I've heard that Richard Branson (Virgin Group Founder), operates everything from a high tech hammock on his private island in the Carribean. He probably is able to do it without a pay cut..
Im also curious as to where I can get more video tutorials like this...
There are a number of programs that I want to learn how to use, and aside from learning by doing, being shown a 10 minute video like this beforehand can really get me started. This is a potential contribution to free software that people should start considering. Its a lot easier to watch a short video than read a howto or man page.
Interesting to see the Do-No-Evil Google on there too.
I would like to see whatever $ that google sent goes to the PFF go to the EFF.
As a shareholder, where do I complain?
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/ and http://www.theopencd.org/ respectively. Two very great collections of software for windows users to open up to the world of open source. The former is much more comprehensive. It includes a bunch of the programs mentioned in the article, although the article refers to some that I've never heard of. Those CDs are getting a bit stale, but Windows FOSS in general is not.
In addition to all the lovely foss for windows, the only closed source program I ever recommend is nLiteXP . You basically copy your XP disc to a directory, and then sick nLite on it. It extracts the cabs and can really neuter it (Highly customizable with a slick GUI) and you can get your default XP install from ~2GB down to 400MB highly usable. Less if you wanted. nLite will make a new iso file that can be customized for auto install and service pack slipstreaming and driver install, all sorts of nifty things. You burn that and install.
So basically, you can have 350MB of core windows XP and another 500MB of the best FOSS for windows. A highly capable and speedy efficient XP box, its a great option for a lot of older hardware. I was doing this two years ago after getting fed up with closed and crappy apps, and then realized I might as well go all the way and use linux, so its a good intro to people who are curious about what open source offers. A lot of people were cautious about bringing free stuff to a closed platform, but I think it can only be good, as it increases awareness and may spur a platform switch like me. Also, not spreading freedom into an area where there lacks freedom sounds a lot like not donating food to an area that is starving. Neither will get people to move to linux/out of the third world.
Back in ~97 a freind and I compressed all of our stupid home movies from web cams into vivo format. It was designed for streaming, but made very small files that we would xfer over modem to eachother.
Now, playing viv files on windows is a pain, you have to install the archaic vivo player, which was designed for windows 95 or so. Also after years of searching, noone makes an app to convert them to mpg, sans some commercial screen capturing programs that I wouldn't touch. MPlayer plays the files, and Im pretty sure its a simple command to output it into an MPG.
Ever since I've been penguiny, I've wanted to do that - before the MPlayer team decides to depricate vivo support from the latest versions.
My first linux bout in '98 lasted a day.
Linux test '00 was a week long.
I managed to learn a lot and get accustomed with my monthlong '02 trial, but still went back.
After realizing in '04 that the only proprietary software on my computer was a 400MB nLited XP install, I tried linux again and have been doing so for 18 months now. Now I am pretty sure that I will *NEVER* use windows again either.
I dont even think it is the distributions or the maturation of linux even. It was my own maturation and ability to just stop being stubborn.
It is very possible that what we consider waste and what NASA does could differ. Remnants of experiments, minilabs that belong to schools, old journals, outdated equipment, failed equipment...
I think a big part of the reason to take it all back is so the engineers can find out failure points, reuse or sell older equipment, for NASA historians and archivists to keep any documentation, and to give loaned items back to their respective owners.
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SCO can't be worth that much any more, is it? What is stopping some other very big anti-open source company (hrm...), from just buying their remains, as well as the rights to SCO's UNIX? They could continue the court battle with IBM forever (financially), and even if it fails, MS owning the rights to UNIX is a pretty scary thing.
Well. There's no question that what you get from the factory in a car audio setup is poor quality. Spending a decent amount of money can make a setup that sounds much better than the factory. Whatever is best is "high end". This is obvious. Yes, car audio home audio, but you can't deny that each has its range.
I *thought* I couldn't tell the difference between a rediculously high quality mp3 and strait PCM, but the difference really made itself apparant on my high end car stereo. No matter what I did, EAC/LAME optimizations galore, the lower frequencies sounded like junk. Converting over to FLAC just cured everything magically.
mp3s were cool on a 486/28.8, but with storage and bandwidth so cheap, it serves little purpose today (for those who care).
...posted onto "Library Journal" pretty much a "blog" entry?
Blogs fill the same purpose that his little rant does. It lets people just say what they want, and people naturally gravitate towards blogs they find interesting. He may not call it a blog, and it lacks a feedback system, but he's essentially criticizing exactly what he's doing himself.
Personally I like this. I don't really think it will increase the cost of a disk by much at all over time, being that current media already has a label on it - and the costs of the label vs the coating are probably similar.
As far as extra cost to a drive, I'm sure if it becomes ubiqueous (sp?), there would only be a marginal fee.
I label a lot of CDs that I archive, and it gets to be a pain after a while... I wouldn't mind having clearly labeled discs.
But my concern is the liscensing fee for open source software. On the site, it mentions that there is a fee structure for software. Damn. Why can't a company structure things to make royaltees off the media/drives alone? If they want this to become widespread, they should open up the format to software developers. If I can't use my higher priced drives/media in my OS with software that I can trust, I don't want it. That may be this technologies downfall.
Of course, I don't know the details of that liscensing structure, so maybe it is freely possible.
Yeah, and while you're at it, go out and buy a typewriter, cd player, a webtv, a dvd player, and a set of oil paint. Why bother with a PC?
Personally, I play games on a PC not because its my only option, but because it adds an extra level of depth and complexity that you can't find in certain genres on console games. In the same way that image manipulation software lets you go above and beyond what you could do on paper/canvas (for the most part), gaming on a general purpose computer allows much more flexibility than on a static console. Personally I play my PC games in parallel with the console games, but you cant build sophisticated 3d levels for your favorite games on a console, nor can you become part of a sophisticated community based on the modification and extension of a game.
As to the original question - Linux for me for the id games, all the others on the XP partition.
I've been reading a lot of Eric S. Raymond's content off of his web site lately, and a lot of it is very interesting.
The Art of Unix Programming or The Cathedral and the Bazaar would be a great gift.
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I've heard that Richard Branson (Virgin Group Founder), operates everything from a high tech hammock on his private island in the Carribean. He probably is able to do it without a pay cut..
What do you mean? I just bought a new anti-house-fire kit for my toaster..
Suprised the article doesnt mention comparable DS sales.
There are a number of programs that I want to learn how to use, and aside from learning by doing, being shown a 10 minute video like this beforehand can really get me started. This is a potential contribution to free software that people should start considering. Its a lot easier to watch a short video than read a howto or man page.
Interesting to see the Do-No-Evil Google on there too.
I would like to see whatever $ that google sent goes to the PFF go to the EFF.
As a shareholder, where do I complain?
In addition to all the lovely foss for windows, the only closed source program I ever recommend is nLiteXP . You basically copy your XP disc to a directory, and then sick nLite on it. It extracts the cabs and can really neuter it (Highly customizable with a slick GUI) and you can get your default XP install from ~2GB down to 400MB highly usable. Less if you wanted. nLite will make a new iso file that can be customized for auto install and service pack slipstreaming and driver install, all sorts of nifty things. You burn that and install.
So basically, you can have 350MB of core windows XP and another 500MB of the best FOSS for windows. A highly capable and speedy efficient XP box, its a great option for a lot of older hardware. I was doing this two years ago after getting fed up with closed and crappy apps, and then realized I might as well go all the way and use linux, so its a good intro to people who are curious about what open source offers. A lot of people were cautious about bringing free stuff to a closed platform, but I think it can only be good, as it increases awareness and may spur a platform switch like me. Also, not spreading freedom into an area where there lacks freedom sounds a lot like not donating food to an area that is starving. Neither will get people to move to linux/out of the third world.
Do as much of that stuff remotely as possible. Mom, Dad, Grandma, Auntie, have all fell in love with that program and my time.
Now, playing viv files on windows is a pain, you have to install the archaic vivo player, which was designed for windows 95 or so. Also after years of searching, noone makes an app to convert them to mpg, sans some commercial screen capturing programs that I wouldn't touch. MPlayer plays the files, and Im pretty sure its a simple command to output it into an MPG.
Ever since I've been penguiny, I've wanted to do that - before the MPlayer team decides to depricate vivo support from the latest versions.
Linux test '00 was a week long.
I managed to learn a lot and get accustomed with my monthlong '02 trial, but still went back.
After realizing in '04 that the only proprietary software on my computer was a 400MB nLited XP install, I tried linux again and have been doing so for 18 months now. Now I am pretty sure that I will *NEVER* use windows again either.
I dont even think it is the distributions or the maturation of linux even. It was my own maturation and ability to just stop being stubborn.
It is very possible that what we consider waste and what NASA does could differ. Remnants of experiments, minilabs that belong to schools, old journals, outdated equipment, failed equipment... I think a big part of the reason to take it all back is so the engineers can find out failure points, reuse or sell older equipment, for NASA historians and archivists to keep any documentation, and to give loaned items back to their respective owners.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_h ead/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html
SCO can't be worth that much any more, is it? What is stopping some other very big anti-open source company (hrm...), from just buying their remains, as well as the rights to SCO's UNIX? They could continue the court battle with IBM forever (financially), and even if it fails, MS owning the rights to UNIX is a pretty scary thing.
Well. There's no question that what you get from the factory in a car audio setup is poor quality. Spending a decent amount of money can make a setup that sounds much better than the factory. Whatever is best is "high end". This is obvious. Yes, car audio home audio, but you can't deny that each has its range.
I *thought* I couldn't tell the difference between a rediculously high quality mp3 and strait PCM, but the difference really made itself apparant on my high end car stereo. No matter what I did, EAC/LAME optimizations galore, the lower frequencies sounded like junk. Converting over to FLAC just cured everything magically. mp3s were cool on a 486/28.8, but with storage and bandwidth so cheap, it serves little purpose today (for those who care).
Blogs fill the same purpose that his little rant does. It lets people just say what they want, and people naturally gravitate towards blogs they find interesting. He may not call it a blog, and it lacks a feedback system, but he's essentially criticizing exactly what he's doing himself.
As far as extra cost to a drive, I'm sure if it becomes ubiqueous (sp?), there would only be a marginal fee.
I label a lot of CDs that I archive, and it gets to be a pain after a while... I wouldn't mind having clearly labeled discs.
But my concern is the liscensing fee for open source software. On the site, it mentions that there is a fee structure for software. Damn. Why can't a company structure things to make royaltees off the media/drives alone? If they want this to become widespread, they should open up the format to software developers. If I can't use my higher priced drives/media in my OS with software that I can trust, I don't want it. That may be this technologies downfall.
Of course, I don't know the details of that liscensing structure, so maybe it is freely possible.
Personally, I play games on a PC not because its my only option, but because it adds an extra level of depth and complexity that you can't find in certain genres on console games. In the same way that image manipulation software lets you go above and beyond what you could do on paper/canvas (for the most part), gaming on a general purpose computer allows much more flexibility than on a static console. Personally I play my PC games in parallel with the console games, but you cant build sophisticated 3d levels for your favorite games on a console, nor can you become part of a sophisticated community based on the modification and extension of a game.
As to the original question - Linux for me for the id games, all the others on the XP partition.
I've been reading a lot of Eric S. Raymond's content off of his web site lately, and a lot of it is very interesting. The Art of Unix Programming or The Cathedral and the Bazaar would be a great gift.