last week at macworld tokyo, connectix announced that they would start selling virtualpc (_not_ virtual game station, this is a product that emulates intel on a mac) that bundled redhat for linux. i'm not sure why they're bothering with this, as linuxppc works just dandy and uses a redhat base, and connectix is charging the same $ for it as they're charging for the dos version, but anyway....
a couple days later, someone at/. saw this, misinterpreted this as saying that _vgs_ is coming to redhat. this was almost immediately updated, saying that no, this story was totally false, the product of much crack-smoking.
that day, macosrumors saw the/. story, ignored the update saying it was false, and decided that this meant that connectix was considering open sourceing vgs. again,this is a false story based on a false/. story.
now/. seems to have seen the macosrumors story, didn't check the facts (or references), and now we're seeing this, a false/. story based on a false macosrumors story that was based on a false/. story. whee!
therefore, i would now like to present both slashdot and macosrumors both the pulitzer prize and the newberry award for fictitious journalism.
this is what truly sucks about being in the military overseas. yes, we did get to see the bowl live, but all the commercials are replaced by dull public service announcements and military propaganda. so i don't get to watch the superbowl commercials, but at least i know which american president discovered a unique proof of the pythagorean theorem:p
just a quick reminder ppl, don't try reading/. during ungodly hours of the night. i swear to god i looked at this article and read:
"There is a great article at Art Rechnica comparing the Motorola G4 and the AMD Athlon. They discuss every detail of the design of the CPU's, and give credit where credit is due. " Hannibal does a great job dissecting the different chips, as well as explaining the background behind each chip.
i was kindof amused at the thought of an art magazine reviewing the design of a couple of chips and the backgrounds behind them. ugh.
leonhard euler (1707-1783), for giving us so damned much mathematical output that we still haven't published it all afaik, and he's been dead for over 200 years, hardly even slowing down after he lost his vision. probably his coolest deed is proving that e^(pi*i) - 1 = 0, linking five of the most basic mathematical constants into one simple equation, as well as providing a link between the real and complex planes.
other candidates imho would include leonardo da vinci, thomas edison, blaise pascal, and my dog waffles.
well the year 2000 just hit here in korea, and i must say i have a different story than all the 'everything is the same' stories from the kiwis and aussies.
see, it's the year 2000 now, and as we all know, 2000 is the future. for one thing, the silly boxes you call 'cars' have all been replaced by bubble cars from the jetsons. we all have robot maids, the wallpaper is metallic, and my wardrobe is now sharp and plasticy. we live in a utopian society under the care and guidance of the big brother, and there's no disease, hunger, or crime. because it's the future, you see; no need for bad things here. in fact, our genes have been altered to weed out such impure thoughts.
anyway, i have to go to a 4d holographic cybertechnotrendybuzzword videotelephonographic conference now. just remember, the y2k rollover wasn't that bad. unless of course you start hearing the trumpets of gabriel, then you're going to hell.
ah, i remember the last time i went to irc looking for an answer to a linux question. the first channel i went to had a bot which told ppl "DO NOT ASK ANY QUESTIONS!!!" as soon as they would/join, and a second channel/banned me as soon as i asked a question.
try looking into igs (international go server) igs is kindof like a go equivalent of gamespy, except for the fact that it predates gamespy by at least four years;) clients are available for most platforms, and at any given time there's about a hundred games going on involving everyone from 30 kyu beginners to like 9 dan masters.
here's their url if you're interested: http://igs.joyjoy.net/
AMSTERDAM - Microsoft CEO William H. Gates III enthusiastically welcomed the discovery by scientists in Hawaii as "a new and untapped potential market" yesterday while at a computer trade show in Amsterdam Tuesday, where he was giving a keynote address. "I have already called our Redmond office, and we are sending probes to the new planets as I speak. Since we believe this planet to be already conquered, why not get a head start in our next logical step?" quizzed the multi-billionaire. "We will have enough trouble forcing out resistance from their local populations; I see no reason to let others here on Earth complicate matters by getting to these markets before we do." A telephone interview with an anonymous source at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington revealed that most of the probes sent were designed "about five years back for just such an occasion" to gather crucial data on possible life-bearing extraterrestrial planets, including climate, population, species traits, and pertinent laws regarding patents and corporate monopolies. The probes were also armed with high-powered laser weapons to "make damn sure we get there first." The source claimed that the probes would take "a couple years, give or take" to reach the new solar system, but when it was pointed out that a machine built five years ago could only have run version 3.1 of Windows, begging the question of how the probes will fare from the 'Y2K syndrome,' the source declared the interview over and abruptly hung up. Microsoft stocks rose sharply upon news of this impending galactic conquest, closing at 98 1/4 in extremely heavy trading.
i believe we consider china a threat due to their posture towards taiwan, which we have considerable interest in. if and when north korea were to come down here to the south to rumble, i pretty much guarantee you that china is going to make a move on taiwan while we're distracted. and giving the way our (u.s.) military is spread out, we'd more than likely have to choose which one we would aid.
iirc when a meltdown occurs the core heats to the point where it literally burs itself into the ground; i think i heard somewhere that to this day the core of this thing is still in this state, burning its way down to the center of the earth. anyone know what the latest theories are on this, and if it affects much of anything?
not quite. q3 only supports opengl officially, which in turn is only officially supported by ati. for 3dfx you use mesa, which still works but isn't officially supported, for whatever that's worth.
the big problem i have with the imac is one single word: expandability. it's a real bitch to get inside one of these things, and the only expansion slot is a hidden port in the bottom which was later removed (wtf?) i've tried expanding my rev. a imac as much as i can, and i've done fairly well: 96 megs ram (from 32), a voodoo 2 card in that slot (from [ick!] a rage iic), a descent usb cd burner, as well as a 25 gig hd (w/ a 4gig partition for linuxppc). however, if i wanted, say, a bigger monitor, or a voodoo 3 or whatever, i'm stuck. if i had known then what i knew now, i definitely would have waited for one of those b&w g3s or g4s.
hi, i'm neko, and i work for the nsa. (crowd replies "hi, neko")
seriously, i'm a korean linguist, and while i put on an air force uniform to go to work, it's the nsa which really calls the shots. although i've not worked in the nsa headquarters in maryland (i don't plan on it either, since it just means getting bounced back here to korea every other year, and korea's not bad anyway), i can tell you what i know from my perspective (well, not all of it, of course).
to be honest, what we do we regard as Just a Job. granted, a deadly serious job, but that's as maybe, it's still a job. we don't go around talking spy talk or codewords, i've never met agent 99, we don't hack into you computer at night, and we spend more time than any of us will admit irritating each other with stupid practical jokes just like everyone else (we locked our flight commander in a phone booth the other night, that was a sight:) ). we aren't freaks, and i can attest that we're not all brainiacs (don't make me recall some bad examples *shiver*)
as for specifically what we do, i of course can't say much about it, but suffice to say that no, we don't spend our time spying on americans, or south koreans for that matter. in fact, there are quite explicit guidelines about making damn sure that we don't. as for the 'black helicopter' conspiracy perception of the lot of us, i have to say it's pretty much bogus from what i've seen. personally i thought the earlier story regarding bar codes with social security number being placed on high school students to be far more disturbing than anything i've seen here. we sure the hell don't do anything like that.
in short, if you don't believe anything i've said here, and hate us because of some book you read or something on dateline, then fine, that's not our job. just remember that our job is to help prevent wars, and help minimalize the loss of american lives in case one breaks out, and i think we do a damned good job of it. i know south korea is happy to have us here (and they do know exactly what we do, sicne we work with korean soldiers side by side), even if you're not.
no, none. #ifdef according to rumor, the qwerty keyboard we all know was created long ago with the old mechanical typewriters, because if the keys were pressed too fast, the hammers would all get stuck, slowing you down. thus, the qwerty has key placement to effectively slow your keypress rate: common letters like e, r, and t are away from the home row, which instead is home to that most popular of letters, 'j.' the dvorak keyboard was developed later, when advances in typewriter technology helped prevent this.
in the 1930's, the u.s. navy was deciding on which keyboard they would use for their typewriters, and true to form, took the least effective one, which appearantly is why we still use qwerty today. #endif
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ok, i think i know what happened.
/. saw this, misinterpreted this as saying that _vgs_ is coming to redhat. this was almost immediately updated, saying that no, this story was totally false, the product of much crack-smoking.
/. story, ignored the update saying it was false, and decided that this meant that connectix was considering open sourceing vgs. again,this is a false story based on a false /. story.
/. seems to have seen the macosrumors story, didn't check the facts (or references), and now we're seeing this, a false /. story based on a false macosrumors story that was based on a false /. story. whee!
last week at macworld tokyo, connectix announced that they would start selling virtualpc (_not_ virtual game station, this is a product that emulates intel on a mac) that bundled redhat for linux. i'm not sure why they're bothering with this, as linuxppc works just dandy and uses a redhat base, and connectix is charging the same $ for it as they're charging for the dos version, but anyway....
a couple days later, someone at
that day, macosrumors saw the
now
therefore, i would now like to present both slashdot and macosrumors both the pulitzer prize and the newberry award for fictitious journalism.
this is what truly sucks about being in the military overseas. yes, we did get to see the bowl live, but all the commercials are replaced by dull public service announcements and military propaganda. so i don't get to watch the superbowl commercials, but at least i know which american president discovered a unique proof of the pythagorean theorem :p
er, wtf? lemme try that again... :)
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anyway, it's eating up less than 1% of cpu on my 233mhz imac; and _rc5des_ is eating up its share of over 90% cpu
in other news, this fixes the one bug i was having (it hung upon quit), so i'm happy. took forever to compile tho
hrm, not here. it's eating up 90% like god meant it to be :)
or you can build this thing yourself w/ lego mindstorms. have fun; you have fifteen minutes starting...now.
just a quick reminder ppl, don't try reading /. during ungodly hours of the night. i swear to god i looked at this article and read:
"There is a great article at Art Rechnica comparing the Motorola G4 and the AMD Athlon. They discuss every detail of the design of the CPU's, and give credit where credit is due. " Hannibal does a great job dissecting the different chips, as well as explaining the background behind each chip.
i was kindof amused at the thought of an art magazine reviewing the design of a couple of chips and the backgrounds behind them. ugh.
i is indeed sqrt(-1). you have to use the general case of this:
e^(i*z) = cos(z) + i * sin(z)
where z is a complex number (in this case, pi + 0i).
leonhard euler (1707-1783), for giving us so damned much mathematical output that we still haven't published it all afaik, and he's been dead for over 200 years, hardly even slowing down after he lost his vision. probably his coolest deed is proving that e^(pi*i) - 1 = 0, linking five of the most basic mathematical constants into one simple equation, as well as providing a link between the real and complex planes.
other candidates imho would include leonardo da vinci, thomas edison, blaise pascal, and my dog waffles.
well the year 2000 just hit here in korea, and i must say i have a different story than all the 'everything is the same' stories from the kiwis and aussies.
see, it's the year 2000 now, and as we all know, 2000 is the future. for one thing, the silly boxes you call 'cars' have all been replaced by bubble cars from the jetsons. we all have robot maids, the wallpaper is metallic, and my wardrobe is now sharp and plasticy. we live in a utopian society under the care and guidance of the big brother, and there's no disease, hunger, or crime. because it's the future, you see; no need for bad things here. in fact, our genes have been altered to weed out such impure thoughts.
anyway, i have to go to a 4d holographic cybertechnotrendybuzzword videotelephonographic conference now. just remember, the y2k rollover wasn't that bad. unless of course you start hearing the trumpets of gabriel, then you're going to hell.
...i believe will occur when we start seeing mass suicides by cobol programmers who will now have no way of making an income.
ah, i remember the last time i went to irc looking for an answer to a linux question. the first channel i went to had a bot which told ppl "DO NOT ASK ANY QUESTIONS!!!" as soon as they would /join, and a second channel /banned me as soon as i asked a question.
try looking into igs (international go server) ;) clients are available for most platforms, and at any given time there's about a hundred games going on involving everyone from 30 kyu beginners to like 9 dan masters.
igs is kindof like a go equivalent of gamespy, except for the fact that it predates gamespy by at least four years
here's their url if you're interested:
http://igs.joyjoy.net/
...never accomplish through analysis of a situation what you can cover up by a good knee-jerk reaction.
> GO FUCK YOUR MOM BEANERS
well i think we can definitely make a conclusion about the contrapositive of this theory.
AMSTERDAM - Microsoft CEO William H. Gates III enthusiastically welcomed the discovery by scientists in Hawaii as "a new and untapped potential market" yesterday while at a computer trade show in Amsterdam Tuesday, where he was giving a keynote address.
"I have already called our Redmond office, and we are sending probes to the new planets as I speak. Since we believe this planet to be already conquered, why not get a head start in our next logical step?" quizzed the multi-billionaire. "We will have enough trouble forcing out resistance from their local populations; I see no reason to let others here on Earth complicate matters by getting to these markets before we do."
A telephone interview with an anonymous source at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington revealed that most of the probes sent were designed "about five years back for just such an occasion" to gather crucial data on possible life-bearing extraterrestrial planets, including climate, population, species traits, and pertinent laws regarding patents and corporate monopolies. The probes were also armed with high-powered laser weapons to "make damn sure we get there first." The source claimed that the probes would take "a couple years, give or take" to reach the new solar system, but when it was pointed out that a machine built five years ago could only have run version 3.1 of Windows, begging the question of how the probes will fare from the 'Y2K syndrome,' the source declared the interview over and abruptly hung up.
Microsoft stocks rose sharply upon news of this impending galactic conquest, closing at 98 1/4 in extremely heavy trading.
i believe we consider china a threat due to their posture towards taiwan, which we have considerable interest in. if and when north korea were to come down here to the south to rumble, i pretty much guarantee you that china is going to make a move on taiwan while we're distracted. and giving the way our (u.s.) military is spread out, we'd more than likely have to choose which one we would aid.
iirc sheepshaver does that 'native emulation' bit that i think wine does. i don't think the concept would hold very well under an x86 platform :)
iirc when a meltdown occurs the core heats to the point where it literally burs itself into the ground; i think i heard somewhere that to this day the core of this thing is still in this state, burning its way down to the center of the earth. anyone know what the latest theories are on this, and if it affects much of anything?
not quite. q3 only supports opengl officially, which in turn is only officially supported by ati. for 3dfx you use mesa, which still works but isn't officially supported, for whatever that's worth.
the big problem i have with the imac is one single word: expandability. it's a real bitch to get inside one of these things, and the only expansion slot is a hidden port in the bottom which was later removed (wtf?) i've tried expanding my rev. a imac as much as i can, and i've done fairly well: 96 megs ram (from 32), a voodoo 2 card in that slot (from [ick!] a rage iic), a descent usb cd burner, as well as a 25 gig hd (w/ a 4gig partition for linuxppc). however, if i wanted, say, a bigger monitor, or a voodoo 3 or whatever, i'm stuck. if i had known then what i knew now, i definitely would have waited for one of those b&w g3s or g4s.
apple's 1984 commercial? judge jackson as the hammer throwing east german athlete? hmm.
(note this an observation, not a message of system advocacy. so cheese it.)
hi, i'm neko, and i work for the nsa. (crowd replies "hi, neko")
:) ). we aren't freaks, and i can attest that we're not all brainiacs (don't make me recall some bad examples *shiver*)
seriously, i'm a korean linguist, and while i put on an air force uniform to go to work, it's the nsa which really calls the shots. although i've not worked in the nsa headquarters in maryland (i don't plan on it either, since it just means getting bounced back here to korea every other year, and korea's not bad anyway), i can tell you what i know from my perspective (well, not all of it, of course).
to be honest, what we do we regard as Just a Job. granted, a deadly serious job, but that's as maybe, it's still a job. we don't go around talking spy talk or codewords, i've never met agent 99, we don't hack into you computer at night, and we spend more time than any of us will admit irritating each other with stupid practical jokes just like everyone else (we locked our flight commander in a phone booth the other night, that was a sight
as for specifically what we do, i of course can't say much about it, but suffice to say that no, we don't spend our time spying on americans, or south koreans for that matter. in fact, there are quite explicit guidelines about making damn sure that we don't. as for the 'black helicopter' conspiracy perception of the lot of us, i have to say it's pretty much bogus from what i've seen. personally i thought the earlier story regarding bar codes with social security number being placed on high school students to be far more disturbing than anything i've seen here. we sure the hell don't do anything like that.
in short, if you don't believe anything i've said here, and hate us because of some book you read or something on dateline, then fine, that's not our job. just remember that our job is to help prevent wars, and help minimalize the loss of american lives in case one breaks out, and i think we do a damned good job of it. i know south korea is happy to have us here (and they do know exactly what we do, sicne we work with korean soldiers side by side), even if you're not.
heh. so what you're saying is that linux development exists mainly to tick him off? that sounds so satisfying...
no, none.
#ifdef
according to rumor, the qwerty keyboard we all know was created long ago with the old mechanical typewriters, because if the keys were pressed too fast, the hammers would all get stuck, slowing you down. thus, the qwerty has key placement to effectively slow your keypress rate: common letters like e, r, and t are away from the home row, which instead is home to that most popular of letters, 'j.' the dvorak keyboard was developed later, when advances in typewriter technology helped prevent this.
in the 1930's, the u.s. navy was deciding on which keyboard they would use for their typewriters, and true to form, took the least effective one, which appearantly is why we still use qwerty today.
#endif