now all you need is a routing application, supporting this key as a routing parameter. and this limitation correctly tagged everywhere. and all roads drawn;)
but in general, infrastructure is pretty much there, road coverage is quite good in many areas... maybe it works for you:)
ok, so it's not me. opera dialogs are SLOW. i use opera as my primary browser for years, and i don't understand why is it so awfully, incredibly slow. simply opening makes you think it missed the click. clicking 'ok' makes you think they make it so slow deliberately.
it's not the only dialogue that is dog slow - opening and closing tools->advanced->cookies both take 9 seconds.
i would imagine web developers would be mighty pissed off when debugging cookie related problems.
fair enough. applying the skills and knowledge is quite a requirement as well. but that does not make "working for work's sake" a more desirable skill. on the other hand we have people who do tasks manually like separating files in directories by their filename patterns. for years. they have no desire or skill to improve this process - writing a script to do that properly takes fifteen minutes. that's a simplified example, but i think both is needed - thriving for new knowledge and applying it for everyday tasks.
except if the electrician suspiciously refuses to talk about anything specific regarding the planned installation, which makes you question whether he really is electrician, whether his references, letters & sertificates are just fake, and whether the intelligent talk is just scripted.
now, some extensive testing for a job isn't sensible, i believe. that belongs to certification process. on the other hand, few simple tasks or questions with an absolute maximal time spent being some 30 minutes - that might not be so unreasonable.
i don't code personally. i think my biggest achievement was rudimentary phonebook for personal usage in php, looking in the php manual all the time. still, some people i knew had even less coding skills than me put things like "php expert coding" on their cv. now wtf ? i rank my skills in coding as nonexistent.
so how do you propose to weed out bastards who claim nonexistent skills ? some 15 minutes test would work quite well, i believe.
so somebody who is actually learning outside of their everyday requirements, somebody who is raising their qualification and is able to apply this knowledge when it is needed... is the worst candidate for you ? you would be more interested in somebody so narrowly focused and unwilling to learn new things unless forced, only because he doesn't "browse the internet" ?
i would say that an employee that has the desire to learn, has learned something outside their primary work requirements AND knows how to apply that in real world scenario is the most valuable one of those 3 generalised categories.
a great project - thanks. i've been longing for an opensource camera for a long time - i think ever since i got my hands on the first digital camera. while chdk really makes life more bearable, having opensource firmware on a decent hardware (open hardware schematics would be a welcome bonus as well)... i think that would pretty much settle my next purchase. i chose canon for my latest camera mostly because of chdk anyway.
hopefully your project will bring this goal closer:)
also i have scripts to create hackish single-cd version of slackware install, although since version 11 or 12 it doesn't fit with x and kde on a single cd anymore, only the "server version" does:)
I'm not fond of Slackware in a production environment because upgrading and package maintenance is a pain in the ass. Instead of typing (for example) rpm -q *program*, you have to teach people how to determine which binary version is present, where it is
$ ls/var/log/packages/*mysql* $ whereis mysql
and coach them in installing new ones
# installpkg package.tgz|tbz|txz
and making sure the dependencies are okay
now finally something true;) nothing will prevent you from installing a new package to discover that it doesn't run because of some missing library except your experience and trial & error.
I'm not terribly fond of "off the shelf" rpms, but it's easy to make my own
it's also easy to create slackware packages
and then put them in my own repository, and push them out to every machine that needs one. It's a simple and effective infrastructure, and one that can be grasped by minions who are not capable of scratch building binaries with weird dependencies.
first, true - slackware has no official repositry management, although there are several solutions included in latest versions. i personally haven't tried them as i rely on my own simple scripts...
second, if minions can't grasp building binaries on slackware, they won't be able to create those rpm packages as well. on slackware you have one large package, while on other distros you would need those -dev packages, which might be even harder to grasp for them - "hey, i have curl installed !!11!"
not true regarding sles. i've set up and run several sles servers without x installed, and it's a very enjoyable experience, mostly because of their approach to yast (i remember them wondering whether unified gui/cli yast experience was worth the hassle - is anybody from suse is reading, it's totally worth it). some problems i experienced with sles 10 was base packages depending on some gnome icons set. wtf ?
rhel, i had slightly more interesting experiences. for their configuration, some of the official tools were not available in cli versions in latest rhel releases, gui only. it was possible to figure out changes by running gui tools and then comparing changes to files, but it was annoying.
now what really sucks at the "MUSTHAVEGUI" area on linux... is oracle. at least that's what our dbas told - it required x for installation. er, wtf ? database requires x to set up ? what kind of techies work at oracle ?
i'm an opera user on linux for many years now. 1. flash on linux is broken in any browser. that's why i don't even have it installed in opera - if i really want to see some flash stuff, i fire up firefox (haha). additional benefit - less ads. 2. i didn't use gmail much, but i used it some more recently - seemed to work perfectly; 3. slashdot, hehe. slashdot randomly breaks and them gets fixed again, although i'm not completely sure it has ever worked completely without problems ever since they javascripted it like shit. while it can be used, some problems annoy a lot "_
do you hint that before media was unbiased an informative ? isn't that just an example of "oh, they built things so much more sturdy back in the age" ?
interesting to see junik involved (i'm from latvia). i remember them as a shoddy provider back in nineties when internet just started picking up here. some cases of their customer mismanagement (even for that time, not that long after ussr breakup) floated on the public mailing lists. are they involved with rbn ? absolutely no idea, but they aren't a company i'd say "no way" regarding such accusations.
are you trolling or just plain stupid ? you have no idea about the basic facts regarding the thing you are commenting on. i'd expect most slashdot readers to know what centos is, even if they haven't ever used it themselves (like me). i would expect the rest to go and quickly find out, especially before commenting. hint - centos is an opensource project.
while there are motorcyclists who are plain stupid and who speed between the lanes so that often a car avoiding some object on a road threatens to smash them, i've never understood drivers who on purpose prevent cyclists to pass. i mean, he's not going to cause bigger congestion in front of you, you lose nothing by letting them pass - i believe such drivers can be separated in two groups - truly ignorant who just don't see the bike, and assholes. i'd like to think the former are the majority, but i'm not sure...
actually, if you want to go faster, get those speed limits changed. really. until then, appreciate when somebody lets you pass, say thanks and move on. if somebody is driving at the allowed speed, do not think you own the road or are the "king of the road". moving to let you pass is not your right or privilege, it'sa favour from that person, and it should be treated exactly like that.
now, somebody blocking a lane, going notably slower than the speed limit... that's rude and bad, mmkay.
i was opening coment section of this article solely to search for carmageddon, find nothing, and then write about how that probably is the only not-that-massively-popular game i'd love to see remade better than ever. oh, i failed:)
stainless did a pretty great job with c1 & c2 ("mommy !"), those were very interesting and for the time - revolutionary games. while c2 was a slight 'regression', it was still a very cool game (i still have image of it somewhere, although it doesn't quite run in wine). now, c3/tdr2k... wtf were they thinking ? because the two first were so cool i made it through the singleplayer campaign, but damn... what a waste of time. the mission with the large vehicle you had to friggin' jump onto and _drop bombs in openings_... with a fucking car ? was that like, quake, just with cars ?
i remember spending countless hours with c1 (on a neighbours computer, it had 16 megs of ram and was quite beefy for the time), same with c2 - and we played these on lan, maxing out at 12 players (although i think it could go to 16 ?). on ipx ! the rush to crash somebody against a wall or a post, the excitement to see somebody rushing to crush you... only to do some spin in the last moment and see them splattered on the wall or split in two against some sharp corner... oh, the memories.
so i second this one massively. seeing a well done, low hw requirement carmageddon release would get me back to playing, at least for some time - haven't had time and desire to do that for some years now. if stainless/sci/interplay is thinking about something similar to tdr2k, they can produce it, burn it on a flexible cd, roll it up and stick it up you-know-where.
actually, i was just cleaning up my old files today, and stumbled upon a file named "carmawishlist.txt", which was something i had written with my wishes for carmageddon-next (yeah, yeah, i had those illusions producers care;) )
according to mtime, it is last edited on 2003.01.03. probably a bad new year's eve:) looking at the contents now, i can agree with all of it, although i have new ideas as well. i'll just post some snippets from the ideas-2002-2003-something, without much new content added:)
make it a driving game - less powerups, less powerful powerups. for example, opponent repulsificator was too much a killer.
i'm standing by this even now. c1 was better in that regard.
balance it - more equal powerups (i'll note opprep again), tested and balanced multiplayer versions of levels
again, c2 was very unbalanced, more than c1 was
support it - if there is a bug, fix it. release patches for every small issue.
this was quite a problem with both c1 and c2. many bugs were left unfixed. frankly, i'd love to see something done with carmageddon series to what id software does - release a game, opensource it some years later. that way community can pick it up, if it's any good. if company releases a good enough sequel, series has a massive pr and notable following, which can work towards the commercial success of the next release. i probably have to mention that i would only spend my money if it would run natively on linux and the price was reasonable:)
create levels that are fun to drive - not fun to run/jump/whatever. more free space, flat surfaces. 1st carma was excellent in that way.
that.
port carma 1 and 2 levels to new carma - there was unofficial carma1 levelpack for carma2 - it was cool to see old levels "oh, i had so cool crash here.. oh, this curve was excellent in multiplayer... oh yes, this mountain.. " etc:) problem was that these levels were simply converted - no breakable objects, driving into water resulted in suddendeath
well, actually, palm might embrace other existing software that is way, way more friendly towards them. as amarok developers mentioned in akademy (http://www.kdenews.org/2009/07/16/business-free), amarok, as a crossplatform music manager/player, would be better suited for palm and would allow them to out-feature itunes with little resources.
while i'm glad to see refunds gaining some more publicity and i'm super glad to see systems with linux preinstalled, this argument isn't that good - i mean, hp doesn't manufacture hdd, cpu and most other components of the computers they sell.
if you have problems resuming sessions, see this information - http://fugitivethought.com/blog.php?action=vewi&blog_id=72. it's a wonderful advice that has helped me dozens of times as i run nx over a crappy gprs link. i'd love to see it resolved in freenx, and i have even considered writing a script that fixes such sessions... but i haven't gotten to that yet:)
note, for me such missing sessions have gone both in failed/ and closed/ directories.
haha, 2mb/s... try x over gprs, w/o edge. no, i'm not joking. with nx it's almost usable, and hopefully some day nx technology will go into xorg itself:)
that sounds a lot like what swedish pirateparty is doing in eu right now - their stance is that personal use is not subject to copyright restrictions, among other things (which, i'm sure, you already were aware of:) )
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well, openstreetmap has ability to record maxheight limits. it's right here - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access#Size_and_statutory_restrictions.
now all you need is a routing application, supporting this key as a routing parameter. ;)
and this limitation correctly tagged everywhere. and all roads drawn
but in general, infrastructure is pretty much there, road coverage is quite good in many areas... maybe it works for you :)
ok, so it's not me. opera dialogs are SLOW. i use opera as my primary browser for years, and i don't understand why is it so awfully, incredibly slow.
simply opening makes you think it missed the click. clicking 'ok' makes you think they make it so slow deliberately.
it's not the only dialogue that is dog slow - opening and closing tools->advanced->cookies both take 9 seconds.
i would imagine web developers would be mighty pissed off when debugging cookie related problems.
fair enough. applying the skills and knowledge is quite a requirement as well. but that does not make "working for work's sake" a more desirable skill.
on the other hand we have people who do tasks manually like separating files in directories by their filename patterns. for years. they have no desire or skill to improve this process - writing a script to do that properly takes fifteen minutes.
that's a simplified example, but i think both is needed - thriving for new knowledge and applying it for everyday tasks.
except if the electrician suspiciously refuses to talk about anything specific regarding the planned installation, which makes you question whether he really is electrician, whether his references, letters & sertificates are just fake, and whether the intelligent talk is just scripted.
now, some extensive testing for a job isn't sensible, i believe. that belongs to certification process. on the other hand, few simple tasks or questions with an absolute maximal time spent being some 30 minutes - that might not be so unreasonable.
i don't code personally. i think my biggest achievement was rudimentary phonebook for personal usage in php, looking in the php manual all the time. still, some people i knew had even less coding skills than me put things like "php expert coding" on their cv. now wtf ? i rank my skills in coding as nonexistent.
so how do you propose to weed out bastards who claim nonexistent skills ? some 15 minutes test would work quite well, i believe.
so somebody who is actually learning outside of their everyday requirements, somebody who is raising their qualification and is able to apply this knowledge when it is needed... is the worst candidate for you ?
you would be more interested in somebody so narrowly focused and unwilling to learn new things unless forced, only because he doesn't "browse the internet" ?
i would say that an employee that has the desire to learn, has learned something outside their primary work requirements AND knows how to apply that in real world scenario is the most valuable one of those 3 generalised categories.
any recent & polished linux distribution allows to "mount" almost all cameras as drives - even those not supporting mass storage mode.
a great project - thanks.
i've been longing for an opensource camera for a long time - i think ever since i got my hands on the first digital camera.
while chdk really makes life more bearable, having opensource firmware on a decent hardware (open hardware schematics would be a welcome bonus as well)... i think that would pretty much settle my next purchase. i chose canon for my latest camera mostly because of chdk anyway.
hopefully your project will bring this goal closer :)
http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php ? although slightly outdated at times, quite minimalistic.
also i have scripts to create hackish single-cd version of slackware install, although since version 11 or 12 it doesn't fit with x and kde on a single cd anymore, only the "server version" does :)
I'm not fond of Slackware in a production environment because upgrading and package maintenance is a pain in the ass. Instead of typing (for example) rpm -q *program*, you have to teach people how to determine which binary version is present, where it is
$ ls /var/log/packages/*mysql*
$ whereis mysql
and coach them in installing new ones
# installpkg package.tgz|tbz|txz
and making sure the dependencies are okay
now finally something true ;)
nothing will prevent you from installing a new package to discover that it doesn't run because of some missing library except your experience and trial & error.
I'm not terribly fond of "off the shelf" rpms, but it's easy to make my own
it's also easy to create slackware packages
and then put them in my own repository, and push them out to every machine that needs one. It's a simple and effective infrastructure, and one that can be grasped by minions who are not capable of scratch building binaries with weird dependencies.
first, true - slackware has no official repositry management, although there are several solutions included in latest versions. i personally haven't tried them as i rely on my own simple scripts...
second, if minions can't grasp building binaries on slackware, they won't be able to create those rpm packages as well. on slackware you have one large package, while on other distros you would need those -dev packages, which might be even harder to grasp for them - "hey, i have curl installed !!11!"
not true regarding sles. i've set up and run several sles servers without x installed, and it's a very enjoyable experience, mostly because of their approach to yast (i remember them wondering whether unified gui/cli yast experience was worth the hassle - is anybody from suse is reading, it's totally worth it). some problems i experienced with sles 10 was base packages depending on some gnome icons set. wtf ?
rhel, i had slightly more interesting experiences. for their configuration, some of the official tools were not available in cli versions in latest rhel releases, gui only. it was possible to figure out changes by running gui tools and then comparing changes to files, but it was annoying.
now what really sucks at the "MUSTHAVEGUI" area on linux... is oracle. at least that's what our dbas told - it required x for installation. er, wtf ? database requires x to set up ? what kind of techies work at oracle ?
i'm an opera user on linux for many years now.
1. flash on linux is broken in any browser. that's why i don't even have it installed in opera - if i really want to see some flash stuff, i fire up firefox (haha). additional benefit - less ads.
2. i didn't use gmail much, but i used it some more recently - seemed to work perfectly;
3. slashdot, hehe. slashdot randomly breaks and them gets fixed again, although i'm not completely sure it has ever worked completely without problems ever since they javascripted it like shit. while it can be used, some problems annoy a lot "_
do you hint that before media was unbiased an informative ?
isn't that just an example of "oh, they built things so much more sturdy back in the age" ?
interesting to see junik involved (i'm from latvia).
i remember them as a shoddy provider back in nineties when internet just started picking up here. some cases of their customer mismanagement (even for that time, not that long after ussr breakup) floated on the public mailing lists.
are they involved with rbn ? absolutely no idea, but they aren't a company i'd say "no way" regarding such accusations.
are you trolling or just plain stupid ?
you have no idea about the basic facts regarding the thing you are commenting on.
i'd expect most slashdot readers to know what centos is, even if they haven't ever used it themselves (like me). i would expect the rest to go and quickly find out, especially before commenting.
hint - centos is an opensource project.
while there are motorcyclists who are plain stupid and who speed between the lanes so that often a car avoiding some object on a road threatens to smash them, i've never understood drivers who on purpose prevent cyclists to pass. i mean, he's not going to cause bigger congestion in front of you, you lose nothing by letting them pass - i believe such drivers can be separated in two groups - truly ignorant who just don't see the bike, and assholes. i'd like to think the former are the majority, but i'm not sure...
actually, if you want to go faster, get those speed limits changed. really.
until then, appreciate when somebody lets you pass, say thanks and move on. if somebody is driving at the allowed speed, do not think you own the road or are the "king of the road".
moving to let you pass is not your right or privilege, it'sa favour from that person, and it should be treated exactly like that.
now, somebody blocking a lane, going notably slower than the speed limit... that's rude and bad, mmkay.
i was opening coment section of this article solely to search for carmageddon, find nothing, and then write about how that probably is the only not-that-massively-popular game i'd love to see remade better than ever. oh, i failed :)
stainless did a pretty great job with c1 & c2 ("mommy !"), those were very interesting and for the time - revolutionary games. while c2 was a slight 'regression', it was still a very cool game (i still have image of it somewhere, although it doesn't quite run in wine).
now, c3/tdr2k... wtf were they thinking ? because the two first were so cool i made it through the singleplayer campaign, but damn... what a waste of time. the mission with the large vehicle you had to friggin' jump onto and _drop bombs in openings_... with a fucking car ? was that like, quake, just with cars ?
i remember spending countless hours with c1 (on a neighbours computer, it had 16 megs of ram and was quite beefy for the time), same with c2 - and we played these on lan, maxing out at 12 players (although i think it could go to 16 ?). on ipx !
the rush to crash somebody against a wall or a post, the excitement to see somebody rushing to crush you... only to do some spin in the last moment and see them splattered on the wall or split in two against some sharp corner... oh, the memories.
so i second this one massively. seeing a well done, low hw requirement carmageddon release would get me back to playing, at least for some time - haven't had time and desire to do that for some years now.
if stainless/sci/interplay is thinking about something similar to tdr2k, they can produce it, burn it on a flexible cd, roll it up and stick it up you-know-where.
actually, i was just cleaning up my old files today, and stumbled upon a file named "carmawishlist.txt", which was something i had written with my wishes for carmageddon-next (yeah, yeah, i had those illusions producers care ;) )
according to mtime, it is last edited on 2003.01.03. probably a bad new year's eve :) :)
looking at the contents now, i can agree with all of it, although i have new ideas as well. i'll just post some snippets from the ideas-2002-2003-something, without much new content added
i'm standing by this even now. c1 was better in that regard.
again, c2 was very unbalanced, more than c1 was
this was quite a problem with both c1 and c2. many bugs were left unfixed. frankly, i'd love to see something done with carmageddon series to what id software does - release a game, opensource it some years later. that way community can pick it up, if it's any good. if company releases a good enough sequel, series has a massive pr and notable following, which can work towards the commercial success of the next release. i probably have to mention that i would only spend my money if it would run natively on linux and the price was reasonable :)
that.
oh my. that levelpack was AWESOME for the nost
well, actually, palm might embrace other existing software that is way, way more friendly towards them.
as amarok developers mentioned in akademy (http://www.kdenews.org/2009/07/16/business-free), amarok, as a crossplatform music manager/player, would be better suited for palm and would allow them to out-feature itunes with little resources.
while i'm glad to see refunds gaining some more publicity and i'm super glad to see systems with linux preinstalled, this argument isn't that good - i mean, hp doesn't manufacture hdd, cpu and most other components of the computers they sell.
it's km/h, btw :)
submitter also isn't quite versed in that metric thingie
if you have problems resuming sessions, see this information - http://fugitivethought.com/blog.php?action=vewi&blog_id=72. :)
it's a wonderful advice that has helped me dozens of times as i run nx over a crappy gprs link. i'd love to see it resolved in freenx, and i have even considered writing a script that fixes such sessions... but i haven't gotten to that yet
note, for me such missing sessions have gone both in failed/ and closed/ directories.
hmm. nx on servers ?
i don't have x on my servers at all, you insensitive clod !
haha, 2mb/s... try x over gprs, w/o edge. no, i'm not joking. :)
with nx it's almost usable, and hopefully some day nx technology will go into xorg itself
so will the video feed be accessible for the public ? you know, so that corrupt politicians and cops can be spotted...
that sounds a lot like what swedish pirateparty is doing in eu right now - their stance is that personal use is not subject to copyright restrictions, among other things (which, i'm sure, you already were aware of :) )