Satellite broadband is a *network* issue - who cares whether people attach Mac, Windows or Linux clients to their networks? All the Mac needs is IP and say - ethernet - which last time I looked, it had. Buy a satellite receiver/switch/router device or a cheap PC and use that as your gateway - and stick as many Macs as you like on your LAN - ta-daaa! If you're one of those who won't have a non-Mac on your network for "religous" reasons - then you deserve to sit in unconnected misery:)
"Everyone post links to all the cool stuff they use" - I've downloaded 4 or 5 already:)
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Indeed - it's all about building blocks - first you build houses from scratch with mud, clay et al. Then some guy makes pre-fabricated blocks, and another guy uses the blocks to build the house.
We only live for 80 years or so if we're lucky - complex electronics and semiconductors are only possble if each guy concentrates on his stratum of the process: I can code in C, but I know nothing about CPU design, and I don't expect the users of the stuff I write to know C in order to use it. I can build a PC, and engineer the right components into it to eliminate bottlenecks in performance, but I don't know (or care) about how each compnent achieves it's performance - I just read what it says on the lid "Athlon 1900+" or "40Gb 10,000 rpm SCSI disk"
My old maths teacher said something similar about the use of calculators in school maths lessons and it was something like "if we spent all day working out long division in our heads, we'd have no time to do any maths" - in other words - we recognise what the technique is, and do a few to prove we can do it, but then - in the name of random chance - move on!
Hear hear. I jyst want one desktop - I don't care if it looks like any of the other desktops - I'm just going to be using the one desktop!
And you are absolutely right about what makes KDE desirable - it's not the prettiness - I don't care about the prettiness - if I wanted pretty, I'd install Enlightenment ffs! It IS all about the ability double click on something in Konqueror and have the thing do something meaningful with the file or device you clicked on - It beggars belief that at version 3, it still doesn't know what to do with most of the file types by default! (and still outputs portents of doom by the bucket load into the terminal window if you start an editor - I'm sure this is fixable - but thats my point - did no one at RH notice it does this??)
I think a return to the "bad old days" may be in order for me: install the OS and nothing mmore, rip out any remaining "package" driven nonsense, and download it all in source form and cook it. Sure I'll lose the auto update stuff, but then that Red Hat Network thing never works for me anyway!
I played it for a bout 4 hours over the weekend, and it is indeed the same game, with some extra polish. The graphics are indeed better but not in a sort of "feck me look at that!" sort of way (as with the original Unreal, QuakeII etc) The water is nice, but thats about it, although I should point out that I am still running a GeForce256DDR, so perhaps it looks better on more recent hardware.
The gameplay is fine - but then so was the original's.
I have to take issue with the movement code though. I'm a big Quake fan, particualarly Q2 which allows for all kinds of acrobatics. Playing UT2K3 is like Q2 wearing lead underpants (or having your legs tied together). The speed your avatar moves at is mind numblingly slow. He can't jump, hop or do anything apart from "trudge" about the map. Now there is one advantage to this pedestrian pace - it's far more difficult for any one player to dominate - as there is nothing to gain any skill in. You just go at it toe to toe, and the one with the most health and ammo wins... Hopefully, this will prevent new players from being pissed off after the first 5 minutes of stumbling about.
The weapons are more or less the same, and just as confusing or redundant as ever. All you really need is a short range, long range, general spammage, grenade and a hitscan weapon - not various weirdo gloop guns, and strange explosives - it slows the action down - if I wanted to fiddle about tedious weaponry I'd play Counterstrike.
The maps are very inventive - in particular the CTF map in the demo certianly makes a change from the usual "base at each end, spam arena in the middle" style CTF maps.
A good game overall, and one I'll probably buy - but one of many with no particular feature to pull you in. I can see the demo running for ever mind - it's just enough to keep a bunch of casual office-lunch-break gamers enthralled.
Get rid of that football/basketball announcer though...
I agree - it's the worst type of superficial repetitive "journalism" - just repeating the headline over and over with increasing numbers of filler words - the BBC should know better.
You kno what happens - they phone some guy in a University and repeatedly ask "could it have come from Mars?" "Well yeah - I guess" says the guy (thinking "it could have come from anywhere - I haven't seen it, have no idea of it;s composition, but I can't say no") Next thing, he's being quoted in some half arsed article as saying "it could have come from Mars"
You gotta laff at TV news programmes (it may be on a web site but the BBC is a TV outfit)- they never tell you anything but the obvious.
Mind you - I reckon Microsoft put loads of delay loops in their OS's - more with every update - to get you to uprade your hardware in a secret deal with Intel. How else can you explain that with every successive release, Windows performs like a donkey with one leg less than the previous version?:P
Sounds like they have nothing to say, so they've changed the company name again.. back to what it was. (or whatever).
"Pass mew that whip - this horse corpse will go round one more lap" SCO unix - deary me - havn't they noticed that Linux/BSD plus XFree/KDE/Gnome is better than anything they ever had to offer?
Flame away - thats been my experince of SCO - yours may be different.
"On October, 1971, American physicists took four super-accurate atomic clocks, kept two on the ground and put two on commercial jets flying at 1000 kmh in opposite directions around Earth.
When the planes landed, the scientists found what they were hoping for: The clocks on the high-speed journeys were ticking a few billionths of a second behind their stationary friends.
Motion, it turns out, slows time "
Did these guys never consider that perhaps, motion rather than slowing time, just slows atomic clocks? After all, the clock doesn't know it's a device for measuring time does it?
I agree - chess can be reduced to an algorithm - albeit a somewhat complex one.
Surely as processors get faster etc etc, pitting humans against computers in a competition to do what computers do best is pretty pointless. It's not as if you can deceive/bluff the software now is it?
I see your point - and just to add some other examples - most larger printers have some form of web server in them too, plus telnet and ftp in the case of a Xerox DC for example. I've not done any digging on whats actually running in those things, but I'd be willing to bet it's a general purpose OS and that there are other capabilities lurking in there..
There's a large ad for Microsoft Visual studio on this post (well in my browser anyway). Dunno whether this is good or bad but something made me laff - or is it just the 2 bottles of wine I've sunk.. who knows..
Bit of a hot one this but you can adjust to taste.
Ingredients:- Chicken of some description (I use a whole freshly roasted chicken - as sold by Tescos but you can use raw stuff - just takes a bit longer, and makes it a bit sloppy) 6 fresh tomatoes 1 large onion Turmeric Encona West Indian pepper sauce Fresh Coriander Freshly ground black pepper. Rice etc.
Put rice onto boil.
If using roasted chicken dismember with hands - squeeze and bones pop out! None of that carving marlarkey - takes too long.
Heat sunflower oil in wok or large frying pan. Chop onion. Turn the heat up to max. If your cooker is a bit weedy, get a good hiking stove:)
Fry Onion and chicken pieces in pan (put the skin in too). Cover chicken and onion in turmeric and stir fry. Optionally add a small amount of Jerk seasoning at this stage.
After a couple of minutes add pepper sauce to taste (I use about 1.5 inches of the bottle). Stir
Add black pepper to taste.
Chop tomatoes whilst occasionally stirring chcikcen and onions.
Throw in tomatoes and stir.
Lastly, chop coriander and add to the pan. Continue to stir and fry until onions/tomatoes just slightly burnt on the edges.
Don't forget the rice, and don't serve the burnt bits on the bottom of the pan...
Combine with tea or coffee for a good caffeine/chilli eys on stalks type ffect essential for those long coding/fragging sessions:)
Erm and don't email me about any injuries caused whilst cooking, eating or er.. disposing of this dish - use at your own risk..
I'm sure even non-techy business types have screamed at the TV or Cinema screen in a hacker movie to "pull the damm power cord out you dolt" - Ie you can only stop someone's pacemaker via the Internet if you connected the pacemaker to the Internet. Ergo, if you ever have the misfortune to require a pacemaker - do not connect it to the Internet.
How does 10% of 12-17's downloading music "mean" that 90% of file traders pay for music? That statement implies that all 12-17 year olds are filetraders and all filetraders are 12-17 years old!
"The more they tighten their grip.. the more computer systems will slip through their fingers..." - Princess Bun-ears, VP - infrastructure.
Intervention is not required - if we believe there is an alternative. Big busineses are not stupid - just a bit slow sometimes. If MS drop support for Win2k after such a short time, this will generate sympathy for the rebellion within the senate.. (sorry keep dropping into it..) - I mean - business will be more reluctant to take up the next offering if it means a similarly short lifespan, or ridiculous charges. A few more willing to try something else like GNU/Linux or BSD etc. All to the good. Governments should not intervene to save MS from their own long term stupidity. Let them piss off their customers I say.
That is unless the emporer disbands (or buys) the senate, and sweeps away the last remenants of common sense..
The "I" word is mentioned and common sense goes out of the window. Why does it have to be "special" just because the delivery mechanism is a web page? Is a book published everytime someone new reads it? And they spent time debating this?
The article is worthless - they wrote a page of words on the basis that some guys down at Ford are printing "holograms" (ie the decal type silver foil things) from CGI instead of images captured by bouncing light off real objects. Just what is their point? Exactly? Alternative titles for the article include:-
"Man does exactly the same thing with holograms as usual"
"No change on the holgram front"
Or as Christopher Lloyd says in Star Trek III:-
"Nothing happening here!, Kruge out!".
Truly, this is not the article you are looking for - move along.
Hmm whilst I agree with some of your sentiments, as a non-US person, I feel that if the owners of the site are American , then why shouldn't they fly their flag? They could have put the stars and stripes on some other bit of the site mind - it does tend to imply that somehow the Linux kernel and the GNU products that make up the other 80% of the average Liniux kerneled OS are somehow US inventions. Many of the coders may well by American, but I'm willing to bet the majority of the average GNU/Linux OS was developed outside the USA. I've not looked it up or anything, but I'd be surpised if it turned out to be a mainly US effort.
So, the mascot may suck, but not as much as your spelling:P
http://linuxdailynews.net/admin.php http://linu xdailynews.net/backend.php http://linuxdailynews. net/modules.php?name=Section s
All phpNuke URLs. They've removed or moved some of the modules such as "stats.php", "submit.php" and so forth but I could tell it was Nuke within about 1.2 seconds of the page appearing in my browser...
I did think for a nanosecond of setting up a site like this using Nuke (which comes with style sheets for rendering rdf and xml headline files) but then - I thought - thats just a bit too parasitic and well - lame.
Shame on them and "Universal Networks" for not giving the Nuke team a credit!
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Satellite broadband is a *network* issue - who cares whether people attach Mac, Windows or Linux clients to their networks? All the Mac needs is IP and say - ethernet - which last time I looked, it had. Buy a satellite receiver/switch/router device or a cheap PC and use that as your gateway - and stick as many Macs as you like on your LAN - ta-daaa! If you're one of those who won't have a non-Mac on your network for "religous" reasons - then you deserve to sit in unconnected misery :)
John Carmack wants to propel people upwards using rockets for real ??! Let's just hope self-damage was turned down :)
Next they'll be distributing grenades on the launch pad to get a bit more height
If he ever smashes to the ground himself testing one of these creations - you just know what should be on his grave stone: "Carmack cratered." hehe
Oh stop it (rofl)- there's probably a hundred RJ jokes in this one..
LOL - we should have this article every month :)
:)
"Everyone post links to all the cool stuff they use" - I've downloaded 4 or 5 already
Indeed - it's all about building blocks - first you build houses from scratch with mud, clay et al. Then some guy makes pre-fabricated blocks, and another guy uses the blocks to build the house.
We only live for 80 years or so if we're lucky - complex electronics and semiconductors are only possble if each guy concentrates on his stratum of the process: I can code in C, but I know nothing about CPU design, and I don't expect the users of the stuff I write to know C in order to use it. I can build a PC, and engineer the right components into it to eliminate bottlenecks in performance, but I don't know (or care) about how each compnent achieves it's performance - I just read what it says on the lid "Athlon 1900+" or "40Gb 10,000 rpm SCSI disk"
My old maths teacher said something similar about the use of calculators in school maths lessons and it was something like "if we spent all day working out long division in our heads, we'd have no time to do any maths" - in other words - we recognise what the technique is, and do a few to prove we can do it, but then - in the name of random chance - move on!
Hear hear. I jyst want one desktop - I don't care if it looks like any of the other desktops - I'm just going to be using the one desktop!
And you are absolutely right about what makes KDE desirable - it's not the prettiness - I don't care about the prettiness - if I wanted pretty, I'd install Enlightenment ffs! It IS all about the ability double click on something in Konqueror and have the thing do something meaningful with the file or device you clicked on - It beggars belief that at version 3, it still doesn't know what to do with most of the file types by default! (and still outputs portents of doom by the bucket load into the terminal window if you start an editor - I'm sure this is fixable - but thats my point - did no one at RH notice it does this??)
I think a return to the "bad old days" may be in order for me: install the OS and nothing mmore, rip out any remaining "package" driven nonsense, and download it all in source form and cook it. Sure I'll lose the auto update stuff, but then that Red Hat Network thing never works for me anyway!
I played it for a bout 4 hours over the weekend, and it is indeed the same game, with some extra polish. The graphics are indeed better but not in a sort of "feck me look at that!" sort of way (as with the original Unreal, QuakeII etc) The water is nice, but thats about it, although I should point out that I am still running a GeForce256DDR, so perhaps it looks better on more recent hardware.
The gameplay is fine - but then so was the original's.
I have to take issue with the movement code though. I'm a big Quake fan, particualarly Q2 which allows for all kinds of acrobatics. Playing UT2K3 is like Q2 wearing lead underpants (or having your legs tied together). The speed your avatar moves at is mind numblingly slow. He can't jump, hop or do anything apart from "trudge" about the map. Now there is one advantage to this pedestrian pace - it's far more difficult for any one player to dominate - as there is nothing to gain any skill in. You just go at it toe to toe, and the one with the most health and ammo wins... Hopefully, this will prevent new players from being pissed off after the first 5 minutes of stumbling about.
The weapons are more or less the same, and just as confusing or redundant as ever. All you really need is a short range, long range, general spammage, grenade and a hitscan weapon - not various weirdo gloop guns, and strange explosives - it slows the action down - if I wanted to fiddle about tedious weaponry I'd play Counterstrike.
The maps are very inventive - in particular the CTF map in the demo certianly makes a change from the usual "base at each end, spam arena in the middle" style CTF maps.
A good game overall, and one I'll probably buy - but one of many with no particular feature to pull you in. I can see the demo running for ever mind - it's just enough to keep a bunch of casual office-lunch-break gamers enthralled.
Get rid of that football/basketball announcer though...
www.muttsnutts.com
can I get that stuff on my car too? Breaks down dirt and rain flows over the windscreen without forming drops - no wipers required!
I agree - it's the worst type of superficial repetitive "journalism" - just repeating the headline over and over with increasing numbers of filler words - the BBC should know better.
You kno what happens - they phone some guy in a University and repeatedly ask "could it have come from Mars?" "Well yeah - I guess" says the guy (thinking "it could have come from anywhere - I haven't seen it, have no idea of it;s composition, but I can't say no") Next thing, he's being quoted in some half arsed article as saying "it could have come from Mars"
You gotta laff at TV news programmes (it may be on a web site but the BBC is a TV outfit)- they never tell you anything but the obvious.
hehe and she also said her name was Cowton - not Carlton - so who knows :P
I always keep a stock of sticks with me to hand out to people.
What exactly is their point? WE KNOW THIS ALREADY
:P
Mind you - I reckon Microsoft put loads of delay loops in their OS's - more with every update - to get you to uprade your hardware in a secret deal with Intel. How else can you explain that with every successive release, Windows performs like a donkey with one leg less than the previous version?
Sounds like they have nothing to say, so they've changed the company name again.. back to what it was. (or whatever).
"Pass mew that whip - this horse corpse will go round one more lap" SCO unix - deary me - havn't they noticed that Linux/BSD plus XFree/KDE/Gnome is better than anything they ever had to offer?
Flame away - thats been my experince of SCO - yours may be different.
"On October, 1971, American physicists took four super-accurate atomic clocks, kept two on the ground and put two on commercial jets flying at 1000 kmh in opposite directions around Earth.
When the planes landed, the scientists found what they were hoping for: The clocks on the high-speed journeys were ticking a few billionths of a second behind their stationary friends.
Motion, it turns out, slows time "
Did these guys never consider that perhaps, motion rather than slowing time, just slows atomic clocks? After all, the clock doesn't know it's a device for measuring time does it?
I agree - chess can be reduced to an algorithm - albeit a somewhat complex one.
Surely as processors get faster etc etc, pitting humans against computers in a competition to do what computers do best is pretty pointless. It's not as if you can deceive/bluff the software now is it?
I see your point - and just to add some other examples - most larger printers have some form of web server in them too, plus telnet and ftp in the case of a Xerox DC for example. I've not done any digging on whats actually running in those things, but I'd be willing to bet it's a general purpose OS and that there are other capabilities lurking in there..
There's a large ad for Microsoft Visual studio on this post (well in my browser anyway). Dunno whether this is good or bad but something made me laff - or is it just the 2 bottles of wine I've sunk.. who knows..
hehe
Bit of a hot one this but you can adjust to taste.
:)
:)
:)
Ingredients:-
Chicken of some description (I use a whole freshly roasted chicken - as sold by Tescos but you can use raw stuff - just takes a bit longer, and makes it a bit sloppy)
6 fresh tomatoes
1 large onion
Turmeric
Encona West Indian pepper sauce
Fresh Coriander
Freshly ground black pepper.
Rice etc.
Put rice onto boil.
If using roasted chicken dismember with hands - squeeze and bones pop out! None of that carving marlarkey - takes too long.
Heat sunflower oil in wok or large frying pan.
Chop onion. Turn the heat up to max. If your cooker is a bit weedy, get a good hiking stove
Fry Onion and chicken pieces in pan (put the skin in too). Cover chicken and onion in turmeric and stir fry. Optionally add a small amount of Jerk seasoning at this stage.
After a couple of minutes add pepper sauce to taste (I use about 1.5 inches of the bottle). Stir
Add black pepper to taste.
Chop tomatoes whilst occasionally stirring chcikcen and onions.
Throw in tomatoes and stir.
Lastly, chop coriander and add to the pan. Continue to stir and fry until onions/tomatoes just slightly burnt on the edges.
Don't forget the rice, and don't serve the burnt bits on the bottom of the pan...
Combine with tea or coffee for a good caffeine/chilli eys on stalks type ffect essential for those long coding/fragging sessions
Erm and don't email me about any injuries caused whilst cooking, eating or er.. disposing of this dish - use at your own risk..
Enjoy - Scoot
I'm sure even non-techy business types have screamed at the TV or Cinema screen in a hacker movie to "pull the damm power cord out you dolt" - Ie you can only stop someone's pacemaker via the Internet if you connected the pacemaker to the Internet. Ergo, if you ever have the misfortune to require a pacemaker - do not connect it to the Internet.
How does 10% of 12-17's downloading music "mean" that 90% of file traders pay for music? That statement implies that all 12-17 year olds are filetraders and all filetraders are 12-17 years old!
"The more they tighten their grip.. the more computer systems will slip through their fingers..." - Princess Bun-ears, VP - infrastructure.
Intervention is not required - if we believe there is an alternative. Big busineses are not stupid - just a bit slow sometimes. If MS drop support for Win2k after such a short time, this will generate sympathy for the rebellion within the senate.. (sorry keep dropping into it..) - I mean - business will be more reluctant to take up the next offering if it means a similarly short lifespan, or ridiculous charges. A few more willing to try something else like GNU/Linux or BSD etc. All to the good. Governments should not intervene to save MS from their own long term stupidity. Let them piss off their customers I say.
That is unless the emporer disbands (or buys) the senate, and sweeps away the last remenants of common sense..
The "I" word is mentioned and common sense goes out of the window. Why does it have to be "special" just because the delivery mechanism is a web page? Is a book published everytime someone new reads it? And they spent time debating this?
"No."
The article is worthless - they wrote a page of words on the basis that some guys down at Ford are printing "holograms" (ie the decal type silver foil things) from CGI instead of images captured by bouncing light off real objects. Just what is their point? Exactly? Alternative titles for the article include:-
"Man does exactly the same thing with holograms as usual"
"No change on the holgram front"
Or as Christopher Lloyd says in Star Trek III:-
"Nothing happening here!, Kruge out!".
Truly, this is not the article you are looking for - move along.
Hmm whilst I agree with some of your sentiments, as a non-US person, I feel that if the owners of the site are American , then why shouldn't they fly their flag? They could have put the stars and stripes on some other bit of the site mind - it does tend to imply that somehow the Linux kernel and the GNU products that make up the other 80% of the average Liniux kerneled OS are somehow US inventions. Many of the coders may well by American, but I'm willing to bet the majority of the average GNU/Linux OS was developed outside the USA. I've not looked it up or anything, but I'd be surpised if it turned out to be a mainly US effort.
:P
So, the mascot may suck, but not as much as your spelling
They are talking absolute rubbish - it's phpNuke.
u xdailynews.net/backend.php. net/modules.php?name=Section s
Check these:-
http://linuxdailynews.net/admin.php
http://lin
http://linuxdailynews
All phpNuke URLs. They've removed or moved some of the modules such as "stats.php", "submit.php" and so forth but I could tell it was Nuke within about 1.2 seconds of the page appearing in my browser...
I did think for a nanosecond of setting up a site like this using Nuke (which comes with style sheets for rendering rdf and xml headline files) but then - I thought - thats just a bit too parasitic and well - lame.
Shame on them and "Universal Networks" for not giving the Nuke team a credit!
Indeed - I did think of adding
:-/
http://linuxdailynews.net/backend.php
to my own Nuke site's headlines. Headlines from a headlines site
It's obviously a phpNuke site - shame they didn't credit the phpNuke team anywhere on the front page.
My own site carries headlines from slashdot, movieheadlines, barrysworld and planetquake3