UltraEdit may have grown a bit, but it was one of the first to have Open/Save via FTP which is an essential feature that I use daily and can not live without. I will have to check out those you named, but you could save me some time by telling which, if any, of those can Open/Save via FTP.
Well, there's something I don't see everyday on/. I grew up in Tioga, ND and worked at NCC for a summer. My parents still use them and they do provide pretty good service to their area of rural ND.
Not new to anime either. In the episode Heavy Metal Queen of Cowboy Bebop; Spike performed his "floating act" ejecting from his ship and using gun shots to get him back to V.T.'s ship.
I am sure these comments will go around ad infinitum about the +/-'s of GIMP, but what I find myself needing today is a free vector editor that I can use to modify eps files. Does anyone know of any good alternatives in that arena?
I have used PaintShopPro 3-9 and have never had it crash. The layout is so much more intuitive. Since they added macro support there hasn't been anything that I wanted from PhotoShop that PaintShopPro couldn't do as good or better.
I look forward to SL stories. Only one a week? I wish there were daily stories.
SL may currently have its problems, but I think it or something like it is the future. It is so much more than a "game". That is the mistake so many people make. It is more like a next gen web browser than anything. It is as revolutionary as Mosaic and may someday be the next Firefox.
No, I look for and forward to them. Only one a week? I wish there were daily stories. SL may currently have its problems, but I think it or something like it is the future. It is so much more than a "game". That is the mistake so many people make. It is more like a next gen web browser than anything (it is as revolutionary as Mosaic and will someday be the next Firefox). You can see other peoples creations, chat or remote conference with intereactive white boards, play a multitude of different user create games from Tetris to Star Wars RPGs, fly/drive hundreds of vehicles (many of which you can modify at will), and if you just want to shoot things, you can choose from hundreds of weapons or make your own (where else can you do that?) and go into the combat sims and have a blast.
I don't disagree with you that their render engine could be more efficient, but if you are only getting 6 fps, something is wrong. I run SL on my old 2Ghz laptop with a Radeon 9700 Mobility. Granted a little better than yours, but I regularly get 20-30 fps with most graphics settings medium to high. Check in the about panel to make sure your drivers are _at least_ OpenGL 2.0. I would also highly recommend using the ATI Omega drivers http://www.omegadrivers.net/.
Would love to agree with that trivially easy statement except that what we have experienced is that you have to reboot SuSE Linux after applying their timezone patch or else the dates are instantly reverted to GMT in all Java apps which causes major problems in our financial apps. That proves to be a less than trivial task when scheduling updates on hundres of 24/7 servers in 48 states.
Yes, we do now, after one of our overzealous installers went out and installed the new timezone rpm on a whole bunch of customer SuSE Linux machines without rebooting (or much prior testing). This for some reason caused all of our Java based apps to revert to using GMT until the machines were rebooted, which therefore caused a bunch of financial calculations and postings to be screwed up.
The morals of the story are that you should always test all patches before installing them on customer's machines, no matter how innocuous they may seem, and if you install the updated timezone rpm on SuSE Linux you have to reboot or any Java apps will instantly have their times off, not just be wrong when the DST change hits.
Yes, I love Google Calendar, but I am also forced to use Outlook at work for scheduling as well. There is still one basic feature that I can do with ease in Outlook that I have yet to figure out how to do in Google, and I am hoping someone can clue me in. And that feature is the ability to simply hold down Ctrl and drag an entry to a new day and make a copy of the entry there on that day. In Outlook it is quick and intuitive and I have yet to figure out how to do it in Google.
Any suggestions on quickly making event copies?
Can you please eleborate on the putting the mail back on the server part?
I use IMAP for my mail viewing from the server. Since IMAP is 2 way, theoretically you could back it up remotely and then restore it to the mail server remotely if necessary. Can you tell me of software for doing this?
I keep backups of most typically irreplacable emails like something containing account information, but it was things like emails from a loved one who is no longer with me that I missed the most, and yes I should have had them backed up too, but it never occured to me until it was too late, and no amount of monetary compensation makes up for that.
Now on to a technical question. Since IMAP is 2 way. Theoretically you could back it up remotely and then restore it to the mail server remotely if necessary. Does anyone know of any software for doing this?
I had a similar experience with our local cable modem internet provider. They are a large multi-state cable company. I had been a loyal customer paying their exhoribitant fees for many years, so definately not free. Their mail server for our city crashed overnight and the next morning 4 years worth of saved email was gone, but not just for me, for the whole city. I at first figured it was temporary, so I started by emailing and then phoning after I got more concerned. There answer was that they only keep a nightly disk backup and that got corrupted also and that they had no tape backup whatsoever. Being a sysadmin myself I was completely aghast. But they basically told me no amount of complaining could ever bring it back and all they offered was a free month of service. On top of that, they also told me that I should not even be leaving my mail on their server. I use their IMAP service so I can have access to my mail from several home and work computers, but they told me I should only be using POP and saving it on my own computer. The worst part is since they are the only decent network provider in the area, I still use them as an ISP, but not for any important email.
Not all phones. Bluetooth transfers to the 2GB Micro SD card in my Verizon LG VX8600 works just fine. I don't know if it would be able to access external storage though.
The other downside to using this would seem to be power consumption. I seem to get about half the phone battery life listening to music through my stereo bluetooth headset. Can't imagine that streaming audio off of a bluetooth drive would be any better.
I also don't know if bluetooth is cable of doing 2 things at once. Could I play off of the bluetooth drive and then back out through my bluetooth headphones at the same time?
I loved my TI-85 too. Once I used it to get my assignments done before everyone else, I would then sit in class and play one of a dozens games that I wrote for it. Had Black Jack, Tank Wars, Pong, etc. Solving equations is boring, lol. And, yes, I still use it today, it is built like a tank. Also, Solver and the built in conversion system rocks as well.
One splendedly unique and unfortunately forgotten game that I would love to see a sequel to is Giants: Citizen Kabuto. This game had more variety and fun game play then any other game I have ever played. 3 completely different types of characters to play, RTS like base building, FPS combat, flying around with jetpacks, turboing around as reaper, driving a jetski on some of the best water of the time, and let us not forget eating Smarties and rampaging as a giant monster. With some updated graphics and network play, this game could truly be great once again.
Well, here is one vote for regularly.
I have a little business selling things I make and have made at least $250 or so without investing a single dime in the game. I enjoy creating things in world for fun, and making a real, if small, profit is just a bonus.
Although the Sony Sports Player doesn't vibrate, what's funny is that the iGoGo does;-)
(and you can get additional remote units to share "massages" with your friends)
"The pads vibrate to the thump, thump, thump of whatever trance tune you are listening too. It gets better as the user can purchase additional gel pads so others can...er...vibrate to your tunes. For the innocent that means a relaxing shoulder massage with your best friend while tunes jam to whatever you have plugged the iGoGo into. For those not so innocent, well, god bless you."
Being that the game is wide open and totally driven by user content, it can be as fun as you can make.
Second Life is currently running a Game Development Contest that looks like it could have some very entertaining entries.
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UltraEdit may have grown a bit, but it was one of the first to have Open/Save via FTP which is an essential feature that I use daily and can not live without. I will have to check out those you named, but you could save me some time by telling which, if any, of those can Open/Save via FTP.
Well, there's something I don't see everyday on /. I grew up in Tioga, ND and worked at NCC for a summer. My parents still use them and they do provide pretty good service to their area of rural ND.
Not new to anime either. In the episode Heavy Metal Queen of Cowboy Bebop; Spike performed his "floating act" ejecting from his ship and using gun shots to get him back to V.T.'s ship.
I am sure these comments will go around ad infinitum about the +/-'s of GIMP, but what I find myself needing today is a free vector editor that I can use to modify eps files. Does anyone know of any good alternatives in that arena?
I have used PaintShopPro 3-9 and have never had it crash. The layout is so much more intuitive. Since they added macro support there hasn't been anything that I wanted from PhotoShop that PaintShopPro couldn't do as good or better.
Thank cowgod, finally! Someone mod parent up, I never seem to have points when I need them.
Does anyone who follows this stuff have any idea how long until the 8000 series makes it to a mobile version for gaming laptops?
Better update that. The Apple Lisa was mentioned several times ;-)
LOL :-) Wish I had some points today. Someone Mod this one up.
I look forward to SL stories. Only one a week? I wish there were daily stories. SL may currently have its problems, but I think it or something like it is the future. It is so much more than a "game". That is the mistake so many people make. It is more like a next gen web browser than anything. It is as revolutionary as Mosaic and may someday be the next Firefox.
No, I look for and forward to them. Only one a week? I wish there were daily stories. SL may currently have its problems, but I think it or something like it is the future. It is so much more than a "game". That is the mistake so many people make. It is more like a next gen web browser than anything (it is as revolutionary as Mosaic and will someday be the next Firefox). You can see other peoples creations, chat or remote conference with intereactive white boards, play a multitude of different user create games from Tetris to Star Wars RPGs, fly/drive hundreds of vehicles (many of which you can modify at will), and if you just want to shoot things, you can choose from hundreds of weapons or make your own (where else can you do that?) and go into the combat sims and have a blast.
I don't disagree with you that their render engine could be more efficient, but if you are only getting 6 fps, something is wrong. I run SL on my old 2Ghz laptop with a Radeon 9700 Mobility. Granted a little better than yours, but I regularly get 20-30 fps with most graphics settings medium to high. Check in the about panel to make sure your drivers are _at least_ OpenGL 2.0. I would also highly recommend using the ATI Omega drivers http://www.omegadrivers.net/.
Would love to agree with that trivially easy statement except that what we have experienced is that you have to reboot SuSE Linux after applying their timezone patch or else the dates are instantly reverted to GMT in all Java apps which causes major problems in our financial apps. That proves to be a less than trivial task when scheduling updates on hundres of 24/7 servers in 48 states.
Yes, we do now, after one of our overzealous installers went out and installed the new timezone rpm on a whole bunch of customer SuSE Linux machines without rebooting (or much prior testing). This for some reason caused all of our Java based apps to revert to using GMT until the machines were rebooted, which therefore caused a bunch of financial calculations and postings to be screwed up.
The morals of the story are that you should always test all patches before installing them on customer's machines, no matter how innocuous they may seem, and if you install the updated timezone rpm on SuSE Linux you have to reboot or any Java apps will instantly have their times off, not just be wrong when the DST change hits.
PS Would love to see those updated instructions.
Yes, I love Google Calendar, but I am also forced to use Outlook at work for scheduling as well. There is still one basic feature that I can do with ease in Outlook that I have yet to figure out how to do in Google, and I am hoping someone can clue me in. And that feature is the ability to simply hold down Ctrl and drag an entry to a new day and make a copy of the entry there on that day. In Outlook it is quick and intuitive and I have yet to figure out how to do it in Google.
Any suggestions on quickly making event copies?
Can you please eleborate on the putting the mail back on the server part?
I use IMAP for my mail viewing from the server. Since IMAP is 2 way, theoretically you could back it up remotely and then restore it to the mail server remotely if necessary. Can you tell me of software for doing this?
I keep backups of most typically irreplacable emails like something containing account information, but it was things like emails from a loved one who is no longer with me that I missed the most, and yes I should have had them backed up too, but it never occured to me until it was too late, and no amount of monetary compensation makes up for that.
Now on to a technical question. Since IMAP is 2 way. Theoretically you could back it up remotely and then restore it to the mail server remotely if necessary. Does anyone know of any software for doing this?
I had a similar experience with our local cable modem internet provider. They are a large multi-state cable company. I had been a loyal customer paying their exhoribitant fees for many years, so definately not free. Their mail server for our city crashed overnight and the next morning 4 years worth of saved email was gone, but not just for me, for the whole city. I at first figured it was temporary, so I started by emailing and then phoning after I got more concerned. There answer was that they only keep a nightly disk backup and that got corrupted also and that they had no tape backup whatsoever. Being a sysadmin myself I was completely aghast. But they basically told me no amount of complaining could ever bring it back and all they offered was a free month of service. On top of that, they also told me that I should not even be leaving my mail on their server. I use their IMAP service so I can have access to my mail from several home and work computers, but they told me I should only be using POP and saving it on my own computer. The worst part is since they are the only decent network provider in the area, I still use them as an ISP, but not for any important email.
Not all phones. Bluetooth transfers to the 2GB Micro SD card in my Verizon LG VX8600 works just fine. I don't know if it would be able to access external storage though.
The other downside to using this would seem to be power consumption. I seem to get about half the phone battery life listening to music through my stereo bluetooth headset. Can't imagine that streaming audio off of a bluetooth drive would be any better.
I also don't know if bluetooth is cable of doing 2 things at once. Could I play off of the bluetooth drive and then back out through my bluetooth headphones at the same time?
I loved my TI-85 too. Once I used it to get my assignments done before everyone else, I would then sit in class and play one of a dozens games that I wrote for it. Had Black Jack, Tank Wars, Pong, etc. Solving equations is boring, lol. And, yes, I still use it today, it is built like a tank. Also, Solver and the built in conversion system rocks as well.
One splendedly unique and unfortunately forgotten game that I would love to see a sequel to is Giants: Citizen Kabuto. This game had more variety and fun game play then any other game I have ever played. 3 completely different types of characters to play, RTS like base building, FPS combat, flying around with jetpacks, turboing around as reaper, driving a jetski on some of the best water of the time, and let us not forget eating Smarties and rampaging as a giant monster. With some updated graphics and network play, this game could truly be great once again.
Raven
Well, here is one vote for regularly. I have a little business selling things I make and have made at least $250 or so without investing a single dime in the game. I enjoy creating things in world for fun, and making a real, if small, profit is just a bonus.
Although the Sony Sports Player doesn't vibrate, what's funny is that the iGoGo does ;-)
(and you can get additional remote units to share "massages" with your friends)
"The pads vibrate to the thump, thump, thump of whatever trance tune you are listening too. It gets better as the user can purchase additional gel pads so others can...er...vibrate to your tunes. For the innocent that means a relaxing shoulder massage with your best friend while tunes jam to whatever you have plugged the iGoGo into. For those not so innocent, well, god bless you."
There is already a GNUbie store that sells Linux and other geek related T-shirts for for $1 Linden, which is damn near free in the conversion to $US.
Being that the game is wide open and totally driven by user content, it can be as fun as you can make. Second Life is currently running a Game Development Contest that looks like it could have some very entertaining entries.