Just a friendly reminder, but don't forget to tell your higher-ups that using a *modified* Linux in their product means they have to release the source. Don't forget that, or you may be in for a nasty suprise. I don't know how much of an embedded system NetBSD is, but if putting out the source is going too far for them, that could be an option. If they don't mind that, then by all means go ahead.
I know this is mildly off-topic, but I think you would know more than I do on the subject. Anyways... I've seen all over the Silverlight articles that it seems to make heavy use of IronPython, Microsoft's re-implementation of Python on top of.NET. Is there a good reason why they're using IronPython over CPython (besides that MS likes.NET a lot)?
And on the name (so I don't get a huge OT mod), I would say Moonshine, since silver light shines off the moon (no relation to the homegrown alcohol intended)
"There are a number of bootloaders that can be used with both Linux and Windows including Lilo." There's actually two that are both in very common circulation. NTLDR, the Windows bootloader GRUB, the de facto Linux bootloader Both of them can boot both Windows and Linux
They don't all that much. Not to mention that I've never seen a 6-battery charger, so you'd have to buy two chargers or wait longer for them to charge, while the Game Gear will drain them just as fast as always. There was a battery pack, but I don't know how much longer they lasted
Nope. But, a good old-fashioned Bluetooth dongle (just about any of them) will do the job just fine, as well as work with just about anything else Bluetooth.
I love my Game Gear. In fact I'm playing Sonic on it rig- Wait, I've got to find some batteries -ght now, and it's one good gam- more batteries... -e for the time. I'm amazed at how they sho- another set of batteries -ved the guts of the Sega Master Sys- this thing needs better battery life -tem into a handheld. They even ma- this is getting real old real fast -de a TV addon to watch stuff whi-... -le waiting for more games to come out.
You know, I think I've heard about something like that recently...
their laptops are actually a decent deal. I got an Acer 5610Z
A contradiction I see. I bought an Aspire 3003 in October 2 years ago. A little over a year later, the screen died. A few months after that, the DVD drive tore up any disc I put in it. Then, the RAM went bad, causing general instability.
You know, if you were to "sudo apt-get install gnome-app-install synaptic" you wouldn't have to type "sudo apt-get..." all the time... Oh, wait. They're already installed. I think the reason everyone uses "sudo apt-get install $foobar" is because it is shorter and more to the point. You could almost as easily say "Install the $foobar package from Add/Remove Programs in the Applications menu"
And assuming you'd rather not pay for Sprint/ATT/Verizon/etc.'s high rates for Internet service and just want to use Wifi, there's an app for the DS called DSOrganize that does internet radio as well. Of course, it requires a cart to run it on (I reccomend the R4 or EZFlashV), and they take uSD cards. I bet the PSP can do something like this as well
As far as the trading goes, I believe (My copy won't come in for an hour or so) trading has always been done from the second floor of the Pokemon Centers (check the manual, or wait for me to post when the mail arrives). The keyword you're looking for is "Global Trade System". From there, it boils down to searching the list for what you want (for example: Level 12 Female Bulbasaur), and it tells you who has one, and what they want for it. Naturally, you can also put up your own Pokemon and what you want in return for them. If you know other people, and want to trade/battle directly with them, you will need their "Friend Code", which is a 12 digit number each of you have to dial in on your game. After that, you can find them online, chat with them (using the built-in mic, the offical DS lite headset(mono), or the Turtle Beach headset(stereo). Stay away from the Datel headset), trade and battle directly.
Well, as long as you don't mind the version of IE in question being ridicoulsy outdated, discontinued, and not able to run native on the new Macs, then go ahead.
Depends. If you don't have any Wi-Fi access, ask your friends (if they play) which one they're getting, and get the one they didn't get. If you do have Wi-Fi access (either through a Wi-Fi router, or Nintendo's fancy USB dongle that only works on Windows), just pick the one with the pkmn you think looks better on the cover, since you'll be able to trade for everything else online. The only major differences are which pkmn are available in the wild
The best one Ive seen is NO$GBA (which does DS in addition to GBA). It's a bit slow on my box (AthlonXP 2400+, 1GB RAM), but since my machine is a bit old YMMV. Besides the slowness, it is the most accurate DS emulator Ive seen. Some 3d is a bit finicky, but it's clear besides that. You need ROMs of course (which you own legal copies of, right?).
Basically, due to the WiFi trading and battling, it is possible to beat the game without leaving your mother's basement, or making any sort of human contact whatsoever. They've also generally refined each of the Pkmn's that were already there, tweaks to the battle system, time/date sensitive events (like Animal Crossing), sortakinda 3d map, and adapts the game to the DS hardware (touch screen menus, notetaking, sleep mode so you can put it down w/o saving). But the online is the biggest change by far
Yes, but if you know Linux on x86 already, it's that much simpler just to run Linux on POWER and retain most of your knowledge. This however is more like using WINE/VMware to run your Linux86 apps, but still use AIX, making it easier to migrate
PSI has Jingle support, but not yet in an official release. See http://psi-im.org/wiki/Jingle_branch, and someone has made a fork of Psi called Jabbin http://www.jabbin.com/ that has libjingle in their releases. Since Gaim/Pidgin has finally gotten AOL off their backs, I would expect something from them Real Soon Now (and AdiumX will most likely follow in their footsteps due to libpurple), and I've heard Kopete will try to have jingle in by KDE4
Gaim/Pidgin does indeed support Jabber (and GTalk is just another jabber server). All they need to do is get libjingle implemented (which Psi has in a dev branch), and voice and video will come along with it
Antartica's still an option. However, quite a few of the local inhabitants have sort of stopped progress-wise. One could say they have frozen to a halt.
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Just a friendly reminder, but don't forget to tell your higher-ups that using a *modified* Linux in their product means they have to release the source. Don't forget that, or you may be in for a nasty suprise. I don't know how much of an embedded system NetBSD is, but if putting out the source is going too far for them, that could be an option. If they don't mind that, then by all means go ahead.
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I know this is mildly off-topic, but I think you would know more than I do on the subject. Anyways... .NET. Is there a good reason why they're using IronPython over CPython (besides that MS likes .NET a lot)?
I've seen all over the Silverlight articles that it seems to make heavy use of IronPython, Microsoft's re-implementation of Python on top of
And on the name (so I don't get a huge OT mod), I would say Moonshine, since silver light shines off the moon (no relation to the homegrown alcohol intended)
"There are a number of bootloaders that can be used with both Linux and Windows including Lilo."
There's actually two that are both in very common circulation.
NTLDR, the Windows bootloader
GRUB, the de facto Linux bootloader
Both of them can boot both Windows and Linux
They don't all that much. Not to mention that I've never seen a 6-battery charger, so you'd have to buy two chargers or wait longer for them to charge, while the Game Gear will drain them just as fast as always. There was a battery pack, but I don't know how much longer they lasted
Nope. But, a good old-fashioned Bluetooth dongle (just about any of them) will do the job just fine, as well as work with just about anything else Bluetooth.
I love my Game Gear. In fact I'm playing Sonic on it rig- ...
Wait, I've got to find some batteries
-ght now, and it's one good gam-
more batteries...
-e for the time. I'm amazed at how they sho-
another set of batteries
-ved the guts of the Sega Master Sys-
this thing needs better battery life
-tem into a handheld. They even ma-
this is getting real old real fast
-de a TV addon to watch stuff whi-
-le waiting for more games to come out.
You know, I think I've heard about something like that recently...
I know you're going for funny, but I haven't had but one piece of spam break through Gmail's filter in god-knows-how-long
A contradiction I see. I bought an Aspire 3003 in October 2 years ago. A little over a year later, the screen died. A few months after that, the DVD drive tore up any disc I put in it. Then, the RAM went bad, causing general instability.
You sure that's an X60? All the X60's Ive seen on their website are 12 inch screens. Mabye you're thinking of a T60?
You know, if you were to "sudo apt-get install gnome-app-install synaptic" you wouldn't have to type "sudo apt-get ..." all the time...
Oh, wait. They're already installed.
I think the reason everyone uses "sudo apt-get install $foobar" is because it is shorter and more to the point. You could almost as easily say "Install the $foobar package from Add/Remove Programs in the Applications menu"
And assuming you'd rather not pay for Sprint/ATT/Verizon/etc.'s high rates for Internet service and just want to use Wifi, there's an app for the DS called DSOrganize that does internet radio as well. Of course, it requires a cart to run it on (I reccomend the R4 or EZFlashV), and they take uSD cards. I bet the PSP can do something like this as well
If we omitted all the crap from history, we would be ignorant enough to pull the same crap again.
As far as the trading goes, I believe (My copy won't come in for an hour or so) trading has always been done from the second floor of the Pokemon Centers (check the manual, or wait for me to post when the mail arrives). The keyword you're looking for is "Global Trade System". From there, it boils down to searching the list for what you want (for example: Level 12 Female Bulbasaur), and it tells you who has one, and what they want for it. Naturally, you can also put up your own Pokemon and what you want in return for them.
If you know other people, and want to trade/battle directly with them, you will need their "Friend Code", which is a 12 digit number each of you have to dial in on your game. After that, you can find them online, chat with them (using the built-in mic, the offical DS lite headset(mono), or the Turtle Beach headset(stereo). Stay away from the Datel headset), trade and battle directly.
Well, as long as you don't mind the version of IE in question being ridicoulsy outdated, discontinued, and not able to run native on the new Macs, then go ahead.
Depends.
If you don't have any Wi-Fi access, ask your friends (if they play) which one they're getting, and get the one they didn't get.
If you do have Wi-Fi access (either through a Wi-Fi router, or Nintendo's fancy USB dongle that only works on Windows), just pick the one with the pkmn you think looks better on the cover, since you'll be able to trade for everything else online.
The only major differences are which pkmn are available in the wild
Last time someone tried to fix something that wasn't broken, we got Windows Vista
The best one Ive seen is NO$GBA (which does DS in addition to GBA). It's a bit slow on my box (AthlonXP 2400+, 1GB RAM), but since my machine is a bit old YMMV. Besides the slowness, it is the most accurate DS emulator Ive seen. Some 3d is a bit finicky, but it's clear besides that. You need ROMs of course (which you own legal copies of, right?).
Basically, due to the WiFi trading and battling, it is possible to beat the game without leaving your mother's basement, or making any sort of human contact whatsoever.
They've also generally refined each of the Pkmn's that were already there, tweaks to the battle system, time/date sensitive events (like Animal Crossing), sortakinda 3d map, and adapts the game to the DS hardware (touch screen menus, notetaking, sleep mode so you can put it down w/o saving). But the online is the biggest change by far
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And then what, set them up in a Beowulf cluster?
Never would have thought of it before.
Yes, but if you know Linux on x86 already, it's that much simpler just to run Linux on POWER and retain most of your knowledge. This however is more like using WINE/VMware to run your Linux86 apps, but still use AIX, making it easier to migrate
umm, AT&T? Standard Oil? The Holy Roman Catholic Church?(sorta j/k on the last one)
PSI has Jingle support, but not yet in an official release. See http://psi-im.org/wiki/Jingle_branch, and someone has made a fork of Psi called Jabbin http://www.jabbin.com/ that has libjingle in their releases. Since Gaim/Pidgin has finally gotten AOL off their backs, I would expect something from them Real Soon Now (and AdiumX will most likely follow in their footsteps due to libpurple), and I've heard Kopete will try to have jingle in by KDE4
Gaim/Pidgin does indeed support Jabber (and GTalk is just another jabber server). All they need to do is get libjingle implemented (which Psi has in a dev branch), and voice and video will come along with it
Antartica's still an option. However, quite a few of the local inhabitants have sort of stopped progress-wise. One could say they have frozen to a halt.