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Linux For Supervillains
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CmdrTaco
on Sun Aug 14, 2005 09:22 AM
from the nothing-else-happening-today dept.
from the nothing-else-happening-today dept.
computernut writes "Supervillains seem to like Linux. Take a peek at a cool Shockwave Animation on why they use it." Cute little animation. I think we might have shown it here before, but hey it's Sunday, and August which means this is the closest thing to news we might have all day.
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Are you kidding me? (Score:5, Informative)
Anyway, the video -- which is funny -- is several years old and comes from http://www.ubergeek.tv/ [ubergeek.tv]
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:4, Insightful)
Of course (Score:5, Funny)
(http://cevk.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday January 13 2004, @11:15AM)
Linux is for Supervillians. The Good Guys use NetBSD.
News for Nerds? (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Friday May 07 2004, @05:21PM)
This thing is nearly 3 years old
It's mentioned on other websites [milkandcookies.com] with a date of january 2003!
everyone hates on Taco.. (Score:5, Insightful)
*gasp* He's just another lazy computer geek! Everyone, get the pitchforks and torches! We're supposed to all be pissed off cuz he's getting paid to be a lazy geek! We're supposed to gripe about having subscriptions and.. o, wait, I'm an AC.
Yes, anyway, Taco is still my man.
More Microsoft FUD (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel | Last Journal: Saturday April 15 2006, @12:27PM)
First, "they hate copyright", now "they want to destroy the world". What next? "They're trying to put an entire industry (anti-virus) out of business!"?
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
slashdot (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.wrongplanet.net/ | Last Journal: Monday June 07 2004, @09:22AM)
It may be old.... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.bitculture.org/)
Um, how come (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Saturday August 30 2003, @10:53PM)
i'm dumber! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.crapfilter.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday August 16 2005, @06:52AM)
Re:i'm dumber! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.smashcat.org/personal/)
Try browsing at -1, you'll find many posters who seem to have overcome that particular disability...
supervillains (Score:1)
Linux versus Windows (Score:1, Flamebait)
(Last Journal: Wednesday September 28 2005, @12:05PM)
Windows XP, fully updated, rarely goes down. Like in Linux, the base system can often save the rest. You just need to restart explorer.exe. Real BSODs, in my experience, tend to be driver and hardware related. The hardware culprits for me have been: An ATI Radeon card, a motherboard (a revision of K7s5a fails memtest out of the box), and bad RAM, of coore than a year.
None of my current Linux systems go for more than a month without X-Windows manager troubles. In one case, I know this to be a video card driver issue. The others, I have no idea about.
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Monday November 12, @09:37AM)
For most desktop use, though, an X crash (which is probably what you mean by "KDE and Gnome go down all the time") wipes out all your unsaved work and demands a reboot, just as a full-blown operating system crash does. The hair-splitting about "completely crash" doesn't change that.
The bitching about BSODs goes back to when Linux use involved running vi in an xterm in FVWM on barebones video cards. In those days, the GUI really was rock-solid (and Windows was really as flimsy as people made out).
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Friday March 21 2003, @12:04AM)
Wow, not only is the topic three years old, but so are the comments.
Re:Linux versus Windows (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.killerbob.ca/)
You do realise that there's other desktop environments and window managers than KDE/Gnome, right? I find that those two DEs go down fairly frequently as well. Since switching to XFCE, however, I have never had a crash. Ever. It's absolutely rock-solid, and as long as it's development is focused on speed and stability over, say, bells&whistles, it's going to continue to be rock-solid.
And if you don't like XFCE, there's nothing to stop you from using *box, fvwm, or hell, even tab-window-manager. Maybe your problems with X have less to do with X or Linux themselves, and more to do with your choice of using Desktop Environments with known memory leaks (KDE) and stability problems when dealing with unexpected library versions (Gnome).
And in the event of an X crash, I wouldn't lose my documents, either. At most, I'd lose 5 minutes' work, because that's the interval at which AbiWord is set to autosave my work. Hell, my music wouldn't even stop playing, thanks to me using MPD.
This thing is called Flash for 5 years already! (Score:2, Informative)
(http://www.fxfp.com/)
'several' years old? try 5 (Score:2)
(http://www.vanitydomainsarelikeso20thcentury.org/)
See how much has changed since then, as the Linux revolution in ease of use and consistency has swept the world's desktops.
Yes Veronica, that was intended as sarcasm, not irony.
Supervillains (Score:5, Funny)
Wow. (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://127.0.0.1/)
A popular animation
on the Internet features a guy named Steve, the Linux Super Villain.
During the course of the 60 second animation, he describes his work
with Linux stating, "First you have to config it, then write some
shell scripts, update your RPMs, partition your drives, patch your
kernel, compile your binaries and check your version dependencies..."
http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050808/lam060.h
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08
Switch Gates (Score:2)
Sounds Like Nat Friedman (Score:1)
(http://ponsaelius.blogspot.com/)
Well, did you know... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://sharpy.xox.pl/ | Last Journal: Wednesday September 14 2005, @02:12PM)
While We're @ it (part 10) (Score:1)
(http://www.thericebox.org/)
I liked it! (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://tarrysingh.blogspot.com/)
as (Score:1)
(http://www.sliz.org/)
Don't watch flash movies and drive (Score:2, Funny)
(http://www.kujila.com/)
Are Slashdot editors paid on a Sunday ? (Score:1)
For the record, I haven't seen the animation before so it was new to me.
I Loved It (Score:2)
Kim Polese used this at her talk announcing SpikeSource last year. I had just downloaded it a few days before myself, so when I listened to the MP3 of her talk and heard this come on, I was like, "Oh, cool, Kim!"
I count Kim as a "gorgeous fembot" for this coolness.
Sadly, Linux has not yet improved my love life.
But the orbiting brain laser research is going well on Mandrake 10.1 - to be upgraded to 2006 when it comes out.
Not a shockwave animation (Score:1)
Old times. (Score:1)
Flash forward, now 20 years old, been looking at slashdot every once and a while. Seen all the complaints over the years, but never really understood. Bored with the internet, only checking one forum that I started moderating back then 1 time every 2 days. Post counts uninteresting, login ID numbers no longer a sign of seniority. I check slashdot using my 3 meg cable connection in my apartment at college to find an article presenting that cartoon I saw, what feels like, so long ago presented as new.
My feelings verified. Same junk circling around from years past, and finally understand what people were complaining about back then. I have just been reading a website put together by some random person with nothing to do. Gods of the internet I saw back then, prove themselves just to be another Joe who is out to make a buck.
Glad you like my animation! (Score:2)
(http://ubergeek.tv/)
Man, I've got to make a sequel some day!
New Low (Score:2)
Re:OLD! (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.fugitivethought.com/)
Re:AKA "Slashdot for Suckers" (Score:2)
(http://amazing.com/)
Next time I submit a story, I'll just make sure it's Sunday in August.
Besides, the video did make me laugh, and on a day I could use it, so I'm happy.
D
Re:OLD! (Score:2)
Re:Hey, I happen to like this... (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://www.poromenos.org/)
Re:Shockwave? (Score:2)
Re:Shockwave? (Score:2)
(http://www.subgenius.com/)
Re:Uh huh. (Score:2)
(http://pe.ter.dk/)
Re:Shockwave? (Score:2)
As long as we're posting three year old flash clips, you don't expect an accurate description too, do you?
Re:Confused? (Score:2)
Get a clue, then open mouth
Re:Confused? (Score:3, Informative)
(http://slashdot.org/)
> rpm --qf "%{NAME} - %{SUMMARY}: %{VERSION}\n%{VENDOR}\n" -q flash-player mozilla
flash-player - Macromedia Flash plugin: 7.0.25.0
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
mozilla - The Open Source successor of the Netscape browser: 1.7.5
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Hope this helps.
Re:Uh huh. (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday June 02 2004, @01:38PM)
Re:Confused? (Score:1)
Re:Anyone else find it amusing... (Score:2)
(http://sharpy.xox.pl/ | Last Journal: Wednesday September 14 2005, @02:12PM)
Re:Anyone else find it amusing... (Score:2)
Re:Anyone else find it amusing... (Score:1)
(http://www.hanavi.net/)
Re:OLD! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Confused? (Score:5, Informative)
A shockwave animation is one that is produced in Macromedia Director, and requires an entirely different plugin.
They're separate products and separate file formats. The flash format (which is far more common) is vector based, and was designed to stream interesting animations to people while using up as little bandwidth as possible. Similarly, the flash player itself is (or at least originally was) designed to be as small as possible.
In contrast, the shockwave player was designed from the start to handle lots of stuff (bitmaps, vectors, 3d) and so was always a much heavier player.
So anyway, the parent post is right, I think. This is a FLASH animation, not a shockwave animation. Calling this a shockwave animation in the headline is misleading.
Re:Confused? (Score:2)
(http://dolphinling.net/ | Last Journal: Thursday March 23 2006, @04:04PM)
To clarify, though it's already been done, the animation you saw is a Flash animation. Flash does and always has run fine on Linux, though the releases are somewhat behind the windows and mac releases. Shockwave is an entirely different thing (by the same company), and there is no linux player. Last I checked (which was over a year ago) it worked with CrossOver, but that put up ads in the middle of what you were doing.
Since you asked, I use Gentoo, and it was about a day old (gotta love emerge --sync && emerge -Dtau world). Every once in a while, I report a bug [macromedia.com] to Macromedia about there not being a player. You should too.
Re:Coincidentally (Score:1)
I'm not criticizing you or anything...your family must be different than mine.
Re:Shockwave? (Score:1)
(http://545460846593/)
It runs fine on my GNU/Linux system though. The trouble with flash is that there was no free (as in freedom) flash plugin. However, I guess our friends at the FSF [fsf.org] can point you to a project that is working on just that [sourceforge.net].
Re:Shockwave? (Score:1)
Wow. I guess you need to tell my Debian box that, as it just played it flawlessly. The only possible reason for you to post that is that either you don't use Linux, or you suck at it.
Re:Shockwave? (Score:1)