I found this story in a norwegian newspaper this morning. I've not seen it mentioned on any english pages yet though. The Company webpages are still rather non-functional, but I guess some info should appear there soon.:)
Is it really necessary to upgrade every lib or is that just lasy programming from the developers? I've seen very often lately that configure-scripts require you to install the latest version of libs even though nothing has changed in the lib on the functionality that the program uses.
Developers should take a bit more care to check which versions are absolutely needed to get their programs compiling and running, instead of forcing us to upgrade to every new library.
I don't believe for a second that Gnucash uses bleeding edge new functionality in every one of the 60 libraries it is dependent on.
This is Freshmeat stuff. Not Slashdot.
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Why is it that every single minor release of Mozilla is hyped so much on slashdot while the release of the Opera 5 Final for Linux went totally unnoticed even though many readers reported the fact?
I'm starting to lose what little faith I had left in slashdot since it is clear that the editors are doing serious storyscreening. Favouring their pet topics and leaving out stuff they don't really want to have to think about.
Having a centralised authority to keep the net as tidy as possible is not such a bad thing. The net is chaotic enough as it is without people running around creating new toplevel domains too.
I just wish ICANN had the authority to babysit the domains already here. Kick all commercial activity out of.org and.net, keep.com for the american/international companies and enforce national companies to register under their national domains.
The net is a chaotic place already, why make it even worse?
"Welcome to Sol Historical Space Museum and Galactic Burger Drivethru! To your left you see the star Sol under which the human race is believed to have evolved. On your right is the counter where you can get your McSpaceslug burgers. Only 39.99 this week only!"
"And this grey planet you see in front is the planet 'Earth'. Were legend has it the human species evolved a billion years ago. Our astroarchaelogists are still trying to find proof that this may be true, but the current findings seems to point to the fact that this planet is totally uninhabitable."
"The scientists are still baffled over the wast remains of a flat round species found all over the surface of the planet. It has strange AOL markings on their back. It is speculated that if there ever was human life on this planet it might very well have been killed off by these weird round specimens."
"Please move through the checkout line to pay for your delicious McSpaceslug. Don't forget to try out the Double Slugger over at Alpha Centauri Burgers next time!"
For months now I've been using the framebuffer interface with my laptop to get X going at all. It's been slow and a pain in the rear from time to time.
So when do this message pop up on/.? Just exactly when I'm leaving for my Xmas vacation, where the ONLY computer I'm gonna be able to use is the laptop. But now I don't have time to download XF4.0.2 since then I'd miss my plane.
It has several tracks with Tolkien singing songs and reading excerpts. Allegedly this is recorded before LOTR was even published.
I'll advice Tolkien fans to get a hold on this edition anyway. It was very nice t get LOTR in 7 smaller books like they were originally intended to be.
Its all well and good having the exact same standard XML parser, the exact same DHTML support, and the exact same JavaScript command set, but then you end up with two exact same browsers.
No. You end up with sveral implementations of the same standard. To be standardscompliant is important in this respect, because that is what makes it possible for webpublishers to publish to everybody. If webpublishers have to create different versions for different browsers they will eventually end up supporting just one of them. And we all know which one that will be.
If all browsermanufacturers were required to keep strictly to the standards, what you would get was different browsers that all can show all pages "correctly". The differing factors would be speed, generic look and feel of the browser and differences is user interface. (like keycommands, etc.)
The added bonus would be that since all manufacturers has a fully set specification to follow, they can devote more energy to make it faster ans slimmer and less to find "that must-have feature that will put the others behind for a while".
Or, if you don't like kfm, you can use gmc from Gnome. I use that on my Afterstep desktop, and it works great.
You can even drag links out from Netscape or Mozilla and attach them to your desktop.:=)
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Try stuffing 4-6 computers into a small room and do multiplayer gaming instead. Then you will get the "Paused" message on screen at about the same time the guy/gal behind you requests chips/coke/pizza/toilet-break.:-)
It actually gets closer to the Real Thing(tm) than any other computer RPG I've tried. (I live on the 6bone, so I can't try the online games.)
Have you ever tried sending an SMS message from a Nokia-phone that starts with an asterisk (*)? Ever seen it go anywhere?
For some reason these messages end up being empty when they get to the receiver. Somewhat annoying for those of us that like to use the *s to show action taken. Like: "*knocks head in table*... My bad"
Does anybody know what these messages do anyway? Can I use them to tweak my phone or something?
Disclaimer: I live in Norway. I can't vote in US anyway.
I saw Andy Roonie (that's gotta be spelled wrong) on 60 minuttes a while back, and he had a proposal for the american political system that I think sounds sensible:
Each of the candidates get an equal amount of money for campaigns from the government. This amount is all they are allowed to use for their campaign. If a candidate use more than this, they are disqualified. Federal (or UN?) inspectors make sure that the rules are obeyed.
That would remove the "richest-gang-wins" problem from the current election process, and probably cut a lot of crappy political commercials.
I still doubt that it would make the american people get of their butts and go vote though.
Disclaimer: I don't use either. I use Linux mainly, and win98 for gaming.
Most of my friends using Windows as their main platform have long since upgraded to W2k. It's more than compatible enough with older MS OSes already. It runs Transport Tycoon, so it supports DOS with VESA, it runs all DirectX games we've cared to throw at it without problems. The only difference from older Windowses is that it is a lot more stable. (I still get the occassional BSOD, but that apparently never happen when I'm not around. Figure.:-)
I would have upgraded to W2k for gaming myself, if it wasn't for the annoying fact that it requires just those few MBs of diskspace too much to fit on my current windows partition.
Oh. It's possible to boot W2k from regular LILO as well. Works like a dream.:)
I've been thinking something along this line for a while myself. I always get annoyed when I type into the wrong window on the screen, and came to the conclusion that I needed a window manager with a focus_follows_eyes function insted of follws_mouse.
Unfortunately, I realised that most of the time my eyes are actually at the keyboard or just wandering aimlessly around...
Honestly, if you freak at a portscan, you're a liittle paranoid.
Or maybe you've already had to reinstall a system from scratch because somebody hacked into it once already? If I get a portscan on my computer (and that happemns almost on a daily basis now), I automatically suspect something bogus going on. I have not authorized anybody to scan my computer. I don't like that any more than I would like people sneaking around my house checking if the doors or windows are unlocked.
Of course, freaking out on a smal ping or traceroute is going a bit far. I generally keep an eye on those checking for telnetd, portmap, named, ftpd, etc. Luckily hosts.allow can be used for many interesting things, like sending me an email whenever that happens.
> I'd like to hear what hardware you're using (processor/memory), and how the Windows version compares...
Judging from the email-adress: developer?:)
I'm running on the following hardware setup: Intel Celeron 266 clocked to 400 (popular one.:) 256MB RAM Matrox G200 4MB SCSI disks/CD etc...
Software: Xfree 3.3.6 w/Utah-GLX for OpenGL support. Linux Mandrake 7.0 Kernel 2.2.16
I have not tested the windows-version yet, since I'm currently sitting on a leased modemline, meaning slooow link. (I downloaded the linuxdemo at work, forgot the windows demo today.)
When I reduced the resolution to 800x600x16 I got it working relatively good. I still have some performance problems when facing other ships, and keyboard controls appear "sluggy" at that point.
I still cannot quit though. Pressing the big red button result in graphics lockup. Solution: Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in, killall terminus. Has to be done blindly due to a massive amount of "Sound: recording overrun" error-messages flooding the console.
funny fact: for the game to run there MUST be at least two modes on the current modeline in XF86Config. With only one mode, the game does not start.
Hmmm. Strange graphical artifacts. Quit. Hmm. won't quit. Log in from different computer and kill process.
Rerun. Artifacts gone. Goody. Adjust detail level down, since I expect default to be for graphic cards above mine... Start training mission.
Still erratic movement. Almost impossible to centre ship on target.:( Manage to complete 2 training missions, but realise that combat will not be even remotely possible with this behaviour. Log in from other computer and kill process.
All in all: It's only a demo, so I shouldn't expect everything to be fully optimized yet. And also, my old G200 is most likely starting to show trends of getting a little to old for this kind of work.
Todo Try decreasing X-resolution to 640x480x16 to free up graphics adapter memory. Fetch Windows-version and try to see differences.
I fail to see the connection between anonymity and privacy. As you state: Privacy is the right not to be snooped "at home". Anonymity is basically the right to make snooping impossible "in public".
If you're not willing to stand for what you say "in public", you should IMO shut up. When you're saying something "in public" I wouldn't consider it private anymore. If someone wants to monitor your activity "in public", they have every right to do so.
If, say, I feel like monitoring your postings on slashdot, that's my right. Since we live in a world with free speech, I even have the right to speek my opinions in contradiction to yours. What I don't have the right to do, is tell you to shut up if I don't like what you're saying.
I don't see any good reason why anonymity should be considered a basic right. It's a privilege you sometimes get, but not a right.
I don't really expect any chinese authorities to actually be reading this but: Congratulations.
I think it is great that another nation now joins in on space research in this most direct way. The more authorities work on this, the more research is done, the greater the change that man will conquer space. Do try to work together with the others though.
A small plea to the chinese government: Please do not abuse the technological advances you gain from this for military purposes. (Like the U.S. and Russia) Be good! Put the technology into use by chinese companies instead, and give them the technology advantage. Your nation will be better of by doing this.
Oh, and to you americans complaining about human rights in China: Yes, I know the chinese government isn't always "Mr. Nice Guy". But please do take a look at your own front porch before complaining about everybody else. (I'm not trying to troll here, I just think that there are so many questionable things about the U.S. that you ought to look into first.) You may call me naive, but I sincerely believe that the more technologically advanced China gets, the better will the conditions for the people living there become. I do not mind that China has a communist government, since I do believe that communism done right will actually work a lot better than capitalism done wrong (like in modern Russia, and in some aspects the U.S.).
I've actually seen an implementation where the user walks inside a ball. It was demonstrated on CeBIT'97 by a russian company (I think).
I believe the basic principle was to have wearable glasses that used a radio signal confined inside the globe to render a 3D on both eyes. Unfortunately I never got to try this though, so I'm merely digging from memory here.
However, using such an approach you could simulate several things. If you need to simulate going uphill, all you need to do is put some resistance on the ball's movement so that the user needs to go "up" inside the ball to make it roll. Likewise, if the ball is pulled slightly with the user, you would simulate downhill walking.
The ball approach however only helps when it comes to walking around. If you need to simulate mechanical things like stairs you get a problem.
As someone mentioned earlier on, the only way to get FULL immersion will be to hijack the brain signals. However, I'm not sure I would ever be able to trust technology enough to do such a thing.
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> So I guess we're just totally broke?
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
I found this story in a norwegian newspaper this morning. I've not seen it mentioned on any english pages yet though. The Company webpages are still rather non-functional, but I guess some info should appear there soon. :)
Developers should take a bit more care to check which versions are absolutely needed to get their programs compiling and running, instead of forcing us to upgrade to every new library.
I don't believe for a second that Gnucash uses bleeding edge new functionality in every one of the 60 libraries it is dependent on.
I'm starting to lose what little faith I had left in slashdot since it is clear that the editors are doing serious storyscreening. Favouring their pet topics and leaving out stuff they don't really want to have to think about.
I just wish ICANN had the authority to babysit the domains already here. Kick all commercial activity out of .org and .net, keep .com for the american/international companies and enforce national companies to register under their national domains.
The net is a chaotic place already, why make it even worse?
"Welcome to Sol Historical Space Museum and Galactic Burger Drivethru! To your left you see the star Sol under which the human race is believed to have evolved. On your right is the counter where you can get your McSpaceslug burgers. Only 39.99 this week only!"
"And this grey planet you see in front is the planet 'Earth'. Were legend has it the human species evolved a billion years ago. Our astroarchaelogists are still trying to find proof that this may be true, but the current findings seems to point to the fact that this planet is totally uninhabitable."
"The scientists are still baffled over the wast remains of a flat round species found all over the surface of the planet. It has strange AOL markings on their back. It is speculated that if there ever was human life on this planet it might very well have been killed off by these weird round specimens."
"Please move through the checkout line to pay for your delicious McSpaceslug. Don't forget to try out the Double Slugger over at Alpha Centauri Burgers next time!"
Suddenly the engine is the tires. :-) The only engine you'd need on the car itself would be something to generate the power for the magnets.
Remember, you saw it here first. So dig back here when someone tries to patent this. :)
So when do this message pop up on /.? Just exactly when I'm leaving for my Xmas vacation, where the ONLY computer I'm gonna be able to use is the laptop. But now I don't have time to download XF4.0.2 since then I'd miss my plane.
Perfect timing as usual. :-)
I'll advice Tolkien fans to get a hold on this edition anyway. It was very nice t get LOTR in 7 smaller books like they were originally intended to be.
No. You end up with sveral implementations of the same standard. To be standardscompliant is important in this respect, because that is what makes it possible for webpublishers to publish to everybody. If webpublishers have to create different versions for different browsers they will eventually end up supporting just one of them. And we all know which one that will be.
If all browsermanufacturers were required to keep strictly to the standards, what you would get was different browsers that all can show all pages "correctly". The differing factors would be speed, generic look and feel of the browser and differences is user interface. (like keycommands, etc.)
The added bonus would be that since all manufacturers has a fully set specification to follow, they can devote more energy to make it faster ans slimmer and less to find "that must-have feature that will put the others behind for a while".
It even works. You can telnet, ping, ftp (using ncftp) etc. It should even be possible to get IE to work with it.
Personally I'll stick to my Linux system (where I'm typing this right now using Mozilla on IPv6. :), but that's for different reasons.
You can even drag links out from Netscape or Mozilla and attach them to your desktop. :=)
It actually gets closer to the Real Thing(tm) than any other computer RPG I've tried. (I live on the 6bone, so I can't try the online games.)
For some reason these messages end up being empty when they get to the receiver. Somewhat annoying for those of us that like to use the *s to show action taken. Like: "*knocks head in table*... My bad"
Does anybody know what these messages do anyway? Can I use them to tweak my phone or something?
I saw Andy Roonie (that's gotta be spelled wrong) on 60 minuttes a while back, and he had a proposal for the american political system that I think sounds sensible:
Each of the candidates get an equal amount of money for campaigns from the government. This amount is all they are allowed to use for their campaign. If a candidate use more than this, they are disqualified. Federal (or UN?) inspectors make sure that the rules are obeyed.
That would remove the "richest-gang-wins" problem from the current election process, and probably cut a lot of crappy political commercials.
I still doubt that it would make the american people get of their butts and go vote though.
Most of my friends using Windows as their main platform have long since upgraded to W2k. It's more than compatible enough with older MS OSes already. It runs Transport Tycoon, so it supports DOS with VESA, it runs all DirectX games we've cared to throw at it without problems. The only difference from older Windowses is that it is a lot more stable. (I still get the occassional BSOD, but that apparently never happen when I'm not around. Figure. :-)
I would have upgraded to W2k for gaming myself, if it wasn't for the annoying fact that it requires just those few MBs of diskspace too much to fit on my current windows partition.
Oh. It's possible to boot W2k from regular LILO as well. Works like a dream. :)
Unfortunately, I realised that most of the time my eyes are actually at the keyboard or just wandering aimlessly around...
Or maybe you've already had to reinstall a system from scratch because somebody hacked into it once already? If I get a portscan on my computer (and that happemns almost on a daily basis now), I automatically suspect something bogus going on. I have not authorized anybody to scan my computer. I don't like that any more than I would like people sneaking around my house checking if the doors or windows are unlocked.
Of course, freaking out on a smal ping or traceroute is going a bit far. I generally keep an eye on those checking for telnetd, portmap, named, ftpd, etc. Luckily hosts.allow can be used for many interesting things, like sending me an email whenever that happens.
Judging from the email-adress: developer? :)
I'm running on the following hardware setup: :)
Intel Celeron 266 clocked to 400 (popular one.
256MB RAM
Matrox G200 4MB
SCSI disks/CD etc...
Software:
Xfree 3.3.6 w/Utah-GLX for OpenGL support.
Linux Mandrake 7.0
Kernel 2.2.16
I have not tested the windows-version yet, since I'm currently sitting on a leased modemline, meaning slooow link. (I downloaded the linuxdemo at work, forgot the windows demo today.)
When I reduced the resolution to 800x600x16 I got it working relatively good. I still have some performance problems when facing other ships, and keyboard controls appear "sluggy" at that point.
I still cannot quit though. Pressing the big red button result in graphics lockup. Solution: Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in, killall terminus. Has to be done blindly due to a massive amount of "Sound: recording overrun" error-messages flooding the console.
funny fact: for the game to run there MUST be at least two modes on the current modeline in XF86Config. With only one mode, the game does not start.
Hmmm. Strange graphical artifacts. Quit. Hmm. won't quit. Log in from different computer and kill process.
Rerun. Artifacts gone. Goody. Adjust detail level down, since I expect default to be for graphic cards above mine... Start training mission.
Still erratic movement. Almost impossible to centre ship on target. :( Manage to complete 2 training missions, but realise that combat will not be even remotely possible with this behaviour. Log in from other computer and kill process.
All in all: It's only a demo, so I shouldn't expect everything to be fully optimized yet. And also, my old G200 is most likely starting to show trends of getting a little to old for this kind of work.
Todo
Try decreasing X-resolution to 640x480x16 to free up graphics adapter memory.
Fetch Windows-version and try to see differences.
If you're not willing to stand for what you say "in public", you should IMO shut up. When you're saying something "in public" I wouldn't consider it private anymore. If someone wants to monitor your activity "in public", they have every right to do so.
If, say, I feel like monitoring your postings on slashdot, that's my right. Since we live in a world with free speech, I even have the right to speek my opinions in contradiction to yours. What I don't have the right to do, is tell you to shut up if I don't like what you're saying.
I don't see any good reason why anonymity should be considered a basic right. It's a privilege you sometimes get, but not a right.
Hmpf. Time to figure out which one of the libstdc++'s on the system actually works with the netscape/mozilla build...
I think it is great that another nation now joins in on space research in this most direct way. The more authorities work on this, the more research is done, the greater the change that man will conquer space. Do try to work together with the others though.
A small plea to the chinese government: Please do not abuse the technological advances you gain from this for military purposes. (Like the U.S. and Russia) Be good! Put the technology into use by chinese companies instead, and give them the technology advantage. Your nation will be better of by doing this.
Oh, and to you americans complaining about human rights in China: Yes, I know the chinese government isn't always "Mr. Nice Guy". But please do take a look at your own front porch before complaining about everybody else. (I'm not trying to troll here, I just think that there are so many questionable things about the U.S. that you ought to look into first.) You may call me naive, but I sincerely believe that the more technologically advanced China gets, the better will the conditions for the people living there become. I do not mind that China has a communist government, since I do believe that communism done right will actually work a lot better than capitalism done wrong (like in modern Russia, and in some aspects the U.S.).
I believe the basic principle was to have wearable glasses that used a radio signal confined inside the globe to render a 3D on both eyes. Unfortunately I never got to try this though, so I'm merely digging from memory here.
However, using such an approach you could simulate several things. If you need to simulate going uphill, all you need to do is put some resistance on the ball's movement so that the user needs to go "up" inside the ball to make it roll. Likewise, if the ball is pulled slightly with the user, you would simulate downhill walking.
The ball approach however only helps when it comes to walking around. If you need to simulate mechanical things like stairs you get a problem.
As someone mentioned earlier on, the only way to get FULL immersion will be to hijack the brain signals. However, I'm not sure I would ever be able to trust technology enough to do such a thing.
- How do you come up with fresh ideas for a strip every day?
- Are any of the characters based on real life characters?
- Will there be more songs? I love the Dustpuppy and Erwin duo.
:)
Thapada, thapada, thapada, thats all folks!