I did a contract for a couple weeks with my school's district office for web stuff. That was okay, but it didn't pay much. The web design teacher liked my stuff in her class and reccomended me. Try hanging around tech inclined staff at school, maybe they can find you something.
There's always the time-honoured tradition of working with your father. My dad got me a job at the corporation where he works (and I had a resume already because of the school job) where I did general perl hacking and linux stuff for the rest of the summer. I'm doing that again this summer, too. This may not be a viable solution for everyone, of course.
Between downloading the latest Mandrake ISO for my soon to be functioning again web, file, and mail server, grabbing a handful of MP3s, listening to a realaudio broadcast of a radio station I like but get no reception on my stereo, downloading the new X-Men trailer, and casual websurfing on top of all that (Flash and Shockwave sites suck a good bit of bandwidth as well), and you can easily saturate 640Kb!
I recently got a Palm Vx and was wondering what to do with all the extra memory (this is upgrading from a pilot pro, 8x more memory:) I loaded up Frotz and the z-code from HHGTTG and now I can make futile attempts to solve the game when I'm bored.
Fun to play that game all over again, though I miss the "Don't Panic" pin and all the other paraphenalia that came with it.
It's not like we're not trying, though! See ZZT++ and glZZT... well more ZZT++, glZZT was more of a "is something so insane really possible" kind of thing:)
It sounds like you were hoping for a Linux-based solution, but might I suggest OpenBSD? It is often regarded as the most secure UNIX out there, no holes in the default install for two years.
Set up the default install, configure NAT for your local network, and you're ready to go!
Of course, from what I've read you probably haven't used it before and are most likely reluctant to learn a whole new operating system and different port forwarding software. But it's not that bad, really:) And hey, 2.7 is coming out real soon now!
Here is what I would suggest (and I use all this stuff in day-to-day life, so it is quite usable)
Palm Vx (small, light, fast, tonnes of memory)
Dictionary from evolutionary.net. This is modular, so you can do many languages at once, including all of the ones you mentioned. It is shareware, but I seem to rememember the fee being pretty small.
Also, you can replace the default calculator with Currency Calculator which is a full featured calculator that can do arbitrary conversions
Yeah, what piman said:P I'm still paranoid that I'm getting 1 or 2 emails a day to kvance@zeux.org regarding bug fixes and patches for software I wrote with that email address as a contact...
Wacom is pretty much the leading name in graphics tablets for any platform. Lots of links were given in the post above, so I'll just post some testimonial:
I've been using my Wacom ArtPad II for over a year on my linux box, and I couldn't be more happy. It's the size of a standard mouse pad, so I didn't have to rearrange my desk. It's a lot easier on the wrists than those horrible mouse devices (which I sometimes have to use for Quake:) And of course, it makes the GIMP much better. After working with pressure sensitivity, you'll never want to go back!
I'm fairly sure they have a new intuos series tablet with the same form as the ArtPad II, which would be more sensitive...
Or if you want to go bigger, they have some ungodly huge tablets, too:)
Okay, maybe the article was a stretch, but this isn't: TerminatorX (my favorite linux audio program). Make virtual turntables from audio files and scratch them like vinyl records with your mouse!
Right now, I compose music using a few linux software tools. The mediocre (but increasing!) quality of the software available right now is offset by the good quality hardware I use. The SB Live has open source drivers that are very bleeding edge (there is no MIDI support for the front panel yet, so I don't use MIDI:) My roland JP-8000 can synthesize any sound there is, and the recording from the emu10k1 in the SB Live is top notch.
As for software, I use VoodooTracker for mixing loops, DAP for editing individual samples, Zerius Vocoder for being like Kraftwerk, and Broadcast 2000 for editing the final thing and mixing in performance stuff. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of little hacks and kludges, but I like it:)
The last magazine in my stack of Wireds before the subscription finally ran out is dated "October 1998" with the cover story "Iridium launches the global phone" Big, long story about how neat Iridium is. Heh.
Sorry, I just have to "me too" everyone else who's drooling over having software development class in high school:)
I'm still in HS now, and I got to take the mandatory Windows Applications class (to train everyone for their upcoming futurres as button-pushers and block-stackers). I also voluntarily took the HTML class in which I got 42 minutes every other day to read slashdot and play Nethack on a remote shell. That was a worthy use of my time, indeed:)
Beyond those and the Mac Applications class (I gave up on taking computer classes and took Film instead, in the hopes I might learn something), there is no more Computer related curriculum available, much less a Computer Science curriculum.
Okay, rant over.
As for getting people to warm to Linux, try asking to install it on one of the PCs in the lab. Install the vital components, compilers, X11, and Enlightenment:) The graphics people will drool over E and GIMP, and the rest can bask in the free cross-platform goodness of GCC and binutils. You might also add that it's a proven and stable server platform to replace the uglier bits of the internal network, etc. and so forth.
I use a small Wacom ArtPad 2 as my primary pointing device because it's a lot easier on my wrist than a mouse. This has the nice side effect of being able to draw and erase pressure-sensitively in the GIMP. It is necessary, however, to recompile your GTK+ toolkit with XInput Extensions enabled. After this is done, it works like a charm.
The latest version of the driver supports even the multiple input Intuos series of tablets. It is available at http://www.lepied.com/xfree86.
I have colour problems in DOSEMU and in plain DOS with my matrox G200. I think I finally got it working with xdos and Enlightenment's full-screen mode (alt+enter, tee hee).
I've actually seen one game work with DOSEMU sound. I have no idea how or why, but it does. Star Control II, my favourite game of all time, plays music and sound in DOSEMU. I suppose it uses some kind of unorthodox method for poking at the soundcard because I've never seen another game produce sound in DOSEMU. It was a little latent from game events, but still good.
This was with a SB16 clone (evil AVS mixer thing) with one of the newer developer versions. I'll have to try it again with 1.0 and my new emu10k1 (may not work without a real soundblaster, hrm...)
I've been using a Palm Pro for ~2 years, enough time to become intimately familiar with Graffiti. To tell the truth, I find that taking notes on it better than writing on a piece of paper because you don't have to look down at what you're writing. Just write one letter on top of the other. Occasionally, it gets a letter wrong, but as long as you have a brain, you can tell that "wnitable" was supposed to be "writable".
Also, a lot of people complain about writing on the slippery glass surface. Concept Kitchen makes these <A HREF="http://www.conceptkitchen.com/products/pdas0 0671.shtml">neat little dealies</A> which you can stick to the surface of the screen to make it more bearable.
Well, that's all I have to say about that. I've never actually used a Newton, but I really like the palm's form factor.
I found it interesting that Nomad can use two cameras for depth perception. According to the site, it creates a "disparity map" based on the differences. Does anyone know where I can find more information on this technique? It sounds fascinating...
I tried it for a little while during the pre-game show before I went to watch the game on a bigger TV. (screenshot) It consisted of two things: a trivia game and an auto-refresh panel for whatever was going on on the TV. It shows player stats, etc.
Not the most useful thing, since it's more passive like TV and less interactive.
Yes, we've been working on ZZT engine workalikes for some time now. I've done a good bit of work on the subject. In my document The ZZT File Format, I have a lot of detailed information for anyone interested in working with ZZT files.
I've also been working on various other ZZT projects. I see JZig has pointed out my attempts at combining OpenGL and ZZT (he missed a picture). I dunno how well this will work out due to performance issues -- it's a lot more polygons than you think in those ZZT screens:) Part of this has been my ever-evolving libzzt, which is almost working now.
If you're interested in helping development (or any other slashdaughters for that matter), I could eventually clean this stuff up and put it up on sourceforge...
The other ZZT clone project of note is ZZT++, a C++ reimplementation of ZZT. It's very DOS centric, but the source is GPLd, so it doesn't have to stay that way. See zzt.org for general ZZT info and news (or trap.cx/zarchive since zzt.org seems not to be resolving)
I dunno where you get all these pessimists bashing Linux Demo Day (probably the same bunch that didn't understand why the Casio MP3 watch was cool)... doesn't anyone remember The Great Linux Revolt of '98 for the Win98 launch? That was cool and got plenty of media attention.
I dunno how many other people this happened to but I might be helping someone... I got the gift of Q3:A for christmas this year, however it was for the Windows platform. I assumed that Q3 would be distributed like Q2 -- you could get binaries for the other platforms off id's ftp, but this wasn't so. That was a problem since I could never get my G200's OpenGL to work on Win98, but it flies under Linux.
Then I found this shell script someone posted on the loki newsgroup: it allows you to use the data off your CD with the linux Q3Demo 1.1 executable. It sets a couple breakpoints and modifies some stuff in memory. Posted at: http://www.linuxstart.com/~kva nce/software/q3full.sh
Probably, WINE will be able to load it and you will be able to use the basic program with some graphical deficiencies. WINE has stopped sucking lately.
Since the images on that CD are probably stored in a known format, I'm wondering how hard it would be to make an open reader for the data of the CDs... to me, it's prohibitively expensive for just an idle hacking project but it's probably possible.
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I did a contract for a couple weeks with my school's district office for web stuff. That was okay, but it didn't pay much. The web design teacher liked my stuff in her class and reccomended me. Try hanging around tech inclined staff at school, maybe they can find you something.
There's always the time-honoured tradition of working with your father. My dad got me a job at the corporation where he works (and I had a resume already because of the school job) where I did general perl hacking and linux stuff for the rest of the summer. I'm doing that again this summer, too. This may not be a viable solution for everyone, of course.
I hate you dsl users so much :)
I recently got a Palm Vx and was wondering what to do with all the extra memory (this is upgrading from a pilot pro, 8x more memory :) I loaded up Frotz and the z-code from HHGTTG and now I can make futile attempts to solve the game when I'm bored.
Fun to play that game all over again, though I miss the "Don't Panic" pin and all the other paraphenalia that came with it.
It's not like we're not trying, though! See ZZT++ and glZZT... well more ZZT++, glZZT was more of a "is something so insane really possible" kind of thing :)
You know, every time I end up with an unplayable quicktime movie, I let loose my dismayed cry: "Sorenson!"
Why, it's becoming almost as recognizable as Seinfeld's "Newman!"
It sounds like you were hoping for a Linux-based solution, but might I suggest OpenBSD? It is often regarded as the most secure UNIX out there, no holes in the default install for two years.
:) And hey, 2.7 is coming out real soon now!
Set up the default install, configure NAT for your local network, and you're ready to go!
Of course, from what I've read you probably haven't used it before and are most likely reluctant to learn a whole new operating system and different port forwarding software. But it's not that bad, really
Depending on where you live, there often are more corporate logos than plant species.
Here is what I would suggest (and I use all this stuff in day-to-day life, so it is quite usable)
Yeah, what piman said :P I'm still paranoid that I'm getting 1 or 2 emails a day to kvance@zeux.org regarding bug fixes and patches for software I wrote with that email address as a contact...
Wacom is pretty much the leading name in graphics tablets for any platform. Lots of links were given in the post above, so I'll just post some testimonial:
:) And of course, it makes the GIMP much better. After working with pressure sensitivity, you'll never want to go back!
:)
I've been using my Wacom ArtPad II for over a year on my linux box, and I couldn't be more happy. It's the size of a standard mouse pad, so I didn't have to rearrange my desk. It's a lot easier on the wrists than those horrible mouse devices (which I sometimes have to use for Quake
I'm fairly sure they have a new intuos series tablet with the same form as the ArtPad II, which would be more sensitive...
Or if you want to go bigger, they have some ungodly huge tablets, too
Okay, maybe the article was a stretch, but this isn't: TerminatorX (my favorite linux audio program). Make virtual turntables from audio files and scratch them like vinyl records with your mouse!
Linux meets hiphop? Yeah, now we're talking :)
Right now, I compose music using a few linux software tools. The mediocre (but increasing!) quality of the software available right now is offset by the good quality hardware I use. The SB Live has open source drivers that are very bleeding edge (there is no MIDI support for the front panel yet, so I don't use MIDI :) My roland JP-8000 can synthesize any sound there is, and the recording from the emu10k1 in the SB Live is top notch.
As for software, I use VoodooTracker for mixing loops, DAP for editing individual samples, Zerius Vocoder for being like Kraftwerk, and Broadcast 2000 for editing the final thing and mixing in performance stuff. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of little hacks and kludges, but I like itThe last magazine in my stack of Wireds before the subscription finally ran out is dated "October 1998" with the cover story "Iridium launches the global phone" Big, long story about how neat Iridium is. Heh.
Sorry, I just have to "me too" everyone else who's drooling over having software development class in high school :)
:)
:) The graphics people will drool over E and GIMP, and the rest can bask in the free cross-platform goodness of GCC and binutils. You might also add that it's a proven and stable server platform to replace the uglier bits of the internal network, etc. and so forth.
:)
I'm still in HS now, and I got to take the mandatory Windows Applications class (to train everyone for their upcoming futurres as button-pushers and block-stackers). I also voluntarily took the HTML class in which I got 42 minutes every other day to read slashdot and play Nethack on a remote shell. That was a worthy use of my time, indeed
Beyond those and the Mac Applications class (I gave up on taking computer classes and took Film instead, in the hopes I might learn something), there is no more Computer related curriculum available, much less a Computer Science curriculum.
Okay, rant over.
As for getting people to warm to Linux, try asking to install it on one of the PCs in the lab. Install the vital components, compilers, X11, and Enlightenment
Good luck
I use a small Wacom ArtPad 2 as my primary pointing device because it's a lot easier on my wrist than a mouse. This has the nice side effect of being able to draw and erase pressure-sensitively in the GIMP. It is necessary, however, to recompile your GTK+ toolkit with XInput Extensions enabled. After this is done, it works like a charm.
The latest version of the driver supports even the multiple input Intuos series of tablets. It is available at http://www.lepied.com/xfree86.
I have colour problems in DOSEMU and in plain DOS with my matrox G200. I think I finally got it working with xdos and Enlightenment's full-screen mode (alt+enter, tee hee).
I've actually seen one game work with DOSEMU sound. I have no idea how or why, but it does. Star Control II, my favourite game of all time, plays music and sound in DOSEMU. I suppose it uses some kind of unorthodox method for poking at the soundcard because I've never seen another game produce sound in DOSEMU. It was a little latent from game events, but still good.
This was with a SB16 clone (evil AVS mixer thing) with one of the newer developer versions. I'll have to try it again with 1.0 and my new emu10k1 (may not work without a real soundblaster, hrm...)
I've been using a Palm Pro for ~2 years, enough time to become intimately familiar with Graffiti. To tell the truth, I find that taking notes on it better than writing on a piece of paper because you don't have to look down at what you're writing. Just write one letter on top of the other. Occasionally, it gets a letter wrong, but as long as you have a brain, you can tell that "wnitable" was supposed to be "writable".
0 0671.shtml">neat little dealies</A> which you can stick to the surface of the screen to make it more bearable.
Also, a lot of people complain about writing on the slippery glass surface. Concept Kitchen makes these <A HREF="http://www.conceptkitchen.com/products/pdas
Well, that's all I have to say about that. I've never actually used a Newton, but I really like the palm's form factor.
I found it interesting that Nomad can use two cameras for depth perception. According to the site, it creates a "disparity map" based on the differences. Does anyone know where I can find more information on this technique? It sounds fascinating...
I tried it for a little while during the pre-game show before I went to watch the game on a bigger TV. (screenshot) It consisted of two things: a trivia game and an auto-refresh panel for whatever was going on on the TV. It shows player stats, etc.
Not the most useful thing, since it's more passive like TV and less interactive.
Yes, we've been working on ZZT engine workalikes for some time now. I've done a good bit of work on the subject. In my document The ZZT File Format, I have a lot of detailed information for anyone interested in working with ZZT files.
:) Part of this has been my ever-evolving libzzt, which is almost working now.
:)
I've also been working on various other ZZT projects. I see JZig has pointed out my attempts at combining OpenGL and ZZT (he missed a picture). I dunno how well this will work out due to performance issues -- it's a lot more polygons than you think in those ZZT screens
If you're interested in helping development (or any other slashdaughters for that matter), I could eventually clean this stuff up and put it up on sourceforge...
The other ZZT clone project of note is ZZT++, a C++ reimplementation of ZZT. It's very DOS centric, but the source is GPLd, so it doesn't have to stay that way. See zzt.org for general ZZT info and news (or trap.cx/zarchive since zzt.org seems not to be resolving)
That enough ZZT info for you?
- k e v
I dunno where you get all these pessimists bashing Linux Demo Day (probably the same bunch that didn't understand why the Casio MP3 watch was cool)... doesn't anyone remember The Great Linux Revolt of '98 for the Win98 launch? That was cool and got plenty of media attention.
I dunno how many other people this happened to but I might be helping someone... I got the gift of Q3:A for christmas this year, however it was for the Windows platform. I assumed that Q3 would be distributed like Q2 -- you could get binaries for the other platforms off id's ftp, but this wasn't so. That was a problem since I could never get my G200's OpenGL to work on Win98, but it flies under Linux.
Then I found this shell script someone posted on the loki newsgroup: it allows you to use the data off your CD with the linux Q3Demo 1.1 executable. It sets a couple breakpoints and modifies some stuff in memory. Posted at: http://www.linuxstart.com/~kva nce/software/q3full.sh
Nifty, eh?...has been the best in a while. Case in point - "The Poke of Zorro":
:)
"I, King Arthur, crown Zorro the new King of England!"
Freeze frame, rap song begins: "From the Z to the O to the Double R O..."
That was hilarious, plain and simple... I gotta find a clip of that
Probably, WINE will be able to load it and you will be able to use the basic program with some graphical deficiencies. WINE has stopped sucking lately.
Since the images on that CD are probably stored in a known format, I'm wondering how hard it would be to make an open reader for the data of the CDs... to me, it's prohibitively expensive for just an idle hacking project but it's probably possible.