Allright - then tell me how to get my USB working properly under Windows 95b. No drivers that I can see for it that will work and no USB device I've tried using will configure properly. If you can tell me this I'll be happy to send you my generic PS/2 mouse so I can use my Wacom Graphire on my personal system.
Blizzard could easily create a public key prox that takes a key request, passes to their main key server, and returns a yes or no on the validity of the key. Probably without much programming work on their part at all.
As for lag - well, any lag added onto the Battlet.net(TM) network would be indistinguishable from it's current state of slowness.
I'm very impressed that you got a 486 to play back an MP3... what did you do differently to compile mpg123 that it plays on your system? I had a 486/66 DX2 with 24MB RAM, and MPG123 just couldn't do it, not even in just console mode. It "skipped" horribly just playing back only one channel. This is with RH 6.2.
Actually there's a make option for it: make linux-i486 which optomizes the code for 486 only.
I'm using Debian 2.2r2 with mpg123-0.59r but the option should work for any version of linux. Like I said - mine works even under X. Now granted when you do _anything_ but play.mp3's with it there is some skip but if you're using a 486 to play.mp3's then you shouldn't be using it for anything else at the time.;-)
It is next to impossible to play mp3's on a 486 and instead of a hard drive they are using flash so you can fit like 10 songs maybe?
I currently have a 486 laptop with 20meg of RAM running Debian 2.2r2. It plays.mp3 files with a recompiled mpg123 under X just fine.
Now I will grant you the hard drive issue. You need some kind of large media for storing.mp3 files. However a 486 will play them just fine as long as you have very little overhead.
you have Solaris 8, its FREE up to 8 CPU's, and for SPARC is the best choice.
Yeah, if you have a Sun4M model CPU or better. Most people out there running Linux and SPARC are doing so to get productivity out of older SPARC hardware that Solaris(tm) does not support. Sun has always had a very nasty habit of dropping old hardware compatibility with new versions of their OS.
Of course is a pity RedHat no longer support SPARC, but like someone already said, you have many other distros with SPARC support, and in my opinion better than RedHat.
Both true and false depending on which OS distro you side with. For my money NetBSD seems to run much faster than Linux on older SPARC hardware and Debian has broken pieces but still holds together despite all.
Linux in general is probably more "app" compatible than most BSD based 'nix. (Caveat: That last statement may not be true now, I haven't looked recently - no flamebait meant.)
Regardless Solaris is not the choice for older SPARC hardware - unless you never want to be up to date...;-)
You know, a lot of people are getting tired of the same old "Evil Big Corporation" rhetoric being spouted over and over again. Big companies do good stuff and bad stuff. Small companies do good stuff and bad stuff.
This statement is true but for a fair amount of time now there have been far too many "large" companies doing bad stuff than smaller companies. Most of those are the larger Megacorps(tm). When that kind of disparity exists we have to look a little closer at it.
Everyone does good stuff and bad stuff.
So because everyone does bad stuff we should not complain at all?
We just like to rant about the evil companies because they have the facilities to do it to more people. When the Mom & Pop shop on the corner overcharges you by four dollars, nobody cares, but when Amazon does it we get a flurry of Slashdot articles about it.
Not exactly true my friend. I bitch about small companies that overcharge me - and you should too. (However I also can see when the reason a small company is overcharging me is because a bigger company is squishing them.) If enough complaining is heard then people will do somehting about the problem. Hell - even complaining is doing something about the problem provided you're complaining to the right person. You never know, the right person may be the one standing next to you. Or even a tr0ll on Slashdot.;-)
What's Borsch? I've heard of Borscht, which is a kind of beet soup, but none of the five immigrants from the former Soviet Union in my office have heard of Borsch.
I meant Borscht - My mistake. After all IANARC. (I Am Not A Russian Cosmonaut);;-)
An all too common problem in trying to predict future trends is falling for the fallacy of taking trends to their logical extreme. In this case, you take the trend that people are showing more drone like behavior and extending it to the extreme that we will all become drones.
Point taken however I think this point in history is far more dangerous than past ones because of the rate at which information (or in this case disinformation) flows. It's much harder to fight something that everybody "knows" is true than something that everybody hasn't heard of yet. That's the danger of the media. Most people out there (a generalization I know) watch the news and take it hook, line, and sinker to be the truth. Unfortunate but also very very real.
Historically trends are cyclical. Stretches of group think are followed by stretches of individualistic rebellion. Look at what's happening right now. We see countless protests being staged by people who are fet up with corporatism and globalization. Are these people becoming drones?
No they are not but I think that they are also too small in number. Corporate America(tm) has a very loud voice - it's going to take a lot of people to drown it out. As for historical trends - you are correct. But do you want to wait that long to get your freedoms back?
I think you are way underestimating the desire to be an individual in human beings. There is a desire to be part of a community and to identify with others, but there is also an ego driven desire to distinguish yourself from the crowd.
I do not count the spirit of the individual out but I also am more pessimistic about the strength of Corporate America(TM). There's a lot of things you can do with large amounts of money to make sure the truth does not get told and I think some of those things are being put in place as we speak.
That's a paranoid asumption. To have people become drones you would have to simultaneously have to have them indoctrinated and then prevented from getting any competing information at all. That isn't the case here.
Hmmm... not to flamebait here but have you even been paying attention to what's been going on in society? Each day we lose more and more true information due to incorrect or purposefully distorted reporting from the media. Just look around you. Anyone who does not take the time to "dig" for the truth ends up believing everything the media says. The media is DESIGNED that way. It may not have been at first but it is now.
What freedoms are you loosing? These companies are just excercising their freedom to advertise with their money to a school that accepts them. If you don't want to have to access them then by all means pay for an ad free service. Until then deal with the ads like most people ignore them.
The freedom that is slowly being lost here is the freedom of choice. I havn't been a student for some time yet I feel that If I had had to sit through a repetitive stream of ads every day I would have ended up quite a different person. As for the "freedom to advertise" that's all very well but consider this: 1) A fair amount of students don't have a lot of regular money to pay for an ad-free service and are thus stuck with the barrage of ads that come with the free service. 2)Ignoring the ads is possible now but how about a week from now? A month? A year? At some point there will almost certainly be some development on free services that require you to click through an ad before being able to do something with the service. It might not be big at first but you can bet, like any advertising, it will increase with time.
I don't think my viewpoint is all that paranoid. We're living in a society run by big corporate interests. Period. We can change that but not without a lot of hard work and not without a fight.
The harm is the possibility of ending up with a school of "corporate indoctrination" instead of a school of "higher learning".
Isn't it bad enough that we go through our current society being bombarded by ads upon ads for products we don't really need?
I used to respect marketing people back when marketing meant informing people about our product rather than beat people into submission with ads for our product.
To paraphrase what someone else said earlier on this thread we're watching the decline of our society back into the mud because of corporatism. If left unchecked you can be assured that the new "crop" of people will be drones within a very short time.
How short a time depends on how badly we fight for our freedoms while sinking.
you can't get into the sub while wearing your rig. you'd have to cut holes in the sub to get into it which would probably lead to problems for those people inside the sub.
Forgive my lack of cluons but wouldn't a sub designed to go to those depths in those waters be designed with a large enough hatch to accomodate heavy dive gear? I would think that there would at least be some provision for cold/deep water repair. (Not that I've ever heard of outside repair on a sub at sea.)
Do you really think the Russian government wanted to rescue that sub? If so then they would have asked for help the moment they had word that the sub was downed!
Even the famous Russian pride would not have stopped them if the wanted to rescue their comrads. They know that even in that freezing water there would be some sort of way to rescue those men.
They don't want anyone but their own people on that sub. This is Black Project stuff. Period.
I remember seeing Sir Alec in Star Wars and, wondering what else he had done, several old films (yes films - with projector) that my family and I got from the local Library. I remember the Man In The White Suit vividly but the part he played that most surprised me was in the 1948 Oliver Twist.
My mother and I were watching that film on PBS one night and trying throughout the whole film to figure out which part he was playing. We finally decided that the only part that could be him - because the film was so old - was the artful dodger. We were totally shocked to find out that he played Fagan! We never thought he was that old or that accomplished by that time. On top of it he was incredibly good even then - at the age of 34 - at taking on a role. AFAIAC anything he did was seamless! No matter what role he played he took the mantle of the part and wrapped it around himself until only a very sharp person could tell he was not who he pretended to be. It was totally amazing to watch him be someone else completely and be someone else so different between each film he did.
Fairwell to one of the great actors of our time. We shall miss him tremendously.
>>If you want "just the media", it's $10, as Sun offers just below the $40 CD+printed manual offer.
Yes - but only for non-English versions. Look at the site again.
My beef isn't that they charge so much for the software but that they give the English users no other option except for downloading if they want just the software.
It's amazing that if you want the English version on a CD (for those of us that don't have the time/bandwidth to download it) that you will have to pay $39.95 for the product. This was supposed to be a "free" "give away" product per Sun. $39.95 is far too pricey for just media - but wait you get a book! I'm sorry but I don't need a book and I shouldn't be forced into getting one with a software package that is supposed to be free. [/RANT]
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Allright - then tell me how to get my USB working properly under Windows 95b. No drivers that I can see for it that will work and no USB device I've tried using will configure properly. If you can tell me this I'll be happy to send you my generic PS/2 mouse so I can use my Wacom Graphire on my personal system.
Blizzard could easily create a public key prox that takes a key request, passes to their main key server, and returns a yes or no on the validity of the key. Probably without much programming work on their part at all.
As for lag - well, any lag added onto the Battlet.net(TM) network would be indistinguishable from it's current state of slowness.
Someone please mod the parent to this up - it's from the current DEVELOPER!!!
I'm very impressed that you got a 486 to play back an MP3... what did you do differently to compile mpg123 that it plays on your system? I had a 486/66 DX2 with 24MB RAM, and MPG123 just couldn't do it, not even in just console mode. It "skipped" horribly just playing back only one channel. This is with RH 6.2.
Actually there's a make option for it: make linux-i486 which optomizes the code for 486 only.
I'm using Debian 2.2r2 with mpg123-0.59r but the option should work for any version of linux. Like I said - mine works even under X. Now granted when you do _anything_ but play
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The 486 I'm running on is a DX4-100 but I've heard it run on an SX-33. YMMV.
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I've never tried on a 386 but the compile options don't support it as far as I know. You can try it but you're on your own.
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I understand that but thanks for mentioning it.
The X note was to show that it works even with overhead.
Hell, I had one friend tell me he was running NetBSD with mpg123 on a 486sx with 16meg of ram. I didn't believe it until I heard it play!
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It is next to impossible to play mp3's on a 486 and instead of a hard drive they are using flash so you can fit like 10 songs maybe?
I currently have a 486 laptop with 20meg of RAM running Debian 2.2r2. It plays
Now I will grant you the hard drive issue. You need some kind of large media for storing
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www.winehq.com
has a database of what applications have been tested and what results they got.
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Hi and welcome to VaporDOT News! All the news that we can make up and more!
Today's top stories:
Apple sues FreeType for patent infringement.
Microsoft produces version of Linux. Code Name: Windex.
Microsoft porting their popular Office produce to Linux.
Jon Katz writes highly interesting story about something non-Hellmouth related.
and finally
Linux Kernel 2.4 finally released!
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you have Solaris 8, its FREE up to 8 CPU's, and for SPARC is the best choice.
;-)
Yeah, if you have a Sun4M model CPU or better. Most people out there running Linux and SPARC are doing so to get productivity out of older SPARC hardware that Solaris(tm) does not support. Sun has always had a very nasty habit of dropping old hardware compatibility with new versions of their OS.
Of course is a pity RedHat no longer support SPARC, but like someone already said, you have many other distros with SPARC support, and in my opinion better than RedHat.
Both true and false depending on which OS distro you side with. For my money NetBSD seems to run much faster than Linux on older SPARC hardware and Debian has broken pieces but still holds together despite all.
Linux in general is probably more "app" compatible than most BSD based 'nix. (Caveat: That last statement may not be true now, I haven't looked recently - no flamebait meant.)
Regardless Solaris is not the choice for older SPARC hardware - unless you never want to be up to date...
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You know, a lot of people are getting tired of the same old "Evil Big Corporation" rhetoric being spouted over and over again. Big companies do good stuff and bad stuff. Small companies do good stuff and bad stuff.
;-)
This statement is true but for a fair amount of time now there have been far too many "large" companies doing bad stuff than smaller companies. Most of those are the larger Megacorps(tm). When that kind of disparity exists we have to look a little closer at it.
Everyone does good stuff and bad stuff.
So because everyone does bad stuff we should not complain at all?
We just like to rant about the evil companies because they have the facilities to do it to more people. When the Mom & Pop shop on the corner overcharges you by four dollars, nobody cares, but when Amazon does it we get a flurry of Slashdot articles about it.
Not exactly true my friend. I bitch about small companies that overcharge me - and you should too. (However I also can see when the reason a small company is overcharging me is because a bigger company is squishing them.) If enough complaining is heard then people will do somehting about the problem. Hell - even complaining is doing something about the problem provided you're complaining to the right person. You never know, the right person may be the one standing next to you. Or even a tr0ll on Slashdot.
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What's Borsch? I've heard of Borscht, which is a kind of beet soup, but none of the five immigrants from the former Soviet Union in my office have heard of Borsch.
;-)
I meant Borscht - My mistake.
After all IANARC. (I Am Not A Russian Cosmonaut);
Or even a Russian for that matter.
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And now a word from our sponsors... pizza hut!
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No! No! No!
"Brought to you by The Minsk Cola Company! Now producing Carbonated Borsch for long nights of codink."
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An all too common problem in trying to predict future trends is falling for the fallacy of taking trends to their logical extreme. In this case, you take the trend that people are showing more drone like behavior and extending it to the extreme that we will all become drones.
Point taken however I think this point in history is far more dangerous than past ones because of the rate at which information (or in this case disinformation) flows. It's much harder to fight something that everybody "knows" is true than something that everybody hasn't heard of yet. That's the danger of the media. Most people out there (a generalization I know) watch the news and take it hook, line, and sinker to be the truth. Unfortunate but also very very real.
Historically trends are cyclical. Stretches of group think are followed by stretches of individualistic rebellion. Look at what's happening right now. We see countless protests being staged by people who are fet up with corporatism and globalization. Are these people becoming drones?
No they are not but I think that they are also too small in number. Corporate America(tm) has a very loud voice - it's going to take a lot of people to drown it out. As for historical trends - you are correct. But do you want to wait that long to get your freedoms back?
I think you are way underestimating the desire to be an individual in human beings. There is a desire to be part of a community and to identify with others, but there is also an ego driven desire to distinguish yourself from the crowd.
I do not count the spirit of the individual out but I also am more pessimistic about the strength of Corporate America(TM). There's a lot of things you can do with large amounts of money to make sure the truth does not get told and I think some of those things are being put in place as we speak.
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NEO - "There is no spoon."
That's a paranoid asumption. To have people become drones you would have to simultaneously have to have them indoctrinated and then prevented from getting any competing information at all. That isn't the case here.
Hmmm... not to flamebait here but have you even been paying attention to what's been going on in society? Each day we lose more and more true information due to incorrect or purposefully distorted reporting from the media. Just look around you. Anyone who does not take the time to "dig" for the truth ends up believing everything the media says. The media is DESIGNED that way. It may not have been at first but it is now.
What freedoms are you loosing? These companies are just excercising their freedom to advertise with their money to a school that accepts them. If you don't want to have to access them then by all means pay for an ad free service. Until then deal with the ads like most people ignore them.
The freedom that is slowly being lost here is the freedom of choice. I havn't been a student for some time yet I feel that If I had had to sit through a repetitive stream of ads every day I would have ended up quite a different person. As for the "freedom to advertise" that's all very well but consider this: 1) A fair amount of students don't have a lot of regular money to pay for an ad-free service and are thus stuck with the barrage of ads that come with the free service. 2)Ignoring the ads is possible now but how about a week from now? A month? A year? At some point there will almost certainly be some development on free services that require you to click through an ad before being able to do something with the service. It might not be big at first but you can bet, like any advertising, it will increase with time.
I don't think my viewpoint is all that paranoid. We're living in a society run by big corporate interests. Period. We can change that but not without a lot of hard work and not without a fight.
The Tick - "Spoon!"
NEO - "There is no spoon."
The harm is the possibility of ending up with a school of "corporate indoctrination" instead of a school of "higher learning".
Isn't it bad enough that we go through our current society being bombarded by ads upon ads for products we don't really need?
I used to respect marketing people back when marketing meant
informing people about our product
rather than
beat people into submission with ads for our product.
To paraphrase what someone else said earlier on this thread we're watching the decline of our society back into the mud because of corporatism. If left unchecked you can be assured that the new "crop" of people will be drones within a very short time.
How short a time depends on how badly we fight for our freedoms while sinking.
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NEO - "There is no spoon."
Here are the dots...
Courtney Love does a good job of connecting them.
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you can't get into the sub while wearing your rig. you'd have to cut holes in the sub to get into it which would probably lead to problems for those people inside the sub.
Forgive my lack of cluons but wouldn't a sub designed to go to those depths in those waters be designed with a large enough hatch to accomodate heavy dive gear? I would think that there would at least be some provision for cold/deep water repair. (Not that I've ever heard of outside repair on a sub at sea.)
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Oh come on!
Do you really think the Russian government wanted to rescue that sub? If so then they would have asked for help the moment they had word that the sub was downed!
Even the famous Russian pride would not have stopped them if the wanted to rescue their comrads. They know that even in that freezing water there would be some sort of way to rescue those men.
They don't want anyone but their own people on that sub. This is Black Project stuff. Period.
The Tick - "Spoon!"
NEO - "There is no spoon."
I remember seeing Sir Alec in Star Wars and, wondering what else he had done, several old films (yes films - with projector) that my family and I got from the local Library.
I remember the Man In The White Suit vividly but the part he played that most surprised me was in the 1948 Oliver Twist.
My mother and I were watching that film on PBS one night and trying throughout the whole film to figure out which part he was playing. We finally decided that the only part that could be him - because the film was so old - was the artful dodger. We were totally shocked to find out that he played Fagan! We never thought he was that old or that accomplished by that time. On top of it he was incredibly good even then - at the age of 34 - at taking on a role. AFAIAC anything he did was seamless! No matter what role he played he took the mantle of the part and wrapped it around himself until only a very sharp person could tell he was not who he pretended to be. It was totally amazing to watch him be someone else completely and be someone else so different between each film he did.
Fairwell to one of the great actors of our time. We shall miss him tremendously.
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I don't have a link for this but in the new Crutchfield catalog Kenwood also has produced an in-dash CD player that also plays CD's with MP3s on them.
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>>If you want "just the media", it's $10, as Sun offers just below the $40 CD+printed manual offer.
Yes - but only for non-English versions. Look at the site again.
My beef isn't that they charge so much for the software but that they give the English users no other option except for downloading if they want just the software.
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People used to do this with Word and WordPerfect 5.x (dos) when they were out together.
What they found was that it was just as easy for someone new to learn one as the other.
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[RANT]
You can call it no-charge if you want to download it but the deal sucks if you want an English cd-only kit!
Check it out: here.
It's amazing that if you want the English version on a CD (for those of us that don't have the time/bandwidth to download it) that you will have to pay $39.95 for the product. This was supposed to be a "free" "give away" product per Sun.
$39.95 is far too pricey for just media - but wait you get a book!
I'm sorry but I don't need a book and I shouldn't be forced into getting one with a software package that is supposed to be free.
[/RANT]
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