> And really, does removing the cross from medkits make a game any less fun?
Definitely yes! I like realistic games, and medkits without red crosses make no sense. Those who feel disrespected with it simply shalt buy the games. I don't want my freedom threatened by others' religious beliefs. They can chose to not see that stuff, nobody is forcing them, but they try to force me into their systems, and that's where the real disrespect begins!
> Maybe they just let the simulator fly the plane straight ahead without interference until the brain learnt that this was "normal", then, when conditions changed, it tried to compensate. This is pretty much how humans animals react to change, after all, so it would make some wierd sense.;-)
That begs another question: how did the brain learn that he (or it, hard to tell since it's a conscious being) could control the plane if he/it never got used to interactivity at first time? There has to be some kind of signaling to make the brain learn what is right and make it protect itself from what is wrong.
Since they used brains extracted from living beings, perhaps they used their natural instincts for the purpose of signaling. A rat, despite of having a small brain, naturally knows that cheese is good, so probably the scientists just observed their brains' reactions to things they like and dislike and used them to train the extracted brains.
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Think about the red fat Santa Claus. How will he deliver his gifts then?
There is one, the Linux framebuffer. Unfortunately, by the time I am writing this, their nameservers don't seem to be working, so I leave you with a Wikipedia document regarding this subject.
Why don't you join the IPv6 network and disconnect from the IPv4 one? You'd be doing everyone a favor, including yourself! What we need right now is a couple of elitists just like you making the next generation Internet more valuable than what it currently is!
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> "Yeah, but in the REAL world, X"
Sorry but I have to disagree with that one. At least I use that statemant to contradict a flawed theory, analogy, or rule used in a generalist form. This statemant is mostly used when arguing against inexperienced engineers who tend to think that everything can be predicted in theory.
I think people got tired of those plain first person shooting games, at least I am, now what I want is something which lets me make choices during gameplay. Rockstar figured this out and the result is GTA, ION Storm figured this out and the result is Deus Ex and Thief, but ID did not figure this out, so they just ended up making a prettier version of their classic games, and I don't think 3D Realms is learning that either, since by what they say in their Duke Nukem Forever websate, their vaporware game will be just like Duke Nukem 3D on steroids.
Same card here, you can work the darkness problem out if you set some helpful hotkeys for gamma correction in the display properties -> settings -> advanced -> color -> hotkeys (assuming you are playing the Windows version of the game). If you can't use the hotkeys while running the game, press Esc to return to the main menu, then use them.
About the drivers mentioned in the parent post, I am using an old 3.9 catalyst and the game runs perfectly here.
I did not take the time to read all the 200+ comments, but what about a multi workspace desktop? Blackbox+BBkeys or fluxbox (but I never tried the latter) can do it quite easily. On my GNU/Linux desktop, I use blackbox mostly because of its ability to organize things into multiple workspaces. To move from one workspace to another is just a matter of pressing Control+Alt+Left, or Control+Alt+Right. Additionally, this allows me to have a virtually unlimited amount of workspaces, which is much better (at least wastes less space) than a handfull of monitors. You can have two documents open on two different workspaces, and better than that, you can have blackbox auto-focusing a program as soon as you focus its workspace, so it's just a matter of copying, pressing a key combination, and pasting. If you do spreadsheet, you can also stretch your window to fill multiple workspaces, which is not much different from having two monitors. If you do CAD, you can have your preview display in one workspace and your work display in another.
My video card supports dual heading. I've used it once to contemplate the size of the big virtual display it created with the two monitors aside, but honestly, I scrapped the second monitor as soon as I watched google's search textbox splitted because Mozilla was maximized on my virtual screen. It was hard to get used to the mouse jumping from one screen to another, and I found it difficult to know where the text cursor was.
My point is: since our brain can only pay attention to one screen at a time, why do we need two of them?
It is by observing what we don't know that we have a chance of learning useful things with different applications. Building better telescopes and all those things may seem rather pointless, but think about all the briliant ideas developed during and after those processes...
Do what you feel is right, not what you think is right. Life teaches you a lot if you let it follow its own path, and exploration is just a fair, productive, and funny way of learning useful and unrelated things. Sure all that money could be used to solve other problems, but think about it in the positive way: at least it is not being used to feed up wars.
Excelent, now could you please translate all those acronyms into more plain English just so electronics illiterates such as me could actually read your comment?
From AcronymFinder: IC = Integrated Circuit CMOS = Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor PMOS = Positive-Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor NMOS = Negative-Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor MOSFET= Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
> you have to provide at least two layers of spam filtering + antivirus filtering
Postfix is really good at dealing with spam, you can compile it with PERL-Compatible Regular Expression support and set up your first strong protective layer right out of the box. In fact, my mail server is only using regular expressions to catch spam and worms and it has been quite effective over time. Evem if for some reason you don't like PCRE, you can always use POSIX regular expressions for filtering.
> Setting up a linux box to host email is asked to be used as a relay.
Where tha hell did you came up with that assumption? Postfix is really good at preventing new users from deploying open relays. By default there is no relay at all, so if you ever need to relay, you can set Postfix to relay messages from your own domain, or set it to relay messages from your own network/host addresses. Whatever you chose is pretty well docummented in the bundled main.cf file, so if even after reading all those comments (and believe me, you have to, since that's the only way to understand the configuration) you end up with an open relay, the only thing I can tell is that you did it on purpose.
First of all, for playback, and since we are talking about a dedicated system, give the mp3 player task maximum priority (e.g.: -20). All other tasks must run with low priority (e.g.: 19). This way you ensure the kernel will attend your mp3 player task more often than everything else.
Second, for audio extraction and encoding you can use cdda2wav that also extracts to pipes suitable for use with the Blade Encoder.
I shouldn't probably say this, but too many people commit this mistake and then complain about Linux's performance: remember to enable DMA for your HDD and CD-ROM drives, doing so will make your IDE transfers 10 times faster (at least) and free your processor for other, more important things, such as encoding / decoding audio instead of transferring data.
First of all, there are a couple of basic steps people can take to ensure their systems are rescuable and secure regardless of any patches they have applied.
Make sure your root filesystem is as small as possible to minimize the chances of corruption there and that you can have it mounted read-only. This not only improves your security (since you can simply remove CAP_SYS_ADMIN from all your daemons and they won't be able to remount anything), but also makes it even harder to corrupt the root filesystem. Your user and group information files will need to be moved to/var and appropriate symbolic links created in/etc so that users can still change user and group passwords and you can create accounts without remounting the root filesystem read-write.
Never remove your legacy device inames from/dev, ever! Even if you use devfs or udev, a new/dev is mounted over the original one, so the legacy inames disappear magically from VFS. The legacy device inames may come in handy in a system recovery later. If you use devfs or udev, make sure your/dev filesystem is mounted with the noexec option enabled for security reasons.
Make sure your/var is always mounted noexec and nodev. If you use qmail, switch to Postfix (yes, I've done it, DJB is such a dumbass with his lack of respect for standard directory hierarchies).
Make sure your/tmp is not in your root filesystem. You can mount a tmpfs for your/tmp and point/usr/tmp,/var/tmp, and/anything-else/.../tmp to your/tmp with a symbolic link. If you do mount a tmpfs or any other kind of filesystem, make sure you do it with the noexec and nodev options enabled. If you can't or are not willing to use another filesystem for/tmp (tmpfs sometimes is too small for CVS, and you may not have enough space for a dedicated/tmp), use/var/tmp instead (assuming you've mounted/var according to my instructions above).
Grab a copy of the GNU fileutils from a mirror close to you, compile it statically, and install the resulting binaries in/sbin (not/bin). If anytime later something terrible happens to your libc, you can always make/sbin have precedence over/bin in your $PATH and use the static binaries in/sbin instead for recovery. Always remember to make add/sbin first in your $PATH if you ever upgrade your libc from the sources, especially if it is your first time doing so (believe me, everyone I know, including me, had problems with their first libc installations from the source). Doing this can save you from a lot of trouble.
Even when you know your kernel binary will boot perfectly (because perhaps you used the same configuration file to compile the same kervnel version), make a backup of your old kernel by renaming (not copying) it and specifying the new name in lilo.conf. LILO knows nothing about filesystems (never used grub, so I can't talk about it, but I suspect the same thing happens with it), so if your kernel, for some reason, gets fragmented in your filesystem, you will be in trouble to boot from it, since LILO assumes the kernel is never fragmented.
Following above steps is usually enough to prevent rescue situations because the root filesystem is vital, so protecting it is the first line of defense, but if the worse comes to worst and you ever get into trouble, you must learn with the problem. If the kernel loads and init doesn't, it may be a libc problem. Try booting with init=/bin/sh, remount your filesystems read-write, examine the problem, umount them (or remount them read-write, when unmount is not possible), sync, reboot and watch the changes. If the kernel does not load, you may need a
> The GPL is pretty much the only EULA I agree to these days.
The GPL is not an EULA. There is no such a thing as an "End User" in GPLed free software, so basically, any license that doesn't have "End User" written anywhere is good for you.
Hey, hey, I don't like software patents either, but I think his idea would narrow concept a little too much to even be usable, that's just my point, don't get me wrong.:-)
You can buy the kernel, but not change its license. Why? GPL forces you to stick with the same license in its current or optionally any newer version. Only by agreeing with everyone who contributed with code to the kernel they could change the license, and I don't think everyone would agree with that besides SCO (if they really have any code in there:-P).
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> And really, does removing the cross from medkits make a game any less fun?
Definitely yes! I like realistic games, and medkits without red crosses make no sense. Those who feel disrespected with it simply shalt buy the games. I don't want my freedom threatened by others' religious beliefs. They can chose to not see that stuff, nobody is forcing them, but they try to force me into their systems, and that's where the real disrespect begins!
> Maybe they just let the simulator fly the plane straight ahead without interference until the brain learnt that this was "normal", then, when conditions changed, it tried to compensate. This is pretty much how humans animals react to change, after all, so it would make some wierd sense. ;-)
That begs another question: how did the brain learn that he (or it, hard to tell since it's a conscious being) could control the plane if he/it never got used to interactivity at first time? There has to be some kind of signaling to make the brain learn what is right and make it protect itself from what is wrong.
Since they used brains extracted from living beings, perhaps they used their natural instincts for the purpose of signaling. A rat, despite of having a small brain, naturally knows that cheese is good, so probably the scientists just observed their brains' reactions to things they like and dislike and used them to train the extracted brains.
Think about the red fat Santa Claus. How will he deliver his gifts then?
There is one, the Linux framebuffer. Unfortunately, by the time I am writing this, their nameservers don't seem to be working, so I leave you with a Wikipedia document regarding this subject.
Actually that can happen, especially with the new 2.6 PC Speaker Input Device... RTFJ.
They may be less than men, but they exist and form communities.
Why don't you join the IPv6 network and disconnect from the IPv4 one? You'd be doing everyone a favor, including yourself! What we need right now is a couple of elitists just like you making the next generation Internet more valuable than what it currently is!
> "Yeah, but in the REAL world, X"
Sorry but I have to disagree with that one. At least I use that statemant to contradict a flawed theory, analogy, or rule used in a generalist form. This statemant is mostly used when arguing against inexperienced engineers who tend to think that everything can be predicted in theory.
> don't complain about a "microsoft tax" that adds a whopping 5% to the cost of new laptops
Laptops differ in the way that they don't need an OS out of the box.
I think people got tired of those plain first person shooting games, at least I am, now what I want is something which lets me make choices during gameplay. Rockstar figured this out and the result is GTA, ION Storm figured this out and the result is Deus Ex and Thief, but ID did not figure this out, so they just ended up making a prettier version of their classic games, and I don't think 3D Realms is learning that either, since by what they say in their Duke Nukem Forever websate, their vaporware game will be just like Duke Nukem 3D on steroids.
Same card here, you can work the darkness problem out if you set some helpful hotkeys for gamma correction in the display properties -> settings -> advanced -> color -> hotkeys (assuming you are playing the Windows version of the game). If you can't use the hotkeys while running the game, press Esc to return to the main menu, then use them.
About the drivers mentioned in the parent post, I am using an old 3.9 catalyst and the game runs perfectly here.
I did not take the time to read all the 200+ comments, but what about a multi workspace desktop? Blackbox+BBkeys or fluxbox (but I never tried the latter) can do it quite easily. On my GNU/Linux desktop, I use blackbox mostly because of its ability to organize things into multiple workspaces. To move from one workspace to another is just a matter of pressing Control+Alt+Left, or Control+Alt+Right. Additionally, this allows me to have a virtually unlimited amount of workspaces, which is much better (at least wastes less space) than a handfull of monitors. You can have two documents open on two different workspaces, and better than that, you can have blackbox auto-focusing a program as soon as you focus its workspace, so it's just a matter of copying, pressing a key combination, and pasting. If you do spreadsheet, you can also stretch your window to fill multiple workspaces, which is not much different from having two monitors. If you do CAD, you can have your preview display in one workspace and your work display in another.
My video card supports dual heading. I've used it once to contemplate the size of the big virtual display it created with the two monitors aside, but honestly, I scrapped the second monitor as soon as I watched google's search textbox splitted because Mozilla was maximized on my virtual screen. It was hard to get used to the mouse jumping from one screen to another, and I found it difficult to know where the text cursor was.
My point is: since our brain can only pay attention to one screen at a time, why do we need two of them?
It is by observing what we don't know that we have a chance of learning useful things with different applications. Building better telescopes and all those things may seem rather pointless, but think about all the briliant ideas developed during and after those processes...
Do what you feel is right, not what you think is right. Life teaches you a lot if you let it follow its own path, and exploration is just a fair, productive, and funny way of learning useful and unrelated things. Sure all that money could be used to solve other problems, but think about it in the positive way: at least it is not being used to feed up wars.
If there are only 5.1% of computers infected with spyware, I guess someone is infecting all my friends on purpose...
* Turns paranoya mode on. *
Sorry, didn't mean to, forgot to post as anonymous. To be fair, mod this comment I am posting as offtopic.
Excelent, now could you please translate all those acronyms into more plain English just so electronics illiterates such as me could actually read your comment?
From AcronymFinder:
IC = Integrated Circuit
CMOS = Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
PMOS = Positive-Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
NMOS = Negative-Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET= Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
Am I getting it all right?
Thanks in advance!
> you have to provide at least two layers of spam filtering + antivirus filtering
Postfix is really good at dealing with spam, you can compile it with PERL-Compatible Regular Expression support and set up your first strong protective layer right out of the box. In fact, my mail server is only using regular expressions to catch spam and worms and it has been quite effective over time. Evem if for some reason you don't like PCRE, you can always use POSIX regular expressions for filtering.
> Setting up a linux box to host email is asked to be used as a relay.
Where tha hell did you came up with that assumption? Postfix is really good at preventing new users from deploying open relays. By default there is no relay at all, so if you ever need to relay, you can set Postfix to relay messages from your own domain, or set it to relay messages from your own network/host addresses. Whatever you chose is pretty well docummented in the bundled main.cf file, so if even after reading all those comments (and believe me, you have to, since that's the only way to understand the configuration) you end up with an open relay, the only thing I can tell is that you did it on purpose.
First of all, for playback, and since we are talking about a dedicated system, give the mp3 player task maximum priority (e.g.: -20). All other tasks must run with low priority (e.g.: 19). This way you ensure the kernel will attend your mp3 player task more often than everything else.
Second, for audio extraction and encoding you can use cdda2wav that also extracts to pipes suitable for use with the Blade Encoder.
For playback, mpg321 shall be enough.
I shouldn't probably say this, but too many people commit this mistake and then complain about Linux's performance: remember to enable DMA for your HDD and CD-ROM drives, doing so will make your IDE transfers 10 times faster (at least) and free your processor for other, more important things, such as encoding / decoding audio instead of transferring data.
Ahm... Lets see what I'd use them for...
First of all, there are a couple of basic steps people can take to ensure their systems are rescuable and secure regardless of any patches they have applied.
Following above steps is usually enough to prevent rescue situations because the root filesystem is vital, so protecting it is the first line of defense, but if the worse comes to worst and you ever get into trouble, you must learn with the problem. If the kernel loads and init doesn't, it may be a libc problem. Try booting with init=/bin/sh, remount your filesystems read-write, examine the problem, umount them (or remount them read-write, when unmount is not possible), sync, reboot and watch the changes. If the kernel does not load, you may need a
If that ever happens, I'm gonna start buying network printers instead, problem solved.
> The GPL is pretty much the only EULA I agree to these days.
The GPL is not an EULA. There is no such a thing as an "End User" in GPLed free software, so basically, any license that doesn't have "End User" written anywhere is good for you.
> 1,500 watts :-) KE3PB
With that much power you'd actually burn things nearby. Remember, 2.4Ghz is in the Microwave frequency.
Hey, hey, I don't like software patents either, but I think his idea would narrow concept a little too much to even be usable, that's just my point, don't get me wrong. :-)
You can buy the kernel, but not change its license. Why? GPL forces you to stick with the same license in its current or optionally any newer version. Only by agreeing with everyone who contributed with code to the kernel they could change the license, and I don't think everyone would agree with that besides SCO (if they really have any code in there :-P).