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  1. Overkill by Kiro · · Score: 2 · on Insanely Great Quickies
    Is Overkill by chance related to another project which produced a text-mode Quake?
    You know, I've always wondered why do people want a text-mode action game, but then I recall my Cirrus Logic video card which is still humming on my 486/66 DX, and it all comes back.

    Ahh, the sweet memories...

    --
    Kiro

  2. Re:for the browser impaired... by lpontiac · · Score: 1 · on Rocket Arena For Quake 3 Arena Released
    The browser impaired might also want to check out the following:

    lightweight text mode browser
    heavyweight gui browser

  3. Re:I want a browser by matlhDam · · Score: 1 · on Galeon Web Browser: The Best Of Mozilla?

    Another good text browser is Links, which supports tables and frames (in the 0.9x versions, anyway). It's also got a pretty decent interface, with mouse support and proper menus, but still supports Lynx-like shortcuts for those of us who can't be bothered with menus ;)

  4. Re:I want a browser by Erik+Rossen · · Score: 2 · on Galeon Web Browser: The Best Of Mozilla?

    Try w3m or, even better, links.

  5. Pie charts by Fizgig · · Score: 2 · on GUI Research - Is it Still Being Done?

    They're pretty old as far as GUIs go, and they work. Yet no one uses them. Why? I downloaded the GTKPieMenu widget and played with the test. It's amazing how much easier those things are to use than regular menus (once you get over the disorientation, of course). Are there any maintstream programs using any widget set that actually use pie menus? I'm sure there's plenty being done with new GUIs, but if nothing uses them it's not likely to be obvious unless they're all making press releases.

  6. Holographic displays by First+Person · · Score: 2 · on 18-Inch 3D LCD Screens

    One of the links I mentioned refers to the Richmond Holographic Studios. One very nice feature of this technology is that a wider viewing angle is supported allowing multiple people to see the same image. This might not be so important for games, but for architectural rendering or other 'real work' (that is unless you work for a gaming company ;-), this may be vital.

    I suspect that there are some strong negatives and would love to read comments from anyone who knows more.

  7. Its gonna depend by 7021 · · Score: 2 · on What Is The Best Application Server?

    It is really gonna depend on what you are looking for in your application server.

    If you application is not going to be high load, or you won't need to worry about clustering then your options are more varied.

    Also you should know if you are going to use Bean Managed Persistence or Container Managed Persistence. If you plan to use CMP then you need to make sure that the application server you use has good OR mapping tools. TopLink is a well repected OR mapping tool.

    We chose Weblogic 4.5.1 as we needed to cluster and scale the application. Weblogic doesn't have good OR mapping tools but links really well with Toplink, we are using BMP anyway.

    Webshpere is a bitch to install unless you understand Oracle or DB2 quite well.

    Oracle's application server ties you to close to one vendor so we stayed away.

    Enhydra looks really cool and it is OSS so you can get in and tweak stuff if you need to. I am not sure what kind of performance it can achieve though.

    The biggest thing before you start to make decide is define what aspects of EJB's and such you will need and need to work well and what won't matter, this should help narrow the field down for you.

    This pdf is a very good research article and i reccomend it as a starting point EJB Comparison.

  8. Re:Simply, No. by Manax · · Score: 1 · on On Leading vs. Following In The NOS World
    It seems absolutely typical of Unix zealots that they should lie about the "capabilities" of their operating system in this way.

    Very unfair. The term "lie" indicates that I was deliberately misinforming people. That is certainly not true. I was using the term that the people I've seen talk about this Linux feature use. I will admit I have not spent the time to really understand "capabilities" or "privileges".

    You are welcome to cite references to your distinction between "privileges" and "capabilities".

    A few links:

    Pavel's capabilities page

    Linux Weekly News listing of Linux capabilities as of 2.2.13.

    Secure-programs-how to contains a lot of security related information, including references to the POSIX standards. The POSIX information looks a little dated though.

    This link from kernel-traffic indicates that there are several different concepts of what "capabilites" are, and gives some details about what each style consists of.

    Let me be clear, I don't know much about capabilities, but I know that they are talked a LOT about on lkml. Simply calling me a liar and saying that it's "privileges" not "caps" doesn't really help educate anyone.

  9. If you like 'w3m', try 'links' too... by egnor · · Score: 4 · on By Popular Demand: More Linux Browsers
    ... though it doesn't get nearly as much press, it has a lot of interesting features in its own right (like asynchronous table layout, background downloading, and a UI which I much prefer to w3m's).

    It still lacks some things (like cookie support), though. See the home page for more info.

  10. Re:NOOOOOO! by aldain · · Score: 2 · on Mozilla M13 (Alpha Version) is Out!

    Apparently, there's another text mode browser called "links" that is not lynx, but I haven't found it anywhere yet.

    Get links at http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mi kulas/links/

    W3m can be found at http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac .jp/~aito/w3m/eng/

  11. Corel not commiting to Wine CVS by aralin · · Score: 1 · on Interview: Corel CEO Michael Cowpland Answers
    If its true that Corel is not commiting to Wine CVS, then I would say its more the problem of Wine. I've pointed out already before a long time that Wine has kinda problem with its licence (its BSD-like) and company like Corel may just use Wine code, add their own into it (not realease the addition source) and sell it all as one product. Wine should have been developed under GPL or at least LGPL!

    I would not wonder if Corel would have their own CVS of Wine and only snoop all the changes in the main Repository and add them to their own tree.

  12. minor correction.. by aldain · · Score: 1 · on Linux Web Browsers Reviewed

    I just downloaded the very latest version (v 0.82) and it seems that Links does indeed have cookie support now.

    I guess I should also clarify that by "doesn't handle frames", I meant that it handles them lynx-style, instead of rendering them.

    Anyway, get Links at http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links
    or get w3m at http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/
    or check out a quick text browser comparison at http://www.zinescene.org/home/browser.ht ml

  13. Re:Lynx has no competition by BusterB · · Score: 2 · on Linux Web Browsers Reviewed

    Of course it has! The browser, Links is an amazing text-based piece of work. It supports frames, tables, the mouse through gdm, looks and performs well. It even has pull-down menus that hide when not in use. Helper applications are supported for viewing graphics or even Realaudio. What more could you need?

  14. Mirror sites by dsplat · · Score: 4 · on LinuxMandrake 7.0 ISO Images Available
    Mandrake's site is swamped right now. The official list of mirror sites is here. The ones listed as doing hourly updates are:



    I haven't gotten through to any of those servers to find out if they have 7.0 on them yet, but I expect they will soon.
  15. Mirror sites by dsplat · · Score: 4 · on LinuxMandrake 7.0 ISO Images Available
    Mandrake's site is swamped right now. The official list of mirror sites is here. The ones listed as doing hourly updates are:



    I haven't gotten through to any of those servers to find out if they have 7.0 on them yet, but I expect they will soon.
  16. If you like 'w3m', try 'links' too. by egnor · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla M12 Released

    I like Links. Like w3m, it has real layout with table support and color; it also has incremental rendering, background downloading, mouse support, and various other niceties. I prefer its UI to w3m's, but that's a matter of taste.

  17. Re:can't really do without a pointer by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 2 · on On Using X w/o the Rodent

    Ah, I was about to comment about Afterstep 1.0, but it looks like someone else did! :^) I long for the days of Afterstep 1.0 when I could do all window manipulation with a keyboard. Window Maker seems to have lost the ability to do these things (i.e. resizing/easily moving windows with keyboard), or am I mistaken?

    Anyway, have you tried "links" (not lynx), a textmode browser that is much better than lynx? I like links so much that I'm having a hard time convincing myself to use anything else. It supports tables (well!), frames, background downloading, and you can maneuver around the page before it completely finishes downloading. It should put an end to having to use that pesky mouse.

    You can grab it here:
    http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mi kulas/links/ (ignore the extra space.. it still works when clicked on.. also, I suggest grabbing links-current.tar.gz)

    -- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?

  18. Re:Capabilities for Linux being developed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on 'Attack Trees' Help Model Potential Security Flaws

    There have been some projects to bring this concept into the Linux kernel. See the Capabilities for ELF project page and the draft describing Linux-Privs. Through POSIX 1e the all or none nature of root access can be taken care of.

  19. You *can* attach a Sun keyboard to a PC! by sam_vilain · · Score: 1 · on Interface Zen
    Sun's Type 5 keyboards are very nice -- good feel, intelligent key location. I use Suns for this reason when I'm not using my computer.

    If this is because physically attaching the Sun keyboard to the PC is difficult, this can be overcome. NCD sell Sun layout keyboards for X-Terminals that have PS/2 connectors, and with a recent kernel you can get them to work under Linux. You can also build a Sun -> serial converter and use Vojtech Pavlik's input patch to make the serial device equivalent to the standard keyboard. See Vojtech's site for more info.

  20. Re:Lynx (try w3m instead) by Teferi · · Score: 1 · on redhat.com Redone

    Lynx? Bah. w3m? bah. Links is the best textmode web browser.
    It does everything lynx and w3m do, and them some.

    It's available at: http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~miku las/links/

  21. Ultimate solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Trend: More Software Patents

    Copyright and patent laws are both obsolete. Combine strong anonymity with an eternity service, and ideas and software can be published permanently, without repercussion. Digital identities based on public keys can be built and maintained without reference to physical persons. With a little more work and digital signatures to stamp official releases, open-source projects could be maintained anonymously. It does make it a little more difficult to put the work on your resume... do you want to get good Jobs, or do you want to change the world?

  22. Resist it - Get a Sun Layout keyboard for your PC! by sam_vilain · · Score: 1 · on Changing the Keyboard

    I have a Sun layout keyboard on my work and home PC's. For those that haven't used one of those before, they have an extra 11 function keys down the left hand side (with labels like "Front", "Cut", "Help", etc - VERY useful to bind to functions like "bring window to front" etc), and four extra keys in the top right hand corner. Add to that a real Meta key, compose and Alt Graph, and that's a real hacker's keyboard.

    The Sun brand keyboards have a different connector than PC's, which gives you two options; either build a converter, or buy an NCD Sun Layout keyboard (X-terminals have standard PS/2 connectors). Part number for that is "N-123 Unix" (or choose an international version).

    If you go with the NCD keyboard, they don't support the clunky protocol that most keyboards use and use the pure PS/2 protocol - so you will have to do some heavy key remapping.

    Under Linux 2.0 and current versions of XFree86 you can get all keys except F9 and F10 working. Mail me (see home page for address) to get a copy of keymaps for this.

    The Linux Input Driver patch to 2.3.12 will make all the keys available, but is not currently at a production stability level.

  23. Already available! (Don't use 2.3) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux 2.3.2 Released

    Hey all! Yeah, I noticed that, and I think it's GREAT!
    BUT! I do *NOT* think this is a reason to use 2.3. After all..
    v2.0 and 2.2 already _*HAVE*_ a rw driver!
    I have been wondering for QUITE a while why it wasn't included in 2.2, and I found out when I went to go d/l a newer version of the driver. It was rewritten at 2.1.13x, the very end of 2.1.x, so there was little (if any) chance for a major thing (ro-rw? Big!) to be included in 2.2. However, I d/l'd it, and installed it on 2.2. (2.2.0pre(Something) iirc. ;) And I'm still using it. (2.2.9) Works fine/great!
    So yeah, this is NOT a reason to use 2.3, however, since 2.3 recently branched, it MIGHT be okay to grab stuff out of 2.3 and replace the 2.2 stuff with it yourself, but I think the better idea is grabbing each individual driver, seeing what the author has to say about using it with 2.2, and replacing the current with it. The page for the hpfs (rw) driver is
    Read-Write HPFS Driver for Linux, http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/vyplody/h pfs/index-e.cgi

    So, go check it out! There's a chance that 2.3's is newer, but I REALLY doubt it! Hope I could've been of help!

    (Actually, I posted a similar question on the 2.2.7 (or 6?) article, asking about the hpfs modifications in that 2.2.x)

    - Ajay

  24. On mirrors? I do see it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on RedHat 6.0 is Out

    sunsite.mff.cuni.cz is ready mirroring redhat-6.0, so if you are not to far away from it network-wise, you can give it a shot.