When you do a web page search your results are served by google.yahoo.com... and the page says "Yahoo!(R) powered by Google" or something like that...
example search on yahoo
But yes... pure Google (.com) is still preferrable imho...
Hmm... Yahoo uses the Google search engine if you do a "web pages"-search...
So I think the difference is actually not that huge.. (but yes, I do prefer google.com myself)
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Well... you don't even need to break it (even if that would probably be very easy)... just download the blind source and (either compile it and use it to decrypt... or) look at the decryption scheme.. it says exactly what should be substituted with what.
At first I thought it was some kind of encryption for safety... but it seems that it is only encryption for making things harder to read for humans...
(Kinda like ROT13, but the replacement scheme seems to be more complex...)
I just wonder:
Do we really need a thing like this?
I'm pretty sure apt-get would have done that change successfully if you would just have typed "apt-get install esound-alsa"... but anyway... try these commands:
dpkg --force-depends -r esound
and then
dpkg -i esound-alsa
An alternative is of course to open one of those images in your favourite image manipulation (eg The Gimp) program and to then flip it... (may feel easier than the mirror stuff)... It won't look right at all.
Another thing is that the Yopy actually has those 2 round buttons on the RIGHT side on all images I've seen of it!
The logo is printed sideways, yes but it still doesn't work like you say...
The thing is that I really prefer to read from left to right.
If you don't understand what I mean you should find a small mirror, hold it in front of your monitor... and look into the mirror from behind the monitor.
Then the Heretic game will look all right... but I wouldn't say that the logo says Yopy anymore...
Am I wrong?
Well, America is the greatest country anyway... you should be happy that they don't nuke your ass out of this world!
</sarcasm>
Actually, I kinda agree - I'm fairly often pretty pissed off after reading American peoples opinions on things happening over here in Europe (simply because it's often obvious that they don't really know anything about what they're talking about)...
But I think it's tiny bit late to teach the Americans English (as in British English) spelling;)
I can understand what you mean... certain 2d adventure are just fantastic!
But my point wasn't that I was good that Lucasarts decided to make Monkey Island 4 in 3D (I still think that it would probably have been better to stay in 2D), but that I'm still highly interested in the game after seeing some of the more recent screenshots...
Btw, Monkey Island 4 - Escape from Monkey Island will be based on an upgraded Grim Fandango engine...
After seeing the first screenshots from MI 4 I was really doubtful, but after looking at some of the more recent screenshots out there I really believe in this game!
I just can't wait 'til they release this baby!! *droool* =)
I really don't think adventure games are dead... or even dying... not yet at least..
Yes, in theory it would be possible to get IE for Solaris (x86) running on GNU/Linux (x86)...
There's a tool named iBCS (Intel Binary Compatibility Specification Module) which together with all the right libraries could probably get that monster running on GNU/Linux...
Now, I don't know if this is enough... but this is what iBCS does:
Emulations provided:
* Sparc Solaris
* i386 BSD (386BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI/386) - very alpha, very old.
* SVR4 (Interactive, Unixware, USL, Dell etc.)
* SVR3 generic
* SCO (SVR3 with extensions for symlinks and long filenames)
* SCO OpenServer 5
* Wyse V/386 (SVR3 with extensions for symlinks)
* Xenix V/386 (386 small model binaries only)
Subsystems emulated:
* SYSV IPC
*/dev/socksys socket interface as used by the Lachman STREAMS
based networking implementation.
* BSD and Wyse V/386 system call socket interface.
*/dev/spx STREAMS device (limited server support).
* XTI/TLI transports for TCP, UDP and related protocols - client
only (outgoing connections). Accepting connections untested.
As for docs on config files...
well, perhaps I'm just being thick, but I've often found the docs for much Linux configuration rather incomprehensible...
On the other hand, how well is Windows' "own part" of the registry documented?
Not very well... in fact I haven't seen any such documentation... I guess I may be able to buy it from Micros~1 some way... I don't know...
And how many Windows applications come with documentation of it's registry settings?
Almost none...
And yes, most Windows software has some kind of GUI configuration tool, but it's fairly common that you can't change all settings with it! (this is certainly the case with Windows itself!)
The (GNU/)Linux programs on the other hand usually come with an example configuration file with comments which briefly explains all the settings, and often you get "real" documentation too!
A big plus on the Linux side...
I think one big problem for (GNU/)Linux games is that game ports like those Loki has made are harder to get your hands on than the MS Windows versions.
I may be wrong, but I've never seen any Loki stuff anywhere over here (in Sweden)...
Then of course I'm hardly buying any games at all (I'm simply hardly playing any games at all)... but when I was looking at the shelves filled with games together with a friend not too long ago I extra looked for (GNU/)Linux ports... and there were none!
Uhm... the problem with MS fdisk is generally that you can get errors like "You have a bad partition table, so fdisk won't work! Sorry!" (no, that's no exact quote)... I mean that could be a reason why I want to run fdisk... to wipe all partition entries and start over... but no.. not with MS fdisk...
It also can't handle linux partitions...:/
Slashdot Mirror
When you do a web page search your results are served by google.yahoo.com... and the page says "Yahoo!(R) powered by Google" or something like that...
example search on yahoo
But yes... pure Google (.com) is still preferrable imho...
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Uhmm... that's nothing compared to them finding that you're using Corel Linux if you're under 18. ;)
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Hmm... Yahoo uses the Google search engine if you do a "web pages"-search... So I think the difference is actually not that huge.. (but yes, I do prefer google.com myself)
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Well... you don't even need to break it (even if that would probably be very easy)... just download the blind source and (either compile it and use it to decrypt... or) look at the decryption scheme.. it says exactly what should be substituted with what.
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At first I thought it was some kind of encryption for safety... but it seems that it is only encryption for making things harder to read for humans...
(Kinda like ROT13, but the replacement scheme seems to be more complex...)
I just wonder:
Do we really need a thing like this?
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uhm.. oops... I didn't read what you said well enough.. sorry
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I'm pretty sure apt-get would have done that change successfully if you would just have typed "apt-get install esound-alsa"... but anyway... try these commands:
dpkg --force-depends -r esound
and then
dpkg -i esound-alsa
I'm almost sure that will work...
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An alternative is of course to open one of those images in your favourite image manipulation (eg The Gimp) program and to then flip it... (may feel easier than the mirror stuff)... It won't look right at all.
Another thing is that the Yopy actually has those 2 round buttons on the RIGHT side on all images I've seen of it!
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The logo is printed sideways, yes but it still doesn't work like you say...
The thing is that I really prefer to read from left to right.
If you don't understand what I mean you should find a small mirror, hold it in front of your monitor... and look into the mirror from behind the monitor.
Then the Heretic game will look all right... but I wouldn't say that the logo says Yopy anymore...
Am I wrong?
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No, I noticed it too... and I don't know what to think either... :/
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You should check out the slashdot FAQ (Tech section) if you wonder about the hardware slashdot is running on...
(5 load balanced Web servers dedicated to pages
3 load balanced Web servers dedicated to images
1 SQL server
1 NFS Server)
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I don't think so... that just sounded like the usual bad grammar commonly found on slashdot... :)
I think Yoda would have said something like "oh, Linux it runs"...
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I thought Opera wasn't open source.
Well.. it's not!
Has never (afaik) been and probably never will be either...
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I didn't have any problems with raging in w3m or lynx...
Could you explain what kind of problems you are refering to?
To me google is #1, especially when it comes to the results... and their initiative to keep a cached copy is simply great!
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No, just as Emacs is an operating system! :)
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Exactly.. the show (as it is distributed at least) really hasn't been that hifi anyway...
:)
We REALLY want our almost weekly GIS shows to continue!!
Or if you all have decent Internet connections I think there must be some higher quality voice conference solution available that you can use...
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Well, America is the greatest country anyway... you should be happy that they don't nuke your ass out of this world!
</sarcasm>
Actually, I kinda agree - I'm fairly often pretty pissed off after reading American peoples opinions on things happening over here in Europe (simply because it's often obvious that they don't really know anything about what they're talking about)...
But I think it's tiny bit late to teach the Americans English (as in British English) spelling
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I can understand what you mean... certain 2d adventure are just fantastic!
But my point wasn't that I was good that Lucasarts decided to make Monkey Island 4 in 3D (I still think that it would probably have been better to stay in 2D), but that I'm still highly interested in the game after seeing some of the more recent screenshots...
--
Btw, Monkey Island 4 - Escape from Monkey Island will be based on an upgraded Grim Fandango engine...
After seeing the first screenshots from MI 4 I was really doubtful, but after looking at some of the more recent screenshots out there I really believe in this game!
I just can't wait 'til they release this baby!! *droool* =)
I really don't think adventure games are dead... or even dying... not yet at least..
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Yes, in theory it would be possible to get IE for Solaris (x86) running on GNU/Linux (x86)...
/dev/socksys socket interface as used by the Lachman STREAMS
based networking implementation. /dev/spx STREAMS device (limited server support).
There's a tool named iBCS (Intel Binary Compatibility Specification Module) which together with all the right libraries could probably get that monster running on GNU/Linux...
Now, I don't know if this is enough... but this is what iBCS does:
Emulations provided:
* Sparc Solaris * i386 BSD (386BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI/386) - very alpha, very old.
* SVR4 (Interactive, Unixware, USL, Dell etc.)
* SVR3 generic
* SCO (SVR3 with extensions for symlinks and long filenames)
* SCO OpenServer 5
* Wyse V/386 (SVR3 with extensions for symlinks)
* Xenix V/386 (386 small model binaries only)
Subsystems emulated:
* SYSV IPC
*
* BSD and Wyse V/386 system call socket interface.
*
* XTI/TLI transports for TCP, UDP and related protocols - client only (outgoing connections). Accepting connections untested.
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But will the Opera renderer be better than gecko? (I really doubt that)
If not, then I don't really see how Opera will have much chance against for example Galeon...
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As for docs on config files...
well, perhaps I'm just being thick, but I've often found the docs for much Linux configuration rather incomprehensible...
On the other hand, how well is Windows' "own part" of the registry documented?
Not very well... in fact I haven't seen any such documentation... I guess I may be able to buy it from Micros~1 some way... I don't know...
And how many Windows applications come with documentation of it's registry settings?
Almost none...
And yes, most Windows software has some kind of GUI configuration tool, but it's fairly common that you can't change all settings with it! (this is certainly the case with Windows itself!)
The (GNU/)Linux programs on the other hand usually come with an example configuration file with comments which briefly explains all the settings, and often you get "real" documentation too!
A big plus on the Linux side...
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I think one big problem for (GNU/)Linux games is that game ports like those Loki has made are harder to get your hands on than the MS Windows versions.
I may be wrong, but I've never seen any Loki stuff anywhere over here (in Sweden)...
Then of course I'm hardly buying any games at all (I'm simply hardly playing any games at all)... but when I was looking at the shelves filled with games together with a friend not too long ago I extra looked for (GNU/)Linux ports... and there were none!
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Btw, it's "Trumpet Winsock" and nothing else... and it's available for download here... =)
And yes, I have to agree.... those memories... =)..
(of course not only good memories though)
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Uhm... the problem with MS fdisk is generally that you can get errors like "You have a bad partition table, so fdisk won't work! Sorry!" (no, that's no exact quote)... I mean that could be a reason why I want to run fdisk... to wipe all partition entries and start over... but no.. not with MS fdisk... :/
It also can't handle linux partitions...
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