blender will do alot more for you than bryce and it renders faster. bryce does have that cool editable heightfield by drawing on it thing, and i was writing a gimp plug in that did the same thing, but until plug ins can get a signal that the image changed, id rather work on other things. i did leave a version on the registry that could be set to update n times a second so its at least workable, but that update thing is really lame.
i just want one that does *not* use PPPoE
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yes, i know there are hacks to make it work, but id really rather just not deal with it. its a brain dead protocol.
the indigo magic desktop is the easiest to use by far (yes easier than the mac, and get this, sgi got the plug and play thing down way better than apple ever did)
the window manager itself is not as featurefull as englightenment or sawfish or windowmaker (course windowmaker is the only one of the above three thats actually "done" even if all are below the 1.0)
but the file manager is kinda cool. my only problem with it is resource management. open up a directory full of images viewed as thumbnails and youll see what i mean. icons are vector based (except the thumbnails of raster images) and that is pretty forward thinking especially for having done this from so long ago. another really cool trick is the automounting which detects media and, in the case of removable media with only one partition (like zip disks which may have partition 1 or 4 or just the disk(mac) formatted just mounts it whatever file system it has(that irix knows, meaning irix,dos and mac) this is better than mandrakes supermount) what irix does can be emulated by using a bunch of messy shell scripts (easier on *bsd than on linux, didnt try with anything else)
the point of all this is that it is a very easy desktop to use and it has a cool file manager so all of it generally works, but we already have more functional interfaces in free software
(though they may not be as as refined). i would not call this blowing it out of the water. (i would say that the layout for system administration of most freenixes does blow sgis out of the water but thats a different topic)
kde 1.0 is at sgis freeware site if your interested in that. ximian would be nice on irix but unlike the other vendors irix does not have reason to change.
aside from being somewhat arcane (blender *is* the vi of 3d) it gets nice and quick when you get used to its strange commands. it has such things as "hold down button 2 (middle) and press button 3(right) to enter a value here" while blender is a comicly extreme example, it does illustrate the need for a flexible interface.
even relevent to the mac crowd is maya. even in nt maya requires three mouse buttons, though you can kinda guess where they trying to get away from being as dependant as alias was... this may not matter that much, all the maya users i know are on nt now and most of them want linux, not the mac. (which may have more to do with not wanting to buy new hardware)
if it wasnt for the lack of mouse buttons these would make great *nix laptops. its really the only thing holding them back for that.0001% of the market.
unfortuneatly even tuxtops does not sell laptops with 3 mouse buttons. compaq, ibm, and sony do.
theres no hardware gamma correction with matrox cards in linux. thats why i went with ati (r128) instead. it works in xf4 with some glitches, like switching text mode problems, but havent tried xf-4.0.2 with it yet.
one thing i do for that not compleltly paranoid(who are not on a publicly accessable network at all) is copy the hosts public key onto a floppy that the users can carry around. (and hope does not break. id love to find burnable credit card sized cd-roms)
there can be other variations of this trick, like a web site to go to (on a different host) etc. that would at least make it much harder to spoof successfully.
It installs fast (12 minutes including formatting a 6 gig hard dirve on a laptop), is easy to use if you know what your doing. this means you can quickly be set up for most purposes. the fact that it includes things like a dhcp server, apache, and ipsec means that it makes a great turnkey network thingy.
the documentation is excellent. almost all man pages have examples of common uses. the faq at openbsd.org is like a users manual.
the layout is very simple and well desinged so you can change things easily.
has the advantages of the other BSDs, like having all the source conviently on the box if you want it, and being able to update that for recompiling with cvs. that makes security updates a simple process.
has great auto-detection of things like ethernet cards (especially ethernet cards)
the compaq m700 is probably your best bet. i have
one and it has no problem with any linux dist ive
tried (or freebsd or openbsd and probably netbsd)
ive even had it with windows/bsd/linux partitions
for awhile (but never got around to installing windows on that one, have done the triple boot on a vaio that i was borrowing)
the sound does not work on openbsd (did not try the other ones) but works great in linux, even through suspends. and having three mouse buttons is really nice.
the pointing sticks a little tight. ibm ones are way better, but its still usable. i just use an external mouse.
another bonus is 3d hardware support works nicely too, at least with screen savers and heavy gear II which plays flawlessly (but not with blender, but you can use software rendering for that and its still fast enough for most work) installing mandrake 7.2 is the easiest way to get the 3d hardware working, but its not that hard to do it your self.
one warning, make sure the refresh rate of your display is at 60hz! youll have to unplug it and disconnect the battery (which is thankfully easy to do) to get it working again.
it is still a little srewy once in a while, and does annoy me. thinkpads are more reliable, but overall i think the m700 is what the T20 was trying to be...
i dont know how windows runs on it (and probably will never care to)
i suspect that netbsd and or openbsd would run on the thinkpad. (if not im going to return mine)
stormix is supposed to be an easy to install debian.
you can get it from http://www.stormix.com. its still has deselect (and a pretty gui version of the same thing)
from my limited use of it, seems kinda nice. havent dug that deep to find out if it had any incompatibilities with the "real" debian. it did fine with auto detecting sound and video hardware on a few machines that i tried.
progeny also has debian dist now in beta. havent tried it yet, but this one also looks promising.
just use the faq at openbsd.org. you can
also download the faq or get a local copy of the website like this(which assumes your using bash, read your man pages for other shells),
export CVS_RSH="/usr/bin/ssh"
export CVSROOT="anoncvs@anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org:/cvs"
cvs get www
the faq is more like a manual than a real faq. also, the man pages in openbsd are way better than on any linux dist. they are usually the first place to look for how to do anything.
his arguments were full of it. you can see software for linux on shelves of many stores, even office supply stores (staples etc)and there will only be more of it as time goes on. if linux users really needed a propriatary closed source office suite, what happend to applixware?
and then that bit about trying to become the microsoft for linux...
helix-gnome,abi-source, etc. will do a better job what they claim they are trying to do, if not the distributions themselves...
and let it be known that you do so. spread the practice. if it becomes common practice to boycott these rude assholesthey will stop. in the mean time, dont support them.
of course then theres the problem of a company framing thier competition...
its not so much that its hard to find techs but that the tech labor is expensive. many of the people running the bigger firms are probably balking at the salarys some make comming out of collage. so....
claim there are not enough people so we need to import labor. this labor is obviously cheaper than domestic labor
contirubte to flooding the local talent market thus cheapening even the local labor
The are some other ways they are dealing with labor costs like farming out to third world countrys dirt cheap..
eventually, of course, what most/. readers get paid for now will probably be more like a trade skill like being a mechanic or plumber. hopefully programming will become common knowledge...
there probably already is a linux binary dvd
player, but that does not solve the real problem,
which is the right to watch movies using software which respects our freedom of code.
this is also an issue of the freedom to code and freely distribute that code. this is a right many (mostly out of fear,ignorance,or greed) want to take from us.
Of course the practical side of free software is important too. moving from x86 to alpha is a matter of recompiling. maybe i want to get an alpha, run netbsd or plan 9 and watch DVDs on it...
what printers were these? the workgroup laser printers just work out of the box (and quite nicely), at least on unix networks (i would be surprised if they did not work on windows, but we programmed and tested them in a unix environment)
an entry level class is (hopefully) unlikey to do anything windows specific so the TAs probably wouldnt know the difference anyway, but you should still let the teacher know just in case. writing portable code is a good software engineering practice that should be tought from the beginning (unless you work for microsoft)
im sure any good teacher would have no problem with you using vi and gcc unless it was specifically a class on a different developement environment.
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there was a lightwave plug in a while ago to use the accelertator to "help" the render speed. dont know if that went anywhere...
look here
blender will do alot more for you than bryce and it renders faster. bryce does have that cool editable heightfield by drawing on it thing, and i was writing a gimp plug in that did the same thing, but until plug ins can get a signal that the image changed, id rather work on other things. i did leave a version on the registry that could be set to update n times a second so its at least workable, but that update thing is really lame.
yes, i know there are hacks to make it work, but id really rather just not deal with it. its a brain dead protocol.
the window manager itself is not as featurefull as englightenment or sawfish or windowmaker (course windowmaker is the only one of the above three thats actually "done" even if all are below the 1.0)
but the file manager is kinda cool. my only problem with it is resource management. open up a directory full of images viewed as thumbnails and youll see what i mean. icons are vector based (except the thumbnails of raster images) and that is pretty forward thinking especially for having done this from so long ago. another really cool trick is the automounting which detects media and, in the case of removable media with only one partition (like zip disks which may have partition 1 or 4 or just the disk(mac) formatted just mounts it whatever file system it has(that irix knows, meaning irix,dos and mac) this is better than mandrakes supermount) what irix does can be emulated by using a bunch of messy shell scripts (easier on *bsd than on linux, didnt try with anything else)
the point of all this is that it is a very easy desktop to use and it has a cool file manager so all of it generally works, but we already have more functional interfaces in free software (though they may not be as as refined). i would not call this blowing it out of the water. (i would say that the layout for system administration of most freenixes does blow sgis out of the water but thats a different topic)
kde 1.0 is at sgis freeware site if your interested in that. ximian would be nice on irix but unlike the other vendors irix does not have reason to change.
just wondered...
.0001% of the market.
aside from being somewhat arcane (blender *is* the vi of 3d) it gets nice and quick when you get used to its strange commands. it has such things as "hold down button 2 (middle) and press button 3(right) to enter a value here" while blender is a comicly extreme example, it does illustrate the need for a flexible interface.
even relevent to the mac crowd is maya. even in nt maya requires three mouse buttons, though you can kinda guess where they trying to get away from being as dependant as alias was... this may not matter that much, all the maya users i know are on nt now and most of them want linux, not the mac. (which may have more to do with not wanting to buy new hardware)
if it wasnt for the lack of mouse buttons these would make great *nix laptops. its really the only thing holding them back for that
unfortuneatly even tuxtops does not sell laptops with 3 mouse buttons. compaq, ibm, and sony do.
theres no hardware gamma correction with matrox cards in linux. thats why i went with ati (r128) instead. it works in xf4 with some glitches, like switching text mode problems, but havent tried xf-4.0.2 with it yet.
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Fiasco!
one thing i do for that not compleltly paranoid(who are not on a publicly accessable network at all) is copy the hosts public key onto a floppy that the users can carry around. (and hope does not break. id love to find burnable credit card sized cd-roms)
there can be other variations of this trick, like a web site to go to (on a different host) etc. that would at least make it much harder to spoof successfully.
the documentation is excellent. almost all man pages have examples of common uses. the faq at openbsd.org is like a users manual.
the layout is very simple and well desinged so you can change things easily.
has the advantages of the other BSDs, like having all the source conviently on the box if you want it, and being able to update that for recompiling with cvs. that makes security updates a simple process.
has great auto-detection of things like ethernet cards (especially ethernet cards)
it runs on a machine that looks like a tissue box!
comercial software, and the problems associated with it, are what most of us are trying to avoid.
ive even had it with windows/bsd/linux partitions for awhile (but never got around to installing windows on that one, have done the triple boot on a vaio that i was borrowing)
the sound does not work on openbsd (did not try the other ones) but works great in linux, even through suspends. and having three mouse buttons is really nice.
the pointing sticks a little tight. ibm ones are way better, but its still usable. i just use an external mouse.
another bonus is 3d hardware support works nicely too, at least with screen savers and heavy gear II which plays flawlessly (but not with blender, but you can use software rendering for that and its still fast enough for most work) installing mandrake 7.2 is the easiest way to get the 3d hardware working, but its not that hard to do it your self.
one warning, make sure the refresh rate of your display is at 60hz! youll have to unplug it and disconnect the battery (which is thankfully easy to do) to get it working again.
it is still a little srewy once in a while, and does annoy me. thinkpads are more reliable, but overall i think the m700 is what the T20 was trying to be...
i dont know how windows runs on it (and probably will never care to)
i suspect that netbsd and or openbsd would run on the thinkpad. (if not im going to return mine)
from my limited use of it, seems kinda nice. havent dug that deep to find out if it had any incompatibilities with the "real" debian. it did fine with auto detecting sound and video hardware on a few machines that i tried.
progeny also has debian dist now in beta. havent tried it yet, but this one also looks promising.
export CVS_RSH="/usr/bin/ssh"
export CVSROOT="anoncvs@anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org:/cvs"
cvs get www
the faq is more like a manual than a real faq. also, the man pages in openbsd are way better than on any linux dist. they are usually the first place to look for how to do anything.
i cant believe most of you take them seriously!
his arguments were full of it. you can see software for linux on shelves of many stores, even office supply stores (staples etc)and there will only be more of it as time goes on. if linux users really needed a propriatary closed source office suite, what happend to applixware?
and then that bit about trying to become the microsoft for linux...
helix-gnome,abi-source, etc. will do a better job what they claim they are trying to do, if not the distributions themselves...
of course then theres the problem of a company framing thier competition...
- claim there are not enough people so we need to import labor. this labor is obviously cheaper than domestic labor
- contirubte to flooding the local talent market thus cheapening even the local labor
The are some other ways they are dealing with labor costs like farming out to third world countrys dirt cheap..eventually, of course, what most /. readers get paid for now will probably be more like a trade skill like being a mechanic or plumber. hopefully programming will become common knowledge...
do any of these exist?
youll need that if you want any of that stuff on "mak oh es ten"(1)
[1] i dont want to call it X. X is a windowing system.
of course, the one mouse button thing really sucks. thats why im using a PC laptop instead despite the nice long battery life of those powerbooks.
this is also an issue of the freedom to code and freely distribute that code. this is a right many (mostly out of fear,ignorance,or greed) want to take from us.
Of course the practical side of free software is important too. moving from x86 to alpha is a matter of recompiling. maybe i want to get an alpha, run netbsd or plan 9 and watch DVDs on it...
what printers were these? the workgroup laser printers just work out of the box (and quite nicely), at least on unix networks (i would be surprised if they did not work on windows, but we programmed and tested them in a unix environment)
i often set up a dual boot between linux and openbsd. especially on laptops in case the linux partition is handy or to use it for the emulator.
and of course there are dozens of other possible combinations that dont involve anything by MS.
an entry level class is (hopefully) unlikey to do anything windows specific so the TAs probably wouldnt know the difference anyway, but you should still let the teacher know just in case. writing portable code is a good software engineering practice that should be tought from the beginning (unless you work for microsoft)
im sure any good teacher would have no problem with you using vi and gcc unless it was specifically a class on a different developement environment.
yes, specifically, partition type 0c (or at least what linux fdisk calls 0c which is fat32 LBA)
why would you only run 16bit color? can they do full color?