There still is a cache bug in ksh on solaris upto solaris 8, the damn shell wont see the a program even if you path it. When it does happen its when a child sub shell installs the file/usr/local/bin (normally) and the parent doesnt see it. It happens rarely, but ive stumped many of a sys-admin letting them try to run a file and see "File not found type errors"
Demoscene - Music, Gfx, DEMOS!
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Are Videogames Art?
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Demoscene - Music, Gfx, DEMOS!
The largest computer artforms is the demo. These demos are music and gfx wrapped into a small package.
There are contests around the world called "Demo Partys" which give awards on best gfx, best music, best demos in sizes (64K,etc), 1 hour to compose tunes with a set of samples, best mp3, best Gfx, most genuine.
Many of these artists and musicians are working in the game industry or entertainment industry. Many of the older 64/apple/amiga game musicians are working for the largest game companies, creating tunes for your games you play today.
Assembly - The largest Demo party in the world
OrangeJuice - Demoscene information center
Google demo directory.
Nectarine - 100% scene music radio!
Crystal Melon - Famous cracktros (minidemos) many converted to Shockwave so people can view them. (They were on a c64 and Amiga!)
If you interested in video game, demo music, mods (4 channel) music, is like a midi with the wave files included.
Check out
Nectarine - 100% scene music radio!
Mod Archive Google Mod directory
Aminet AmiNet mod archive.
C64: Back in Time CD Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, Ben Daglish, Chris Hülsbeck, Peter Clarke - Music Game Gods.
Good example, the CIA armed, and gave billions to Afghanistan to fight Russia. Now some of those Afghanistan rebels/terrorists are armed and well funded by the USA.
Good intentions can turn around and bite you on the ass.
First thing I thought of, the open capsule, they could sky dive down./. even ran an article on space sky diving.
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. - Douglas Adams
The music market is so large, the only way I'm introduced to new music is either radio, music tv, or mp3. Guess which 2 are RIAA controlled?
When I listen to mp3.com's top artists, it introduces me to new bands/music. When I watch gnutella searchs go by, I see groups I never heard of, and listen to thier music.
You only have a few moments a day, the people who control those moments, control your direction. If you only have 2 choices, and both are controlled by the same person, its pretty obvious your going to buy from them.
When we upgrade databases, we assign a dedicated server because we dont want to use the all the cpu horsepower. If we ran a linux with virtual domains, we could upgrade on the same box and not use up all the resources, and the box could stay in production. Thou the article said there is a draw back on a shared file system, allow some kind of snapshots of file systems and you could make a very powerful combination. If you could move a snapshot file system to a domain, you could test, upgrade, whatever. Interesting idea.
BTW, if you have a Sun StarFire with domains plugged into an EMC terabyte storage, you spent millions to do just that!
Co-location is kinda pricey, but use linux enabled with domains, and you could split the cost with other people. Then nobody has to bitch about ROOT access. If I ran a small ISP, I could offer linux domains for cheap, virtual servers. If someone messed up a domain, just restore from the nightly backup and they are up and running. Get a couple dual proc boxes, with dual nics (inet/nfs+backup), and a 60 gig (raided?). Make 2 gigs per domain, and NFS mount the/home dirs on some nas. If you could get the backups working, where handling domains are like files, just copy and go, this could be some powerful tool for the busy admin.
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
I was thinking the exact thing, but was wondering if I should even bother posting it. I think its pretty common sense, People dont like change, m$ owns the markets, tech slump, laws against competetion, etc..
The industry is in a rut, its m$ hardware, m$ OS, and m$ office suite. There are people trying to compete, but with m$ spending millions and new releases every couple months, it seems like an uphill battle. Soon as a new product comes out, M$ has a better product, or a Soon to be released better product.
Linux companies arnt making the money on support that m$ makes. M$ makes millions each month on support, and school classes alone. Many many companies with better products either go out of business or get bought up, to have its product shelved.
Really a sad state of affairs, Linux is so powerful, lots of opensource appications, games ported, but still the market is too small to keep in business.
I think maybe 10 years from now, Linux will be the best OS out, be able to run every application, run on every hardware, do any task. But we will be locked into some subscription model and security system that will lock us into m$.
My wife didnt know you cant leave the TV on a channel too long or the logos burn in on your projection tv screens. She was letting the youngest watch disney tv all the time, and it started to burn in.
I didnt notice it, cause I only use the bigscreen for dvds which are letter box, but catch Enterprise, and there it was. At least they could move the logo or have it time out.
So logos are not just annoying, they are destructive.
Just voted on/. poll, Halloween is my birthday. Im 3 days older than unix. Now I feel REALLY old.
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. - Joe Martin, Porterfield
I installed XP on my work laptop, 650mhz p2. No slow down if you turn off the pretty gfx, its the same speed. Friends with older PC's have told me its slower and have stayed with win2k, ymmv.
But windows networking FLYS compared to my win2k. I can open network domains with 10000+ pc's and it only takes seconds now. Printers and shares now remember the passwords. I can log transparently into a domain for printer shares only. Network login is actually faster now. FTP transfers are the same speed thou. I dont like to log into the domain, but It authenticates me for printers and exchange.
Only crash I'ved had was the 3dfx driver I have in my docking station, disabled the onboard ati card and no problems. The reason I run a 3dfx pci voodoo3, its pci half-height, and does 1600x1200.
On my Home PC, dual 800, I left the gfx on, and turned off shadow menus, that was the main slow down. Only crashs are the geforce nvidia driver (28.88 with newest gf2mx bios, god love those russian unreleased driver/bios sites)
I don?t think this if for every day use. Industrial uses, where you need to know you have a hole in your suit, information at the tips of your fingers. Products to alert you in case of danger.
Of course, some people would go the extreme and become cyborgs if the technology exists.
A jumpsuit use some fibers where could feel pressure. The military could play war games, when you get shot, you feel an impact in the target area. Play Half Life Counterstrike and if the bomb goes of you feel the your whole body shake. Subwoofer or audio, you watch a movie you could feel the vibrations. Screw force feedback joysticks, force feedback jumpsuits!
I'd love a fulltime computer that records my daily activities, and when I'm at meetings and I forget someone's name, the computer could tell me who I just meet, and a quick bio. Ready information at the tips of my fingers. Maybe when Im out shopping, it downloads my shopping list and the suit tugs at products I need to buy. (Damn it, I don't need more fabric softener!)
Lets not for get Bushs father's last minute pardons, lets not forget Ronald Regan giving 3 billion to the taliban (opps, CIA's freedom fighters against russia)
Cookies are not evil, Oh wait, double standards...
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EU May Outlaw Cookies
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We have websites that link multiple companies content and authorization into 1 site. So if you travel between them, the session cookie identifies you. Using the old 1 pixel image trick.
We also use 64 bit hashed urls that include information in a non-readable format. Its pretty good if your not doing ecommerce, since the key doesnt change. We also use an xml auth service, so content procviders can authenticate users onto our service.
There are zillion ways to do session authentication, but the session cookie seems to be the easiest to implement.
Speaking of "User privacy" did you know that IE's "Userdata Persistence" isnt turned off if you disable cookies. You have to go into security and turn them off. Not sure if anyone is using this xml data (think cookies on steriods).
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...' - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
This guy I know got his game cube early, (Lucky bastard developers...) Anyways, at his birthday party everyone was playing Monkey Ball, and I guess it kicks ass. So I dug up some info a IGN to see what its like.
So every BeOS application will have to be ported to this Linux/OpenBeOS project. And then ported again on the next non-x version of OpenBeOS? Whats they point? Why not just help finish the DirectFB and then keep everything native on linux. X is not as fast as a framebuffer, and BeOS was known for its video editing abilities.
M$ finally dropped dos, lets drop xwindows.
DirectFB was discussed a few days ago on Slashdot in case you missed it.
VMware with redhat linux running UAE
Vmware with Win98SE for games.
BaliskII with net access running os8
WinUAE playing.mods
Then,
Running VNC to my linux box with IceWM with qnx theme.
Running VNC to my wifes 98se box
My linux box mounting my Win2k drives with sharity
My win2k box mounting my linux boxes with samba
Xwin32 running a file manager on the unix box that was looking at my win2k mounted drives.
Netscape exported back.
Running eFX with enlightenment skin.
Exporting Gimp back and viewing pictures on my local drives.
Mirc in desktop mode with transparency.
tclock for looks and to replace the start button.
econsole - I use dterm for win32 now.
And when not listening to mods, Sonique with background visuals.
Lots of cool stuff out there, emulators for almost everything, mame/consoles/64/amiga/atari/mac/apple/etc..
And tons of programs to make windows look the way you want, or even go wild with litestep/graphite/etc..
If your interested in tweaking and shell enhacements check out Shell City daily updates with new programs.
Customize.org and Floachs site are a must visit also.
Re:Tiny operating systems
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Tiny Apps
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· Score: 2
BBIAgent is broadband only, if you want a floppy router with dialup support for us "non-broadband" users, check out http://www.freesco.org. Picked up a 486 and 2 nics, boot floppy, instant nat dialup router.
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Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly. - Henry Spencer
Slashdot Mirror
There still is a cache bug in ksh on solaris upto solaris 8, the damn shell wont see the a program even if you path it. When it does happen its when a child sub shell installs the file /usr/local/bin (normally) and the parent doesnt see it. It happens rarely, but ive stumped many of a sys-admin letting them try to run a file and see "File not found type errors"
Demoscene - Music, Gfx, DEMOS!
The largest computer artforms is the demo. These demos are music and gfx wrapped into a small package.
There are contests around the world called "Demo Partys" which give awards on best gfx, best music, best demos in sizes (64K,etc), 1 hour to compose tunes with a set of samples, best mp3, best Gfx, most genuine.
Many of these artists and musicians are working in the game industry or entertainment industry. Many of the older 64/apple/amiga game musicians are working for the largest game companies, creating tunes for your games you play today.
Assembly - The largest Demo party in the world
OrangeJuice - Demoscene information center
Google demo directory.
Nectarine - 100% scene music radio!
Crystal Melon - Famous cracktros (minidemos) many converted to Shockwave so people can view them. (They were on a c64 and Amiga!)
If you interested in video game, demo music, mods (4 channel) music, is like a midi with the wave files included.
Check out
Nectarine - 100% scene music radio!
Mod Archive
Google Mod directory
Aminet AmiNet mod archive.
C64: Back in Time CD Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, Ben Daglish, Chris Hülsbeck, Peter Clarke - Music Game Gods.
Good example, the CIA armed, and gave billions to Afghanistan to fight Russia. Now some of those Afghanistan rebels/terrorists are armed and well funded by the USA.
Good intentions can turn around and bite you on the ass.
First thing I thought of, the open capsule, they could sky dive down. /. even ran an article on space sky diving.
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. - Douglas Adams
The music market is so large, the only way I'm introduced to new music is either radio, music tv, or mp3. Guess which 2 are RIAA controlled?
When I listen to mp3.com's top artists, it introduces me to new bands/music. When I watch gnutella searchs go by, I see groups I never heard of, and listen to thier music.
You only have a few moments a day, the people who control those moments, control your direction. If you only have 2 choices, and both are controlled by the same person, its pretty obvious your going to buy from them.
When we upgrade databases, we assign a dedicated server because we dont want to use the all the cpu horsepower. If we ran a linux with virtual domains, we could upgrade on the same box and not use up all the resources, and the box could stay in production. Thou the article said there is a draw back on a shared file system, allow some kind of snapshots of file systems and you could make a very powerful combination. If you could move a snapshot file system to a domain, you could test, upgrade, whatever. Interesting idea.
BTW, if you have a Sun StarFire with domains plugged into an EMC terabyte storage, you spent millions to do just that!
Co-location is kinda pricey, but use linux enabled with domains, and you could split the cost with other people. Then nobody has to bitch about ROOT access. If I ran a small ISP, I could offer linux domains for cheap, virtual servers. If someone messed up a domain, just restore from the nightly backup and they are up and running. Get a couple dual proc boxes, with dual nics (inet/nfs+backup), and a 60 gig (raided?). Make 2 gigs per domain, and NFS mount the /home dirs on some nas. If you could get the backups working, where handling domains are like files, just copy and go, this could be some powerful tool for the busy admin.
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
I was thinking the exact thing, but was wondering if I should even bother posting it. I think its pretty common sense, People dont like change, m$ owns the markets, tech slump, laws against competetion, etc..
The industry is in a rut, its m$ hardware, m$ OS, and m$ office suite. There are people trying to compete, but with m$ spending millions and new releases every couple months, it seems like an uphill battle. Soon as a new product comes out, M$ has a better product, or a Soon to be released better product.
Linux companies arnt making the money on support that m$ makes. M$ makes millions each month on support, and school classes alone. Many many companies with better products either go out of business or get bought up, to have its product shelved.
Really a sad state of affairs, Linux is so powerful, lots of opensource appications, games ported, but still the market is too small to keep in business.
I think maybe 10 years from now, Linux will be the best OS out, be able to run every application, run on every hardware, do any task. But we will be locked into some subscription model and security system that will lock us into m$.
My wife didnt know you cant leave the TV on a channel too long or the logos burn in on your projection tv screens. She was letting the youngest watch disney tv all the time, and it started to burn in.
I didnt notice it, cause I only use the bigscreen for dvds which are letter box, but catch Enterprise, and there it was. At least they could move the logo or have it time out.
So logos are not just annoying, they are destructive.
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/media/p
Is the large version that requires Quicktime pro.
Quicktime will use your default proxy (on windows) all you have to do, is parse the proxy log for the 2nd
GET
Connection: keep-alive
Host: starwars.apple.com
Range: bytes=0-
Accept: */*
User-Agent: QuickTime (qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1)
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/media/pro/ ep2_breathing_m640.mov
.mov that it downloads.
/ep2/breathing/media/pro/ep2_breathing_m640.mov HTTP/1.1
Is the large version that requires Quicktime pro.
Quicktime will use your default proxy (on windows) all you have to do, is parse the proxy log for the 2nd
GET
Connection: keep-alive
Host: starwars.apple.com
Range: bytes=0-
Accept: */*
User-Agent: QuickTime (qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1)
Just voted on /. poll, Halloween is my birthday. Im 3 days older than unix. Now I feel REALLY old.
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. - Joe Martin, Porterfield
Cleartype is very distinctive on CRTS also. So it is Definately not just for LCDS
I installed XP on my work laptop, 650mhz p2. No slow down if you turn off the pretty gfx, its the same speed. Friends with older PC's have told me its slower and have stayed with win2k, ymmv.
But windows networking FLYS compared to my win2k. I can open network domains with 10000+ pc's and it only takes seconds now. Printers and shares now remember the passwords. I can log transparently into a domain for printer shares only. Network login is actually faster now. FTP transfers are the same speed thou. I dont like to log into the domain, but It authenticates me for printers and exchange.
Only crash I'ved had was the 3dfx driver I have in my docking station, disabled the onboard ati card and no problems. The reason I run a 3dfx pci voodoo3, its pci half-height, and does 1600x1200.
On my Home PC, dual 800, I left the gfx on, and turned off shadow menus, that was the main slow down. Only crashs are the geforce nvidia driver (28.88 with newest gf2mx bios, god love those russian unreleased driver/bios sites)
Cleartype is not just for laptops, its awesome on crt monitors also. Cleartype make normal anti-aliasing look like crap.
a ult.htm
BTW, you can customize the cleartype look on the cleartype m$ page.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/def
I don?t think this if for every day use. Industrial uses, where you need to know you have a hole in your suit, information at the tips of your fingers. Products to alert you in case of danger.
Of course, some people would go the extreme and become cyborgs if the technology exists.
A jumpsuit use some fibers where could feel pressure. The military could play war games, when you get shot, you feel an impact in the target area. Play Half Life Counterstrike and if the bomb goes of you feel the your whole body shake. Subwoofer or audio, you watch a movie you could feel the vibrations. Screw force feedback joysticks, force feedback jumpsuits!
I'd love a fulltime computer that records my daily activities, and when I'm at meetings and I forget someone's name, the computer could tell me who I just meet, and a quick bio. Ready information at the tips of my fingers. Maybe when Im out shopping, it downloads my shopping list and the suit tugs at products I need to buy. (Damn it, I don't need more fabric softener!)
Lets not for get Bushs father's last minute pardons, lets not forget Ronald Regan giving 3 billion to the taliban (opps, CIA's freedom fighters against russia)
We have websites that link multiple companies content and authorization into 1 site. So if you travel between them, the session cookie identifies you. Using the old 1 pixel image trick.
...' - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
We also use 64 bit hashed urls that include information in a non-readable format. Its pretty good if your not doing ecommerce, since the key doesnt change. We also use an xml auth service, so content procviders can authenticate users onto our service.
There are zillion ways to do session authentication, but the session cookie seems to be the easiest to implement.
Speaking of "User privacy" did you know that IE's "Userdata Persistence" isnt turned off if you disable cookies. You have to go into security and turn them off. Not sure if anyone is using this xml data (think cookies on steriods).
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny
Might as well say Windows 2000, its networking is the same. Why put fuel on the fire and tell them your running an unsupported product.
I dont tell the phone monkeys im running linux, I say yup, running windows, whats the IPs/settings.
In fact, I have to lie about what browser im running, what OS im running etc... No monoploy, Uh-huh...
This guy I know got his game cube early, (Lucky bastard developers...) Anyways, at his birthday party everyone was playing Monkey Ball, and I guess it kicks ass. So I dug up some info a IGN to see what its like.
IGN has a review with some screenshots, and the tv commercial
Pasted the wrong url for the DirectFB article on slashdot.1 4&mode=thread
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/12522
So every BeOS application will have to be ported to this Linux/OpenBeOS project. And then ported again on the next non-x version of OpenBeOS? Whats they point? Why not just help finish the DirectFB and then keep everything native on linux. X is not as fast as a framebuffer, and BeOS was known for its video editing abilities.
M$ finally dropped dos, lets drop xwindows.
DirectFB was discussed a few days ago on Slashdot in case you missed it.
One extremely bored weekend, on a win2k box..
.mods
VMware with redhat linux running UAE
Vmware with Win98SE for games.
BaliskII with net access running os8
WinUAE playing
Then,
Running VNC to my linux box with IceWM with qnx theme.
Running VNC to my wifes 98se box
My linux box mounting my Win2k drives with sharity
My win2k box mounting my linux boxes with samba
Xwin32 running a file manager on the unix box that was looking at my win2k mounted drives.
Netscape exported back.
Running eFX with enlightenment skin.
Exporting Gimp back and viewing pictures on my local drives.
Mirc in desktop mode with transparency.
tclock for looks and to replace the start button.
econsole - I use dterm for win32 now.
And when not listening to mods, Sonique with background visuals.
Lots of cool stuff out there, emulators for almost everything, mame/consoles/64/amiga/atari/mac/apple/etc..
And tons of programs to make windows look the way you want, or even go wild with litestep/graphite/etc..
If your interested in tweaking and shell enhacements check out Shell City daily updates with new programs.
Customize.org and Floachs site are a must visit also.
I put together a umsdos linux distro with x/icewin/ssh/ftpd/httpd on 4 floppys. Unrar it on a PC, and I have a instant server I can control remotely. I borrowed alot from other tiny linux distros, so if your interested, check out googles nice web directory.e /Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Tiny/Floppy _Sized/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Softwar
BBIAgent is broadband only, if you want a floppy router with dialup support for us "non-broadband" users, check out http://www.freesco.org. Picked up a 486 and 2 nics, boot floppy, instant nat dialup router.
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Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly. - Henry Spencer