We want to share one DSL line, but the phone company says we would have to pay for 6 different lines. Can we all just get Ethernet cards and connect through one computer?
Certainly, you can do this. When the telco guy comes to hook up your Linux box, take the existing ethernet card out and pretend you don't have any other computers. He'll install the modem and the ethernet card into your PC and set it up for you.
You now have 1 IP address on that machine. Take your ethernet cards and get everybody back on the net. Your DSL enabled box now has two network cards in it. You'll probably have to recompile your kernel with IP Masquerading enabled. With this done, run a line like this for each machine on the network: /sbin/ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 10.0.0.2 where 10.0.0.2 would be the address of a machine on the network who you want to share the DSL line with. Do this for all the IPs on your network.
That takes care of the server side. Now, for each of the clients add the IP of your DSL box as the "gateway". You will also need to take note of the nameserver and enter that into all the clients as well.
There you go, one DSL connection for the price of one IP address shared across your network.
Now that you got this idea started in my head, I'm going to have to go around video capturing everything and making stereograms. There goes the rest of my free time, thanks a lot:)
AFAIK, the glx module is completely independent from the DRI. In fact, I think they're mutually exclusive. Until the G200 code is ported to the DRI, you should keep running 3.3.5 with Utah GLX.
If one of the developers knows this is otherwise, please correct me (haven't been keeping up with the list:)
...you're getting screwed. But I just write music as a hobby. I don't really care if I get paid a cent, but mp3.com is graciously hosting a lot more MB worth of files than your typical free internet hosting service. And if they want to put my stuff on a cd (heh, unlikely:) then that's just fine by me.
That c64 rendition of Second Reality really blew my mind! And I thought 2ndreal for the pc was the best...:) Makes me want to get my C64 back out of the closet, this does...
Don't forget that we have an open source project that works right now. Accelerated GLX for XFree86 3.3.5 supports Matrox G200 and G400 as well as Riva TNT2 cards. Support for Rage Pro chipsets is on the way, too. So you might want to consider contributing some code to the project rather than shelling out for the new Xi server...
I've been carrying a palmpilot professional to high school for almost 2 years now and I'm seriously wondering how I managed to get along without it. It's great for organizing my assignments on the to-do list and for impromptu note taking. (After some practice, graffiti is just about as fast as writing legibly)
As for software, PalmOS is a lot like Windows in its choices of software: little open source software to choose from. But hey, I'll take what I can get.
Mini-success story: My high school has a rotating 6 day schedule. Classes differ depending on which day (A-F) it is. As far as I can tell, this is done primarily to confuse people. Now, the application launcher replacement LaunchPad opened its source (I don't believe it's GPL, but it's close enough). On the bottom of the screen, you can toggle between a display of the weekday, the date, and the time. I thought it would be great if it could also display the Letter A-F day.
So, I grabbed a PalmOS manual, found the date functions, bashed them together, and came up with the most useful feature I have on the thing to date:) Of course, anyone can take a look at it here.
Naturally, the full integration of my schedule comes next. Soon, I'll never have to remember anything again!:)
Unfortunately, it ate up my 96M of ram before I could even interact. Perhaps this would work on one of those insane machines with gigs of ram and altogether too much processing power.
This is something I've been thinking about for a while... I've got a video capture card, some friends, and some cameras. Why not just make a geek movie?
The script may suck, and the acting may be horrible (Dammit Jim, I'm a hacker, not an actor!), but I can promise you that all computer related content would be accurate to the last drop!
The movie would never actually be put on film for the general public to be confused over. Just mpeg encode it and distribute over the net! I suppose the question would be this: would anyone actually download it?
The computer stuff would be fine, yes, but there would be no sets (or very obvious chroma-keying of sets) and all of that horrible acting I mentioned above. Downloading a movie is no small act towards which to commit your resources, especially for those of us *cough* still repressed by Bell Atlantic and our local cable companies...
The project would be fun... but so would not wasting all that energy and just perl hacking instead...
Vibration-resistant LCDs
To prevent costly damage to the LCD display, internal dampeners absorb impact and prevent damage from shock and sudden impact.
Anybody else misread that as inertial dampeners? Heh, it's all star trek's fault.
I'm running E on my 486/66 laptop. It's a cvs checkout from a few weeks ago, so it probably has most of the things in the new release.
It starts up nice and fast and has all the features I want (new icon tray and screen capture pagers... oooh... ahhh...) Oh, and it looks real purty, even with 256 colours.
Of course, I like E because you knock the socks off of every windows user who happens to notice your desktop:) If you're not in it for knocking peoples' socks off, I suggest fvwm. It's very usable and stable and all that boring stuff:)
Yes, this sounds very familiar. I'm 16 and have been dealing with these types of people... well, ever since elementary school, I think:) They don't understand what I'm doing and write it off as boring and a waste of time. I discovered an interesting facet of this, though. While they could all care less about my kludges over the years, when I burnt a CD of some music I had been tracking, everyone seemed to go into shock:P Ohhh... so/that's/ what you were doing... No, that's just a part of it... Moral of the story: blind them with a shiny CD. I also took it upon myself to deal with the script kiddie overpopulation problem... no, I didn't pull a BOFH, I just worked for about a year to convert one to UNIX hackerdom... well, something like that. He runs linux and is learning C and various graphics libraries now. Originally, he wanted to learn vishul basik to do some horrid AOL thingie. Well, I put a stop to that with some good ol' trickery. So, you can learn to coexist with them, you just need to convert the unwashed masses when you see potential, and maybe expand your digital work to something they can identify with (music, gimp-art, etc.). Of course, I don't mean all of them. The ones who don't see what at all this has to do with football have no hope at all, ignore them.:)
I learned GNU autoconf & automake a few months ago, and I haven't written another Makefile since. All you need to know are the names of your sources and the library versions you want to link to... then Makefiles can be generated for multitudes of platforms automatically.
Beats doing them manually, using Imakefiles (*shudder*), or having strange "project manager" files...
10 years ago, you bought the latest greatest game for your new 386 with EGA graphics. It came on 5 5.25" floppies, which you just found today and you _really_ want to play that thing again.
Of course, the dogs have eaten the disks, the cats have pissed on them, and they've been struck by several meteorites. The game company doesn't exist anymore, or if they do they certainly don't carry the old game anymore. Well, you paid $50 for these things 10 years ago...
That's what I find pirate sites useful for anyway... old games that you bought a long time ago and can't get anymore. Doesn't seem that bad to me...
Re: Full screen If you want to play 3D games, you probably want a 3D card. I believe 3dfx cards have a Mesa extension to go fullscreen. My G200 doesn't, but Q2 just positions the window at 0,0 and reduces the resolution. As for being root to use DGA... that's not right. Either you have X horribly misconfigured or it needs root for something else.
Re: Games in X I live in X with many xterms, so it doesn't bother me any. If you don't, then you're right about GGI. I believe there is already a 3D API in GGI with support for 3dfx cards. At this point, I don't think that 3D is part of the framebuffer interface, but I could be wrong...
I used to use Turbo C to write DOS apps all the time. It was quick and had a spiffy IDE. Of course, that's the only Borland product I've ever used, I dunno if they still make 'em like that.
If they decide to do anything in the Turbo C range (i.e. cheap, but it does what I want it to) for Linux, I'll certainly buy a copy.
I was paging through a Publisher's Toolbox catalog that I get in the mail and I happened upon a certain product... Sorenson Video 2: "The QuickTime standard for high-quality video." The encoder is selling for $499. I guess this goes with the theory that instead of selling 100 glasses of $1 lemonade, you sell 1 glass of $100 lemonade.
I suppose they think that if they released the specs to their codec, us evil free software folk would write an encoder and they wouldn't sell anymore $100 lemonade. (and they'd be right)
Functionality's great, but only if it's on a computer you use. This type of distro seems great for machines whose only duty in life is to shuffle around packets and store files. The only time I spend with these is reading the logs, so a little reduced functionality is fine.
A little later in the dev cycle, I really want to try this distro out...
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We want to share one DSL line, but the phone company says we would have to pay for 6 different lines. Can we all just get Ethernet cards and connect through one computer?
/sbin/ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 10.0.0.2
:P
Certainly, you can do this. When the telco guy comes to hook up your Linux box, take the existing ethernet card out and pretend you don't have any other computers. He'll install the modem and the ethernet card into your PC and set it up for you.
You now have 1 IP address on that machine. Take your ethernet cards and get everybody back on the net. Your DSL enabled box now has two network cards in it. You'll probably have to recompile your kernel with IP Masquerading enabled. With this done, run a line like this for each machine on the network:
where 10.0.0.2 would be the address of a machine on the network who you want to share the DSL line with. Do this for all the IPs on your network.
That takes care of the server side. Now, for each of the clients add the IP of your DSL box as the "gateway". You will also need to take note of the nameserver and enter that into all the clients as well.
There you go, one DSL connection for the price of one IP address shared across your network.
I wish I had DSL available in my area
Now that you got this idea started in my head, I'm going to have to go around video capturing everything and making stereograms. There goes the rest of my free time, thanks a lot :)
AFAIK, the glx module is completely independent from the DRI. In fact, I think they're mutually exclusive. Until the G200 code is ported to the DRI, you should keep running 3.3.5 with Utah GLX.
:)
If one of the developers knows this is otherwise, please correct me (haven't been keeping up with the list
WinTV is a bt8x8-based video capture card manufactured by Hauppauge. WebTV is something completely different.
...you're getting screwed. But I just write music as a hobby. I don't really care if I get paid a cent, but mp3.com is graciously hosting a lot more MB worth of files than your typical free internet hosting service. And if they want to put my stuff on a cd (heh, unlikely :) then that's just fine by me.
That c64 rendition of Second Reality really blew my mind! And I thought 2ndreal for the pc was the best... :) Makes me want to get my C64 back out of the closet, this does...
Don't forget that we have an open source project that works right now. Accelerated GLX for XFree86 3.3.5 supports Matrox G200 and G400 as well as Riva TNT2 cards. Support for Rage Pro chipsets is on the way, too. So you might want to consider contributing some code to the project rather than shelling out for the new Xi server...
I've been carrying a palmpilot professional to high school for almost 2 years now and I'm seriously wondering how I managed to get along without it. It's great for organizing my assignments on the to-do list and for impromptu note taking. (After some practice, graffiti is just about as fast as writing legibly)
:) Of course, anyone can take a look at it here.
:)
As for software, PalmOS is a lot like Windows in its choices of software: little open source software to choose from. But hey, I'll take what I can get.
Mini-success story: My high school has a rotating 6 day schedule. Classes differ depending on which day (A-F) it is. As far as I can tell, this is done primarily to confuse people. Now, the application launcher replacement LaunchPad opened its source (I don't believe it's GPL, but it's close enough). On the bottom of the screen, you can toggle between a display of the weekday, the date, and the time. I thought it would be great if it could also display the Letter A-F day.
So, I grabbed a PalmOS manual, found the date functions, bashed them together, and came up with the most useful feature I have on the thing to date
Naturally, the full integration of my schedule comes next. Soon, I'll never have to remember anything again!
I had this idea of feeding all of my manpages into a local megahal to make a virtual UNIX guru...
Unfortunately, it ate up my 96M of ram before I could even interact. Perhaps this would work on one of those insane machines with gigs of ram and altogether too much processing power.
This is something I've been thinking about for a while... I've got a video capture card, some friends, and some cameras. Why not just make a geek movie?
The script may suck, and the acting may be horrible (Dammit Jim, I'm a hacker, not an actor!), but I can promise you that all computer related content would be accurate to the last drop!
The movie would never actually be put on film for the general public to be confused over. Just mpeg encode it and distribute over the net! I suppose the question would be this: would anyone actually download it?
The computer stuff would be fine, yes, but there would be no sets (or very obvious chroma-keying of sets) and all of that horrible acting I mentioned above. Downloading a movie is no small act towards which to commit your resources, especially for those of us *cough* still repressed by Bell Atlantic and our local cable companies...
The project would be fun... but so would not wasting all that energy and just perl hacking instead...
Anybody else misread that as inertial dampeners? Heh, it's all star trek's fault.
Still, that would surely reduce drop damage
I'm running E on my 486/66 laptop. It's a cvs checkout from a few weeks ago, so it probably has most of the things in the new release.
:) If you're not in it for knocking peoples' socks off, I suggest fvwm. It's very usable and stable and all that boring stuff :)
It starts up nice and fast and has all the features I want (new icon tray and screen capture pagers... oooh... ahhh...) Oh, and it looks real purty, even with 256 colours.
Of course, I like E because you knock the socks off of every windows user who happens to notice your desktop
Yes, this sounds very familiar. I'm 16 and have been dealing with these types of people... well, ever since elementary school, I think :) They don't understand what I'm doing and write it off as boring and a waste of time. I discovered an interesting facet of this, though. While they could all care less about my kludges over the years, when I burnt a CD of some music I had been tracking, everyone seemed to go into shock :P Ohhh... so /that's/ what you were doing... No, that's just a part of it... Moral of the story: blind them with a shiny CD. I also took it upon myself to deal with the script kiddie overpopulation problem... no, I didn't pull a BOFH, I just worked for about a year to convert one to UNIX hackerdom... well, something like that. He runs linux and is learning C and various graphics libraries now. Originally, he wanted to learn vishul basik to do some horrid AOL thingie. Well, I put a stop to that with some good ol' trickery. So, you can learn to coexist with them, you just need to convert the unwashed masses when you see potential, and maybe expand your digital work to something they can identify with (music, gimp-art, etc.). Of course, I don't mean all of them. The ones who don't see what at all this has to do with football have no hope at all, ignore them. :)
You mean the state of an EGA textmode display when the blink bit is used as an intensity bit, which is most famous in iCE ANSI displays?
...hrm, probably not.
I learned GNU autoconf & automake a few months ago, and I haven't written another Makefile since. All you need to know are the names of your sources and the library versions you want to link to... then Makefiles can be generated for multitudes of platforms automatically.
Beats doing them manually, using Imakefiles (*shudder*), or having strange "project manager" files...
A new star trek! I loOOoo()O00O()()ooOo0o()ooOve star trek!
/what/? All the other comments were negative... I'm just trying to increase entropy.
:)
Well,
The site's been slashdotted so I can't make any opinions about the new show (but I have a feeling that didn't stop half of you who posted
Somewhere, I know I still have my Q-link t-shirt :)
Just today I was using gv to view the pdfs of the PalmPilot docs. Most people have that installed by default and it works just fine...
If this turns out to be anything like the Lotus Notes web client, Sun will be first against the wall when the revolution comes. Bletch.
Hehe, that is pretty cool... .. .nyagh! You're richieb of mzx-devel fame. It's a small world after all..
Scenerio time:
10 years ago, you bought the latest greatest game for your new 386 with EGA graphics. It came on 5 5.25" floppies, which you just found today and you _really_ want to play that thing again.
Of course, the dogs have eaten the disks, the cats have pissed on them, and they've been struck by several meteorites. The game company doesn't exist anymore, or if they do they certainly don't carry the old game anymore. Well, you paid $50 for these things 10 years ago...
That's what I find pirate sites useful for anyway... old games that you bought a long time ago and can't get anymore. Doesn't seem that bad to me...
Re: Full screen
If you want to play 3D games, you probably want a 3D card. I believe 3dfx cards have a Mesa extension to go fullscreen. My G200 doesn't, but Q2 just positions the window at 0,0 and reduces the resolution. As for being root to use DGA... that's not right. Either you have X horribly misconfigured or it needs root for something else.
Re: Games in X
I live in X with many xterms, so it doesn't bother me any. If you don't, then you're right about GGI. I believe there is already a 3D API in GGI with support for 3dfx cards. At this point, I don't think that 3D is part of the framebuffer interface, but I could be wrong...
I used to use Turbo C to write DOS apps all the time. It was quick and had a spiffy IDE. Of course, that's the only Borland product I've ever used, I dunno if they still make 'em like that.
If they decide to do anything in the Turbo C range (i.e. cheap, but it does what I want it to) for Linux, I'll certainly buy a copy.
I was paging through a Publisher's Toolbox catalog that I get in the mail and I happened upon a certain product... Sorenson Video 2: "The QuickTime standard for high-quality video." The encoder is selling for $499. I guess this goes with the theory that instead of selling 100 glasses of $1 lemonade, you sell 1 glass of $100 lemonade.
I suppose they think that if they released the specs to their codec, us evil free software folk would write an encoder and they wouldn't sell anymore $100 lemonade. (and they'd be right)
Functionality's great, but only if it's on a computer you use. This type of distro seems great for machines whose only duty in life is to shuffle around packets and store files. The only time I spend with these is reading the logs, so a little reduced functionality is fine.
A little later in the dev cycle, I really want to try this distro out...