any effect because PatchByHarkonnen.dll won't be loaded.
http://209.174.48.134/downloads/harkfix.zip
Copying out what the author wrote about it:
You will need 3 files to be placed into your civ4 game folder
(where Civilization4.exe resides)
A single zipped pack is attached to this post (see bottom of the post), or you may visit this URL (thanks to phalzyr for this mirror):
http://209.174.48.134/downloads/harkfix.zip
Or you may want to download those files separately:
http://www.sampo.ru/~headden/zlib1.dll
http://www.sampo.ru/~headden/Patch.v...yHarkonnen. dll
http://www.sampo.ru/~headden/Patch.v01/Harkonnen.i ni
'zlib1.dll' just loads 'PatchByHarkonnen.dll', otherwise it was compiled from most recent zlib source from zlib.net
Note that it is necessary to download and replace zlib1.dll (either via
I recommend to turn AGP on (SMARTGART for ATi cards for example) and set AGP apperture size to maximum in BIOS (if you don't know how, just don't care). Your AGP setting might be off because it helped some people earlier to keep game non-crashing, so they still might have it off.
This patch is primarily for those who have at least 64Mb (better 128Mb) of video memory with preferably TnL card above GeForce2. You may give it a try even with lower specs - some people reported it had effect on very low-end machines.
First of all please follow these steps. Note that some steps are about decreasing graphics quality. This is not required, it is just to make sure that your first start with my memory-fix to be success, so you may increase graphics quality later when you get it running for the first time.
So, let's go:
1) Modify "Civiliation4.ini" - set "D3D9Query = 1", "DynamicAnimPaging = 0". If you have trouble finding/editing this file, don't care and skip to step 2.
2) If you have 1 Gb of memory or above, skip past step 9.
3) Run the game (if it doesn't run, follow past step 9)
4) Set it to windowed mode (not must-do, but preferable to get stable first launch)
5) Set anti-aliasing to 0 (also not 100% required)
6) Set all low/high settings on the left to 'low' (same as above)
7) Check 'Low resolution textures' (same as above)
8) Then you may check anything on the right, i.e. effects and animations.
9) Exit the game
If the game hangs during 'Initializing Python' step, just restart it and hold down 'Shift' key, so it updates its files cache. This thing is not about my patch, this is something about fresh python24.dll sources...
If you could do all of these steps, try loading some of your huge savegames. If the game crashed or graphics becomes damanged (main menu globe and sun), set 'insane_mode = 0' in Harkonnen.ini file and try again.
!IMPORTANT!
If the game crashes during loading (and crash comes from PatchByHarkonnen.dll if you click details), try recommendation from this post on this thread (post #50):
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpo...0&postcount =50
It says to turn off ATI Tray Tools software. RivaTuner appears to be ok with my fix (thanks to Kolyana for pointing that out).
Also, xFire coming with 1.09 patch is also causing this crash according to a lot of data sent by filterban per my mail requests. This will be fixed with the next release, and thanks to filterban for his help! It's enough just to quit xFire, no need to uninsntall it. And, again, it's temporary solution until next release of my fix.
!END-OF-IMPORTANT!
Subscribe this thread if yo
I'm the same: Windows, linksys firewall, no virus protection software running, use IE but with an ad-rewriting proxy.
No viruses in the past five years.
How do I know? to I remotely log into my corporate network, they require eTrust antivirus to be turned on and have done a scan. So once every few months my computer gets an eTrust scan.
from Futurama:
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
We're currently bombarded with ads. Everywhere. In 1995 america about $2000 was spent PER PERSON PER YEAR on advertising. I don't want to know about every product in existence. That wouldn't help me at all. I *NEVER* make purchases as a consequence of targetted ads. NEVER. All my purchases come from researching the field, from me searching out the ads rather than the other way round, from asking friends or browsing a shop's selection. Maybe people who grew up in America don't realise just how ridiculously over-the-top it is here.
I agree entirely. Google is an advertising firm. It's sole purpose is to collect data about us and show us more advertising. That's evil from the ground up.
I think they advertise THEMSELVES so well that collectively the internet community has the wool pulled over its eyes.
That was fascinating. Thank you!
Ironic... we like writing code, empathise with the Bastard Operator from Hell, use clue-sticks, hate lusers.
Yet we champion open-source where our livelihoods come from supporting users, rather than closed-source where our livelihoods come from writing code.
Damn. That posts makes me want to quit work early (11am) and go home to play more Civilization 4.
Theory: you
Practice: I have *NEVER* suffered an IE exploit.
In any case, I understand that html-rewriting is already a commonly-used Firefox extension anyway. (not part of the core program!) (I think it's happier as a general proxy, rather than firefox-specific.)
Knowledgable? Practice good security? I'd say the same about myself, and I've *NEVER* been hit by an IE exploit.
I'd say a fundamental part of good practice with IE is to use it with an HTML rewriter. I use "The Proxomitron".
IIS learns a few tricks from apache? Next headline I expect to read: "OpenOffice copies absolutely everything off Office"
"Seems obvious"? If a thing has been researched, I refer to the research. If it hasn't, I have to go by instinct but with less confidence in my instinct.
"Fully inconclusive"? Only if you read slashdot. Not if you read the literature.
No I don't mean that, and no I never said that an increase in one set leads to a decrease in another sense.
The conscious mind normally refers to the frontal cortex. That's where the subjective experience is. The bit that posts to slashdot is using this and the linguistic/analytical bits of the brain. Which are physically distinct from the neuronal-connection-strengthing happening elsewhere in the brain.
I'm sure the actual actions do translate to some extent. Here's a minor example. When we experience a cat, the "cat" bits of our brain light up. This is true whether the cat is on a video-screen, in a book or in real life. If we play a cat-killing game, it will inevitably trigger the same cat centers that are triggered by real life cats.
I think the same is true for killing. You say that killing in a video game is fundamentally different from killing in real life. I agree that they're very different, and more different than the video cat vs. real cat. But not completely different. And also, I think the general aggression responses are more like cats than killing.
"Unable to tell" appropriate situations? Sure, most of us can tell, most of the time. Can all of us tell all the time? No. If 50% of society has 1% stronger bonds between cats and violence, there'll surely be an increase which slips through the appropriate-situation filter. Not enough to trigger legal culpability or to call someone a psychopath, but enough I think to make a real and undesirable change on society.
"Introducing context"? You paint it as black and white, either able to introduce context or psycopathically not.
There's a much bigger grey area between contexts. Words like "grok" and "n00b" carry over from online computer discussion into everyday computer life. (well, "grok" carried over from Heinlein into everyday life into computers and back). We only call it a disorder if it's extreme.
But everyone does smaller inappropriate context mixes all the time. Trilingual people speak in the wrong language. People make inappropriate rude contexts in polite social circles.