I have a few mirrors (including clambake.org/xenu.net) of anti-Scientology sites on my server. Dave Touretzky's Secret Library of Scientology is also among them, he posted here earlier that archive.org have deleted his entire website from their database - my copy of it is still there.
My server is located in Switzerland, where Scientology is not recognized as a religion and therefore doesn't fall under the same legislation. They're treated as what they are, a commercial entity, and therefore I can criticize them just as I would criticize MS or other big corporations.
I won't post the URLs to my mirrors right here, but it's not like they're hard to find:)
Keep this stuff mirrored. Put it on Freenet. Hell, wget entire websites, zip them up and share them on P2P networks. It's not that hard to keep good information from disappearing, just spread it far enough.
"Secure means users are less prone to virus attacks and security breeches as well as the down time, damage, and inconvenience they cause."
With Windows, I always felt claustrophobic below the waistline. Now that Xandros got rid of my pants, I can truly be free again. Thank you, Xandros, in the name of the entire office.
Well, at least in Switzerland they can't legally prevent you from copying software. I'd be amazed if other countries didn't have a similar law.
Rough tanslation of Swiss copyright law, article 24/2:
"Whoever has the right to use a computer program may make backup copies thereof. This privilege cannot be revoked by contract."
Awesome, huh? So we can just blast through any copy prevention legally, I guess.
Re:Randal L. "Perl Jedi" Schwartz?
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Phew, and no one noticed that this is the wrong Perl guy. He's still a Perl Jedi, but Randal's the one writing all the books, not the language. Sorry, Larry:(
Guess I should've stayed in Python Land, where both the newbie books and the language are written by the same old Guido.
How cool is that? He even scores for quintuple Nerdhood by:
1. Being on Usenet in 1982 2. Having his Usenet post on Google's memorable postings list 3. Being a Star Wars geek 4. Being a Star Wars geek ON Usenet, IN 1982! 5. Writing his own scripting language
And who knows, maybe that page at Google was generated by HIS scripting language;)
I never thought I'd see a black metal band and one of my favorite melodic death/progressive metal bands BOTH listed as test material.
But when you think about it, it makes sense. Modern black metal with its "wall of sound" approach and all the progressive stuff with the wild tempo changes, switching from acoustic to electric guitars in the middle of the track etc. provides a whole lot of substance to really put a codec through its paces. And it's probably stressing entirely different frequency ranges than "boom boom" bassdrum heavy dance/hip hop stuff, providing a nice counterbalance.
Or maybe I'm just talking out of my ass, I'm not a sound engineer or anything.
One of the students where I work is developing a system so you can control MP3's, PCM audio, Ogg streams, DivX movies etc. -- via vinyl.
Everything you do to the record will directly translate to whatever digital thing is being played/run. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but he is a (and knows many) DJs so I think he's aiming to make them happy.
This is the only DJ I know, and this is only one of his projects. It seems one heck of a lot more exciting than "gee, I bought an iPod!" though, yet stuff like this is never mentioned in mainstream news like Yahoo. Then again, most people who call themselves DJs probably aren't, anyway, and couldn't make use of such technology because they wouldn't know how to spin vinyl in the first place. It's like all those "webmasters". I'm just happy that the DJing world still has some potential for innovation, even though my taste in music is completely different:)
What you see at ThinkGeek is the X-Arcade. That's an arcade controller. The Arcade In A Box is a complete PC _inside_ the case of an arcade controller. Not exactly the same, and not exactly at the same price either.
Please at least click on the colorful little bits of underlined text in the stories before posting, there are pretty pictures on that site that everyone can understand even without reading.
I updated my copy of NWN on the Windows box before copying it over to the Linux machine. Used FTP to copy it all, so things should not have been damaged.
As the strace shows, nwserver _can_ get inside the Chapter1 module file, it even lists read() accesses with several names of waypoints, persons and equipment from inside the module. The problem isn't with the patch, I think:(
This is on a "stock" RedHat 7.3 machine. The strace shows that it IS loading something from the "Chapter1" module file, but then gets killed. Don't ask me why, I'm not a coder. I can't post the strace output because/. complains about "junk characters":(
Is there no way to get the InstallShield to work, save using Transgaming's WineX?
I'm compiling wine-20020605 (upgrade from wine-20020228, which failed to run the installer) to get the danged files off the CDs. If all else fails I'll install on a Windows box at work and just burn the directories the server needs to my own set of CDs:P
A lot of times I heard that "clicky" EULAs can't be enforced in most countries and that the USA is one of the few that allows them. How much truth is there in that? If I release my mod in Switzerland and distribute it from Swiss servers, can I sue Bioware for compensation if they try to sell it? Without the EULA, regular Swiss and international copyright law should apply, right?
That's not a Sega Game Gear, it's a Nomad. The Game Gear was an original system based off Sega's Master System hardware but with a better graphics subsystem (more colors). The Nomad was a complete Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in the US) compressed into a handheld console. It played the original Genesis cartridges without any modification, giving it a library of hundreds of games right at its day of release.
To some, the Nomad is STILL the best handheld system ever released, because of the varied and deep selection of games.
Who cares if the console gets cheaper? Even if I had an Xbox for free, the games are still ridiculously expensive, at least in Switzerland. PS2 games are CHF 89.-, some Xbox games (Halo) up to CHF 129.-! That's 30% more (into MS' pockets I guess), for games that don't look better and play worse than things available for the PS2 at the moment.
Heck, the PS2 games are expensive already, I'm glad PC games haven't caught up with them yet - except for Dungeon Siege, which ist the most expensive PC game I have ever seen, CHF 119.- instead of the usual CHF 79.- for PC games. It's an MS title that will also be availablr on the Xbox for a slightly higher price -- just a coincidence? *Twilight Zone music playing*
Re:For the Cheap ones among us
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Yes, you might not own the games, just like you don't own music. You just own the right to play the games/listen to the music. That's what the law goes "Whoever has the right to use a computer program..." and not "Whoever owns a computer program...":)
So no sweat as long as you move to Switzerland:P
Re:For the Cheap ones among us
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It is not illegal to crack (as in "no-CD crack") software you own.
There's even a law that explicitly allows backups, at least in Switzerland. This is a rough translation of article no. 24 of the Swiss copyright law: "Whoever has the right to use a computer program may make one backup copy thereof. This right cannot be revoked by contract." Nice:)
And in order to make such a copy, you'll need the no-CD crack - otherwise the copy becomes worthless.
Patches for most games and to work around SafeDisc etc. can be found at GameCopyWorld, which is also rather legal. Unless you're in the US and someone tries to use the DMCA against you, maybe.
The only new thing about this is that they're using a normal "blade" type fan instead of a radial one. Probably the magnets are out of the ordinary too.
I've been using a Silverado cooler for a month now and it's extremely quiet. Plus, it's a solid German piece of work that makes it obvious how they can build such good tanks. If you're looking for a tried and true quiet CPU fan that's winning awards left and right, this is the way to go.
Mac & Virtual PC & FreeDOS = old DOS games
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I use my Windows box only for gaming, but older DOS games are very hard and sometimes impossible to get to work on it. Since I don't know of a free x86 virtual machine for Windows in which I could run FreeDOS, I simply tried to get it to work on my old Mac through PC emulation. And boy did it work. The Mac even ran some games that the REAL x86 machine couldn't:)
It failed to run many of the old classics such as Monkey Island 2, but I got parts of the Ultima series to work. That was almost 8 months ago, I'm sure with some tweaking and the very latest FreeDOS you could get more games to run.
Don't forget that we WILL need some form of x86 virtual machine and a (hopefully Free) DOS if we want to run all this old stuff in the future. Microsoft does not want DOS compatibility in Windows anymore. Just imagine never being able to play Eye of the Beholder again. The tragedy.
Didn't we have a N64 joypad there before? Did Nintendo raise their mighty booming voice or is an old school stick simply more appropriate and better looking?
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No need to buy WineX for that.
If you play Dark Age of Camelot, try out DAOx, which will let you play DAoC in a window - so you can alt-tab.
If you play EverQuest, try eqw. Same as above.
Anarchy Online, Ragnarök Online and Ultima Online can already be played in a window. Any others that still suffer from "forced full-screening"?
In the interview he said, "Most Linux and Unix systems are open source, and therefore free."
That's dangerous territory you're stepping on, boy.
I have a few mirrors (including clambake.org/xenu.net) of anti-Scientology sites on my server. Dave Touretzky's Secret Library of Scientology is also among them, he posted here earlier that archive.org have deleted his entire website from their database - my copy of it is still there.
:)
My server is located in Switzerland, where Scientology is not recognized as a religion and therefore doesn't fall under the same legislation. They're treated as what they are, a commercial entity, and therefore I can criticize them just as I would criticize MS or other big corporations.
I won't post the URLs to my mirrors right here, but it's not like they're hard to find
Keep this stuff mirrored. Put it on Freenet. Hell, wget entire websites, zip them up and share them on P2P networks. It's not that hard to keep good information from disappearing, just spread it far enough.
From their "So Secure" page:
"Secure means users are less prone to virus attacks and security breeches as well as the down time, damage, and inconvenience they cause."
With Windows, I always felt claustrophobic below the waistline. Now that Xandros got rid of my pants, I can truly be free again. Thank you, Xandros, in the name of the entire office.
Well, at least in Switzerland they can't legally prevent you from copying software. I'd be amazed if other countries didn't have a similar law.
Rough tanslation of Swiss copyright law, article 24/2:
"Whoever has the right to use a computer program may make backup copies thereof. This privilege cannot be revoked by contract."
Awesome, huh? So we can just blast through any copy prevention legally, I guess.
Phew, and no one noticed that this is the wrong Perl guy. He's still a Perl Jedi, but Randal's the one writing all the books, not the language. Sorry, Larry :(
Guess I should've stayed in Python Land, where both the newbie books and the language are written by the same old Guido.
This post is on Google's list of memorable posts. It's the first mention of Star Wars, Episode 6. I think the probability that this is THE Randal L. Schwartz is very high.
;)
How cool is that? He even scores for quintuple Nerdhood by:
1. Being on Usenet in 1982
2. Having his Usenet post on Google's memorable postings list
3. Being a Star Wars geek
4. Being a Star Wars geek ON Usenet, IN 1982!
5. Writing his own scripting language
And who knows, maybe that page at Google was generated by HIS scripting language
I never thought I'd see a black metal band and one of my favorite melodic death/progressive metal bands BOTH listed as test material.
But when you think about it, it makes sense. Modern black metal with its "wall of sound" approach and all the progressive stuff with the wild tempo changes, switching from acoustic to electric guitars in the middle of the track etc. provides a whole lot of substance to really put a codec through its paces. And it's probably stressing entirely different frequency ranges than "boom boom" bassdrum heavy dance/hip hop stuff, providing a nice counterbalance.
Or maybe I'm just talking out of my ass, I'm not a sound engineer or anything.
One of the students where I work is developing a system so you can control MP3's, PCM audio, Ogg streams, DivX movies etc. -- via vinyl.
:)
Everything you do to the record will directly translate to whatever digital thing is being played/run. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but he is a (and knows many) DJs so I think he's aiming to make them happy.
This is the only DJ I know, and this is only one of his projects. It seems one heck of a lot more exciting than "gee, I bought an iPod!" though, yet stuff like this is never mentioned in mainstream news like Yahoo. Then again, most people who call themselves DJs probably aren't, anyway, and couldn't make use of such technology because they wouldn't know how to spin vinyl in the first place. It's like all those "webmasters". I'm just happy that the DJing world still has some potential for innovation, even though my taste in music is completely different
What you see at ThinkGeek is the X-Arcade. That's an arcade controller. The Arcade In A Box is a complete PC _inside_ the case of an arcade controller. Not exactly the same, and not exactly at the same price either.
Please at least click on the colorful little bits of underlined text in the stories before posting, there are pretty pictures on that site that everyone can understand even without reading.
I had already done that, but what I forgot was deleting the nwn.ini file (and nwnplayer.ini too, I think) because that makes the server choke and die.
./fixinstall, everything's fine :)
If you delete that and rerun
I updated my copy of NWN on the Windows box before copying it over to the Linux machine. Used FTP to copy it all, so things should not have been damaged.
:(
As the strace shows, nwserver _can_ get inside the Chapter1 module file, it even lists read() accesses with several names of waypoints, persons and equipment from inside the module. The problem isn't with the patch, I think
Here's a console log:
./nwserver -module Chapter1
/. complains about "junk characters" :(
[nwnd@despair nwn]$
Neverwinter Nights Server
Build:6722
Copyright BioWare Corp 1998-2002
Server: Loading...
Server: Running...
Server: Loading module "Chapter1"..Segmentation fault (core dumped)
This is on a "stock" RedHat 7.3 machine. The strace shows that it IS loading something from the "Chapter1" module file, but then gets killed. Don't ask me why, I'm not a coder. I can't post the strace output because
Is there no way to get the InstallShield to work, save using Transgaming's WineX?
:P
I'm compiling wine-20020605 (upgrade from wine-20020228, which failed to run the installer) to get the danged files off the CDs. If all else fails I'll install on a Windows box at work and just burn the directories the server needs to my own set of CDs
A lot of times I heard that "clicky" EULAs can't be enforced in most countries and that the USA is one of the few that allows them. How much truth is there in that? If I release my mod in Switzerland and distribute it from Swiss servers, can I sue Bioware for compensation if they try to sell it? Without the EULA, regular Swiss and international copyright law should apply, right?
"US$ 199 is my last word, and that's cutting me own throat!"
- C.M.O.T. Dibbler, slightly paraphrased
That's not a Sega Game Gear, it's a Nomad. The Game Gear was an original system based off Sega's Master System hardware but with a better graphics subsystem (more colors). The Nomad was a complete Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in the US) compressed into a handheld console. It played the original Genesis cartridges without any modification, giving it a library of hundreds of games right at its day of release.
:)
To some, the Nomad is STILL the best handheld system ever released, because of the varied and deep selection of games.
Maybe I'm karma-whoring
Actually, when running the PS2 Linux Kit you can NOT access any CDs or DVDs. Probably some stupid IP/copyright issue. One point for the DC :)
Who cares if the console gets cheaper? Even if I had an Xbox for free, the games are still ridiculously expensive, at least in Switzerland. PS2 games are CHF 89.-, some Xbox games (Halo) up to CHF 129.-! That's 30% more (into MS' pockets I guess), for games that don't look better and play worse than things available for the PS2 at the moment.
Heck, the PS2 games are expensive already, I'm glad PC games haven't caught up with them yet - except for Dungeon Siege, which ist the most expensive PC game I have ever seen, CHF 119.- instead of the usual CHF 79.- for PC games. It's an MS title that will also be availablr on the Xbox for a slightly higher price -- just a coincidence? *Twilight Zone music playing*
Yes, you might not own the games, just like you don't own music. You just own the right to play the games/listen to the music. That's what the law goes "Whoever has the right to use a computer program..." and not "Whoever owns a computer program..." :)
:P
So no sweat as long as you move to Switzerland
It is not illegal to crack (as in "no-CD crack") software you own.
:)
There's even a law that explicitly allows backups, at least in Switzerland. This is a rough translation of article no. 24 of the Swiss copyright law: "Whoever has the right to use a computer program may make one backup copy thereof. This right cannot be revoked by contract." Nice
And in order to make such a copy, you'll need the no-CD crack - otherwise the copy becomes worthless.
Patches for most games and to work around SafeDisc etc. can be found at GameCopyWorld, which is also rather legal. Unless you're in the US and someone tries to use the DMCA against you, maybe.
... but I know she likes my Python.
The only new thing about this is that they're using a normal "blade" type fan instead of a radial one. Probably the magnets are out of the ordinary too.
I've been using a Silverado cooler for a month now and it's extremely quiet. Plus, it's a solid German piece of work that makes it obvious how they can build such good tanks. If you're looking for a tried and true quiet CPU fan that's winning awards left and right, this is the way to go.
I use my Windows box only for gaming, but older DOS games are very hard and sometimes impossible to get to work on it. Since I don't know of a free x86 virtual machine for Windows in which I could run FreeDOS, I simply tried to get it to work on my old Mac through PC emulation. And boy did it work. The Mac even ran some games that the REAL x86 machine couldn't :)
It failed to run many of the old classics such as Monkey Island 2, but I got parts of the Ultima series to work. That was almost 8 months ago, I'm sure with some tweaking and the very latest FreeDOS you could get more games to run.
Don't forget that we WILL need some form of x86 virtual machine and a (hopefully Free) DOS if we want to run all this old stuff in the future. Microsoft does not want DOS compatibility in Windows anymore. Just imagine never being able to play Eye of the Beholder again. The tragedy.
Didn't we have a N64 joypad there before? Did Nintendo raise their mighty booming voice or is an old school stick simply more appropriate and better looking?