A calculator was defined at the time the exam was offered as "one who calculates", so I imagine that calculators (other than the exam taker) were banned. Just speculation.
We initially ran an old DOS Cadd program called "Generic Cadd" using Dosemu. Then we ran a Windows cadd program called Visual Cadd using Wine. Both of these will create DWG files - just not the latest version.
There are now a number of very highly functional clones of Autocad that run natively on Linux.
These include Bricscad, ARES and a 2d free version of ARES called Draftsight. They will read DWG files from the current version all the way back to V 2.2 and will write any version back to V 12.
ARES has all the 3d stuff. It's sweet. Bricscad is about 1/2 the cost, and will read the 3d model but won't create one. They are in the process of fixing that now.
I run an architecture firm entirely on Linux. All our workstations have two reasonably big screens and use Gnome. I have used Gnome since its earliest inception in various flavers of Redhat, Fedora and Ubuntu.
I have to say that as much as I don't want to, we are going to have to change to Xfce or some other alternative. Gnome shell is a disaster for the way we work. I can't believe that the developers and UI designers have completely failed to take into account those of us that are actually using our workstations to do heavy duty computational, graphic and design work.
We have spent the last 20 years moving to ever larger and multiple screens because we need the real estate. Now we are supposed to work as if we were using a cell phone? What a joke.
The developers need a good whack will a clue stick. As does Redhat. The least they could do is have a fall back to the Gnome 2 series.
We don't want to be the subject of an experimentet about how we "should be working."
This is serious business to us and has a big effect on our bottom line.
Well I say self publish AND fuck the radio stations too.
The real reason that the RIAA and the media groups are going after p2p and internet streaming is that they would like to abolish/control a much more flexible and cheaper method of distribution than CDs and radio.
So make your own music. Play it in the park. Share with your friends stream it on the internet and do it for free.
I have followed Burning Man for many years. I have not attended myself, so maybe I am not qualified to comment, but in the best Slashdot tradition......
I have enjoyed hearing tales of Burning Man from my friends, and I find the images a videos facinating. However it is now clear that the organizers are interested in money, and by attempting to prevent others from capitalizing on the event, are positioning themselves to do the same.
Like the famous funeral held in Haight-Ashbury in 1967 to protest commercialization of the movement, Burning Man should recognize that their creative cycle has come to the point where the appropriate thing to do is bring it all home and walk away.
Sorry to disagree with you, but the EFF is right on here. If someone chooses to march around naked at burning man, an event open to the public on public ground, and someone else takes a picture and publishes it, your screwed if this bothers you.
If you are concerned about the possibility that a picture of your naked carcass will be spread all over the internet, don't walk around naked in an area where people have cameras. Are you now inhibited because your mama might see you naked on the internet? Maybe, but the artists I respect don't much give a damn about what other people think, and if walking around naked is how they express their art, then that's what they are going to do. Photos welcome.
I fully support Burning Man and the original idea behind it.
Main point about why this is absurd is that these folks generating solar electricity are buying power as well as selling power to the power company. They may not be buying as much, but they are buying. As far as a "connection fee" All the power companies that I have dealt with recently (I am an architect) Charge a fairly substantial fee when they install a service.
Furthermore, there is now a market for "green power" In our area (North Carolina), the power company encourages solar, and will pay more for the power generated by photovoltaics than they charge for power from the mains. This is because they can turn around and sell this power for more to customers who have LEEDS certified buildings, or for purposes of a tax credit.
They might as well have asked for the keys to your house, the combination of your safe, and all your banking account info. They didn't do that because it is well understood that this is wrong. I bet the form and policy were made up by someone who's only exposure to social networking sites was over the shoulders of their kids. And this is probably where the idea of asking for passwords came from.
If your DOS app. will print to a file, you can print from DosBox. I use DosBox to run an old DOS based Cadd Program. When I want to plot a job to our HP plotter, I select HPGL/2 and plot to a file. I have a little script invoked by a launcher on my Fedora desktop which will copy the file to the plotter que, and then delete the file. Same trick works with a postscript printer.
By the way, Dosemu supports both printing and networking, and has better support for fullscreen graphics. Dosemu is easy to install on Ubuntu. Not so much on Fedora.
Text mode apps are great because they fire up quickly, look and act the same on different platforms, can be highly functional and flexible, and use moderate resources. For all these reasons, they will use less of your time. So if your time is important to you, learn to use them.
Be aware that in some states (I think NC is one) failure to take the breathalyzer test will loose you your drivers licence. The penalties are the same as for drunk driving. Consult a lawyer in your state or country before taking slashdot advice.
Kurt
I one (actualy two) for the personal use of me and my family in the original G1G1 program. They arrived on time, are very robust little computers. Great battery life, super screen and with the latest software load, suspend to ram and other goodies work just great. We use them as our travelling computers. I loaded mplayer, opera and midnight commander on the little beast, built a cord so we could run it off the power plug in the car, and we are good to go. I bought a 120 gig usb powered HD for the little beasty, and ripped and loaded our dvd collection on the hard drive. Many hours of driving entertainment for the kids. The wifi is fabulous, and it never met a hotel setup it couldn't connect to instantly. For those hotels with hardwired ethernet, a $10 usb ethernet port does it all.
You are so right about this. I was doing essentially the same thing in the 1980's while I was at MIT using a darkroom enlarger with a curved paper holder. I reasoned that if the distance from the focal plane of the enlarger lens matched the radius of curvature of my paper holder, the resulting print would be transformed from flat plane perspective to cylindrical perspective. I could snap a series of pictures by rotating a camera about the neutral axis of the lens, and then go into the darkroom and print using the curved paper holder. The resulting prints could then be taped together in a cylinder, and viewed as a seamless panorama.
I then built special cameras with curved film planes that did the same thing directly. Never bothered to update the technology for the digital age because "I been there done that"
But the concept is not new at all. No innovation here. Move along.
It would seem clear that there is an advantage in certain sports such as female gymnastics, in being small and not having fully developed bodies. So there is the issue of fairness to the other competitors. There is also the issue of the exploitation of children and the danger to their emotional health and physical bodies from the intense competition at such a young age. For these reasons, the rule has been set that the minimum age is 16. in addition to these moral issues it really comes down to the issue of cheating.
If she is 14, instead of 16, she has (or the Chinese Olympic organization has) cheated. No different than the use of drugs or otherwise flouting the rules. The medals obviously should be forfeit if this is true.
The purpose of all this advertising we see is to PREVENT any new or innovative products from obtaining any mindshare by taking up all the available "shelfspace", Part of the way this is done is to make advertising expensive, so that the new kid on the block can't afford it, and the other part is for established companise to buy all the advertising they can to prevent anyone else from being able to advertise.
The fact that so many folks and companies have come up with storing a wish list in a database should be proof enough that this "invention" is obvious. In fact, this should be allowed as a defence against any submarine patent. Prior art aside.
I think the point is that if you already have a house built with conventional wood framing techniques, you would be a damn fool to rip out your floor joists so that you could install the latest composite lumber structural system.
Now replacing your HVAC system with a more efficient model when the old one breaks, is certainly a good idea. But the other point is that software dosn't really wear out, and so if it does what you need it to, why replace it?
I Got my first computer in 1985, running DOS. Went from Dos to OS/2 1.3 then 2.0 then Warp. I run an architecture business. (buildings, not programing) We Now use a mix of Linux based workstations and OS/2. We still use Dos programs under OS/2 because of the fabulous DOS support/multitasking. It works great blindingly fast very very functional, no bullshi*, no virusus, nothing crashes, networking, backups, everything works. So we are way way behind the curve on some things, and right on the curve on ohthers.
I have saved a fantastic amount of dollars with this strategy over the years. I attibute this mainly to completely skipping the windows thing, and all the forced upgrades. You know, it's like a hammer, I still use the first one I ever bought 35 years ago.
I am a musician. I play mandolin and fiddle. But I all really getting pissed off at all these folks who are doing everything they can to lock up our cultural heritage with copyrights and other dodges as described in this story. Music has developed into its present form over many, many thousands of years. Nothing U2 or what any other musician is creating is anything other than an incremental twitch to what has gone before. Yet the content companies and artists are attempting to claim exclusive and complete control over musical expression without the recognition of the debt they owe to those that came before.
The real thieves are the RIAA and musicians who claim all content to themselves. It is very, very wrongheaded. It is like building your house on the town commons and then claiming you own the land and will allow no trespass.
I ordered two of the laptops the morning of the first day by paypal, which charged my credit card. I received the laptops right on schedule. It is true that some folks did not, and some of them are screaming bloody blue murder. But it is also true that many of the bloggers who are making noise, are putting forth a very inaccurate story of what is going on. There is a concerted effort to smear the OLPC organization over this when the faults in the ordering process are clearly with third party companies. The OLPC organization is small, does not have a proffessionl department to manage spin, and is certainly being taken advantage of by people trying to take cheap shots to increase their hit rate.
The other side of the coin is the concerted effort by Intel and Microsoft to smash the OLPC and the XO laptop, because the thing is great. Really great. Very low power, Very high functionality. Great screen. Great open source software. Extremly sturdy. Excellent wireless abilities. And designed for children. Really not much to complain about when you get down to it.
Kurt
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I bought 2 of the XO laptops. (four actually) There is a special version of Opera that has been compiled for the XO, including software that makes it a sugar activity. It is available here: . Works great. No need to set up an additional X server. These guys were just having fun and showing off.
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A calculator was defined at the time the exam was offered as "one who calculates", so I imagine that calculators (other than the exam taker) were banned. Just speculation.
Kurt
We initially ran an old DOS Cadd program called "Generic Cadd" using Dosemu. Then we ran a Windows cadd program called Visual Cadd using Wine. Both of these will create DWG files - just not the latest version.
There are now a number of very highly functional clones of Autocad that run natively on Linux.
These include Bricscad, ARES and a 2d free version of ARES called Draftsight. They will read DWG files from the current version all the way back to V 2.2 and will write any version back to V 12.
ARES has all the 3d stuff. It's sweet. Bricscad is about 1/2 the cost, and will read the 3d model but won't create one. They are in the process of fixing that now.
Kurt.
I run an architecture firm entirely on Linux. All our workstations have two reasonably big screens and use Gnome. I have used Gnome since its earliest inception in various flavers of Redhat, Fedora and Ubuntu.
I have to say that as much as I don't want to, we are going to have to change to Xfce or some other alternative. Gnome shell is a disaster for the way we work. I can't believe that the developers and UI designers have completely failed to take into account those of us that are actually using our workstations to do heavy duty computational, graphic and design work.
We have spent the last 20 years moving to ever larger and multiple screens because we need the real estate. Now we are supposed to work as if we were using a cell phone? What a joke.
The developers need a good whack will a clue stick. As does Redhat. The least they could do is have a fall back to the Gnome 2 series.
We don't want to be the subject of an experimentet about how we "should be working."
This is serious business to us and has a big effect on our bottom line.
Kurt
How can you be "non partisan" if you are a Libertarian leaning political organization? Just askin'.....
Kurt
In this same book, I believe LL also goes back in time and has sex with his mother.
Well I say self publish AND fuck the radio stations too.
The real reason that the RIAA and the media groups are going after p2p and internet streaming is that they would like to abolish/control a much more flexible and cheaper method of distribution than CDs and radio.
So make your own music. Play it in the park. Share with your friends stream it on the internet and do it for free.
Kurt
I have followed Burning Man for many years. I have not attended myself, so maybe I am not qualified to comment, but in the best Slashdot tradition......
I have enjoyed hearing tales of Burning Man from my friends, and I find the images a videos facinating. However it is now clear that the organizers are interested in money, and by attempting to prevent others from capitalizing on the event, are positioning themselves to do the same.
Like the famous funeral held in Haight-Ashbury in 1967 to protest commercialization of the movement, Burning Man should recognize that their creative cycle has come to the point where the appropriate thing to do is bring it all home and walk away.
Burning Man, we knew ye well.
Kurt
Sorry to disagree with you, but the EFF is right on here. If someone chooses to march around naked at burning man, an event open to the public on public ground, and someone else takes a picture and publishes it, your screwed if this bothers you.
If you are concerned about the possibility that a picture of your naked carcass will be spread all over the internet, don't walk around naked in an area where people have cameras. Are you now inhibited because your mama might see you naked on the internet? Maybe, but the artists I respect don't much give a damn about what other people think, and if walking around naked is how they express their art, then that's what they are going to do. Photos welcome.
I fully support Burning Man and the original idea behind it.
Kurt
Main point about why this is absurd is that these folks generating solar electricity are buying power as well as selling power to the power company. They may not be buying as much, but they are buying. As far as a "connection fee" All the power companies that I have dealt with recently (I am an architect) Charge a fairly substantial fee when they install a service.
Furthermore, there is now a market for "green power" In our area (North Carolina), the power company encourages solar, and will pay more for the power generated by photovoltaics than they charge for power from the mains. This is because they can turn around and sell this power for more to customers who have LEEDS certified buildings, or for purposes of a tax credit.
This power company is going at it all wrong.
Kurt
They might as well have asked for the keys to your house, the combination of your safe, and all your banking account info. They didn't do that because it is well understood that this is wrong. I bet the form and policy were made up by someone who's only exposure to social networking sites was over the shoulders of their kids. And this is probably where the idea of asking for passwords came from.
Kurt
If your DOS app. will print to a file, you can print from DosBox. I use DosBox to run an old DOS based Cadd Program. When I want to plot a job to our HP plotter, I select HPGL/2 and plot to a file. I have a little script invoked by a launcher on my Fedora desktop which will copy the file to the plotter que, and then delete the file. Same trick works with a postscript printer.
By the way, Dosemu supports both printing and networking, and has better support for fullscreen graphics. Dosemu is easy to install on Ubuntu. Not so much on Fedora.
Kurt
Text mode apps are great because they fire up quickly, look and act the same on different platforms, can be highly functional and flexible, and use moderate resources. For all these reasons, they will use less of your time. So if your time is important to you, learn to use them.
Kurt
Be aware that in some states (I think NC is one) failure to take the breathalyzer test will loose you your drivers licence. The penalties are the same as for drunk driving. Consult a lawyer in your state or country before taking slashdot advice. Kurt
I one (actualy two) for the personal use of me and my family in the original G1G1 program. They arrived on time, are very robust little computers. Great battery life, super screen and with the latest software load, suspend to ram and other goodies work just great. We use them as our travelling computers. I loaded mplayer, opera and midnight commander on the little beast, built a cord so we could run it off the power plug in the car, and we are good to go. I bought a 120 gig usb powered HD for the little beasty, and ripped and loaded our dvd collection on the hard drive. Many hours of driving entertainment for the kids. The wifi is fabulous, and it never met a hotel setup it couldn't connect to instantly. For those hotels with hardwired ethernet, a $10 usb ethernet port does it all.
We are pleased.
Kurt
That's interesting. After reading your post, I ran the same command on my Thinkpad T-23 and also had a hard stop after about 30 sec WTF?
Kurt
You are so right about this. I was doing essentially the same thing in the 1980's while I was at MIT using a darkroom enlarger with a curved paper holder. I reasoned that if the distance from the focal plane of the enlarger lens matched the radius of curvature of my paper holder, the resulting print would be transformed from flat plane perspective to cylindrical perspective. I could snap a series of pictures by rotating a camera about the neutral axis of the lens, and then go into the darkroom and print using the curved paper holder. The resulting prints could then be taped together in a cylinder, and viewed as a seamless panorama.
I then built special cameras with curved film planes that did the same thing directly. Never bothered to update the technology for the digital age because "I been there done that"
But the concept is not new at all. No innovation here. Move along.
Kurt
It would seem clear that there is an advantage in certain sports such as female gymnastics, in being small and not having fully developed bodies. So there is the issue of fairness to the other competitors. There is also the issue of the exploitation of children and the danger to their emotional health and physical bodies from the intense competition at such a young age. For these reasons, the rule has been set that the minimum age is 16. in addition to these moral issues it really comes down to the issue of cheating.
If she is 14, instead of 16, she has (or the Chinese Olympic organization has) cheated. No different than the use of drugs or otherwise flouting the rules. The medals obviously should be forfeit if this is true.
Kurt
'nuff said
Kurt
The purpose of all this advertising we see is to PREVENT any new or innovative products from obtaining any mindshare by taking up all the available "shelfspace", Part of the way this is done is to make advertising expensive, so that the new kid on the block can't afford it, and the other part is for established companise to buy all the advertising they can to prevent anyone else from being able to advertise.
Kurt
The fact that so many folks and companies have come up with storing a wish list in a database should be proof enough that this "invention" is obvious. In fact, this should be allowed as a defence against any submarine patent. Prior art aside.
I think the point is that if you already have a house built with conventional wood framing techniques, you would be a damn fool to rip out your floor joists so that you could install the latest composite lumber structural system.
Now replacing your HVAC system with a more efficient model when the old one breaks, is certainly a good idea. But the other point is that software dosn't really wear out, and so if it does what you need it to, why replace it?
Kurt
I Got my first computer in 1985, running DOS. Went from Dos to OS/2 1.3 then 2.0 then Warp. I run an architecture business. (buildings, not programing) We Now use a mix of Linux based workstations and OS/2. We still use Dos programs under OS/2 because of the fabulous DOS support/multitasking. It works great blindingly fast very very functional, no bullshi*, no virusus, nothing crashes, networking, backups, everything works. So we are way way behind the curve on some things, and right on the curve on ohthers.
I have saved a fantastic amount of dollars with this strategy over the years. I attibute this mainly to completely skipping the windows thing, and all the forced upgrades. You know, it's like a hammer, I still use the first one I ever bought 35 years ago.
Kurt
I am a musician. I play mandolin and fiddle. But I all really getting pissed off at all these folks who are doing everything they can to lock up our cultural heritage with copyrights and other dodges as described in this story. Music has developed into its present form over many, many thousands of years. Nothing U2 or what any other musician is creating is anything other than an incremental twitch to what has gone before. Yet the content companies and artists are attempting to claim exclusive and complete control over musical expression without the recognition of the debt they owe to those that came before.
The real thieves are the RIAA and musicians who claim all content to themselves. It is very, very wrongheaded. It is like building your house on the town commons and then claiming you own the land and will allow no trespass.
I ordered two of the laptops the morning of the first day by paypal, which charged my credit card. I received the laptops right on schedule. It is true that some folks did not, and some of them are screaming bloody blue murder. But it is also true that many of the bloggers who are making noise, are putting forth a very inaccurate story of what is going on. There is a concerted effort to smear the OLPC organization over this when the faults in the ordering process are clearly with third party companies. The OLPC organization is small, does not have a proffessionl department to manage spin, and is certainly being taken advantage of by people trying to take cheap shots to increase their hit rate.
The other side of the coin is the concerted effort by Intel and Microsoft to smash the OLPC and the XO laptop, because the thing is great. Really great. Very low power, Very high functionality. Great screen. Great open source software. Extremly sturdy. Excellent wireless abilities. And designed for children. Really not much to complain about when you get down to it.
Kurt
I bought 2 of the XO laptops. (four actually) There is a special version of Opera that has been compiled for the XO, including software that makes it a sugar activity. It is available here: . Works great. No need to set up an additional X server. These guys were just having fun and showing off.
-kurt-