Qi-Gong jumping out the window to grab a flying vehicle
I'm sorry who? unless i seriously missed something in ep1 - i only saw obi wan do this in the ep2.
The movies arent supposed to be believable (its called science fiction) - and remember they are not mere humans, they are jedi (their reflexes are faster , they can manipulate things with their minds..)
I personally think AOTC was at least on par with return of the jedi and the special effects were fantastic (i especially liked yoda's light sabre scene).
Hmm.. just a few weeks ago my girlfriend was compaining because she couldnt view and edit her webpage at neopets properly in IE anymore. so i first downloaded opera 6 for her which is a nice browser but she still had some problems with websites so i got her to try her neopets page from my box running moz.9.8 it worked perfectly so to stop her hogging my PC all the time i told her to download moz 0.9.9. she is now a very happy mozilla user. when she went to a site which required flash/jre it asked her if she wanted to install the plugin and then it just worked.
The latest JVMs are a lot faster than previous ones. If you haven't looked at Java in a while (and I don't mean the cheesy web applets) I suggest you take another look.
Now i like java its a very nice language (although i havent really done much with it yet).
I still think its too slow. ive tried 1.2.x, 1.3.1 and 1.4 and i havent really noticed any performance improvements. - yes i can run any java program fine on my duron 900 at home with 512Megs ram but on my P 233 / 64MB laptop everything is dog slow.. even just javac Vehicles.java && java Vehicles takes at least 1 minute to spurt out text (in the console) about how many wheels each vehicle has. and trying to run something like jedit (this is a really nice program btw) is painful!
now is there something wrong with my setup? because if not i dont see java as a viable language for writing games.(except maybe something like xscavenger).
unless you load in a croft desktop that forces you to have more memory than even XP requires (i.e. Genome or KKKDE).
Oh so you mean i could use XP (i dont know why i'd want to) on the cyrix 166 w 64Megs ram here at work which runs KDE 2.2 (debs - not compiled (so not optimised)) and is also our webserver, mailserver, database server (postgres), print server, smb server... ? Yeah i didnt think so (well not to a usable standard anyway..) yet kde doesnt take much longer to start up than it does on my duron 900 / 512MB at home and it snappy when it has started. (granted i dont try to run open/staroffice on it.. but abiword and gnumeric run blazingly fast.)
Frankly, I think Linux (on the desktop) can benefit from a very similar strategy -- nice, user friendly graphical desktop environment, hard core stability and performance underneath.
Heres a thought.. IBM is heavily behind Linux now.. why dont they create an OS/2 like gui for linux the way apple created aqua.
something thats going to be nice and snappy for a desktop - as well as look clean.
Ok, maybe you are right about Intel chips being more stable (i'd like some proof though.. as ive never had a problem with any of my AMD processors).
The thing that i see as the problem with these P4's is how much they will cost and having to have YET ANOTHER fan on the RAM (i mean come on.. intel seems to think they can just crank up the clock speed on anything and chuck a fan on it).
I prefer to use Windows simply because the windowing system works at a sensible speed.
Try ROX and something like icewm or sawfish.
and programs like abiword and gnumeric are very speedy (without having to do the M$ trick of loading it into memory when your system starts).
this article discussed them bundling the software with new compaq, dell etc. pc's.
these PC's could be built with only hardware that is supported.
then if other people wanted to use the x86 port of OSX on different hardware they shouldnt be supported.
getting the new computer buyers should be the number one priority.. i mean if you were in a showroom and saw two identically specced machines sitting next to each other (not sure what the pricing would be like) one running XP and one running OS X which would you buy? which would your mother buy? most people will go for the prettiest one which without a doubt is OS X .
Is he supposed to take something from 8-10 years ago and put it up on the server so that you don't have to be bothered with reading a floppy
I doubt even if you could be bothered reading the floppy that after 8-10 years the floppy will still be readable...
now if the data from 8-10 years ago has only just been put on the floppy that would probably work out fine, however then it would probably be better to just put it on the network. (or use pgp to secure the data.. and send it as an email..).
Yes i may be replying to a troll, but perhaps hes legit..
there is and has never been anything called X-Windows (AFAIK - anyway MIT's X window system is not called X-Windows).
there was X11
then XFree
Sometime along the lines they merged.. and im not sure of exactly what its called now.. i just know it is a mix of both systems.
Ive never tried this but i'd assume winME would run like a dog if at all on the small p166 (64MB ram) i have here at work which is:
a mail server, web server, smb server, runs 2 databases.
and defaults to use kdm to login (im trying to make it easy for people here to admin it if im not available).
and kde2.2 is really snappy on it.
when kde is starting up there isnt a noticeable speed difference between it and my duron 900 at home.
yes the apps take a few seconds to load but when they are open they are nice and quick.
i did try the same setup with 24megs of ram, and had to turn off Zope for kde to be even barely usable but 64megs is definately sufficient.
i would even say 32megs should be fine as long as you arent running any other heavy processes.
and this is debian install (installed everything from apt-get:-)) only using 1gig this includes sendmail,fetchmail,tpop3d,Zope,mysql,postgresql,GN Ue, apache, perl, python, php... plus a lot of default games, the entire koffice suite, fontends for the databases.. the list goes on.
i also have a few copies of different kernel src.
i dont see how your setup could need so much in the way of resources.. now ive never installed redhat but im assuming you can select what you do and dont want installed. and i bet it installs a lot of stuff most people wont need. (of course you probably just said install everyting).
Also, our UI is currently undergoing extensive changes, and things are changing nightly
Sounds to me like the best reason of all not to put this into use in a business environment.
You obviously havent had much exposure to this type of software then.
I work for a company who sells windows based ERP software and yes things change nightly.. mainly those things are bug fixes and enhancements.
you cant expect software to be perfect when its first released.. in fact you can never expect software to be perfect.
just because it changes doesnt mean it is going to change the way you do your business. It may just change to help improve productivity.
Mail servers exist today that are perfectly secure.
Name One.
There is no such thing as perfectly secure software, however the most secure software is updated regularly with patches etc. (this doesnt seem to happen with outlook.. even new releases contain the same bugs as previous versions (sometimes more) I cant speak for exchange).
I also dont beleive these kids should go to jail, perhaps a better punishment to fit the crime would be that microsoft hires them as their security team.;-)
At 15 they are still in the developmental stage and surrounding them with criminals is going to be a terrible environment for them. There is the choice of turning them into hardened criminals by only allowing them criminals to interact with or find a punishment which is a little more humane, and perhaps will expand their skills for use in more productive ways.
at which point the current installer will be taken out back and shot, and everyone will breathe a sigh of relief)
I like the current debian installer. Its not X based which means it can run quickly on old Pentiums etc. and it is pretty self explanatory.
As a linux newbie (back when bo (1.3) was the latest version of debian) i managed to get it installed without a problem and unlike most other distros it all fit on (i think 5 disks).
and then of course getting ppp working was another story;-).
damn ive gone a little off topic now... oh no this whole post is off topic.
No, you're not really correct. Outlook *and* Outlook Express are both free products. Even though Outlook comes with every copy of Microsoft Office, it's really just thrown into the bundle
Well if this is true, why does Outlook require MS Office to be registered? It functions as just another component of Office - and AFAK it is not available for a free download. (free i think not.)
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I'm sorry who?
unless i seriously missed something in ep1 - i only saw obi wan do this in the ep2.
The movies arent supposed to be believable (its called science fiction) - and remember they are not mere humans, they are jedi (their reflexes are faster , they can manipulate things with their minds..)
I personally think AOTC was at least on par with return of the jedi and the special effects were fantastic (i especially liked yoda's light sabre scene).
Hmm.. just a few weeks ago my girlfriend was compaining because she couldnt view and edit her webpage at neopets properly in IE anymore.
so i first downloaded opera 6 for her which is a nice browser but she still had some problems with websites so i got her to try her neopets page from my box running moz
she is now a very happy mozilla user.
when she went to a site which required flash/jre it asked her if she wanted to install the plugin and then it just worked.
Well done all you mozilla developers.
Now i like java its a very nice language (although i havent really done much with it yet).
I still think its too slow. ive tried 1.2.x, 1.3.1 and 1.4 and i havent really noticed any performance improvements. - yes i can run any java program fine on my duron 900 at home with 512Megs ram but on my P 233 / 64MB laptop everything is dog slow.. even just javac Vehicles.java && java Vehicles takes at least 1 minute to spurt out text (in the console) about how many wheels each vehicle has.
and trying to run something like jedit (this is a really nice program btw) is painful!
now is there something wrong with my setup?
because if not i dont see java as a viable language for writing games.(except maybe something like xscavenger).
Every time i see DRM i just think Direct Rendering Managment - guess im too used to XFree 4 with DRI.
Oh so you mean i could use XP (i dont know why i'd want to) on the cyrix 166 w 64Megs ram here at work which runs KDE 2.2 (debs - not compiled (so not optimised)) and is also our webserver, mailserver, database server (postgres), print server, smb server
Yeah i didnt think so (well not to a usable standard anyway..) yet kde doesnt take much longer to start up than it does on my duron 900 / 512MB at home and it snappy when it has started. (granted i dont try to run open/staroffice on it.. but abiword and gnumeric run blazingly fast.)
Oh i realise that, its just the signature said hack 192.168.1.100 ...
now for almost everyone this address wont exist (i mean i connect to 4 different networks and none of them use 192.168.1.x).
so i was just wondering why 192.168.1.100.
my reference to 127.0.0.1 was due to the fact that most people make the joke telling 31337 script kiddies to get root on 127.0.0.1.
well actually i managed to browse the page just fine running IE5 here at work.
he's not blocking anything.
was 127.0.0.1 too overused?
im just curious
Heres a thought.. IBM is heavily behind Linux now.. why dont they create an OS/2 like gui for linux the way apple created aqua.
something thats going to be nice and snappy for a desktop - as well as look clean.
sorry i should have just said x86 manufacturers..
The thing that i see as the problem with these P4's is how much they will cost and having to have YET ANOTHER fan on the RAM (i mean come on.. intel seems to think they can just crank up the clock speed on anything and chuck a fan on it).
Try ROX and something like icewm or sawfish.
and programs like abiword and gnumeric are very speedy (without having to do the M$ trick of loading it into memory when your system starts).
Exactly..
this article discussed them bundling the software with new compaq, dell etc. pc's.
these PC's could be built with only hardware that is supported.
then if other people wanted to use the x86 port of OSX on different hardware they shouldnt be supported.
getting the new computer buyers should be the number one priority.. i mean if you were in a showroom and saw two identically specced machines sitting next to each other (not sure what the pricing would be like) one running XP and one running OS X which would you buy? which would your mother buy? most people will go for the prettiest one which without a doubt is OS X .
Yeah, or you just cp your global wine config to ~/.wine/config & ~/.transgaming/config. - You set up your wine directories/drives in there.
I thought wine was licensed under a BSD license?
but i havent looked into this so theres the possibility im wrong.
I doubt even if you could be bothered reading the floppy that after 8-10 years the floppy will still be readable...
now if the data from 8-10 years ago has only just been put on the floppy that would probably work out fine, however then it would probably be better to just put it on the network. (or use pgp to secure the data.. and send it as an email..).
i dont know about a C++ book, but my "Perl - The Complete Reference" book is 1179 and thats not exactly huge.
Yes i may be replying to a troll, but perhaps hes legit..
there is and has never been anything called X-Windows (AFAIK - anyway MIT's X window system is not called X-Windows).
there was X11
then XFree
Sometime along the lines they merged.. and im not sure of exactly what its called now.. i just know it is a mix of both systems.
Ive never tried this but i'd assume winME would run like a dog if at all on the small p166 (64MB ram) i have here at work which is:
:-)) only using 1gig this includes sendmail,fetchmail,tpop3d,Zope,mysql,postgresql,GN Ue, apache, perl, python, php ... plus a lot of default games, the entire koffice suite, fontends for the databases.. the list goes on.
a mail server, web server, smb server, runs 2 databases.
and defaults to use kdm to login (im trying to make it easy for people here to admin it if im not available).
and kde2.2 is really snappy on it.
when kde is starting up there isnt a noticeable speed difference between it and my duron 900 at home.
yes the apps take a few seconds to load but when they are open they are nice and quick.
i did try the same setup with 24megs of ram, and had to turn off Zope for kde to be even barely usable but 64megs is definately sufficient.
i would even say 32megs should be fine as long as you arent running any other heavy processes.
and this is debian install (installed everything from apt-get
i also have a few copies of different kernel src.
i dont see how your setup could need so much in the way of resources.. now ive never installed redhat but im assuming you can select what you do and dont want installed. and i bet it installs a lot of stuff most people wont need. (of course you probably just said install everyting).
Sounds to me like the best reason of all not to put this into use in a business environment.
You obviously havent had much exposure to this type of software then.
I work for a company who sells windows based ERP software and yes things change nightly.. mainly those things are bug fixes and enhancements.
you cant expect software to be perfect when its first released.. in fact you can never expect software to be perfect.
just because it changes doesnt mean it is going to change the way you do your business. It may just change to help improve productivity.
Mail servers exist today that are perfectly secure.
;-)
Name One.
There is no such thing as perfectly secure software, however the most secure software is updated regularly with patches etc. (this doesnt seem to happen with outlook.. even new releases contain the same bugs as previous versions (sometimes more) I cant speak for exchange).
I also dont beleive these kids should go to jail, perhaps a better punishment to fit the crime would be that microsoft hires them as their security team.
At 15 they are still in the developmental stage and surrounding them with criminals is going to be a terrible environment for them. There is the choice of turning them into hardened criminals by only allowing them criminals to interact with or find a punishment which is a little more humane, and perhaps will expand their skills for use in more productive ways.
CVS doesnt require username/password.
:pserver:anonymous@cvs.vp3.com:/on2 login
cvs -d
password: anonymous
then just co vp32
at which point the current installer will be taken out back and shot, and everyone will breathe a sigh of relief)
;-).
I like the current debian installer. Its not X based which means it can run quickly on old Pentiums etc. and it is pretty self explanatory.
As a linux newbie (back when bo (1.3) was the latest version of debian) i managed to get it installed without a problem and unlike most other distros it all fit on (i think 5 disks).
and then of course getting ppp working was another story
damn ive gone a little off topic now... oh no this whole post is off topic.
No, you're not really correct. Outlook *and* Outlook Express are both free products. Even though Outlook comes with every copy of Microsoft Office, it's really just thrown into the bundle
Well if this is true, why does Outlook require MS Office to be registered? It functions as just another component of Office - and AFAK it is not available for a free download. (free i think not.)
Now i dont know much about the licensing of these sort of things but isnt gtk LGPL? and evolution is most definately using those libraries.