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Points to you for actually answering the question.

Speaking as someone who switched from Windows to Linux, after realizing that there were more games on Linux than I would ever have a chance to play anyway... I can only imagine that it's peer-pressure convincing his kid that he needs Windows. ("No! You need to play *this* game, specifically.") One solution is for the kid to get better friends, this is the best solution.

Another solution is to run Windows virtualized on Linux (as such.). This can be a pain in the ass, but it gets you everything you want.

Old fogies like me remember that back when Blender was commercially developed, they had an odd business model consisting of giving the software away for free (as in beer) and selling the documentation (see the old review here, for example). Documentation is now one of the weakest points of Blender, IMHO.

No anti-cheating effort will be 100% error free 100% of the time. I think judgement should be made on how often errors occur and how a company handles reports of errors. The statements before and after indicate a pretty decent handling of the situation. Especially for an unsupported OS. Apparently not all Cedega users were banned, the problem must have been intermittent. This is consistent with what many Cedega users were saying, that they have been playing and everything was fine.

So, they test in an unsupported environment and promptly investigate problems and address them. IMHO Blizzard is showing Linux some respect, as they did many years ago for Macintosh when most people laughed at it. Hopefully history will repeat itself.

What they said before the investigation when the report of problem first came in:

"We have been testing our security software with Cedega. Cedega was used and tested before the security procedures and during the security procedures. From this testing we have yielded no hits, meaning Cedega, by itself, does not incur an account suspension. We have accounts of several Cedega users who have been playing normally during the time that these processes are running. Again, these people are not being suspended simply because of using Cedega or Linux. We are in contact with the people at Cedega and following up with them regarding individual accounts. To answer the OP's question, no it is not against the ToS to use Linux or Cedega. We continue to monitor the situation to prevent cases of false positives and to rectify them if they do occur."

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topi cId=47009071&sid=1&pageNo=3

What they said after investigating:

"Greetings,

As you know, Blizzard Entertainment traditionally makes a serious commitment to protect the World of Warcraft community from players who gain unfair advantage through hacks and exploits. Last week, our administrators implemented bans on a large number of accounts that were identified acting against the terms and the spirit of the game.

However, it has since come to our attention that a very small percentage of those accounts should not have been banned. This case of mistaken identity seems to be isolated to users of an unsupported, Linux-based Windows emulator called Cedega.

Once this pattern was brought to Blizzard's attention, our staff worked directly in conjunction with the Cedega development team in a rigorous and thorough review of the situation. We have since determined that your account was one of those accidentally flagged, and as such we are immediately reinstating your account to fully playable status.

Blizzard Entertainment deeply regrets the error, as we understand that this brief account closure presented you with an inconvenient and highly frustrating experience. We remain firmly committed to enforcing our regulations and suspensions for those exploiting our game, in the interest of ensuring that our legitimate customers have the best possible play experience. In this case, however, we regretfully caught a handful of innocent customers in the process, and for that we offer you our genuine apology.

In consideration of our error, we are applying a credit of two weeks play time onto your account, in addition to crediting back the time that your account was locked. This comes to a total of twenty (2O) days credit, which should be visible on your account within the end of the week.

If you have any other questions or concerns regarding this account, please do not hesitate to let us know. We appreciate your extraordinary patience in this matter and hope you will continue to enjoy your time in World of Warcraft.

Regards,

World of Warcraft Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment"

http://www.linuxlookup.com/2006/nov/22/blizzard_un bans_linux_world_of_warcraft_players

And for everybody else who has better uses for their cash (like groceries):
http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/main/iso.html Get Linux.
http://www.linuxiso.org/ Get Linux.
http://distrowatch.com/ Get Linux (or BSD).
http://www.livingwithoutmicrosoft.org/ Learn more about alternatives.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/ Ask a Linux pro.
http://madpenguin.org/cms/ Read reviews of Linux.

What are you talking about? It's a well known fact that ATI drivers for Linux suck.

nVidia is the only way to go.

I use Red Hat on my workstation and Gentoo on my SPARC. I have spent so much time on the Red Hat distro and its peculiarities (as well as Gnome's) that it is too much trouble to switch at this point.

As I said, if they still supported something other than just x86, I'd probably still use them. I have written positive reviews of their software in the past, so it isn't because they don't have a good system that I choose not to use them.

Last month the guys over at linuxlookup had an article on Linux certs that is worth the read.

http://www.linuxlookup.com/modules.php?op=modload& name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=17& page=1

I've been away this morning and wasn't expecting this to be slashdotted today, since I submitted it last week some time. I've got it back up and running, and I'll do what I can to keep it up.

-Jon

Posted as anonymous, who needs karma anyway? =)

Hi all, this is Jon here. I just got back online and found my article bombarded from various sources (Slash being the biggest). I've got the server back up again, and I'll do my best to keep it up.

Even Linuxlookup.com ( http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/reviews/software/e ngarde1.1.html ) gave Engarde Linux a perfect score last week and they don't even have ads! Doesn't mean the editors at Network computing were bias during the review for selling ad space. bah

Even Linuxlookup.com ( http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/reviews/software/e ngarde1.1.html ) gave Engarde Linux a perfect score last week too. Think I'll give it a whirll.

Probably posting too late for anyone to read this, but here goes. I used to write the Tip of the Week column for LinuxLookup. It hasn't been updated since September, but there's still a year's worth of tips on interesting ways of using various Unix commands, shell tricks, and other tools. The last columns I wrote and the archive of past articles are all here.

Probably posting too late for anyone to read this, but here goes. I used to write the Tip of the Week column for LinuxLookup. It hasn't been updated since September, but there's still a year's worth of tips on interesting ways of using various Unix commands, shell tricks, and other tools. The last columns I wrote and the archive of past articles are all here.

Probably posting too late for anyone to read this, but here goes. I used to write the Tip of the Week column for LinuxLookup. It hasn't been updated since September, but there's still a year's worth of tips on interesting ways of using various Unix commands, shell tricks, and other tools. The last columns I wrote and the archive of past articles are all here.

1. CMS Watch is probably the best single source. It's fairly new, apparently having begun in August, 2001. It lead me to the next two best Web sources on CMS's, which are the next two items in this list &nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.
2. CamWorld by Cameron Barrett, who has listed, in tabular format, several "leading" CMS's, including one or two open-source ones.
3. CMSwatch also lead me to Phil Suh's CMS site, which posts discussions among CMS users and those looking to implement a CMS. The only thing that I don't like about these discussions is that so many of the participants have never heard the terms "open source" or "free software." Too many of them think that they have to buy an expensive Vignette (for example) solution.
4. A recent poll at LinnuxLookup was informative. The January, 2002, poll indicated that PostNuke was far-and-away the most popular among those polled, as it bested both PHP Nuke and SlashCode. PostNuke won as to each of the eleven categories/questions, including "Best overall CMS." Zope was not among the choices available on the poll, however, and other good, open source alternatives were also missing, including most of the ones that are to be discussed at the open-source CMS developers' conference.
5. Drupal has a good discussion of CMS's, to wit, open-source versus commercial.
6. How to choose a CMS.
7. Of the commercial CMS's, Frontier is one of the most interesting and most promising. It's also reasonably priced, at least as compared to some of the other commercial CMS's.

1. CMS Watch is probably the best single source. It's fairly new, apparently having begun in August, 2001. It lead me to the next two best Web sources on CMS's, which are the next two items in this list &nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.
2. CamWorld by Cameron Barrett, who has listed, in tabular format, several "leading" CMS's, including one or two open-source ones.
3. CMSwatch also lead me to Phil Suh's CMS site, which posts discussions among CMS users and those looking to implement a CMS. The only thing that I don't like about these discussions is that so many of the participants have never heard the terms "open source" or "free software." Too many of them think that they have to buy an expensive Vignette (for example) solution.
4. A recent poll at LinnuxLookup was informative. The January, 2002, poll indicated that PostNuke was far-and-away the most popular among those polled, as it bested both PHP Nuke and SlashCode. PostNuke won as to each of the eleven categories/questions, including "Best overall CMS." Zope was not among the choices available on the poll, however, and other good, open source alternatives were also missing, including most of the ones that are to be discussed at the open-source CMS developers' conference.
5. Drupal has a good discussion of CMS's, to wit, open-source versus commercial.
6. How to choose a CMS.
7. Of the commercial CMS's, Frontier is one of the most interesting and most promising. It's also reasonably priced, at least as compared to some of the other commercial CMS's.

I believe it will become less important over time. Why? Because the high-flying VC money and gold-rush speculation that drove those fat boomtime salaries are what really paid for open-source.

Now that we have heard from Bill Gates, perhaps we can pump a little more reality into the discussion.

When I started using Linux in 1994, the Information Superhighway wasn't on the radar. MOST IT jobs were in the same sectors that they are in now: database management. At that time, I saw thousands of listings on usenet for DB administrators and sysadmins. What the hell did those jobs have to do with open source? Nothing! People got paid for computing and open source projects were flourishing. This momentary dip in open source funding does not equate to a death knell for non-proprietary software development.

But now that you have done your obligatory dance on the open source grave, keep this in mind: As long as there are programmers who are willing to collectivly contribute their spare time to a project, open source will survive. That may seem alien to you, but people contribute to all kinds of collaborative efforts without the expectation of monitary gain ($1BUSD donated to Red Cross).

You might not agree with the cooperative sentiment, but there is 400 years of history behind the open source philosophy.

Yup and that is what spammers do. How many people really tell the truth when they open up hotmail, yahoo, or any other free email account? Not all I can tell you that.

There is also ways of knowing what someone is doing on a web site and doing lots of tracking. When I worked for a web portol, we knew where a user came to our site from, weather it was a search engine, or a link on another site. We knew what pages they viewed. We knew how they navigated through the site, and often how they left the site. I can totally see why the need for anomymous browsing. You are being watched on the net.

In light of sept 11, I think they think that they may have been providing this service to bin laden or some of his people, and this could be true, but it is no reason to stop.

I also wonder if they will get suid by someone if they make the 'secret names' public. I wonder what their user agreement said. Sounds like this could launch a civil action suit against a company that says 'we'll protect your privacy', and then doesn't.

Personally I have nothing to hide. So I just use mozilla and reject the cookies. If you know that I am on a porn site we'll duh, I'm over 18 and it's legal (for now) in this country.

buy the shirt rm -rf /bin/laden
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