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Not necessarily. SuperTux in its current state doesn't work for my needs for various reasons, but in general, because it's in an alpha state and because there are a lot of design decisions I don't like and little things I would need to add. Additionally, this was a perfect opportunity to test...

I'm using the SGE Game Engine, which I developed: http://stellarengine.nongnu.org Currently, the SGE uses Pygame as a backend. I do intend to re-implement it once it reaches version 1.0 (which I'll be doing after reTux is finished) in either Pyglet or PySDL2. I'm hoping that combined with PyPy...

ReTux is a new game I've been working on, written in Python and utilizing the art assets from SuperTux. Campaign page is here: http://igg.me/at/retux Videos here: https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/onpon4/m/retux-world-1-gameplay/...

Well, my thinner battery from the third batch simply won't connect without extra thickness. Specifically, it finally boots and stays booted with 5 sheets of printer paper. 4 sheets and it boots, but shuts off after a bit. Anything less, and it won't boot at all. The only possible way I can...

Batteries produced after some time, I want to say starting with the Rebirth edition, are thinner than the original batteries by like 0.5mm or something like that, and this prevents the battery cover from pushing the battery in enough to make contact. I think battery covers made after then were...

My second battery cover is developing a crack, probably because the cardboard I used to make some new batteries thicker is too thick (the battery cover didn't come with the paddings they're supposed to come with, for some reason). So I'd like a new cover, but I'm having some trouble. I found...

Clearly, this argument about history isn't getting us anywhere. I get the feeling that neither of us are really familiar enough with the time period to discuss it thoroughly, because I've already said everything that I think I know about the subject (most of which comes from a combination of...

No... it was customary for those programs to be given to customers in source code form at the time. Please don't try to revise history with speculation on what could have happened. What actually happened was that if proprietary software existed at all before 1969, it was extremely unusual. If...

Wikipedia's citations are: Pugh, Emerson W. Origins of Software Bundling. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Jan–Mar 2002): pp. 57–58. Hamilton, Thomas W., IBM's unbundling decision: Consequences for users and the industry, Programming Sciences Corporation, 1969...

That's not a bad work of fiction, but it doesn't serve as an argument. You don't even need to go to a parallel universe to see a world with no such thing as proprietary software. It existed first in the real world. Proprietary software was invented by IBM in 1969 because it was under the...

Well, I think I've found out how to get the screen to stop blanking. I've let my Pandora sit for around 15 minutes, and it didn't blank in that time. I used these two commands: xset s off xset -dpms

Thanks for the suggestion! That solution works satisfactorily (and my tests show the command works as it should). EDIT: Or not... it's still blanking after only about 10 minutes, even though xset q suggests it should be almost 6 hours... Meh, I'm giving up for now...

Say, how can I disable screen blanking? I tried both of the solutions suggested in this topic: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/disabling-screen-blanking-when-idle-in-fluxbox-320803/ But the first one doesn't seem to do anything, and the second one prevents X from...

That requires JavaScript code, which I don't like in the first place. That by itself is not a deal-breaker for one-time usage, but I also checked said JavaScript code, and at least some of it is proprietary (the script I checked was under CC BY-NC). So I'd rather just find a big file, start...

I was responding to Steven Craft saying he couldn't comprehend how someone could possibly think that a program being libre would be better than it being proprietary. I'm talking only about simple empathy here, not agreement.

Oh. Honestly, I thought this was a more nuanced idea than that a business that depends on a monopoly needs to be protected for some reason. Very well, then... But really, it's a matter of perspective. For whoever rules North Korea right now, North Korea becoming a free country would be a bad...

Last time I checked, DraStic was not developed commercially, and copies of it were distributed gratis. Not sold.

You can't make an activity harmful just by asserting that it is with an ominous tone. How would people selling copies of DraStic be "harm"? What "damage" would it cause?

You don't understand how having something that could potentially be beneficial (depending on your views and position) and could not conceivably cause any harm is better than not having it? Seems clear-cut to me.

The dongle? I did an apt-get upgrade just now, and the speed varied between 1 Mbit/second and 1.4 Mbit/second, for the most part. This was from my room, which isn't especially far away from the router, but it's on a different floor. To be clear, my laptop from the same location gets around 12-15...