Living in the UK I get Al Jazeera English (AJE) over the air for free; frankly it's my preferred TV news source here (sorry BBC.) However every time I'd travel to the US, all I could usually get there was Al Jazeera America (AJAM); which I found frankly rubbish. The programming was all different and appeared to me to have been clearly designed to not be too harsh or distant; I suspect in order to try and not frighten the squeamish/sheltered US audience too much. Obviously that did not work out so well for them.
I hope now they find a way to push AJE out to the US TV providers; while it has it's flaws, I think US residents could greatly benefit from their excellent international news and documentaries (I highly recommend their "Witness" series in particular.) Yeah it's funded by government of Qatar, but after years of watching I've only detected their influence on the editorial process a handful of times (In reality I'm guessing it's usually AJE self-censoring; news around the royal family specifically seems to be a sensitive area.) When in doubt, France 24 is usually a good double check.
Finally I'd just say that I find AJE's coverage of Africa news/events some of the best out there; I really hope that does not change.
It takes alot to rouse this old bear (I've not posted a comment on Slashdot in years) but this new CSS scheme has done it. It does not seem fully baked to me - for example in IE the "Sections" tab is collapsable but the others are not ("Vendors" is a stupid tab anyway.) Worse missstep since the it.slashdot.org color scheme thing, which is at least somewhat better now in this version.
Oh well, I guess I'll just be using RSS to read Slashdot going forward, unless all you long time people want to start a revolt...
I orginally wanted a real animal (like Tux is) but to throw the inanimate object ideas out I compromised in agreeing to imaginary animals. Later, after an informal design competition of sorts, we ended up with our choice, Konqi.
In a previous life I had to really muck with SCO OpenServer, and 5.0.4 and up are pretty safe. Much as I like Linux, if you are on Openserver now, no reason to get off it until you have no other choice.
Whatever you do, just stay the heck away from unixware. Now that stuff is just plain evil.
I wonder what the polygon count will be like...if they are going to simulate jungle terrain that means lots of trees, animals, and perhaps even warms of insects...lots and lots of small polygons, as far as the Z buffer can see...
I can forsee even a top notch video card crawling through this game.
(First off, I'm a big TightVNC user and I need to thank you for such an awesome program.)
I think Wiki's are a good way for gathering information - but it is not a total replacement for documentation. Another cool project that uses a free form wiki extremely well is POE (no direct link to protect it), but good consise documentation is still an elusive goal. I've experimented with twiki, which I like alot, but in my workplace I need more controlable structure so I'm going the more formal CMS route instead. In particular I like webgui, which seems to be a nice balance between total wiki anarchy and stalin-like control. Note however, that I have a particular affinty for Perl language products in this regard.
I'm doing the same - Being only twenty-something, I've never seen or heard of most of the movies that Criterion releases. The background materials on the disks are better than taking an art appreciation class as well.
Whenever I watch them, I end up asking myself: "Why did hollywood stop making movies, and start making trash?"
No kidding. Other than serious sam (1+2), I've not finish any other games of recent:
- MOHAA: got to the sniper level and got fed up - Gothic: After about 12 hours of play, I got tired of walking in circles for hours on end. - WarCraft III: Plays to fast for me, even on the slowest speed. Not gotten past the first few levels. - Madden 2003: The first sports game I've bought, but after a week got tired of trying to remember all the button functions and play patterns. Bought a gravis gamepad, but that just made it even more confusing to play, since I'm not used to it. - Civ III: Never have played past the Iron age, plays too slow and is very complicated. - Sims: Gave up after a week. I don't have enough time to try to spend it on a virtual life... - Diablo II: Like the game, but consumes way too much time.
The only games I play regularly are pinball games. Great for that ten minute coding break. All other games take that long just to get started playing!
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Darn, I just miss that threshold;)
If I put back up my original gopher pages do you think I could slip in?
Just hit Shift-"Continue" or OK (whichever your printer has on it) and it will ignore what paper you have in there is just start printing. Works every time for me.
If your employer is not enlightened enough that you have to hide your gaming from them, the you probably should not be doing it in the first place.
I personally never game at work, but I do pursue other extra ciricular activities, like playing with the latest mozilla or kde builds, resurrecting old hardware (currently an 8mm tape library) and learning new programming languages.
Besides, the machines at my work don't have good enough graphics cards to play anything interesting anyway.
In the early days of KDE, I had a heck of a time getting it to build on solaris. kdesupport was the worst offender because the sound support was linux-only. Over time they got smart and and made many non-portable routines optional.
Maybe kde needs something like mozilla's tinderbox - then whoever breaks something in only some environments would be "on the hook" to fix it.
My work recently switched to solaris 7, and soon to solaris 8 on our E10Ks. However for some stupid idea they will not buy a new sparccomplier compiler to go with it.
Since solaris went to a 64-bit kernel in solaris 7, I have lost control of debugging kernel-level problems because our old sparc compiler does support the 64-bit kernel. This makes me very upset.
My question is, if I can get my hands on the solaris 8 source code, can I use the symbols and headers in it to cross-compile a gcc to support the 64-bit symbols and functions I need?
Kind of a odd way to do it, but I can afford to get the source code, but not the sparccompiler.
The article speaks about using the motor to run robotic arms - Without an ridged axis (it's a unconnected ball) how exactly would that work? There no force to hold the weight of the arm up, is there?
I'd say amen to the big iron stuff. I'd also throw in "how about some help with the LVM and LFS projects?". Not that the folks currently working on them aren't doing a good job, but IBM's been doing this for a while now... they've got to have some valuable advice that only years of experience can yield.
I second that - smit for linux would be interesting too.
If I want anyone targeting ads at me, I would want it to be Google. The "highlight" feature on the toolbar is very useful.
Based on my searches, my guess it that is will not be long before I start to get to see the ads for the embedded perl interperter for the linux OS version of the visor prism.
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Living in the UK I get Al Jazeera English (AJE) over the air for free; frankly it's my preferred TV news source here (sorry BBC.)
However every time I'd travel to the US, all I could usually get there was Al Jazeera America (AJAM); which I found frankly rubbish. The programming was all different and appeared to me to have been clearly designed to not be too harsh or distant; I suspect in order to try and not frighten the squeamish/sheltered US audience too much. Obviously that did not work out so well for them.
I hope now they find a way to push AJE out to the US TV providers; while it has it's flaws, I think US residents could greatly benefit from their excellent international news and documentaries (I highly recommend their "Witness" series in particular.) Yeah it's funded by government of Qatar, but after years of watching I've only detected their influence on the editorial process a handful of times (In reality I'm guessing it's usually AJE self-censoring; news around the royal family specifically seems to be a sensitive area.) When in doubt, France 24 is usually a good double check.
Finally I'd just say that I find AJE's coverage of Africa news/events some of the best out there; I really hope that does not change.
It takes alot to rouse this old bear (I've not posted a comment on Slashdot in years) but this new CSS scheme has done it. It does not seem fully baked to me - for example in IE the "Sections" tab is collapsable but the others are not ("Vendors" is a stupid tab anyway.) Worse missstep since the it.slashdot.org color scheme thing, which is at least somewhat better now in this version.
Oh well, I guess I'll just be using RSS to read Slashdot going forward, unless all you long time people want to start a revolt...
Back in late 1997, I started a thread suggesting a mascot for KDE. For awhile there it looked like we were going to get a inanimate object:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=88665769314384&w =2
I orginally wanted a real animal (like Tux is) but to throw the inanimate object ideas out I compromised in agreeing to imaginary animals. Later, after an informal design competition of sorts, we ended up with our choice, Konqi.
http://www.kde.org/stuff/
It's the only open source mascot I can say I've ever contributed to it's development.
In a previous life I had to really muck with SCO OpenServer, and 5.0.4 and up are pretty safe. Much as I like Linux, if you are on Openserver now, no reason to get off it until you have no other choice.
Whatever you do, just stay the heck away from unixware. Now that stuff is just plain evil.
I wonder what the polygon count will be like...if they are going to simulate jungle terrain that means lots of trees, animals, and perhaps even warms of insects...lots and lots of small polygons, as far as the Z buffer can see...
I can forsee even a top notch video card crawling through this game.
(First off, I'm a big TightVNC user and I need to thank you for such an awesome program.)
I think Wiki's are a good way for gathering information - but it is not a total replacement for documentation. Another cool project that uses a free form wiki extremely well is POE (no direct link to protect it), but good consise documentation is still an elusive goal. I've experimented with twiki, which I like alot, but in my workplace I need more controlable structure so I'm going the more formal CMS route instead. In particular I like webgui, which seems to be a nice balance between total wiki anarchy and stalin-like control. Note however, that I have a particular affinty for Perl language products in this regard.
I'm doing the same - Being only twenty-something, I've never seen or heard of most of the movies that Criterion releases. The background materials on the disks are better than taking an art appreciation class as well.
Whenever I watch them, I end up asking myself: "Why did hollywood stop making movies, and start making trash?"
Looks like the Scotty/Tkinetd pages are still up - I guess that they are hosted in another building, thank goodness.
No kidding. Other than serious sam (1+2), I've not finish any other games of recent:
- MOHAA: got to the sniper level and got fed up
- Gothic: After about 12 hours of play, I got tired of walking in circles for hours on end.
- WarCraft III: Plays to fast for me, even on the slowest speed. Not gotten past the first few levels.
- Madden 2003: The first sports game I've bought, but after a week got tired of trying to remember all the button functions and play patterns. Bought a gravis gamepad, but that just made it even more confusing to play, since I'm not used to it.
- Civ III: Never have played past the Iron age, plays too slow and is very complicated.
- Sims: Gave up after a week. I don't have enough time to try to spend it on a virtual life...
- Diablo II: Like the game, but consumes way too much time.
The only games I play regularly are pinball games. Great for that ten minute coding break. All other games take that long just to get started playing!
Darn, I just miss that threshold ;)
If I put back up my original gopher pages do you think I could slip in?
No, I think the "Golden Age" was when Meept! was still posting comments...
Just hit Shift-"Continue" or OK (whichever your printer has on it) and it will ignore what paper you have in there is just start printing. Works every time for me.
The earth is going to expire?
Quick! We better renew that license... The question is who do we call, the manufacturer or um... the reseller?
If your employer is not enlightened enough that you have to hide your gaming from them, the you probably should not be doing it in the first place.
I personally never game at work, but I do pursue other extra ciricular activities, like playing with the latest mozilla or kde builds, resurrecting old hardware (currently an 8mm tape library) and learning new programming languages.
Besides, the machines at my work don't have good enough graphics cards to play anything interesting anyway.
...This is pretty cool. This sort of stuff should really be submitted to Scientific American's "The Amateur Scientist" as well.
In the early days of KDE, I had a heck of a time getting it to build on solaris. kdesupport was the worst offender because the sound support was linux-only. Over time they got smart and and made many non-portable routines optional.
Maybe kde needs something like mozilla's tinderbox - then whoever breaks something in only some environments would be "on the hook" to fix it.
I'm on a /128 cox at home subnet. It's normally very quiet on my subnet, but since this morning it's my firewall has been bouncing packets like crazy.
I'm guess I'm going to have to put a packet sniffer on the other side of the wall and see what the hell is going on with this code red II.
My work recently switched to solaris 7, and soon to solaris 8 on our E10Ks. However for some stupid idea they will not buy a new sparccomplier compiler to go with it.
Since solaris went to a 64-bit kernel in solaris 7, I have lost control of debugging kernel-level problems because our old sparc compiler does support the 64-bit kernel. This makes me very upset.
My question is, if I can get my hands on the solaris 8 source code, can I use the symbols and headers in it to cross-compile a gcc to support the 64-bit symbols and functions I need?
Kind of a odd way to do it, but I can afford to get the source code, but not the sparccompiler.
In my quest to decode this, I found this website to be helpful.
Good (now historial) book - unforunately, it appears to be totally out of print, so none of you young 'uns can be enlightened...
The article speaks about using the motor to run robotic arms - Without an ridged axis (it's a unconnected ball) how exactly would that work? There no force to hold the weight of the arm up, is there?
I second that - smit for linux would be interesting too.
Ahh... I see now... Google has been trolled...
Actually, it's rather kinda neat that anyone can put up ads. How long do they stay up there for?
That is seriously wacked up - How the hell did they do that? Don't tell me my idiotic example set off some triggers in their search engine...
If I want anyone targeting ads at me, I would want it to be Google. The "highlight" feature on the toolbar is very useful.
Based on my searches, my guess it that is will not be long before I start to get to see the ads for the embedded perl interperter for the linux OS version of the visor prism.