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Wrong.

Actually QEMU runs on x86, x86_64, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc32, ARM, S390, Sparc64, ia64, and m68k to different degrees. The X86 emulation is the only one completely working, but he PowerPC emulation in QEMU is good enough to boot PowerPC Linux, hopefully soon you will be able to boot OSX on a X86 via QEMU, and hopefully the speed will be at least 1/10th.

The QEMU accelerator can also only run x86 binaries on x86 processors. It only works on x86.

That's not true and never has been. Perhaps you shouldn't talk if you don't know what you're talking about?

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/status.html

I dearly hope the accelerator gets GPL'd. Between sysadmin work (reverting to a snapshot ROX) and, just maybe, being able to move W2K people to Linux (there's only a handful of applications we need [damn you, Texas Instruments! Where's your Linux version of Code Composer?], and remote admin is just soooooooo much better with a Unix), I'd be very happy if a) this thing works as well as it's supposed to, and b) if there was some sort of tip jar I could kick in a few bucks to (like with Blender, I believe), and get it released when there was enough money.

Incidentally, I tried installing W2K on qemu w/o the accelerator. When I left work on Friday, it was finishing up the second stage of installation; it was slow as molasses, but seemed to be working. This seems to contradict the note re: disk full during install problem noted on the support page. It's always possible I just haven't hit it yet, but does anyone else have any experience with W2K and qemu?

Nah! There are countless obelisks here but nobody claims there's intelligent life in Ireland. No...wait...I phrased that wrong...

Certainly no one knows his little brother better than he does, but he may as well use Python and GCompris instead of Perl/Tk to hack together some educational games for his little brother. Why not use some of the already developed open source material out there targetted precisely toward this sort of thing. You could put together a new simple game with GCompris in no time flat, and it already has over 60 little games (from chess to algebra games to geography to reading) bundled already.

Jedidiah.

I don't know what level you're targetting, but I haven't seen any (high modded posts) mention GCompris yet. It's simple, colourful, pleasantly interactive and has a nice wide variety of different educational games packaged up. Better yet it does a good job of building up some core libraries so that its very easy to write new games in Python very quickly. It may be targetted at a slightly lower learning level than you're looking for, but then again, it may not be. At the least it is certainly worth a look.

Jedidiah.

Starts here http://gcompris.free.fr/ and works up, you may get here http://wims.unice.fr/wims/wims.cgi before you know it.

It doesn't require money. It does require a desire to help. You help your brother, you help others, others help you.

Who are you answering to ?
The story was submitted by chekovma, not by Jesus, otherwise it'd look like this.

From the two articles, i don't get everything.

First, why do you need IP for TV ? over ADSL, it's a lot better to send it in raw ATM. Of course, you can use IP to broadcast TV to the DSLAMs. And if it's IPTV to play TV on the computer, what exactly is the use ? Isn't it better to get it directly on TV ?

Then, why do you need Microsoft for that ? Are these Bells not using MPEG2 or MPEG4 for TV ?

And, 1mln users in Europe for TV over ADSL ? It's very very low ! There are about 700 000-800 000 only in France: France #2 ISP provides TV over ADSL as part of their triple play solution, and they have reached 600 000 people subscribed to the triple play offer.
Also, their triple play offer, and especially the freebox, is running Linux, like most of their whole architecture, so how exactly the Bells' choice is a coup for Microsoft: thet are entering a market very late. In France, all of it has already been taken, with the 3 major ISPs already offering TV over ADSL. And I can't see how Italy could top that, with their currently expensive ADSL.
Moreover, they're already working on providing HDTV through their triple play offering.

So i think either i missed the point, or both articles are (at least partially) wrong: some other people explain here that several ISPs are also offering triple play offers in the US or Canada. Can someone explain me ?

Its pretty flexible... With a bit of shell scripting around it, I imagine you could do this.
http://fcron.free.fr/

First, install QEmu. (I prefer to install it through DarwinPorts)

Then download a x86 Linux Live CD ISO, for example Knoppix.

Then:
$ qemu -cdrom knoppix.iso -boot d

Simple as that. Networking will work out of the box.

You can also install Debian on a virtual harddrive using:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=sarge.hdimage bs=1000000 count=2000
$ qemu -hda sarge.hdimage -cdrom debian-netinst.iso -boot d
When installed, start QEmu with:
$ qemu -hda sarge.hdimage

Even better, after installation, copy the kernel and the initrd to your Mac (using sftp) and start qemu with:

$ qemu -hda sarge.hdimage -kernel kernel-file -initrd initrd-file -append "root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,38600" -nographics

Then you will get the console on a virtual serial port (which is your current terminal window) and it doesn't have to emulate any graphics at all.

Now, what I would suggest you do is get a copy of QEMU. I assume you are familiar enough with Terminal and the shell prompt to get it working since you're stepping into the world of assembly, but if all else fails you can get QemuX or some other QEMU GUI off of VersionTracker.

Depending on what mode you're writing your assembly in, you'll need to install some sort of OS into QEMU. Some candidates are FreeDOS, MS-DOS, or even Linux. Use whatever your class is using. Emulators are very handy for writing assembly because you can debug the program at the "CPU" level, so when your program pukes you can get a better glimpse at what is going on. This is why many developers design inside of VMWare.

I hope this helps!

Get the experimental OS X installer for QEMU. This will emulate an x86 processor plenty fast enough to do some assembly coding. Then you can install some GNU/Linux distribution with the tools you need. Or if you want to keep this lightweight, install FreeDOS and the NASM assembler.

I've actually had better luck with QEMU than with Bochs. It seems a little easier to set up, at least.

Yeah, sure... "Don't touch our pretty girls", they say.

Aren't they the ones who came up with the Venus swimsuit, anyway?

-- RLJ

Quite a few webcams are based on various Sunplus bridge chips, which have excellent Linux support through the SPCA drivers. The driver author, Michel Xhaard, has a list of supported cameras along with a rough quality rating.

http://wallpapers.for.free.fr/galleries/cartoon/pe titprince/al_St_Exupery07_Le_Petit_Prince.jpgdamn French beat us there

For those readers not in the know, Sun Microsystems developed their own PCI device of a completely sufficient x86 computer. The earliest model IIRC is a AMD K6-2 based cadillac-length adaptor with audio dsp, VGA, 100BaseTX, IDE, RS232C, and RS422; the last model IIRC was Pentium3/Celeron based with the expected features as anyone would think to receive. To my comprehension, it could be standalone when not installed in a PCI slot on a SPARC architecture. Aside from SPARC, Apple developed a similar methodology. Yet despite all the hardware dependancies, everyone wants a fast cross-architecture interface to a large base of applications on another software platform. For PowerPC, there is not much hope for having a natively-compiled WINE run-time on a GNU Linux/PowerPC environment. Wine can be compiled and its API partially usable on PowerPC, despite being pre-dominantly an x86 question. Wine hasn't ventured into Alpha architecture lair, though to conclude with a performing course few venture onto for x86 Win32 applications in Wine on non-x86 architectured environments; the sole remedy is to download a pre-compiled x86 binary package of Wine in a package format that you are comfortable with prepareing to host with possible hostility to the local linux Distribution, download the great Qemu virtualization software, and follow the instructions to running a x86 win32 application within a x86 qemu virtualization process of x86 Wine on a non-x86 architecture with feasible acceleration.

Qemu is not necessarily an emulator, but a virtualization process that interprets machine code in real time and dynamically translates it to correspond with the software platform of the hosting architecture; x86 to PowerPC or Sparc or Alpha, interchangable and not necessarily limited to x86 yet Wine needs x86 to present any value. Qemu is painful to setup because for each environment it needs its own chroot foundation on the local filesystem an those things can hurt the simple people that just want the end-result; perhaps a GUI can help, but nay!

Anyone know if 2.10 can have a tree view for directory hierarcies?

It's not nautilus, but try xfe. It has tree view and is LIGHTENING quick - even faster then Rox file manager. I've been looking for the ultimate file manager on linux desktop and this one might just cut it.

DIRAC has a long way to go before it is useable.
SNOW is also wavelet and is almost useable now.

The simplest way to try SNOW out is with the
multi-platform AV tool Avidemux.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
No codecs to install.

People who thing this is a purely intellectual issue should try to open this small postscript file. While the file itself is less than 1600 bytes, it should keep your processor busy for a little time (don't worry it terminates).

For those who have a very fast processor, they can simply edit the file (it is a text file) and change the value 14 at line 9 by a larger number. It will take more time but the picture will be nicer.

By the way, this file not only demonstrate that you cannot determine the length of calculation before hand, but also that the resulting image is not fixed, you will get a slightly different image each time you run it.

In france we can get full uncapped ADSL2+ (that's about 20 mbit/s down) with unlimited national phone calls and TV over DSL for less than 30 / month ... check it out here : free.fr.

It's been some time this has been available ant I didn't see any story on the slashdot frontpage about this ...

QSpaceHulk is probably the best. It's 2nd edition, unfortunately, but it does have multiplayer. It's GPL'd

Sulk has a lot of potential. It's 1st edition and has a good AI, but currently no network play (only hotseat). It's written in Python with PyGame and is GPL'd.

Finally there's Spacehulk-SP. I don't know much about this one since it's written in VB and I haven't tried it under WINE. Surprisingly, it's GPL'd as well though.

Wine works on non x86 hardware if you use The QEMU CPU Emulator.

Just need to fit that in googlefs to get better results on queries :)

After trying all the major distros, I've become a real fan of Ubuntu. It's the first distro that I think could have a real potential to become THE desktop Linux. It's Debian from the inside and something different from the outside. When installing Linux to my friends, I no longer have to pound Debian to become a decent desktop OS. Ubuntu is that out of the box. Still Ubuntu retains the configurability of Debian.

Yet Ubuntu needs some tweaking too. E.g. I hate spatial Nautilus, so I always change it to the browser view. Default apt repositories aren't enough, so I add Ubuntu Universe, Multiverse, Backports and Debian Marillat repos to /etc/apt/sources.list. I also setup apt-pinning.

One can always argue that Suse, Mandrake and other KDE based distros might have some potential as THE desktop Linux, but I personally dislike KDE. It's too heavy and bloated for my taste.

In France, Free.fr gives up to 20 Mbit/s (down) / 1 Mbit/s (up) + TV + free phone for 29.99 /month.

This ISP is particular because they designed their own modem/router. They are the ones that innovates and push the market in France.

In France, we also have ADSL2+ in some areas :
20 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, and a Wifi/ADSL Router for 30 Euros/month.

No download limit !

http://adsl.free.fr/

This price also includes VoIP and television via IP.

As an added bonus, the Wifi access point/ADSL Router/VoIP/television runs under Linux :-)

Free offers 15-20Mb depending on the distance from your DSLAM for 29.99.
Upload at 512k-1.5Mb; no monthly cap; free national-wide calls (VoIP to POTS).
We're talking sustained download rates here.
I'm 450m from the DSLAM and have 20Mb. I have been able to backup my hosted server with a sustained bandwidth of 20Mb/s.

Through Free. It also includes TV through ADSL, and VoIP including free nationwide calls.

Talk about a breakthrough!

thanks for playing. You read it well: 20Mbits/sec DOWN and 1Mbit/sec UP. No cap. and that's for 30 Euros per month.

The service comes with free telephony to any french landline (calls to mobile phones cost something), and very cheap international rate, like 3 eurocents to europe.

Once you've got all that, you can pay an extra monthly fee to get hundreds of TV channels. With 20Mbits/sec ... that should do it.

All of this is given to you thru Free.fr triple-play box, the FreeBox. My Mom's been with them for a couple of years and has the original, more clunky incarnation of today's sleek freebox. Here's a picture of it.

thanks for playing. You read it well: 20Mbits/sec DOWN and 1Mbit/sec UP. No cap. and that's for 30 Euros per month.

The service comes with free telephony to any french landline (calls to mobile phones cost something), and very cheap international rate, like 3 eurocents to europe.

Once you've got all that, you can pay an extra monthly fee to get hundreds of TV channels. With 20Mbits/sec ... that should do it.

All of this is given to you thru Free.fr triple-play box, the FreeBox. My Mom's been with them for a couple of years and has the original, more clunky incarnation of today's sleek freebox. Here's a picture of it.

thanks for playing. You read it well: 20Mbits/sec DOWN and 1Mbit/sec UP. No cap. and that's for 30 Euros per month.

The service comes with free telephony to any french landline (calls to mobile phones cost something), and very cheap international rate, like 3 eurocents to europe.

Once you've got all that, you can pay an extra monthly fee to get hundreds of TV channels. With 20Mbits/sec ... that should do it.

All of this is given to you thru Free.fr triple-play box, the FreeBox. My Mom's been with them for a couple of years and has the original, more clunky incarnation of today's sleek freebox. Here's a picture of it.

it clear we aren't going anywhere other than perhaps Iran or some other third-world country

Hmmmm.....

Iran:
(image)

Mars:
(image)

I sense a conspiracy in the making...

Why wouldn't they just generate it themself? For most people, downloading an ISO and extracting the archive would be slower than just to use something like this.

They probably heard this statement.

kino http://kino.schirmacher.de/
avidemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
cinelerra http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3

The Lifters Experiments home page. It's well known technology but I'm not aware of anyone who has used microwave power transmission to power them. Presumably you could put tilt control electronics on the lifter which would vary the voltage to the four quadrants so it stays flat. From what I've read of rail guns at scale the track actually bends and is damaged by the high power throughput. It's an interesting idea but I think that whole mach-8-at-sea-level thing is the killer.

Yes, considering what Terragen can do with shorelines, it's not exactly a high quality render, really.

Yes, considering what Terragen can do with shorelines, it's not exactly a high quality render, really.

Yes, considering what Terragen can do with shorelines, it's not exactly a high quality render, really.

Yes, considering what Terragen can do with shorelines, it's not exactly a high quality render, really.

One of the most amazing I have seen is this image.

One of the most amazing I have seen is this image.

I did it by basically shorting a resistor used in an RC oscillator. Luckily, it didn't prevent the oscillator from working but made it run at max speed.

I did it by basically shorting a resistor used in an RC oscillator. Luckily, it didn't prevent the oscillator from working but made it run at max speed.

Have you tried Xfe? http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/

It's a pretty nice file manager, I used it for a while. I'm not crazy about Xffm but I have to admit that I've warmed up to it quite a bit and do use it now. It certainly has a long way to go but it does what I have to do.